As usual, wide receiver Matt Dominguez was an engaging and insightful guest on 620 CKRM's Sportsline program last night.The Austin, Texas product was released by the Saskatchewan Roughriders this off-season but continues to workout and make community appearances on behalf of the team in the hopes he'll be signed to a contract for lesser money prior to the 2009 season.
As it stands however, Dominguez hasn't spoken with the club in some time."Not since the day I was released," Dominguez told us. "I had a conversation with (head coach) Ken Miller and there's some things I have to go through in regards to physical testing and route-running and things like that.
It will be an evaluation period."Dominguez has battled serious knee injuries in his time in the NFL and CFL, but he says he feels better now than he has in years."I took the last six weeks of the year off and it was probably the best thing that I've done football-wise in terms of rehab. I just let myself rest. And now I feel no pain, no twinges, no catching, none of those things. And it really just took me not to push it. You're taught to play through it, play through it, play through it but once the season was over and I let it rest, and now it feels great.
"Dominguez is optimistic for the Green & White heading into 2009 with Darian Durant at quarterback. He says things changed significantly last year when Michael Bishop was brought in just prior to Labour Day."I don't think the playbook changed, it was the guy throwing the ball. It's harder to completely change everything on the fly so you try to do things to suit people's abilities. But you can only tell a guy so many times 'if this is the coverage, then this is where the ball goes'.
If he doesn't do it, he doesn't do it. I told (wide receiver) Weston Dressler before he left after the season, 'look, you're not going to have a guy just throw the ball as far as he can anymore. You're gonna have to run some routes next year'.
"The complete Dominguez interview, which lasts 45 minutes, will be available for download later today at http://www.620ckrm.com/Archives.php.
----The Roughriders have sold 1,000 season tickets over the past week, since they went on sale to the public. That brings the club's total to 18,000 season tickets which does not include corporate sales or flexpacks.That is ahead of last year's pace at this time.----
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