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

Don't bother with reviews if your not going to make to correct call that ball was coming out had not broken the plain 

I know two bad teams going at it when I see it.

This reminds me of the Bombers a few years ago. Either one of these teams very possibly could get blown out of the water next week

The other day when Schultz was even laughing at Dunigan giving them 10 wins ...you know it's bad. 

When Chris Schultz is the voice of reason that is very sad. 

1. The ball was out.

2. Wish Demski was a Bomber.

3. Please win Als.

43 minutes ago, Brandon said:

The other day when Schultz was even laughing at Dunigan giving them 10 wins ...you know it's bad. 

When Chris Schultz is the voice of reason that is very sad. 

I think Schultz was clocked in the head one too many times. On TSN this morning he was gushing over the Riders and predicted 10 wins as well. Said the Bombers would struggle to get to 9-9. He's always changing his mind it seems. 

never understood Shultz's hate for the Bombers. 

There's the Glenn I remember!

Wow, there's clever-smart and clever-dumb.

Bahahahaha

1 minute ago, Atomic said:

Bahahahaha

You forgot 

hahahahhabhabbahbbahaahhahahahahha riders suck

1 minute ago, Atomic said:

Bahahahaha

That was going to be my exact post.

Happy Happy Joy Joy.

Cheers to the first Riders loss of the season!

Crap!  I mean hah!

Just now, Eternal optimist said:

Cheers to the first Riders loss of the season!

To the first of many!

The toothless inbreds futility continues. Wonderful.

I watched the 2nd half....   it's great!!   

Jones putting in Bridge cold was absolutely moronic!  

Reports of the Riders unraveling on the sidelines (for really no reason at all since the game was within 1 score) 

Carter with more drops then receptions

Glenn with all the time in the world (zero pressure up front by Montreal) and yet he still can't move the ball. 

 

Well, that was worthy of the giant bowl of popcorn I just ate.

What the hell were the Riders doing in the last 25 sec, there?

The important thing to take away from all of this is that the Riders are winless.

Yes! Love it.Nice to see Durant rub their noses in it a bit.

I only watched the fourth quarter, but Glenn looked exactly like Glenn: working that quick release, completing lots of passes, piling up some respectable yardage .. and then throwing a killer fourth-quarter pick that led to the Als' winning points.

Durant looked real shaky on that throw to Sutton in the flat that forced the Als to settle for a field goal on their final drive.  Gotta make that throw, man, he's made it like 100x in his CFL career.

1 minute ago, the watcher said:

Yes! Love it.Nice to see Durant rub their noses in it a bit.

He did in that end of game interview. Made Rider fans know how much he enjoyed beating their team.

I forgot to add in Demski's brilliant play of trying to bounce it to the outside rather then taking the easy first down....

So many brain farts by the Riders.  

I can only imagine how they will fare against a team with a pass rush...

Riders still don't have the look of a well coached team....