After a humiliating blowout on Sunday, BC will be spoiling to show they are a top team. While the Stampeders are the better team, the Lions sour mood and home field advantage should give them the edge.
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After a humiliating blowout on Sunday, BC will be spoiling to show they are a top team. While the Stampeders are the better team, the Lions sour mood and home field advantage should give them the edge.
Calgary is coming off a bye, and BC has a short week.
I'll take the Stamps.
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Originally Posted by argolio
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Originally Posted by argolio
After the blowout against the Riders, Wally is sending a message to the players by having National RB Shaq Murray-Lawrence,who gained 55 yards on 8 carries in the second half against the Riders after the game was already lost, describe to all his teammates how much his life "sucked" after he cut following the first week of the season. Due to injuries, he was resigned earlier this month, but Wally then noted not many players get second chances. The message is clear.
Wally also had the offence and defence watch videos of the game in separate rooms without him present to analyze themselves how truly bad they were against the Riders.
Despite Wally pulling out all the stops psychologically, the Lions will still have to overcome injuries to key players such as WR Bryan Burnham and DL Mic'hael Brooks, and Jennings' poor 1-4 record against both top teams, Calgary and Edmonton.
Waly's efforts, the players' own motivation, and home field advantage may not be enough to rise to the challenge of playing a superior team on short rest.
I only watched the first half (then PVR'd the 2nd - to watch later), but both teams did not look very good IMO.
Jennings is still struggling since his return - makes the odd good play but looks lost at other times; and the Lions offence really misses Burnham at receiver; the Lions D is pretty ordinary too IMO, and their D-line is sub-par.
Bovine Mitchell - maybe the worst I have seen him play in the CFL - inaccurate (though a brutal drop on a sure long TD pass did not help) with some poor decisions - his deep passing accuracy is just not consistent enough IMO and he is hardly that mobile by CFL QB standards. Not saying he's looking as bad as Collaros has for the Ticats, but both those QBs may have been quite over-rated with some CFL success when more credit should have been given to their surrounding casts ?