Argos vs Riders CFL Game Notes

The Argos, coming off of a 27-24 last-second field goal win over the Ottawa REDBLACKS, have won five of their last seven over the Riders, including three of their last four in Saskatchewan.

There have been only 81 Sacks made this season in 21 games, a rate of 3.95 per game – the second lowest in CFL history since the stat became official in 1980. 

Argos head coach Marc Trestman was rewarded with his 62nd career win last week, pushing his career record to 62-33.

Argos DE Shawn Lemon will make his return to the Regina for the first time since being traded to Toronto on July 2, 2016, in exchange for OL Matt Sewell and INT QB Mitchell Gale. Since arriving in Toronto just over a year ago, the 2016 East Division All-Star has 29 tackles, 17 sacks and five forced fumbles with the Double Blue.

30k+: Edmonton (#1) and Saskatchewan (#2) as usual lead the CFL in attendance thus far averaging 34,044 and 33,200 per game.

The Riders defence has started well allowing only 328 yards of net offence to their opponents to rank #3 overall. They have given only one rushing TD and the fewest first down in the league thus far (74). However, they have only 5 QB Sacks made (#8) and 22 QB Pressures (#8) in 4 games.

Naaman Roosevelt - 15 clutch catches: Started off slowly this year but over the last 3 games has been hot. He has been targeted 29 times, caught 22 of them for 283 yards. The stats that jumps out is that two weeks ago 7 of his 10 receptions went for key 2nd down conversions - a high for any player in the CFL in 2017. He leads the CFL with 15.

One of the key differences between these two clubs thus far has been forcing and taking advantage of opponent turnovers. Toronto has forced a CFL-best 10 turnovers and cashed those into 26 points. Saskatchewan has forced a league- low 4 Opponent Giveaways worth just 7 points in 4 games.

Greg Morris: Comes into this game with 385 yards on 14 kickoff returns. That equates to 1,732 yards over a full season, well ahead of the Rider record of 1,231 yards set by Willis Jacox in 1991.

 Cameron Marshall: Leads the Riders in rushing at #5 in the CFL (206 yards) but has also been a key receiver. He has 17 catches on pace for 77 - that would be well on the way to the CFL record which is also held by a Rider, Craig Ellis in 1985 (102).

 Duron Carter: Was held to just 2 receptions for 12 yards last week and was targeted only 5 times.

Jones said something the Riders did learn from facing Calgary was how its receivers were able to initiate contact with opposing defensive backs while running their pass routes in order to draw pass interference or illegal contact penalties. -

http://regina.ctvnews.ca/chamblin-set-to-return-to-regina-but-as-toronto-argonauts-defensive-co-ordinator-1.3523172#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=qbnhrIX

Toronto’s Ricky Ray is on pace to pass for 6,826 passing yards this season, which would break the CFL All-Time record set by Doug Flutie in 1991 (6,619).

Ray recorded his fifth-straight game of 300+ yards. His passing yards totals so far in 2017 are 506, 323, 366, 330 and 367.

He is now the all-time passing completion percentage leader with 68.0%.

?‍? The majority of fans/writers are picking Toronto to win. Will we be right?

Edited July 30, 20178 yr by Mr Dee

16 hours ago, Zontar said:

Would it make me a "hater" if I pointed out all the empty seats?

You could point them out. But they were all sold. I figured you probably would be busy running a fire extinguisher theses days

2 hours ago, Mark F said:

I wonder if the D coordinator guy that went to the states might be back next season as head coach. Orlando Steinhauer I think.

their defence was crushing under his guidance.

I would take Orlando Steinhauer in a heartbeat as a D-coordinator.  I think replacing Hall with Steinhauer would make us an instant GC contender. 

33 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

I would take Orlando Steinhauer in a heartbeat as a D-coordinator.  I think replacing Hall with Steinhauer would make us an instant GC contender. 

Only if HC & GM are willing to upgrade at certain positions.

O'Shea and Steinbauer are good friends. If he would not of got the job in Fresno I would of thought they would of brought him in.

I'm really not a fan of the way Austin has carried himself in the past, but I must give credit when it's due. Austin faced the media after that debacle yesterday, and answered everything thrown at him. It musn't have been easy, and so, a tip of the hat to him this day..

http://3downnation.com/2017/07/30/video-kent-austin-ticats-60-1-loss-stampeders/

22 hours ago, Mark F said:

In addition to showing how bad Hamilton is, this score run up is more evidence of what jerks Calgary are. Complete as*h0les.

I disagree... they just kept playing... were they just supposed to give up cuz they were playing against hot garbage?... also consider a lot of back-up were in the game... they wanted to show the coaches what they can do...

On 7/29/2017 at 11:33 PM, Floyd said:

Crazy prediction - full house cleaning - Tillman GM by the end of this week or next...  Reinbold HC with James Stanley as DC, Corey Grant bumped to OC until seasons end

I wouldn't consider something that already happened in the off-season too crazy of a prediction... 

On 7/30/2017 at 3:26 AM, Jacquie said:

 

Well that sounds familiar. 

On 7/29/2017 at 9:21 PM, Goalie said:

Collaros has been awful. ... this is like a Drew Willy fall from grace.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking watching him.  All the promise in the world, but it's been beaten out of him by repeated injuries.  Hate seeing QBs get ruined like that.