Eastern Final: Montreal Alouettes @ Toronto Argonauts

[Shatto]

After taking time to reflect on yesterday's debacle, here are some thoughts:

.Montreal was a disciplined team and it showed even before the game began. In the pre-game ceremonies Montreal players were lined up at attention whereas the Argo players were milling around on the sidelines. Did that disciplined attitude make a difference--I don't know but it was very obvious.

.This will be the making of Kelly, if he learns from the experience. But he must learn from it.

.The D played very well and deserved to see the team win but the offense and special teams let them down.

.One had the feeling if the team had scored a t.d. on that first drive, the result would have been very different. I suspect if Kelly had been injured on the 1st play, the team would have rallied around Dukes and the team would have won the game.

.Dukes has been very good on short yardage and has been getting better as he gained experience---so why was Kelly in for the early short yardage plays?

.Regardless of the game's result, the team had a great season. They have great personnel and with a few (very few) changes next year should be just as good. But ---this time the goal has to be the Grey Cup not just a winning season --take a lesson from the Blue bombers.

[Rich]

.Dukes has been very good on short yardage and has been getting better as he gained experience---so why was Kelly in for the early short yardage plays?

Early in the season RD decided to use Dukes in SY situations in order to save the wear and tear on Kelly. But he never fully committed to the idea, and he would go back to Kelly if it was a more important situation, because everyone can see that Kelly is better suited for it than Dukes.

The problem is that Kelly doesn’t have the SY reps this year, and timing is huge on SY plays, and we saw the results on Saturday. Go with Kelly or go with Dukes, but it’s dumb to use both.

Going forward I say go with the guy who’s better at it. It helps keeps his head in the game.