johnzo

Here's a guy who was fun to watch when he wasn't playing the Bombers. Good to see him back in the league, hope he's put his injury problems behind him.

Dumb fans in Ottawa, getting super loud during their team's biggest offensive play of the game. Savvy! Climie raging at the Ottawa offence! Matty calling out Henry Burris! The FNF panel is getting feisty.

snake. bit.

The CFL Gamecast says that Joey Elliott was targeted on a pass near the end of the 1st quarter -- is that for real? Are the RBs so hard-up for receivers that Elliott is out there running routes? USA's head would've exploded if that pass had connected for a touchdown.

Their gross averages aren't nearly as important as their net averages. If Renaud places the ball better, coverage teams will be more effective and his net average may very well be longer.

....or not.

Okay Hank, get it done.

Wow, in thirty years I have never seen the kick-out play work.

FRANK

Brutal drop. Just brutal. Johnson fits right into that Redblack offence.

Don't think anyone disputes that Durie's a good football player. His ability to convert high-percentage throws into good yardage makes him an ideal target for Ray.

I was anticipating a 10-7 snorefest so I gotta admit I'm pretty happy with how entertaining this game has turned out to be.

Is that the Mosaic Field boo-birds I hear? Nice breakdown on the fake field goal by Lapo. Great looking play.

Move, Brack, get out the way, get out the way, Brack, get out the way.

Man those Double Green uniforms are brutal.

Crompton starting to look less like a guy who had no training camp and more like a real starter here.

Weird to see the Stamps' backup QB wearing Doug Flutie's distinctive #20.

Rooting for Ottawa so hard that I will even type their name the stupid way they prefer. Go REDBLACKS!

Would rather listen to Wally talk about his career than listen to Rod Black talk about the game, so didn't bother me. Best Black line so far: "It says volumes that the defences are starting strong, shutting out teams, and that offences are adjusting." That hitch screen on 2nd and 1 is an awful play call. Slow-developing high-risk play with the cornerback close on the line ... Als got lucky there that the Stampeder tackling was so bad.

Als starting to bring it. TD followed by a Stamps 2-and-out. Crompton looked pretty good on the TD drive.

Good lord, you look at the CFL passing stats and you see Ray topping the passing yardage list by a couple hundred yards over Willy, no surprise there ... but then you look at the receiving stats and you see that the only receiver the Argos have in the top 30 is Chad Owens. Ray does his thing no matter who's in the lineup. Amazing.

Still scoreless eight minutes in. Everyone looks out of sync. This could be a real dog of a game.

I don't know if your tendency breakers should ever become tendencies.

The other day I was parking at a shopping mall here in Seattle. I saw a Jeep that had two bumper stickers: One was about membership in the National Tactical Officers Association. This is a training association for tactical cops -- SWAT and the like. The second bumper sticker is one that's commonly available on the Internet. It says in English and Arabic "keep back 100 meters or you will be shot." Stickers like it were used in Iraq. I can't be certain about what the Jeep's owner meant by putting that bumper sticker on his vehicle. Maybe they just hate tailgaters. But I sure don't want a cop with a "keep 100 meters back or die" mindset doing policing around me.

I would rather live through a century of continuous Roughrider Grey Cup championships than see a single Toronto Stanley Cup. Leaf fans are way more insufferable than Roughrider fans.