“We’ve got to play three-phase football.”

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"We've got to play three-phase football."

"..."It's across the board," said the Blue Bombers receiver (Dalton Schoen). "The problem is, one guy misses his assignment here and there but it's a different play for every single person and so then all of sudden you're not executing as a group. Obviously we can't have that and we've got to do a better job of playing complimentary football — meaning if someone messes their job up we've got to pick him up and bail him out. That's offensively, but also across the board. We've got to play three-phase football.

"Offensively we were beat up because we had a first down we should have gotten early and we didn't (due to a dropped pass) and then we punted and gave up a 40-yard return and then the defence gives up points. It's on all of us. It's not on one single unit there — offensively, we've got to make the play. We didn't. So now the punt unit has got to be conscious of that and go bail us out and unfortunately they didn't. So it spirals.

"It's being aware of those things," added Schoen, "and stepping up in that moment...."


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