My biggest takeaway is that the team didn’t give up when a lot of teams would. There was very little to be encouraged about at half-time, but they still came out fighting. That feeling will live on with them for the rest of the season.
It was discouraging to see how much pressure they were getting on us without even blitzing. Seven sacks, including five by their D-linemen. We’ll need to sort that one out.
Addison in space is scary. Some Argo defenders will be replaying moments in their head and wondering how they missed him. Also he is now sixth in the league in receiving yardage.
I hope the experiment of dressing no backups for 4 of the 5 DB positions will come to a graceful end.
After watching the replays of the big wrestling match in the first quarter, I still never saw any punches thrown by either side. I’m sure there were, but there’s no guarantee that the refs would have seen everything that happened. Assuming that our guys got caught and theirs did not is still a far more believable explanation than the never-ending league effort to screw us over.
I think Coach Austin would have reacted differently to the ejections than Coach O did, and I don’t think it would have helped us.
Those missing for the Cats by the end of the first quarter included six all-star caliber players at QB (Masoli), receiver (Tasker), DT (Laurent), CB (Breaux), S (Adeleke - I’m assuming he will be an all-star this year) and KR (Williams - same), plus two other starters at DE (Tracy) and RB (STE and his replacement and his replacement’s replacement). Basically one-third of the starting line-up.
Week after week, Simoni looks like he’s playing his best football in years.
It’s not very often that you see the starting RB end up tied for fifth in number of carries. I assumed Coombs was hurt for most of the game, although TSN didn’t say anything about it.
Weird that we have now played two more games than MTL. Just checked the schedule, and they don’t get another bye all season. If we finish first and they meet us in the Eastern Final, it will be their 11th straight week without a break. We get at least two byes, and a third if we finish in first.
What is interesting is that a lot of that pressure came through the interior. Ciraco and Revenberg got man-handled quite a few times which directly led to sacks.
Evans doesn’t roll out the same as Masoli. So if the DT can bull rush his way through the Guards then he will wrap up Evans in the pocket before he even makes his 1st read.
The half-time adjustments seemed to have fixed the problem. Some screens, hot reads and razzle dazzle kept those pesky Argos away from our QB.
I notice the written play-by-play shows just 2 penalties called on that – the 2 TiCat ejections, each worth 25 yds. Yet, when play resumed, the ball was set just 25 yds. up field (from T33 to H52). Why?
Something I noticed, recently, looking at the schedule – If WPG finishes first in the West, they will have 27 consecutive days of not playing between their regular season finale on Oct. 20th and hosting the Western Final on November 17th.
Absolutely, loved the half time adjustments both on offence and defence.
The Argos missed a lot of scoring opportunities in the first half, we were giving this game on a silver platter. A good team would have had at least 10-14 more points on us; due to the multiples of turnovers and sacks against us.
Hopefully we can start playing more disciplined on our road trip.
I think part of the change was pulling closer in the second half and being able to establish the run. That gave the O-Line a breather. The second half looked alot more like the first drive.
