Quote Originally Posted by Scooter McCray View Post
Another game on 5 days rest. On the road this time. I think if they get off to a slow start they won't be able to come all the way back this time. Establish run and try to keep it close. Who does the scheduling in the CFL? Jeffrey Orridge? Ottawa's schedule is brutal with both bye weeks in October.
Ottawa is in a brutal stretch right now but the fact is, in an 81-game schedule over 20 weeks, one team always has to play an extra game in one week. This year Ottawa drew the short straw -- it has been the Argos for the past several seasons. Not to mention we didn't always get full-length bye weeks, had to go on the road for weeks at a time, etc. A lot of that was not the league's fault, but the bleating from Ottawa over their "terrible" schedule makes me laugh -- nothing Ottawa has this year is as bad as what we had in 2016, 2015, 2014, ....