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CFL Game #48 Team Notes  – Edmonton at Hamilton:

- Coming off a Bye since 2011: Since 2011 Hamilton has had 12 games coming off a bye week but are just 3-9 .250 (including a 1- 6 .143 mark since 2015). Their .250 winning pct. in post-bye games is the lowest in the CFL in that time. Overall teams have played 107 times after a bye since 2011 and CFL-wide they have gone 61-46 .570 and thus have taken advantage of the extra rest.

- Mike Reilly 300+: Reilly is tied for #10 all-time (with Sam Etcheverry) with 39 games of 300+ yds. He needs just 84 passing yards to go by Condredge Holloway (25,193) into #18 all-time and is just 25 completions away from 2,000. In 87 starts he is 51-36.

- 1st half vs 2nd half: There has been a distinct difference in these two teams' results in the 1st half of games vs 2nd halves, especially in passing where 14 of Edmonton's 19 TD throws have been before half-time. Of Edmonton's 15 T/Os, 11 are in the 2nd half.

- Hamilton Home vs Road: The Ti-Cats have relied on home field advantage more than any other club in the CFL recently. Since 2011 they have won 35 games at home vs just 24 on the road - almost 60% of their 59 victories. BC is next with 57% of their wins.

Reilly TDs: He has 8 touchdowns thus far on pace for 16. The CFL record by a QB is 14 by Doug Flutie in 1991. Note: Jackie Parker had 17 TDs in 1957 but played only half of that season as a QB (8 starts at QB, 8 at receiver with 5 TD receptions).

- Hamilton receiving I: Jalen Saunders left their last game in the 1st Quarter and did not return after picking up just one catch for 26 yards. Combined with Luke Tasker and making up their #1 & #2 receivers from 2017 (180 receptions in total), they accounted for just two catches last week.

- Edmonton #1 & #2 receivers: The Esks can make it twice in 3 years with the CFL's Top Two receivers ('16, '18). That has occurred just 6 times since 1958. Winnipeg 1961 & 1971, Edmonton 1979, Calgary 1999, Edmonton 2001, & Edmonton in 2016.

- Brandon Banks: Now has a 22-game receiving streak, 12 clutch 2nd down catches in his last 3 games, and 100+ yards in 11 of his last 14 games. Since Sep 4/17, he is the CFL's leading receiver with 1,677 yards over the 18 games since then:

1. Banks HAM 1,677 2. Saunders HAM 1,451 3. Walker EDM 1,450 4. Tasker HAM 1,074 5. Arceneaux BC 1,063

- Hamilton Offence #2: The Tiger-Cats come in with the #2 ranking for Net Offence at 403.5 yards per game in 2018. They have gone over the 500-yard mark twice already, something they did just once across all of the 2016-2017 seasons. The last time that Hamilton averaged over 400 yards per game was back in 2004 at 405 per game.

- Sean Whyte up to #2 at 86.2%: With his current streak of 13 made FGs in a row, Whyte has passed Justin Medlock for the #2 ranked FG% of all-time. Whyte is now 288-of-334 in his career for an 86.2% success rate. Medlock sits at 316-of-367 86.1% and they both trail all-time leader Rene Paredes (327/375 87.2%).

- Red Zone Defence: The Ti-Cats have stopped opponents 15 times out of 23 Red Zone chances, #1 in the CFL at just 35%. They have forced opponents into 6 Red Zone Turnovers, #1 in the CFL.

- EDM last 4 games gap in Field Position: In the last 4 games, Edmonton opponents have started 12 drives inside the Eskimos' half of the field compared to just 4 by the Edmonton in the opponents' end. On average they have had to start at their 31-yard line vs the opposition's average start at the 42-yard line - a gap of 560 yards worth of field length.

- Most penalized club: The Eskimos reached 1,000 penalty yards last week with their 6th game of 100+ yards or more this year.

- 536 Net Yards: Last week Edmonton gained 536 yards of Net Offence, their most in almost 4 years since Nov 1/14 (550 vs BC).

- J.C. Sherritt: Has a Sack in 3 of his last 4 games after getting none in the first 5 games. He now has 476 career Def. Tackles.

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1 hour ago, BaconNBigBlue said:

Anyone else see how close Reilly came to crossing the line of scrimmage on his (last?) touchdown?  I was watching on my phone with the volume off but it looking like his plant foot was on the line and his left foot in the air was over the line.  I really thought they would replay that to death to confirm he was in fact behind the line!

 

The replay showed his back foot was basically on the line or just before it, his forward foot came down over the line but he'd already thrown the ball before that came down. It was damned close but I think they got the call right. Threw the ball at the last possible second but I do think he got rid of it. 

1 hour ago, BaconNBigBlue said:

Anyone else see how close Reilly came to crossing the line of scrimmage on his (last?) touchdown?  I was watching on my phone with the volume off but it looking like his plant foot was on the line and his left foot in the air was over the line.  I really thought they would replay that to death to confirm he was in fact behind the line!

 

I re-watched it five times, he crossed it no doubt, he went a full foot beyond the L.O.S.. How the frick they let that go is beyond me.

Didn't they just change the rule for that. Only one part of ur body has to be on or behind the line when the ball is released. His one foot is still on the line. I saw no issue with that pass.

The L.O.S.

10 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

Didn't they just change the rule for that. Only one part of ur body has to be on or behind the line when the ball is released. His one foot is still on the line. I saw no issue with that pass.

The L.O.S. is aprox. 1 ft. before the Esks. 15 yd. line, at 2:26 Reilly reaches that point and is still in possession of the ball, by the time he releases the ball his entire body is beyond the 15 yd. line.  The caveat is that he was airborne when he released it, but to me a plane is a plane and he definitely broke it.

https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/23/ticats-character-win-aids-sweeping-season-series-vs-esks/

2 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

The L.O.S.

The L.O.S. is aprox. 1 ft. before the Esks. 15 yd. line, at 2:26 Reilly reaches that point and is still in possession of the ball, by the time he releases the ball his entire body is beyond the 15 yd. line.  The caveat is that he was airborne when he released it, but to me a plane is a plane and he definitely broke it.

https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/23/ticats-character-win-aids-sweeping-season-series-vs-esks/

Ricky Ray was always bad for this... and the refs let him do it over and over...

19 hours ago, Mark F said:

Masoli probably had one of the best games of his career agin the Bombers earlier. annoying.

QFT. 2017.

Richie Hall's soft-coverage D on display for all to see. Sad to say not much has changed.

Streveler had the early game this season and although we lost, you can see his potential.

 

Hey I had Duke Williams in fantasy so it was clearly a legit play.

You not going to show the games against Masoli where the Bombers D won the game like three weeks ago? Or last August?

5 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

You not going to show the games against Masoli where the Bombers D won the game like three weeks ago? Or last August?

#fakenews

2 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

You not going to show the games against Masoli where the Bombers D won the game like three weeks ago? Or last August?

I was responding to a post about how good Masoli played against us. Watch him shred Hall's D. 

35 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

The L.O.S.

The L.O.S. is aprox. 1 ft. before the Esks. 15 yd. line, at 2:26 Reilly reaches that point and is still in possession of the ball, by the time he releases the ball his entire body is beyond the 15 yd. line.  The caveat is that he was airborne when he released it, but to me a plane is a plane and he definitely broke it.

https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/23/ticats-character-win-aids-sweeping-season-series-vs-esks/

Oh I thought the LOS was the 15yrd line. If it wasn't, then it was very much over the line.