TORONTO — The Toronto Argonauts only needed the one touchdown to defeat the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday night to close out Week 17. Toronto’s Lirim Hajrullahu set a franchise single-game record with eight field goal makes as the Argos came out on top in a back-and-forth affair with the Als at BMO Field.
Congrats to Lirim H., you saved your team with a great game. Also shout out to Ka’Deem Carey for being a workhorse on the ground. For all the time the offence had the ball compared to the Als, this game shouldn’t have been close. They were in the red zone four times, twice inside the 5 and couldn’t produce a touchdown. I blame Dinwiddie for this, as it is a chronic problem with this team and instead of coming up with strategies and creative ways to score TDs, there is no imagination at all. Same old lame plays. Not good enough. This looks like a lost season, playoffs or not. The D played better and hung in there at the end instead of doing the big choke. Too much lack of discipline on this team. Thiadric Hansen took a selfish penalty on Montreal’s last shot and could have cost his team the game. Bad penalties like procedure and holding on the O-line. What’s with this inane strategy by Dinwiddie on third a 3 or 4 pretending to gamble and hoping the D will go offside. It doesn’t work Ryan. It doesn’t work and in one case your team got called on it for procedure. Punt coverage was terrible in allowing that 100 yard return. Inexcusable. Punt and kickoff return teams couldn’t spring Janarion Grant for one good return. Yes you got the win, but it is not confidence instilling at all. Anything but.
At the end of the day
Beat Montreal
Won season series
Confidence grows
Nuff said
Argos struggle in the red zone
I found the Argo win to be a very boring one. To score 24 out of 37 points by field goals only shows how their offence can’t score touchdowns. I believe the CFL needs to go back to placing the hash marks back to where they were a few years ago - maybe that might make kicking FGs more of a challenge. For a player who might be on the field for maybe 1 minute per game - they have too much influence on the outcome. Not a good way to play the game.
If just three of those field goals were touchdowns the Argos would be unbeatable. If Chad Kelly improves with more practice in the next few games and the coach can improve the secondary,in time, the Argos could easily be in the Grey Cup.
Exactly
Out of the way Ottawa you can’t get the job done
Hashmarks have nothing to do with it if Lewis ward hit 69 straight on the old width. Not to mention the hashes were narrowed for offences to use the whole field more often. A qb that is 65% is good, a kicker that is 65% is unemployed.
They get one shot to do it right, and because they have gotten so good at it, you want to change the rules? They are specialists for that very reason, so they can be at their best the few times they are on the field.
If I remember correctly, Brett Lauther had a VERY bad game against Montreal, but no one complained as much about his influence on that outcome(except Riders fans)
I don’t agree - I am not talking about just one game and one player - I am talking about the general performance of field goal kickers - they decide too many games and play very little. And yes , the placement of hash marks do make a difference - so we need to agree to disagree.