Redblacks at Riders GDT

[The Zipp]

Ottawa a bit too conservative on the play calls on the last series ??

[pjrocksmb]

This is a long one

[pjrocksmb]

Ottawa a bit too conservative on the play calls on the last series ??

I think they played it right

[Lincoln Locomotive]

a real nail biter

[pjrocksmb]

a real nail biter

Great game!!!!

[bunker]

Entertaining game. Saskatchewan has a good defense. Fine is playing better, and Bain and Emilus are good receivers. O line is still weak, as is coaching, but they could beat out Stamps for 3rd.

[dd]

Entertaining game. Saskatchewan has a good defense. Fine is playing better, and Bain and Emilus are good receivers. O line is still weak, as is coaching, but they could beat out Stamps for 3rd.

Ya they well could. They have a strong running back, and a Qb that keeps improving, they?re trending in the right direction

[TecnoGenius]

I get home and what does my SSK game PVR have?  55 mins of golf and then 2Q of the game.  Golf, barf.  Shame on TSN screwing me out of an hour of CFL ball.   

I sure hope there's a replay in the night!

[TecnoGenius]

Freakin TSN and Golf... went to start watching, and PVR recorded TSN 1, 236... which is still golf...

Doesn't Golf have its own channel?  Why waste time on TSN with it then?  And they couldn't guess it might go an hour over when doing the schedule?

Give me a CFL-only channel if Golf is going to have its own channel and take time out of our beloved league.

[TecnoGenius]

3Q13:30 Brooks puts huge hit on Bane.  Carbon copy of the Biggie UR hit the other night.  Oh look, no flag on this hit, but Biggie got 15.  Thanks refs (u suck!).

[TecnoGenius]

I'm noticing that on every big catch for SSK their R's are pushing off the defender, in an OPI-like motion.  But they're doing it earlier than usual, like 5 yards before the catch, rather than getting caught doing it right before the catch.  And they aren't fully extending/locking: maybe doing 90% extension, and making it subtle.

So they're getting a partial OPI push-off effect, but without risking a OPI.  If I see them do it again, then I'll have an indication it's coached, and not just some random one-player thing.

Ya, I know, hand fighting on every play, etc.  But this new "trick" really jumped out at me with all the slow-mos of the big SSK completions.  Something to make note of for our 2 future (big!) SSK games.

[TecnoGenius]

Not ready for prime time...dumb play call by Khari to have him throw it.  They were marching pretty good and had the go ahead score in hand. 

I don't know... it was a fingertip away from a completion to Acklin.  Then again, Acklin always drops the fingertip catches.  Always.  (See '21 GC.)

Maybe the OTT OC was remembering Piggy's pre-season throws in WPG?  He looked awesome.

Dyce probably figured his team isn't good enough to win on merit so he has to pull a few risky tricks.  MOS used to do the same thing when our team sucked.  Notice how MOS hasn't gone for a trick pass on 2nd&1 for a long time now?  Not really since Strevie was around.  Well, and the painful Prukop pass in the '22 GC...

[TecnoGenius]

Wow, whatta game!  Guess which one will be chosen for the Tues TSN replay...

The only way it could have been better is if Crum had gotten 50 yards in 2 plays to kick another FG.  But it turns out I had picked SSK so this result is ok 

Now, to catch the 1st Q in another 20 mins when TSN replays it at 2am (and 5am if anyone needs to catch it).

[TBURGESS]

2nd & 2... No reason to go for the Bomb, just run the ball and run it again if you need to. That's where Ottawa lost the game.

[bunker]

2nd & 2... No reason to go for the Bomb, just run the ball and run it again if you need to. That's where Ottawa lost the game.

Agree, I thought it was a strange call. Second and 1, I can see it, but even then, teams are sometimes having a tough time getting a yard on 3rd and short. The cliche in the CFL is you should always be able to get a yard, because of the yard off the ball, but that seems less true this year. If my memory is correct riders stuffed Edmonton 3 times on the goal line in a row on short yardage. I don't think Piggy is great at short yardage either, he's ok, but not great. I think that's why we let him go and went with Prukop.