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argosrule1524 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:42 pm Bad game as a whole, eerily similar to the East Final against the Als. Kelly didn't play well at all, neither did the rest of the team. Although I believe keeping him at QB for the whole game and letting him ride it out was the right decision. He's been sitting on the sidelines for ages because of the suspension, so the last thing we need is for his morale to sink even further if he was standing on the sidelines for an extended period of time. Hopefully he bounces back.

The defense had a few stops, but not nearly enough. They got torched.

Also a minor gripe, I'm more accustomed to watching hockey and I know football players and coaches are built differently. But Dinwiddie's over reaction to us getting a TD to open up the half was very silly. I know he's trying to boost the energy of the team but we were still down big. He needs to channel his emotions there. Of course the Redblacks got a TD on the next series lol.

I know it's much too early to talk about the playoffs, since it's looking like a struggle right now, but if we do make it. It'll be as a third seed which means we'll start off on the road. When is the last time we won a road playoff game aside from the Grey cup games?

paulwoods13 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 9:20 pm Third-place teams do not go to, much less win, the Grey Cup. This is a third-place team (if they can hang onto that spot).

This year reminds me of 1985. After three first-place finishes, a Grey Cup win and an incredibly disappointing eastern final loss, the wheels fell off for Obie. Both teams played most of the year without their starting QB, for different reasons, obviously. And both had other reasons in addition to quarterbacking for the precipitous fall. But it happened back then and it sure seems to be happening again this year.

ArgoRavi wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:32 pm

paulwoods13 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 9:20 pm Third-place teams do not go to, much less win, the Grey Cup. This is a third-place team (if they can hang onto that spot).

This year reminds me of 1985. After three first-place finishes, a Grey Cup win and an incredibly disappointing eastern final loss, the wheels fell off for Obie. Both teams played most of the year without their starting QB, for different reasons, obviously. And both had other reasons in addition to quarterbacking for the precipitous fall. But it happened back then and it sure seems to be happening again this year.

The last 3rd place team in the East to make it to the Grey Cup were the 1970 Alouettes.

We have debated ad nauseum on here about what happened with the Chad Kelly accusations but I suspect we can all agree that whatever happened in the week leading up to last year's East Final and then in that game itself has done long-term term damage to this team. They just haven't recovered to this point. Can they?

There's still one-third of the season left and they need to get some healthy bodies back in the lineup so I continue to hold out hope. However, these past two games have been immensely disappointing.

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Not to mention the 5 & 11 Ottawa Rough Riders of 81 (2nd in the useless East that year) made it to the GC and almost beat the EE dynasty team.

Still time to right the Argo ship for a play-off run, and getting some guys like McManis, Brinkman, Brissett back could really help; I just don't see the coaching smarts with this team now and have to wonder what happened to RD there? Have to wonder if Mace the DC and overall coach was a bigger factor than some realize

Good thing could be they will likely have to face the RedBlacks (likely in Ottawa) in the East semi, and, today's brutal performance aside, that is an easily winable game cause the RedBlacks just are not very good IMO, even though some seem to think their record so far makes them so. The Lions with a still rusty Rourke killed them last week. The match-up at home vs. Ottawa a bit down the road will be another chance to make a statement against them, even with the blown chance today.

ArgoRavi wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:32 pm

paulwoods13 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 9:20 pm Third-place teams do not go to, much less win, the Grey Cup. This is a third-place team (if they can hang onto that spot).

This year reminds me of 1985. After three first-place finishes, a Grey Cup win and an incredibly disappointing eastern final loss, the wheels fell off for Obie. Both teams played most of the year without their starting QB, for different reasons, obviously. And both had other reasons in addition to quarterbacking for the precipitous fall. But it happened back then and it sure seems to be happening again this year.

The last 3rd place team in the East to make it to the Grey Cup were the 1970 Alouettes.

We have debated ad nauseum on here about what happened with the Chad Kelly accusations but I suspect we can all agree that whatever happened in the week leading up to last year's East Final and then in that game itself has done long-term term damage to this team. They just haven't recovered to this point. Can they?

There's still one-third of the season left and they need to get some healthy bodies back in the lineup so I continue to hold out hope. However, these past two games have been immensely disappointing.

gilthethrill wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 7:45 am "I wasn't really sure what was going on" Paul Hardcastle's song 19. Hard to really defend the Argos injury situation when Ottawa was missing key starters on both sides of the ball and had just cut the starting RB...but you wouldn't know it. It seems to be a trend falling behind early. I didn't see any intensity from what I thought was an improving D. A topic of discussion yesterday with some of the brightest minds in football as the game was on, is why isn't Mital starting? As mentioned earlier, Nield missed 2 blocks on those heavily relied on passes behind the line to the outside.
I expected the team to get hot when Kelly returned but it appears I couldn't have been more wrong.

On a side note, it was great to host argolio, AV, argo57 and boy yesterday. A special shout out to "Hurricane Hugo" for making an appearance and cheering up my award wining "Argo Room".