GAME THREAD - Week 3: BC Lions at Montreal Alouettes

[OV Argo]

The play calling for the most part on all CFL teams has been very high percentage based. TBH, I find the CFL as of late to be very boring at times. I've missed about 3 games so far this season, from mid 2007 to the end of 2016 I hadn't missed one CFL game.

Agreed - a lot of CFL games feature boring, predictable, safe offences. Lots of dink & dunk passing; one basic, simple run play used as a tendency breaker with no effort at all to drive the ball with the ground game; often very little downfield passing or long bombs. And terrible calls by flag happy refs at times, or the "Command Centre" too clueless to over-turn obvious mistake calls.

Is what it is in the CFL - but offences have been evolving this way for years & years now- getting worse maybe ?

[ArgoRavi]

The play calling for the most part on all CFL teams has been very high percentage based. TBH, I find the CFL as of late to be very boring at times. I've missed about 3 games so far this season, from mid 2007 to the end of 2016 I hadn't missed one CFL game.

Most games have been exciting this season. However, if you want to see lower scoring games, the Als are the team to watch. As has been the case since Calvillo retired, they don't give up a lot of points but they don't score much either. Which are the three games that you missed? I am guessing they weren't Montreal games.

Agreed - a lot of CFL games feature boring, predictable, safe offences. Lots of dink & dunk passing; one basic, simple run play used as a tendency breaker with no effort at all to drive the ball with the ground game; often very little downfield passing or long bombs. And terrible calls by flag happy refs at times, or the "Command Centre" too clueless to over-turn obvious mistake calls.

Is what it is in the CFL - but offences have been evolving this way for years & years now- getting worse maybe ?

Games are averaging almost 53 points per game so offences don't appear to be getting worse in production. Interestingly enough, I continue to see Americans on Twitter raving about what they are seeing on ESPN.