So after we kickoff another weekend of football with hopefully another entertaining masterpiece, we'll have 3 other games, at least 2 of which look like great thrillers to watch.
Ottawa vs Edmonton: Even though the Redblacks lost this last week to us, they had to come away from that game taking many positives from what they did. Even though their offense did rather slow up in the periods after the 1st quarter, that fast start had them looking like a team that had found traction and cohesion even being an expansion team. Now for Edmonton, I know some posters here have not been impressed with them, I give them full credit for a 2-0 start, they've capitalized on a strength of their team, the defense whose gotten them scoring plays off of turnovers and come to the aid when the offense has struggled to find a rhythm. This team has a lot of the 2011 Bombers written on them, a team that wasn't really labeled as impressive, but kept finding a way to get it done. My one drawback about Edmonton is that despite their solid D play and turnover battle winning, offense has been mediocre. Not terrible but mediocre like the 2011 Bomber offense, and if they are asked to win games that require the offense to maintain drives and score more than 4 tds, I don't like their chances. Also despite forcing 5 turnovers off of the Tigercats and taking out Collaros, they still were just inches away from losing that game. I think Ottawa just may come into Commonwealth late Friday and beat them.
Ottawa 27 Edmonton 23
Calgary vs Toronto: Well, the Argos have won 7 of the last 9 in this series going back to 2010, including the Grey Cup win of 2012. The Boatmen will be playing without Andre Durie though, and you can expect the Stampeders are planning to hone in a bit more on Chad Owens. The question for the Stampeders is whether or not Cornish will be back in time, but if not Jock Sanders seems more than ready to take the reins. Big game for both of these teams as they both try and stay atop their respective conferences, expect a tight battle to the end.
This one is a bit too close for me to call.
BC vs Saskatchewan: This game is not going to be so close. Sure Saskatchewan took a beating out in Toronto last weekend, much to our delight, but they are coming home this week to face a BC team that has no confidence whatsoever, and is just looking for some kind of spark or something for answers. Already a bad road team and doing virtually nothing against a Montreal team with issues of their own, until Lulay and Arceneaux come back, things are not looking to get better for the Leos, and even with those returns they probably won't get much better. The Lions are the worst team in football right now and this one is going to get ugly from the start.
So after we kickoff another weekend of football with hopefully another entertaining masterpiece, we'll have 3 other games, at least 2 of which look like great thrillers to watch.
Ottawa vs Edmonton: Even though the Redblacks lost this last week to us, they had to come away from that game taking many positives from what they did. Even though their offense did rather slow up in the periods after the 1st quarter, that fast start had them looking like a team that had found traction and cohesion even being an expansion team. Now for Edmonton, I know some posters here have not been impressed with them, I give them full credit for a 2-0 start, they've capitalized on a strength of their team, the defense whose gotten them scoring plays off of turnovers and come to the aid when the offense has struggled to find a rhythm. This team has a lot of the 2011 Bombers written on them, a team that wasn't really labeled as impressive, but kept finding a way to get it done. My one drawback about Edmonton is that despite their solid D play and turnover battle winning, offense has been mediocre. Not terrible but mediocre like the 2011 Bomber offense, and if they are asked to win games that require the offense to maintain drives and score more than 4 tds, I don't like their chances. Also despite forcing 5 turnovers off of the Tigercats and taking out Collaros, they still were just inches away from losing that game. I think Ottawa just may come into Commonwealth late Friday and beat them.
Ottawa 27 Edmonton 23
Calgary vs Toronto: Well, the Argos have won 7 of the last 9 in this series going back to 2010, including the Grey Cup win of 2012. The Boatmen will be playing without Andre Durie though, and you can expect the Stampeders are planning to hone in a bit more on Chad Owens. The question for the Stampeders is whether or not Cornish will be back in time, but if not Jock Sanders seems more than ready to take the reins. Big game for both of these teams as they both try and stay atop their respective conferences, expect a tight battle to the end.
This one is a bit too close for me to call.
BC vs Saskatchewan: This game is not going to be so close. Sure Saskatchewan took a beating out in Toronto last weekend, much to our delight, but they are coming home this week to face a BC team that has no confidence whatsoever, and is just looking for some kind of spark or something for answers. Already a bad road team and doing virtually nothing against a Montreal team with issues of their own, until Lulay and Arceneaux come back, things are not looking to get better for the Leos, and even with those returns they probably won't get much better. The Lions are the worst team in football right now and this one is going to get ugly from the start.
Saskatchewan 37 BC 6