2018 CFL Season

[Mowich]

Rider defense can be relied on to score and just proved that.

You see that chart they threw up, pete............it looks like almost everyone on the D has scored at least one TD.



We're play-off bound baby. YEE HAW!!!!!!!!!!!


35 - 16 RIDERS

 

[Mowich]

The Rod Blacks have this one.

RBs were definitely the better team yesterday, pete......sorry to say as I would have liked seeing the Cats take that one. Still they are sitting in solidly in second place which secures them a berth in the play-offs.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I am assuming with 1 week left that with SK having a bye week and 1 loss behind Calgary and Calgary having not clinched division that SK will win tiebreaker with Calgary if Calgary loses? Either way by my math, SK will host a playoff game this year.

 

[Twin_Moose]

If Calgary loses means the Riders have first place they hold the season series at 2 games to 1

 

[Twin_Moose]

You see that chart they threw up, pete............it looks like almost everyone on the D has scored at least one TD.
We're play-off bound baby. YEE HAW!!!!!!!!!!!
35 - 16 RIDERS

Hosting at least the WSF, Hopefully BC show up this week for BC's last home game for Wally as HC.

Defensive, special teams carry Riders to win

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders clinched a home playoff berth for the first time in five years, but if they'll have quarterback Zach Collaros for the post-season remains to be seen.
Saskatchewan earned home-field advantage in the playoffs thanks to a 35-16 victory over the visiting B.C. Lions on Saturday. It was a dominant defensive effort by the Roughriders, but one that their starting quarterback watched from the locker-room for the final three quarters of the game.
Collaros was on the receiving end of a hard hit to the head from Lions defensive end Odell Willis late in the first quarter. Collaros delivered a pass on the run just before a charging Willis knocked him to the turf.
"He took a good shot. It was a headgear-to-headgear shot and for precautionary reasons our trainers thought it was best to take him out of the football game," said Riders head coach Chris Jones.
Collaros did not return. Brandon Bridge and David Watford split time under centre for the remainder of the contest. Collaros completed five of eight pass attempts for 52 yards.
The win also bumped Saskatchewan (12-6) into a tie with the Calgary Stampeders (12-5) for first place in the West Division. The Lions, having already clinched a playoff berth, are 9-8 and will cross over to the East Division for the post-season.
The Riders have a bye next week, while Calgary will visit the Lions in the final week of the regular season.
Zack Evans scored on a fumble recovery and Ed Gainey on an interception return that gave Saskatchewan 11 defensive touchdowns this season. It was Gainey's score early in the fourth quarter that put the Riders ahead 32-9.
"Our defence is very dynamic. We make a lot of plays," said defensive end Willie Jefferson. "We know that if the guys on the back end get a bad ball or if our linebackers get a bad ball it's because the defensive line has been making these quarterbacks run around and making them throw bad passes."
Lions quarterback Travis Lulay was ineffective and under duress most of the night. He was eventually pulled in the fourth quarter. Lulay finished 9 for 20 for 94 yards. He threw one touchdown — a 44-yard strike to Bryan Burnham in the third quarter — and two interceptions.
"You have to give Saskatchewan and their defence a lot of credit," Lions head coach Wally Buono said. "They didn't do anything too difficult, but they executed well and put pressure on the quarterback, stopped the running game and we couldn't get a thing going.
"We were out of sync (offensively). We threw the ball in the dirt, we threw the ball over heads. It was one of those bad nights... very disappointing."
Tre Mason scored Saskatchewan's lone offensive touchdown, a seven-yard run that put the home team ahead 13-0 in the second quarter.
Brett Lauther kicked four field goals for Saskatchewan and Cameron Marshall rushed 19 times for 134 yards. But it was the effort from the defence that has this team riding high going into the playoffs.
"We have been that standup defence all year," said Gainey. "As a defence, things happen sometimes, but at the end of the day. When you can score as many times as we did, you can't really say anything negative about that.
"The defence has been playing lights out all year and that's what we need going into the playoffs. Defence wins championships."
The Riders were without Collaros for four games early in the season after he suffered a concussion in Week 2. The team had a 2-2 record without their starter.

 

[Mowich]

Hosting at least the WSF, Hopefully BC show up this week for BC's last home game for Wally as HC.

Defensive, special teams carry Riders to win

Don't usually like bye-weeks, TM but in this case it will give Zach time to get through all the concussion protocol. Much as I've ragged on the guy, he's been doing a far better job at pivot lately.

Eleven defensive TDs has to be some kind of record. Hope to see many more of them.

 

[Twin_Moose]

It was a good time for a bye week if they were going to be in a Semi Final, not so good if they end up hosting the Western finals 3 weeks off is too long IMO

 

[Mowich]

I just heard that Halifax is going to roll out their season ticket drive. It's a go. :wav:

Come 2020 the CFL will see Halifax field a team. I could not be happier for the Maritimes and the league.

I'm going to start thinking about a name for the team.

Watching the RB vs Argo game. Ottawa has clinched their division. Toronto is tied with Montreal for the dibs on the basement.

 

[Mowich]

Well this is a bit of a snoozer so far. The weather is the pits. Late in the first, the RBs are on the board with 3 points - the Argos have yet to get close enough for 3.

 

[Mowich]

I should mention that Trevor Harris is on the sidelines tonight in order to give back-up Dominique Davis some valuable playing time.

 

[Mowich]

The RBs got a rouge and TO put up 3 to sit one point behind Ottawa early in the 2nd P.

 

[Mowich]

Halifax Harbingers - forerunners of better fortunes for the league

The Maritimers - I especially like this one as it is inclusive of all the provinces


Judging by these last few passes, the team wouldn't falter a step should Trevor sustain an injury. Davis is more than capable of stepping up to the challenge - he's got great poise in the pocket, is very mobile under pressure, a great arm and almost pin point accuracy.

 

[Mowich]

Davis connects with Sinopoli for the first TD of the game. RBs lead 12 - 3 midway through the 2nd.

 

[Mowich]

Man on man, Davis is really something to watch.......connection after connection..........he's just raking up the yardage tonight...

 

[Mowich]

Forgot to mention that TO put another 3 up to trail by six points at the end of the first half.

 

[Mowich]

Danny Collins will take over as pivot for the RBs in the second half and the Argos will also make a QB change putting Bethel-Thompson to work.

 

[Mowich]

Ooooh........Danny's first toss of the game is picked off..........however - Ottawa is challenging that there was DPI on the play..............and they win..............TO annulled...........RB football around midfield

 

[Mowich]

Agos go up by three to trail by 3 around the ten minute mark of the 3rd Q.

 

[Mowich]

Well Danny Collins just helped put another 6 on the board........4 plays after an off a Bethel-Thompson pass......with the convert, they now lead 24 - 9 with :34 to go in the 3rd.

 

[petros]

What a boring game. Jeepers!