Game Day notes - Saskatchewan at Montreal 

Only four clubs - BC, Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto - appear to be starting the same QB in Week #1 in 2017 as they did in 2016 (Jennings, Mitchell, Reilly & Ray)

The average CFL player enters 2017 at 27.4 years of age and carries 2.9 years, and 38 career games with 23 starts

The average CFL veteran Quarterback carries much more experience at 29 years of age, 71 games played and 5.0 seasons

Calgary has by far the most veterans returning with 51 on their roster and just nine first-year players.

- Ottawa has the roster with the fewest first-year players with just seven out of their 51 in total.

- Saskatchewan's roster has only 29 players returning from 2016 with 14 free agent from other clubs and 12 first-year players.

- The Argonauts are in the same 'boat' with only 28 of their own back alongside 31 new players (free agents and rookies).

• Winnipeg's growth is starting to show as they have 35 of their own vets back and just 16 new players (7 F/A's, 9 first-year).

Among the 18 players selected in the first two rounds in 2017, 14 of those players (78%) made it onto CFL rosters.

The West returned to dominate the inter-divisional play winning 28 of 39 games (one was tied), the most by one Division over the other in a 9-team CFL since 1993 (29 wins out of 40 games that year)

Game Stats

have added the following new "stats" and/or reports (with some definition):

1) QB Pressure

Defined: "Credited to a defender who either forces the QB to move off his initial drop back point to avoid contact, contacts the QB in the act of throwing, or has the QB in his grasp at the time an Intentional Grounding penalty is called"

Reporting: Compiled by defensive player and for QBs in terms of the number of times pressured.

2) Dropped passes

Treatment: Entered as a note into each play-by-play and for those plays where the drop is clear and uncontested. Reporting: Compiled for QBs in terms of the number of passes dropped; Receiver reporting to be primarily internal

3) Individual 2nd Down Conversion Defence

Defined: Defensive plays made that result in a failed opponent 2nd down conversion via: Tackles, QB Sacks, Pass knockdowns, Forced fumbles, Interception or fumble recovery.

Reporting: Compiled for all defensive players and league leaders reported the same as other defensive statistics.

4) Play-by-play entries and other reporting

Reporting: Printed play-by-plays will be much more explicit showing for example split yardage (Total, YAC portion) along with receiver depth for all pass attempts including incompletions. Play-by-plays will also include more "tags", notations for special plays such as Fake kicks, Challenges, Two-point converts and more. We have created an immediate post-game summary of key data that has in the past been unavailable until the following week. This will include much more in-depth breakdowns of many key pieces of game data.

CFL Player Performance Evaluation - QUAR: for a comprehensive look at these explanations, see

https://d3ham790trbkqy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/2017-CFL-Gm-Notes-10-Ssk-at-Mtl.pdf

 

Edited June 21, 20178 yr by Mr Dee

Durant looks like he lost a lot of weight.

8 minutes ago, Atomic said:

Durant looks like he lost a lot of weight.

How's his height?

I've got a running theory that Derek Taylor's existence at TSN is to troll. (If it is, I'm not complaining!) Can't think of another plausible explanation.

i just got told SSK's o-line was "drastically" better than ours. 

Now im no expert, but does that make sense in any way, shape or form?!

1 minute ago, Jimmy Pop said:

I've got a running theory that Derek Taylor's existence at TSN is to troll. (If it is, I'm not complaining!) Can't think of another plausible explanation.

i just got told SSK's o-line was "drastically" better than ours. 

Now im no expert, but does that make sense in any way, shape or form?!

Matt Dunigan also just said that the Riders might have one of the best receiving corps ever. 

Not sure why TSN feels the need to have a Riders circle jerk all the time... but it's quite disgusting. 

Listening to the Montreal radio broadcast while I finish out the day at work ... those guys are not really high on the Als. They've got big questions at almost every position.

"But they're playing Saskatchewan, so it doesn't matter," they said.  ouch.

Edited June 22, 20178 yr by johnzo

I say let the media build him the Riders. It's just going to be that much sweeter when they crash and burn. 

Chapdelaine totally missed a huge challenge first Rider drive.  Needed the 35 on 3rd down clearly didn't get it, not even close.

4 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Chapdelaine totally missed a huge challenge first Rider drive.  Needed the 35 on 3rd down clearly didn't get it, not even close.

Kind of wondered about that. Didn't look like anyone actually crossed the line.

The way Glenn is scrambling around how long will he last?

Doesn't Kyries Hebert usually pick Glenn off at least once per game?

2 of the worst teams last year looking like crap early on. 

Have to love the Riders receivers... whoa.

collins comes up for second return in a row grabbing his collarbone, also this game is terribad...

 

barnburner.

glenn's final hurrah this season.

Edited June 23, 20178 yr by Mark F

Sask needs Chad Owens to get healthy and ignite this offense......

old "safe" qbs, defenses will win all night, gonna come down to field position. Snoozer.

Carter's gonna be throwing a tantrum by the end of this game

Anyone want to go to chat?

 

52 minutes ago, Jimmy Pop said:

 

i just got told SSK's o-line was "drastically" better than ours. 

Now im no expert, but does that make sense in any way, shape or form?!

I saw that exchange. Didn't he say it was drastically better than last year, not compared to us?

I hate the horse-collar tackle rule in the CFL so much. If you pull a guy down by the shoulder pads, sure. But this jersey tackle from behind stuff has got to stop being called. It is just ridiculous. 

TSN beating that Sam Roberts song to death.

2 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Any insight from Hamilton why Condell left and didn't return to the Ticats?

Condell had family issues and wanted a less demanding role in HAM. Austin wasnt interested in a part time OC

Demski will look terrific in Blue and Gold.

Jeebus what a horrible game

CFL officiating in mid season form.