TUESDAY’S CFL HAPPENINGS
Tuesday was a fast and furious day with movement among assistant coaches and personnel types in the CFL. The info for this post was gathered mostly from the Twitter feeds of Sportsnet’s Arash Madani and TSN’s Gary Lawless:
– In Saskatchewan, Madani reports Bob Dyce and Personnel Coordinator Craig Smith are out. The Riders are expected to announce the additions of Craig Dickenson (Special Teams) and Jarious Jackson (QBs/Passing Game Coordinator).
– Lawless reports there are Special Teams jobs available in BC, Edmonton and Winnipeg so Dyce figures to be employed.
– Arash further reported late Tuesday evening that John Murphy is poised to leave his Assistant GM position with the Calgary Stampeders to assume a V.P. role with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Meanwhile, Jeremy O’Day’s position with the club remains “safe”, according to Sportsnet.
– In Calgary, Madani reports Ryan Dinwiddie is set to jump from the Alouettes to the Stampeders as QB coach. The Calgary Sun’s Scott Mirchell reports Stamps DL Coach Devone Claybrooks is poised to become the club’s Defensive Coordinator.
– The Alouettes confirmed Greg Quick has joined the team as Linebackers Coach.
– RedBlacks Offensive Coordinator Jason Maas appears to be the front-runner to replace Chris Jones as Head Coach of the Edmonton Eskimos and Madani reports that if he lands the job, Maas will attempt to lure many Ottawa assistant coaches with him to the Alberta capital.
RP
Sooooo, not only does Jones go out and get a couple great coaches on only his second day on the job but now word is he's got John Murphy coming from Calgary.
Any more doubt that Reynolds made the right choice? Helloooooooo?
Gundersons Yorkton
BREAKING: End of an era in Calgary. Have learned Stamps assistant GM John Murphy is leaving to join Chris Jones and Riders front office
If any one thinks that the ESKs assistant coaches are coming here for the same money they got with EE they are really living in a wonderland – they are all getting substantial raises to come to Sask and follow Jones
And yes he will bankrupt the Riders
HA HA HA !!!!!!!
See he is the idiot !!!!! and so are you
Can't bankrupt saskatchewan with the amount of merchandise and tickets they sell especially when the team will be winning grey cups left and right. Edmonton is headed back to the basement now. You and every other eskimos fan knows it. That's why you're so loud mouthed and angry these days.
Gary Lawless tweeted John Murphy to join Chris Jones as Vp and Director of player personnel. Chris is definitely surrounding himself with great assets and will not be making any new friends around the league!! LOL
There is a right way and a wrong way to conduct buisness and you are witnessing JOnes execute the wrong way.
What goes around comes around and it will come back to bite him big time and unfortunatly the Riders as well
Once jones is gone the Riders will have alot of fence mending to do.
Yes Reynolds made the wrong choice – he bowed to fan pressure to hire the sexy choice and the Riders will suffer for it
So soon people forget the previous coach – CC – and the damage he did.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
This is what happens when you give an inexperienced person control
Jones is showing how completely dysfunctional he is
Back in the day Edmonton was the richest franchise because they had Empire Stadium and some great players. They could afford to pay those players because of their big crowds. That lead to dynasties and no one else could compete with them. They are the reason for a salary cap. So now everybody can only pay so much for players and the Eskimos became ordinary and the crowds dropped, about the same time Tillman built exciting football in Saskatchewan and our games were all sold out and merchandise sales went through the roof. Suddenly the Roughriders were the have team… Read more »
Edmonton never had empire stadium what are u talking about typical riders fan who knows nothing running his mouth off.BC had empire stadium duhhhh
Evil empire stadium is what he's referring to you… Classic slow witted eskimos fan.
Reynolds has knocked this offseason outa the park at this point. Nice!!!
Any money spent on making the Riders a winner and creating excitement will quickly come back to the team in the form of increased revenue. Better chance at the team struggling financially if they allowed the team fall back to the spendthrift mediocre ways of the 90s.
Reynolds is a finance guy. He knows what he's doing.
The market value for quality assistant coaches, didn't suddenly go nuts. They may get a bit of a raise coming from Edmonton to Saskatchewan but it's not going to be a case of suddenly the cost of our coachng staff explodes. Enjoy the ride when good things happen. The sky is not falling. 🙂
Jeremy 0'Day? What position? He's currently without team title, status pending with Saskatchewan Roughriders club until further official team annoucement by new VP/GM/Head Coach Chris Jones . John Murphy more inclined to be named assistant gm moving forward.
Deja Vu. Team purchased n 2013 and the spending for team 2017 has begun.
With all the coaching changes why hasn't Chamblin moved on?
A new asst gm for the riders? What about …………..? Anyone ask the riders for permission to speak to Oday? And this was the guy who was running the riders? It appears that the fans changed the mind of the intelligentsia and the natural progression of management.
It's not hard to see the "small minds" are still out there, and making unsubstantiated comments. Bankrupt the team?? How utterly ridiculous…bafoonish to say the least. Anyone coming in to coach may be paid a modest increase but nothing foolish. They will be coming here because they see this team means business. Being in a well run organization where winning is the standard helps them advance their careers. What does a 3-15 team record do to advance a career? Having one of the best coaches in the league makes coaches want to be around him. They love this guy and… Read more »
Most of you commentators are out to lunch. The team is not going to spend until they are broke. Reynolds is a finance guy and knows what they can spend. The Riders need to avoid having a non-competitive team moving into the new stadium such as the case in Winnipeg. The Rider's are recognizing the fact that they need to build momentum going in the new stadium. We are spending money now to ensure that the new stadium is filled with fans which in turn will generate revenue. Otherwise once the novelty of the new stadium wears off then what?… Read more »
What a great day, what a great week to be a Saskatchewan Roughrider fan. Loving every minute of this. Jones, Murphy and O'Day is excellent. I cannot wait to see what the next moves are.
Last week we were hoping for either Jones or Murphy. Now we have both of them. This team is moving forward.
Not sure why I'm even wasting time responding to these clowns but here it goes. Nobody is forcing people like Murphy and the coaching staff of the Eskimos to leave. Last I checked, they are leaving on their own accord. Next the people who think Jones will bankrupt this franchise are clearly hippy bums who don't know the first thing of how to run a business. I am motivated after this hiring of Jones to renew my season tickets and pick up a few hundred dollars of hats, jerseys etc because we have hired a proven winner, not an ex-player… Read more »
Looks like the Hopson lovers are back in full force to clog up this great blog cause their man O'Day wasn't hired. It's pretty sad that they hope Jones fails just to prove that they were right.
Old Tank
Anon #2… The only idiot is yourself. All of Jones assistant Coaches will be out of a Job as soon as the EE hire a new head coach. Therefore they will be unemployed and looking for work. That puts the Riders in the drivers seat. Obviously your business sense is worth about 1 cent.Furthermore. Paying Jones the amount the Riders are is actually saving money. At one point in time the Riders were paying Ken Miller, Brendan Taman, Greg Marshal and Corey Chamblin. Did the Riders suffer then…. NO! Why? Because the Riders happen to be one of the clubs… Read more »
Ha! People can't get out of Alberta fast enough from Rachael Knothead's NDP shipwreck.
This.