Football outside in TO just looks right. Plus long off season finally over.

3 hours ago, Jacquie said:

Writing Ricky Ray off in his first game in ages is just wrong.

No one is "writing him off" but keeping him over Harris was a mistake. Never should have let Harris go. It was time for a passing of the torch. I think the Argos will regret that move.

yeah, hindsight is 20/20 but you have to wonder about keeping the 36-year-old with a banged-up shoulder over the young heir apparent.

Suitor all night was saying that for 2 years Ray "couldn't make that throw" on just about any deep route all game. Meanwhile they had a guy in Harris who could make all the throws & carried the Argos on his shoulders to a 10-8 record last season. Head scratching decision for sure.

IIRC last year Milanovich said Harris' play had tailed off in the second half of the season as the reason they went to Ray. Keep in mind that 6 of those 8 loses came in the 2nd half of the season.

Edited June 24, 20169 yr by Jacquie

4 hours ago, Brandon said:

I didn't watch the game... but wasn't Masoli garbage last season?   Are the Argos defense that bad or is he actually stepping up?

A little of both, I think.

The Argos D looked Stublery soft, lots of wide-open spaces for receivers to run to and Masoli hit them.

That said, I thought Masoli looked good in the pocket, he moved smoothly away from the rush on a number of plays. And he took care of the ball, tho I remember him clanking at least one pass off an Argos DB's hands.

9 hours ago, Mr Dee said:

That friggin Lawrence guy is playing so well, they'll have to name a river after him. The TSN crew has already sainted him, so that's taken care of...

I Seaway you did.

12 hours ago, peggars said:

letting Harris go was a huge mistake for the franchise and huge mistake for the league since it needs Toronto to perform well

league has done great in many years with out the argos doing well.

Ham. was playing pitch and catch with ease...Stubler looks old...Ray looks old, and Barker is getting greyer... No amount of 'pinball jumping up and down' is going to change that..The score could have been much more lopsided if the Cats felt like running it up...T.O. has a lot of work to do to put it mildly..

Ray looked done when he came back last year, and hasn't looked much better to start this year. Not to mention that he's coming off of a serious rotator cuff injury and is 37 years old and it's easy to see why people believe he's breaking down.  He would've made for a perfect backup to Trevor Harris.

Toronto Argonauts PR @Argonauts_PR

#Argos are pleased to inform Jermaine Gabriel is home resting comfortably & is expected to fully recovery from injury suffered last night

11:57 AM - 24 Jun 2016

Best news....that looked awful last night. 

10 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Best news....that looked awful last night. 

Sure did, it must have taken 15 minutes just to get him onto the stretcher.  I imagine what it ended up being was a major stinger that temporarily paralyzed his arms or legs, thus the precaution.

Edited June 24, 20169 yr by Throw Long Bannatyne

42 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

Toronto Argonauts PR @Argonauts_PR

#Argos are pleased to inform Jermaine Gabriel is home resting comfortably & is expected to fully recovery from injury suffered last night

11:57 AM - 24 Jun 2016

Good to hear! Always scary when someone is stretchered off.

Where has Chris Schultz been this weekend?

RedBlacks vs Eskimos. I expect the same outcome as the GC championship. Feast your eyes on the Esks front 4. Will we be able to block them?

If any stadium should have reduced capacity it's the Eskimos. Bring it back down to the original capacity of 42,000 taking out all the seats they added since then which would be perfect. They'd have to shut the place down for a couple of years & build a Tempire Stadium.

Both offenses look a little ragged right now. #OTT@EDM

Two series, two TDS for Harris

Anyone still think that we have the 'best backup in the league' ha

On ‎24‎/‎06‎/‎2016 at 1:31 AM, johnzo said:

yeah, hindsight is 20/20 but you have to wonder about keeping the 36-year-old with a banged-up shoulder over the young heir apparent.

Same as Lions letting Reilly go to keep Lulay. Big mistake

And Watson hurt....

Trevor Harris looks like Ricky Ray from a few years ago.   Pinpoint passes and a calm demeanor in the pocket.  

Wow, he would look good in Blue & Gold.   Desjardins looks like a freakin genious right now.   Burris and Harris is like when we had Barnagel.  

 

Edited June 26, 20169 yr by B-F-F-C

5 minutes ago, Floyd said:

Two series, two TDS for Harris

Anyone still think that we have the 'best backup in the league' ha

That was sick what Harris did.

5 minutes ago, Ripper said:

Same as Lions letting Reilly go to keep Lulay. Big mistake

No we're supposed to be happy with Willy.

No one should ever mock Desjardins again... he has built a winner from scratch.

Great drafting, great FA, not afraid to pay for QBs, nice CDN depth...  have to give him credit.

Strange how Harris is playing in an entirely new system with new receivers and OL and yet seems totally comfortable

It seems to me that Willy and probably O'Shea have until Labour Day- the CFL collective agreement states that if veterans are kept on after then and released afterwards, they get paid to the end of the season. Thus, if Willy cannot improve a lot and loses the confidence of the coaches, he ought to be canned before we have to shell out some $200,000 for a player who cannot benefit the team. It seems to me that O'Shea has put all his eggs in one basket.