Eternal optimist

Many people, myself included, find special teams weird. Saskatchewan has both benefited from, and been the victim of, special teams play this year: The good: - Lead the league with best kickoff return average (31.5 yards per return, MTL is worst with 18.1, OTT is 5th with 24.2) - Lead the league for fewest yards allowed per kickoff return (17.6 yards per return, TOR is worst 27.6, WPG is 5th 23.3) - Lead the league in punting average (49.0 yards per punt, TOR is worst 41.5 yards per punt, MTL is 5th 44.5 yards/punt) The bad: SSK is dead last in several special teams categories (per CFL.ca, up to week 10): - They are ranked 8th in punt return average per return (9.0 yards per return, WPG is best at 13.0, OTT is 5th at 12.4 per return) - Tied with BC and CGY for most kick return TDs given up (4) - They give up a league-worst 18.3 yards on average per opponents kick return (WPG is best 8.3 yards/return, TOR is 5th at 10.8 yards/return) - They have the worst kickoff average (57.6, MTL is best with 69.4, TOR is 5th 63.3 yards/kickoff) Surprisingly, SSK is actually second-fewest in special teams penalties (16) behind only WPG (14) Personally, I think just like this past weekend, there will be one or two crucial plays or lapses in judgement (resulting in penalties) that dictate the outcome of the game. Should be a good one.

Technically, we actually want BC to win, as we are more likely to lose out to Hamilton on a potential crossover (if HAM fell to 3rd in the East, they would be the team we'd have to be better than to crossover), whereas BC would practically have to win out to catch us now, especially since we have the season series over them.

I am fine with this. Let them keep punching other teams in the mouth.

Jefferson's unofficial stat line tonight: 3 sacks, 1 pass knockdown, 3 tackles, 2 forced fumbles, 1 onside kick recovery and a punt single (rouge) for a single point. HH - V. Diggs for Edmonton for tackling the ref - gave us 15 yards.

Right... forgot about this. Onward and upwards!

I am not sure how I feel about this... his win-loss record to-date is 52-47-0 (52.5 win %), whereas the lofty coaches he's saddled with are 63.75% (Bud Grant) and 62.32% (Cal Murphy).

You're right... he was dressed provocatively too, did you see the way his helmet was strapped on? Practically begging for a blindside hit from behind.

I think in policing, they refer to this as "victim shaming"

Sure, then Nichols came back and they took it to 'em when it counted most in the playoffs.

No, he did not get pulled, you're thinking of the Banjo Bowl. His stat line in the LDC was pretty ugly though: 14/26 (53.8%) for 166 yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs

No way... no crossover team has ever won a Grey Cup. As for the game Friday, if they lose, I just hope its by 6 points or less - we don't play Edmonton again, so a loss by 7+ points would give EDM the tiebreaker over us.

I'd take Bridge over LeFevour solely for his Canadian passport... they're both terrible.

Came here for discussion on Nichols' band-aids/temporary QB fixes... and this thread has been derailed by Neufeld's injury?

Politically speaking, I agree that'll be the likely result. Though the Conservatives have done some shady things in their tenure, such as intentionally manipulating their financial statements, resulting in a qualified (i.e., bad) audit opinion: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-deficit-lower-finance-1.4842239

To all of you Manitobans: In the coming provincial election, you can elect to decline your ballot. As for federally, I wish we had the option to decline our ballot... they're all dogs, Trudeau lies like a sidewalk, Scheer seems like he'd sell his Grandma for a nickel, and Singh is so out of touch with the working class reality it's preposterous.

Not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but if you've got a 360, you can get this... has save state feature and lots of other good blast-from-the-past games on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic's_Ultimate_Genesis_Collection

Adams Jr. got the ball with 1:40 left in the game which is the same amount of time Nichols had in the comeback over those same Als on July 27, 2017 (41-40). Apparently, that's the magic number to get two scores in the CFL.

Lol the Montreal radio announcers called it the "Command Centre Miracle". Also who the heck is Eugene Lewis

Guy behind me at Thursday's game: They should really just let Streveler run the offense, sure he makes more mistakes, but he's so much more exciting than Nichols. Me: So is Russian Roulette.

Neat!

Guys on Toronto 1050 just mentioned the Argos to-date do not have a rushing touchdown 0_o

Yeah, they're a second half team*, for sure. *They're not actually a second half team, they're deservedly 1-6 and somehow LaPo's play calling completely shifts when they have the lead and he devolves from being an offensive guru into Marcelle Bellefeuille.

Mike Reilly suffered a knee injury in the season opener. of 2015, he also played (poorly) with a broken bone foot in the 2014 playoffs. Point is...every player in football at some point gets injured. It's only a matter of time. Besides, those are just the injuries serious enough that they've been disclosed, who know how many times guys have played through sprains and other minor ailments?

The guy has come back from a broken leg (2012), torn ACL (2013) and a non-contact knee injury (2018). He also played through the 2017 playoffs with a broken ring finger and got absolutely walloped on the play that knocked him out of the game yesterday. Since the start of the 2015 season, Mike Reilly has played exactly 1 more game (72 of 90) than Matt Nichols (71 of 90). Our QB may be alot of things, but "soft" as you imply, is not one of them.

HH to BC coaching staff for having so little trust in their own D they felt they had to start the game off with an onside kick.