He was stagnant almost the entire game. The only reason he was even able to put up 31 points is because he had two overtimes to pad his stats. One could easily argue that if Maas had been in, the game probably wouldn't have even gone to OT. The only reason he looked at all decent is because Montreal played so poorly on offence too.
I gotta agree
10 points in overtime
7 from the kick return
he had the ball 22 minutes of the 30 in the first half and only put 10 points on the board 3 from a field goal off a turnover well inside MTL territory
I thought Fleming would get outstanding Canadian, partially because of his kicking, but he also helped tackle Landry on what would have been a sure touchdown.
any kicker willing to get his hands dirty like that deserves some kind of accolades.
I don't like Ray at all for MVP (I actually thought they should have put Maas in (but it worked out for them)) but who else would you give the nod to over him?
I thought Ray deserved it. Montreal's defense played awesome and beat the living crap out of Ray all game long.
But Ray still got the job done under a pile of pressure and made very few mistakes. He deserves MVP just for the long possession drives in the first half, his 35 yard pass to Mitchell on third down, the 2-point conversion, and his execution in OT.
Why all the venom spit at Ray? He played as well as any champion quarterback, and it wasn't all a fluke.
…I thought it was for Best Canadian Actor…for his ‘ow, I hurt my arm to stop the momentum’ play…I believe that was 15 or 16 straight games for Mr. Maurer…I don’t know fer sure, just whacking the beehive to see what happens…Fleming was robbed…
lol, yah i guess if you complete a record amount of pases then yuo shouldnt win grey cup mvp..
so mr. second place aka ro1313. who should have won it?. dave stala with tht little dance he did after he scored the TD in OT. then we shut him up pretty fast.
you guys might say why i am not more humble.....well hearing all of your stampies and lioneses and birdies , say were done , were done, rickies done, rickies done, well look at us now...
and roughy thts why your not a coach , a coach sticks with his guy he picks
and why should they have put maas in . and what did ricky do that was sooooooooo wrong....... there was not on part in this game where you could have put maas in
ro1313.... what numbers of rickies were the factor that makes him a non mvp candidate, the one where his 2 grey cup rings are against the als..... ?????? or the one where he picked your D apart with a 70 % completion average??
.....part of the reason for saying Ray? might be the perception of how he did in the western semi and final games where he pretty much stunk.......in this game, taken solely on it's own merit I can't really say anyone else did anything better......really, it should go to Maas for getting the EEs there in the first place, but Ray WAS the QB last night......
I don't think you guys are factoring in that he had two overtimes to pad those numbers. I think someone on the Edmonton defence who handled Monteal, the best offence in the league, quite well.