Arbuckle what were you thinking on that third pass that was intercepted?
Arbuckle what were you thinking on that third pass that was intercepted?
Argos doing everything they can to lose this game.
Unbelievable...
Missed PAT! Can the Argos avoid sabotaging a win?
The Argos DL and OL won in the trenches setting up the Argo victory.
Praise the Lord...
Phew. A victory is a victory.
The offense looked solid for three quarters. I hope they can figure out what caused the wheels to fall off in the fourth.
The good:
Oline was very good tonight. Arbuckle looked completely at ease for three quarters. Shane Richard's fills in admirably for Blake and the line doesnt miss a beat.
Dline also pretty good. Racking up the sacks, not giving up much on the run. Way to go Oakman, that's what I was hoping for! I thought Feeney looked good. Again, missing a big piece in Hugh's but still able to function well.
The run game. White and Foster both keys to the offense. When we get them going, we win.
The bad:
Argo secondary v. the run. Whenever a runner did make it to the second level, it usually ended up a big gain. Evan's made some DB look silly. Giving up YAC on a third down pass and giving hamilton the first down. Big run by Erlington to almost tie the game.
4th quarter Arbuckle. What are you doing, man? I know they got you playing conservative, but what was that? One embarassing interception and almost a second to adeleke. Also, overthrowing open receivers on deep balls. I dont like that.
Dejon Brisset. Weak hands. Couldn't come up with or hang on to the ball. Targeted a lot, but I cant remember him having any receptions.
Josh hagarty. I dont blame the kid because I'm sure hes doing his best, but hes out of his depth. Hes not on the same page as the other DBs. Getting beat on deep balls up the middle. I would rather have an import there and let colquon or boateng play.
Should have been a manageable 4th quarter, but became a comedy of errors, even with Hamilton's 3rd string qb in there. Very lucky to escape with the win.
Arbuckle impressed with some accurate passes early. But then he had too many misses and ducks thrown in the second half. He did not look like a starting calibre QB. I'm old school and didn't like his smiles after some incompletions!
Also why do they play this game on the Friday? Short week shows. Should be Saturday and Sask/Wpg play Friday.
Winning is winning but the 4th quarter was brutal on both sides of the ball.
After that 7 minute drive (and FG) to open the second half, the offense basically went to sleep: the team only gained 19 yards in the last 23 minutes. They were very fortunate that Evans had to leave the game.
Nice to see consistent pressure (and sacks!) from the D-Line, though.
I was quite surprised by how well the OL and DL played, especially on a short week. That was the biggest difference of these two games.
The TiCats ran only 6 plays in the entire third quarter, but yet the Argos only scored 3 points with all of that time of possession. Clearly they needed to get more. And to compound that I’m not sure why they got away from the run game as quickly as they did. The OL was playing well, White was on fire, and the time of possession difference was so lopsided that on such a short week they could have, and should have, wore the Cats defence down. Bad play calling and Arbuckle doing some bad things (he doesn’t stay in the pocket well - he looks nervous back there and doesn’t look like he’s willing to take the hit to make the play. I could be wrong, but that was my thought). That late interception is in-ex-cuse-a-ble
Brissett ……. Yeah …No. Not impressed. Nothing good happened when the ball went his way.
The D needs to wrap up, and not just do shoulder checks. Too many missed tackles because they didn’t wrap.
Can’t comment on Haggerty. Only watched the game on tv. Tough to see how he was in coverage, but gave me heart palpitations when he let the Cat receiver by him on the last play of the half.
I don’t remember when I was ever this mad after a win, but I was. It should not have come down to that ending. But they are 3-2. I guess that’s better than expected.
What a crazy game. To win by a convert hitting the post and bouncing out!!!--we will take it but a messy win. But as someone said --a win is a win.
Argos should have walked away with this game. They dominated time of possession and looked great until about half way through the 3rd quarter. For most of the game both the OL and DL played very well. For some reason or other Arbuckle looked completely lost in the 4th Q His interception late in the game came off, a very bad decision to throw the ball up for grabs.
Arbuckle had some difficulty completing long passes. He over or under threw deep receivers all game.
Brissett had a poor game but the other receivers looked very good. Collins and Rogers in particular, had excellent games.
On D, the front seven pressured Evans all game. Oakman, who seemed to be double teamed the whole game, had a monster game. Feeney and Harold were constantly in Hamilton's backfield, pressuring the QB. Feeney was injured late in the game. Hopefully it is not too serious as he looks as if he could be an important part to the team's defense.
Hagerty played hard and one day may be an excellent safety but it did look as if Hamilton were trying to attack him with the long ball. Both Boateng and Colquhoun stood on the sidelines all game. Surely one of those experienced DB's would have been better in the game than Hagerty.
Foster's TG was a thing of beauty. He looks like he could be a very exciting offense weapon for the team.
We are now 3 and 2 for the season. Better than most predicted.
