GAME THREAD - Week 3: BC Lions at Montreal Alouettes

[Will]

Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 7:30 PM

BC should win this, but Montreal has been more competitive than I thought they would be.

[argolio]

BC has won like a thousand in a row at East teams. So I'm going with them.

[OV Argo]

Loved BC's performance in Montreal when they got to play in a cross-over play-off game in 2014 = 50 to 17 for the Als.

[argolio]

You're predicting the Als based on a 2014 game?

[Jayahre]

Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 7:30 PM

BC should win this, but Montreal has been more competitive than I thought they would be.

Durant 166 yards passing last game?
Beat the Riders at home because the Riders kicker missed a short FG that would have won the game.
The Als should be 0 - 2 and will be 1 - 2 by tomorrow.

[AngeloV]

Nice check down by Jennings for the opening TD.

:D

[gilthethrill]

Steph Logan is ageless.

[argotom]

The play calling for the Als with the offensive scheme was horrendous tonight.
Dinks and dunks and the underneath stuff which the Lions were giving all night.
Not much difference in the QB position as Durant is barely averaging 200 passing yards which will not do it in this passing league.
So far again this year, it appears we have a weak East division.

[AngeloV]

The play calling for the Als with the offensive scheme was horrendous tonight.
Dinks and dunks and the underneath stuff which the Lions were giving all night.
Not much difference in the QB position as Durant is barely averaging 200 passing yards which will not do it in this passing league.
So far again this year, it appears we have a weak East division.

It was a very close game AT. I don't know what you are looking for. Jennings and Durant had similar nights. 288 yards on 28 completions for Jennings and 245 on 24 for Durant. So was Jennings also not just dinking and dunking?

[R.J]

The play calling for the Als with the offensive scheme was horrendous tonight.
Dinks and dunks and the underneath stuff which the Lions were giving all night.
Not much difference in the QB position as Durant is barely averaging 200 passing yards which will not do it in this passing league.
So far again this year, it appears we have a weak East division.
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.

[Jayahre]

It was a very close game AT. I don't know what you are looking for. Jennings and Durant had similar nights. 288 yards on 28 completions for Jennings and 245 on 24 for Durant. So was Jennings also not just dinking and dunking?

Close game? it was only close because of that ridiculous interference call in the end zone against the Lions. That play should have been a TD going the other way for BC instead of the ball on the 1 yard line. Durant threw the ball to the Lions DB. One TD by the Als and it was aided by penalty.
Durant made some terrible throws late in the game and he throws an INT which wiped out any chance of a come back.
The Als picked up last years East MOP and hero of the Grey Cup, Ernest Jackson who only has 67 yards so far in 3 games. Durant can't get him the ball.

[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.

[Will]

I keep waiting the dam to burst in on the Als and it hasn't happened. Their offence has been anemic to be sure, but their defense continues to keep them in football games.

[AngeloV]

I keep waiting the dam to burst in on the Als and it hasn't happened. Their offence has been anemic to be sure, but their defense continues to keep them in football games.

I think they are a team that will improve as the season rolls on.