?‍?This should be a very good game between two motivated teams. Don't forget, Edmonton beat them 3 times last year and Calgary no no like that.?

 

CFL.ca Staff

Edm vs Calg
The Stamps roll into Labour Day winners of six in a row and the undisputed best team during the first half of the 2016 CFL season, while the Esks seem to have sorted themselves out en route to their current three-game winning streak.

One of the main objectives for Edmonton’s improved defence this Monday will be creating penetration on Stamps quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell.

Calgary’s surrendered a league-low 10 sacks and turned the ball over just 12 times this season — also a league-low figure.

Offensively the Eskimos will be faced with the league’s best statistical defence in Calgary; the Stamps have allowed the fewest points (185) in the CFL while forcing the most fumbles (14) and creating the most pass knockdowns (38) in the league.

Calgary’s offensive line — one of its biggest strengths in the first half — will be without centre Pierre Lavertu. Spencer Wilson will move over to centre, with rookie Ucambre Williams sliding onto the line at right tackle.

While receiver Joe West appeared ready to make his return from the Stamps’ injured list, Dickenson and his staff opted to stick with Davaris Daniels.
The rookie out of Notre Dame hauled in 108 receiving yards and a touchdown in Calgary’s win over Hamilton last week.

Toronto @ Hamilton

Both teams are 4-5
Both enter Monday night’s marquee matchup off losses; Hamilton’s last outing ending in a narrow 30-24 defeat in Calgary, Toronto’s a 16-13 home loss to BC on a last-second field goal.

It's a jersey. It is what it is. Whatever. If football jerseys get your undies in a bunch.... there's really very little that wouldn't 

10 minutes ago, iso_55 said:

Truly, these stupid PI rules need to be changed.

horrible penalty

Just now, Jesse said:

Throw Line Bannatyne makes a good point.

But even if they are seeking that cowboy imagery, how doesn't that glorify gun violence?

People get offended. To me it's laughable that guns on a jersey spark outrage. It did 2 years ago.

1 minute ago, Goalie said:

It's a jersey. It is what it is. Whatever. If football jerseys get your undies in a bunch.... there's really very little that wouldn't 

My thoughts exactly... It's a football jersey. Remember when the Jets unveiled their jersey & logo how some said it glorified the military & war? Someone is always gonna ***** about something.

 you guys are gonna get the ejection button soon. ( I don't care about it, but Rich might)

 

and game over .

Edited September 5, 20169 yr by Mark F

Can't we please stay focused on the worldwide conspiracy that threatens to bring down the flagship franchise of the CFL and with it, the loss of civilization as we know it.  

Just now, iso_55 said:

People get offended. To me it's laughable that guns on a jersey spark outrage. It did 2 years ago.

Not to belabour this - because I'm certainly not losing sleep over it - but to me, I just ask myself why?

What purpose do guns have on a Canadian football jersey? Their logo is a horse, they are stampeders (more ranchers than cowboys). It doesn't have a place/purpose.

5 minutes ago, WBBFanWest said:

Can't we please stay focused on the worldwide conspiracy that threatens to bring down the flagship franchise of the CFL and with it, the loss of civilization as we know it.  

I think Obama is going to be making a statement about it at the summit.

 

Stamps are pretty ho hum about this win. Overconfident. ripe for the picking I say.

Messam sure runs upright.

Edited September 5, 20169 yr by Mark F

Well, the way this discussion went on the subject here were the same way in Calgary.  Stamps to their credit (I believe) didn't back down to the people who complained.

See how Collaros does today. third game back, should be ready to roll. Chad Owens one hundredth CFL game.

Edited September 5, 20169 yr by Mark F

Messam looked a lot faster than I thought he was on that TD run.

Looks like a little bit of space behind us.

Sherritt looked like he was going half ass on that play. Barely resisted the half block by Bergman.

37 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Not in Canada, they didn't.  Sure farmers and ranchers probably had rifles but the NWMP didn't allow them to walk around with them just so they could shoot people when drunk.  We were a British colony and governed as such, not an extension of the U.S. 

The NWMP and RCMP wear guns on their sides.  They are/were Canadians.

Hamilton radio crew asks if Hamilton has the best receiving group. 

His  guest says yes.

didn't know, Hamilton signed John Chiles.

Anyone who says guns weren't part of our history back in the 19th century is kidding themselves. I doubt many people in Philadelphia & New York carried guns 140 years ago either as they would have considered themselves as civilized. But in the American Wild West people did. Same in Canada back then in the West. Maybe people didn't in Ottawa, Montreal & Toronto but the big cities today in Western Canada or the Northwest Territory as it was called then either still didn't exist or were whistle stops on the CP rail line or before. People carried guns in Western Canada. We were lucky we never had problems with tribes in Canada going to war against the white settlers like they did in the US.

I don't own a gun. I never have & I never will. I have used my father's shot gun & rifle as a teen in grade 12 when I was interested in hunting. But I found out that I couldn't shoot an animal for sport. My heart would have been heavy had I killed an animal needlessly & thankfully I never did. After staring down some ducks in a blind & deliberately missing, I just put my shotgun down & told my dad I couldn't do it. So, I'm not a advocate of guns but as far as having 2 six shooters crossed on each shoulder of the Stamps jerseys, I could care less. However, I have no problem with the Stamps doing it.

heartfelt post Iso....

 

Is Ricky Ray done? I know I'm tired of watching his five yard passes. I don't care how many completions in a row he gets. It's boring.

strange the difference between Hamilton crowd and Toronto really just down the road an hour or so.

Edited September 5, 20169 yr by Mark F

Thanks Mark F. Yeah, I'm with you. Ray is like an automaton. No emotion, dink& dunk. Boring football. 

That should have been a horsecollar on Tasker by the Argos d back. 

Suitor showing he never actually saw the PI.... #minimal

30 minutes ago, iso_55 said:

Anyone who says guns weren't part of our history back in the 19th century is kidding themselves. I doubt many people in Philadelphia & New York carried guns 140 years ago either as they would have considered themselves as civilized. But in the American Wild West people did. Same in Canada back then in the West. Maybe people didn't in Ottawa, Montreal & Toronto but the big cities today in Western Canada or the Northwest Territory as it was called then either still didn't exist or were whistle stops on the CP rail line or before. People carried guns in Western Canada. We were lucky we never had problems with tribes in Canada going to war against the white settlers like they did in the US.

In the fur trade era, yes. In the settlement / farming era, no. The NWMP clamped down on gun - toting, whiskey trading and a host of other problems 

man there's been some crappy tackling this weekend

1 hour ago, iso_55 said:

The West. Cowboys. People wore guns a hundred & thirty years ago.

A good deal of southern Alberta was settled by Americans who came after their civil war, thinking they could have slaves here after the practice was banned in the US. The first premier of Alberta was the grandson of one of these. These ex-pat Americans were resentful of any further government interference in their lives and choices- we would call them rednecks now. And BTW: in all the Old West America, Dodge City, Laramie, Tombstone, etc, guns had to be checked in at the Sheriff's office before they could hit the local taverns.

hard hitting game.

 

also..... tired of Pinball.

Edited September 5, 20169 yr by Mark F