TSN's Schultz has us picked against Edmonton on Saturday night!
It's tough to be an Eskimo and good to be a Ticat right now. The way Hamilton won was as significant as the fact that they won. The Ticats beat a good Bomber team that had a quarterback in Kevin Glenn who completed 85% of his passes and still lost. It is tough not to pick the Eskimos as they are playing at home after the Calgary loss, but the Ticats looked more polished than I have seen them in a long time. If they can only control some of the controllable mistakes, Hamilton can make a move in the East. The first quarter will be important in this one. I like the Ticats in a bit of an upset. Hamilton 30, Edmonton 20.
(Seriously, I almost liked it better when everyone thought the cats were the underdogs. Being favourites is a whole different kind of pressure, and you just have to hope the players don't buy into their own hype.)
Never mind the other pics! Take the Ticats on proline LARGE!
It will be a big payday because the odds are already set before they knew about Gass and the oddsmakers will put a lot of weight on home field advantage!
Ticats should win this one LARGE! AND...get in early because they will cut off the betting if they are going to see too much downside to their odds!
This guy has no game. He was the invisible man in Hamilton. I don’t care what stats he has this year. Al Bundy need not worry about green and yellow 88.
I spent a bit of time on the esksfans.com last night, and the posters there seem uncharacteristically open to the idea that they may get schooled this weekend. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Speaking of KPeterson (who was, in my opinion, our best receiver for much of last season, although that isn't saying much), there was a big kerfuffle going on about whether professional football players wear jock straps or not, with AJ Gass's character resting on the outcome. Peterson chimed in to assure everyone that, no, they do not. Gass, at least in the eyes of some Esk faithful, has been vindicated. With the league, not so much.
I think for the most part the players on offense respect Maccioca and the players on defense respect Kepley. I would be willing to bet that the players on defense do not respect Maccioca much.
I had predicted early in the year that Maccioca would be the first coach fired in the CFL this year.
I think Maccioca is a great offensive co-ordinator. I don’t think he has shown me much to prove he will be a good head coach.
It's been hard for Hamilton receivers to look good over the last two years. We've had the receivers, we've just not been able to get the ball to them. Peterson was as good as anyone and he's proving it this year.
