Farewell Season for Taylor Field Starts with a Bang in Rider Loss
So, are the Riders really as bad as the gong show known as the 28-16 loss to the BC Lions in the final exhibition game played at Taylor Field would seem to indicate?
Well, I sat there. I sat there even after B.J. Coleman seemed to demonstrate his arm was not that strong in throwing three interceptions (to his credit, one bounced off a receiver), Brent Smith did his impersonation of happy feet (having an offensive tackle resembling more a turnstile than a blocker did not help), some idiot fired a confetti gun into a power line cutting power off for a half hour, seeing for the first time how the Predator movie character would look like if he played quarterback in Phillip Simms and, of course, the apocalyptic deluge of rain that ended the game.
Let’s get the obvious point out of the way: the Rider back-up quarterback situation is not ideal.
Coleman made his reads, but either his arm is not strong enough to get the ball faster into the receivers arms or Coleman fell back into thinking he was playing on an NFL field.