GDT Tor at Ott, Sat Jun 20, 12:00PM

Jesse · June 20, 2026, 09:15:21 PM

Quote from: Throw Long Bannatyne on June 20, 2026, 08:51:24 PMCan't panic Dinwiddie is 2 games in, O'Shea didn't post a winning record until this 3rd season.

Honestly, Ottawa has been a turd for years, you're not going to be able to just wave a magic wand in a few games.

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 03:24:39 AM

Kelly looked very good before he took that first massive hit. Then it took him like 3 series to get his head back on straight. I thought maybe he was concussed, but spotters seemed content. (Good band name idea: Content Spotters)

Kelly is going to be hard to beat when he's playing in top form. And their REC corps is stacked. Maybe the best. And with Herslow still yet to heal up. Wow.

Mital turning into a legit top NAT. He's huge, in the style of McInnis.

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 03:39:23 AM

The new TOR HC Miller using some sort of CB radio setup? That's a new one. He does have a headset mic, but also a separate CB-style thing in his hand with a coil cord going down to his waist.

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 04:10:18 AM

Hothead Shepley getting ejected. LOL. What an idiot. Wasn't he in SSK before? Maybe that's why he was expendable.

The flashy INT by Hutter in the 4th was amazing. Top quality play. Like the Carter INT last year. Well, nothing is as good as that INT, but this was pretty good for a NAT kid FS.

Kelly/TOR is absolutely impatient and OTT is taking advantage. We need to remember this when we play them. Kelly ignores everything underneath and in the flat. He's only interested in the big glamor pass. This is one instance where our D may do well, as we put on the max-cover and get unexpected guys into the zone lanes for INTs.

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 04:19:27 AM

Quote from: The Zipp on June 20, 2026, 07:58:14 PMmakes no sense

LOL. And that kids is why you need a dedicated and good SY game. MOS>Dinwiddie.

And, besides Dinwiddie having no brains there, it was Maier that blew it. He had 2 sure-thing TDs with well drawn up plays and either wide-open or open-enough RECs. And what does he do? Badly underthrow one, and throw-behind on the other.

Interesting choice for TOR to take a safety after. Put them within 10 instead of 2 majors. Then again, it's OTT, probably a safe bet they can't even get 10. Not often teams will purposely take a FS with 2:30 left like that.

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 04:26:09 AM

Quote from: Sway on June 20, 2026, 08:39:13 PMWell looks like Dinwiddie has bitten off more than he can chew with this Redblacks team

Remember Dinwiddie's first year in TOR looked much like this. It's rare you can make a basement team good in one year. I'm sure OTT org & fans know this.

Gino should be embarrassed on that late INT against him. You pay Gino the massive bucks so he'll track & catch that. If he had just played the ball instead of worrying about the DB INT, he would have had it. Kenny would have had that. It's like Gino gave up, even though the game was still very much within reach.

If Gino keeps barely trying like this, he won't have a job there next season. Heck, Dinwiddie has been known to release players mid-season.

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 04:31:13 AM

Duggan in at OTT QB to mop up instead of Brown?? What's up with that? Is this a message to Brown?? Does Dinwiddie hate the guy? Very bizarre.

It's not like Dru is their SY guy. Right now he's their "nothing" guy.

And I guess they have no SY guy? I don't recall a single sneak that wasn't Maier? Is that why they kept taking it off the LoS on the 1? They don't even have a RB or FB who can act as a specialist?

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 04:51:04 AM

OTT's games usually look overly dark. This time we got a daytime game, and the game looked perfectly bright and normal. The turf is definitely a slightly darker color, but in the day it looks fine.

So that proves it's not the cameras there (which are probably all the same anyhow) or the turf or anything. It proves the problem is almost certainly the lights.

I wonder if OTT is using LEDs. I wonder if they are substandard or different in some way so that their frequency is conflicting with the camera sample frequency.

I'm pretty sure SSK also uses LEDs (because they can turn them on/off & dim at will without any warmup period). But SSK looks fine on TV.

The dark-OTT-at-night problem has existed for 3 seasons now. The CFL should DEMAND they fix this.

Tecno · June 21, 2026, 05:07:56 AM

Another thing we should note: Kelly throwing almost every pass to the strong side crew. Just a couple to Polk/Coxie on the other side. They really like the 2 NATs and the new Kahmann guy.