Today the Rider's Head Coach announced that Kerry Joseph, CFL's Most Valuable Player and Saskatchewan's #1 Quarterback, had been traded to the Toronto Argonauts.
The Wizard couldn't believe what he heard! How could we lose such a valuable player? GM Eric Tillman says it is all about money and that they would be $16K over the salary cap by keeping Joesph. They said that we would have to lose 2 other players to make Kerry affordable. What price can you put on success? I mean, under Joseph, the Riders won their 3rd Grey Cup in history.
Joseph completed 267-of-459 passes for 4,0002 yards with 24 touchdowns and eight interceptions last season.
"This decision was very tough and emotional," said general manager Eric 
Tillman. "But, in the end, we felt trading Kerry to a team which was willing to satisfy his contractual expectations was the right thing to do.
Let's hope that Tillman doesn't choose to make anymore "good trades" like the one announced. I mean he's changing a winning combination and it looks like the poor Riders will be startin' from scratch.
Sucks to be green at the moment... but time will tell if Tillman has the know how to manage our team and keep the winning momentum going.
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
Riders Trade Joseph! What the Hell!!!??
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