Very sloppy game, but that can be expected in back to back in 4 days for both teams.
My honest opinion, Arbuckle was terrible tonight. Take away a gift 40 yards and a TD on the flip to Foster and his numbers would have been horrendous.
I can’t help but wonder if the improved D line play tonight had anything to do with the absence of Hughes. I hate to think so because he is so likable, but maybe age has caught up to him.
Hagerty is not ready to be a starting safety. The big eye opener for me was the last play of the first half. Not sure what he was doing there. A receiver shouldn’t be 10 yards behind the safety on the last play of a half.
Shoddy tackling on the last Hamilton TD drive. Not sure what Edwards was thinking on the 3rd and 10 completion to Acklin. He was 5 yards short and Edwards tried to body check him. Having said that, I don’t buy the thought that the Argos were lucky Evans left the game. Not like he put any points on the board in his 50 minutes of play.
Bede needs to improve on his punting too. He is capable of so much more.
Having said all that, a win is a win. A regular football week of 7 days between games will hopefully be what they need. They have that each of the next 2 weeks with 3 straight Friday night games.
From where I sat, the Ticats had no business even being in the game. We let them into it with two huge mistakes (blocked punt and the late INT) and some shoddy tackling late in the game. I understand why people are mad at Arbuckle for that terrible throw off his back leg, but the blame for that falls squarely on the coach IMO. With two minutes left in a seven-point game, you run the ball, work the clock and rely on your kicker. Calling a pass play at that point was cocky and stupid. And judging by how much heat Hamilton brought on the QB on the play, a running play would almost certainly have gained a first down. I love how much confidence Dinwiddie has, but I guarantee he is second-guessing himself over that. We should have won this game easily but instead were life and death at the end. But a win's a win, and first place is first place.
I'm as big a fan of MBT as anybody, but I never once felt he should be subbed in. IMO Arbuckle looked calm and in control for the most part. He zipped some passes in. If he can develop a more accurate deep ball, he will be very tough to defend against. But I wish he would take off and run a bit more than he does. That late-game possession was begging for a QB keeper.
IMO that was the best game our o-line and d-line have played. The o-line opened up huge holes for White -- most of them on the left side behind Richards, it seemed to me. Outstanding games from Oakman, Harold and Feeney.
I wasn't as critical of Hagerty as some are; the safety always looks like the guy who got beat deep up the middle, but we don't always know what the secondary was supposed to be doing. That said, I was surprised we did not see Colquhoun or Boateng for at least a series or two. It could be that there is no one other than Butler and Hagerty suited to playing the safety position. But we need to clean up our coverage, and our tackling.
Worthy had a nice return early, was smart with the ball on his returns, and stretched the defence late on a pass that was slightly overthrown. I'd say he stays in the lineup. Collins really reminds me of Chad Owens -- not only his uniform number but his running style.
“It’s not how but how many” applies here, beating Hamilton is always a wonderful thing.
Special teams coverage was very solid, kept Frankie Williams in check.
Argos O-Line had a good night, run blocking was superb.
Oakman and Harold played really well and made Dane Evans life miserable.
Arbuckle wasn’t good at all last night, some bad throws and piss poor decision making which will hopefully improve with more experience.
Another wonderful, exciting night at BMO! To think we have beat Winnipeg and now Hamilton. What an undefeated fortress! Have to watch the game film, so my options might change a little.
MBT is currently at better QB, but I’d rather grow with Arbuckle despite his mistakes and I’ve said this since day 1. He was great in the first half. If he learns to hit those deep balls, this game is a blow out.
Speaking of deep balls, Worthy exposed this teams true lack of speed. He did great returning kicks. He needs to be in the roster and cutting him was stupid.
Love the RB combo. There so different, but work so well. John White’s hard running is awesome.
Hate to admit it, but looks like Brissett isn’t quite ready for the pros.
Glad to see Muamba and particularly Judge earning their pay.
Finally, I bought Paul Woods’ book at the Kiosk with my ST holder discount!
It came down to an Argo Bounce or should I say an Argo Doink?
An ugly win I suppose, but beating the QEW people is always a positive.
This one was more of mistakes on our end rather than any level of being outplayed. The last Arbuckle pick was a floater, but at least in post-game he admits to his errors. There were plenty of missed tackles, but late in the game it was fatigue playing in due to lack of possession time. Defense was solid for most of the game.
The day got off to a bad start at BMO for me. At first, security wasn't letting my brother and I bring our cowbells in, and I frantically scrambled with my phone to search for the BMO visitor policy. Thankfully, her supervisor corrected her after a while. It may have been the first Argos game she had worked this year, so I let it slide.
The atmosphere was fairly good I thought. Only my second game as a seasons holder, and I didn't see many familiar faces from the previous game. Maybe people are either sharing their tickets here or there aren't that many season ticket holders where I sit.
I agree, and when I said Arbucke was bad last night, I wasn't suggesting making a change.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArgoZ