So Jonathan Jennings will get his first start for the Lions since game four. Whether he can take advantage of the opportunity and deliver is the question. Whether Devier Posey can be an adequate replacement for Emmanuel Arceneaux is another question that remains to be answered.
On the visitors’ side of the ball, Jeremiah Masoli will try to bounce back from a subpar outing last week, but will continue to be hampered by a depleted backfield corps. While Brandon Banks is still pencilled in on the depth chart as a starter for the game early this afternoon, there’s considerable doubt as to whether he’s 100% fit and ready to play. And with Jalen Saunders still out, we may still see Chad Owens suit up before the end of the month, though not today. Moreover with Alex Green on the injured list, John White IV will get another opportunity to prove that he’s still got what it takes to be a starting RB in the CFL.
So evidently Brandon Banks didn’t take the flight to Vancouver yesterday with the rest of the team but Coach June Jones nonetheless elected to keep Banks as a starter on the Tiger-Cats depth chart because Banks would be “a game time decision”. Now to me it would seem strange to elect to insert a player into the starting lineup when said player is sipping a beer in front of his TV set a half a continent away but I’ll defer to Coach Jones’ superior understanding of the Xs and Os of the game in this regard.
