COMMENTARY – MERITOCRACY?
Photo: Jacksonville Jaguars
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It’s Tuesday and that means it’s time for another edition of the Good, the Great & the Ugly!
First the good: Don’t look now, but junior hockey training camps are upon us. They begin on various days and of course I’ll always be following the Regina Pats the closest. The rookies hit the ice on Thursday and camp culminates with the annual Blue & White Game one week from tonight.
I had to pinch myself to remember Connor Bedard & John Paddock are gone.
A new era indeed!
Next the great: It’s absolutely fantastic that the Edmonton Elks snapped their pro sports record 22-game home losing skid and are in fact, on a two game winning streak!
Don’t look now, but if the Edmonton beats Calgary in Monday’s Labour Day Classic at McMahon Stadium, they’ll actually leapfrog the Stamps into fourth-place in the West.
What a league!
The Riders are likely breathing a sigh of relief that they’ve already won the season series against Edmonton.
Elks in the Grey Cup?
And finally, the ugly: Who knows how this Nathan Rourke situation is going to end up, but that’s not the point.
The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars waived the Canadian star quarterback on Monday as part of their final cuts but if he clears waivers, he can join the Jaguars practice roster.
That’s … if they still want him, or if he’s not claimed by another time. (My guess is he will be).
In another case of sports mirroring life, Rourke very clearly outperformed Jags back-up quarterback C.J. Beathard for the right to be QB2 behind Trevor Lawrence in Duval County.
However because the team has more money tied up in Beathard, and he’s got more years of service in the league, he’s won the job.
Doesn’t it sound like the way life, and the workforce, has become?
Unions aside, it used to be if you did your best and did a great job, you’d get ahead. I think we called that a “meritocracy”. Your standing depended on how hard you worked.
Not anymore.
But I also believe everything happens for a reason and that Nathan will end up in better situation once the dust settles.
One thing that hasn’t changed: Fate is undefeated.
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary
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Ohhh my friend. We have to let the little hoppers know. Then, now, always – life is an eat what you kill scenario. It will always come down to merit. They just need to know how the game works. Unions and ask any member at the bottom or middle or a seniority list – way to late they find out they were duped. They are a dues paying drone for a labor organization where the pigs at the top eat first. They are nothing more than a useful idiot for an organization. Two choices. Find a skill that is in… Read more »
Mr. Gerussi, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Bruno, what the he## are you talking about. Are you on something???????????
There are two types of organizations and Jacksonville is simply to put it – they hired Urban Meyer. I will tell you right now who initiated that roster move. Trevor Lawrence. The absolute last thing that Clemson golden boy blue blood wanted was legit competition. Now because Jacksonville’s only chance for a Super Bowl is to buy a ticket they go along with that. Compare that to another organization. Drew Bledsoe gets a massive contract, doesn’t get the job done, gets hurt and his 7th round draft pick gets in and doesn’t come out for 20 years. That’s meritocracy. –… Read more »
I am a huge Rourke fan and am rooting for him…. But Lawrence literally has nothing to be worried about Rourke coming In and taking his job. For all those upset with this move I just wanna ask outside of a few preseason highlights against other teams third stringers and reading stat lines that assume make you a “football expert’” did you watch all the practices ? Do you know more about the QB position then Doug Pedersen who happen to be a n NFL QB for a dozen years and coaching in the NFL for 15 years and has… Read more »
In others football news, the saskatchewan roughriders are doing great, they haven’t played a game in over a week and it should stay that way.
Rourke was suckered by the system.
When Nathan started on his NFL tour over the winter, his stated goal was that he wanted a legitimate shot of being the backup. One of the reasons he signed with the Jags is that Henry Burris was on the coaching staff and he strongly persuaded the Jags to take a chance on Nathan and for Nathan to take a chance on the Jags. Then shortly after Nathan signed, Burris resigned from the Jags staff. This severely hurt his chances on making the team. For his sake, hopefully Nathan put enough on tape for any one of the other 31… Read more »
the Riders should sign him. The best franchise in the CFL that every player wants to be part of. nuff said.