Riders GM, new coach ready to sell free agents on Saskatchewan
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders and new head coach Corey Mace will spend the next week preparing to sell free agents on their vision for the team.
The window to communicate with CFL free agents opens Sunday and runs until Feb. 11. Over the seven-day period, teams can negotiate with free agents. A 48-hour time period will follow that allows teams to speak to their own free agents.
Free agency officially begins on Feb. 13 at 11 a.m.
Roughriders general manager Jeremy O'Day spoke with media in Regina on Thursday about the team's stance heading into free agency.
"We're still going to attack it like we do every year and spend to the cap. Hopefully those decisions that we make are good. [We] have a priority of guys that we want to talk to once the window opens and attack them in a certain way," he said.
O'Day said the club hopes "the feeling is mutual."
He also noted that Mace is playing an important role in the free agency process.
"He's very involved. It's something that I believe in. It's not just one person deciding on what the team's going to look like. It's more of a collaborative effort than just me just telling them 'this is who you got to work with,'" O'Day said.
The Riders head into the legal tampering period with 13 of their players re-signed, and another 17 set to hit the open market.
The returning players include:
The Riders made a choice at backup quarterback, re-signing Mason Fine to a two-year deal on Jan. 23. Fine and Jake Dolegala split time filling in for injured starter Trevor Harris last season. Fine got the first chance to replace Harris and when he was injured, Dolegala came in to start.
Dolegala posted a 2-7 record as the starter. Fine won one game as starter, a 26-24 victory over Ottawa.
"We spent a lot of time going through and evaluating which quarterback would be a better fit for for us moving forward. And so we're excited when we came to our decision, and Mason is super excited to be back," O'Day said Thursday.
O'Day said fit in new offensive co-ordinator Marc Mueller's offence was a key factor in the decision to bring back Fine and let Dolegala hit free agency.
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