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Walt67
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Okay, so the "magic number" is now 2. Again showing the brilliance of CFL rules in the final minutes, Hamilton's stunning and unlikely last-minute win last night gives the Rourke-less Lions more hope to cement second place.
After the Cats lost a very late, and horribly executed, third-down gamble leading to a Stamp score, things looked very black. But a fabulous kick return - with no holding penalty! - and clutch plays gave the Tabbies the win.
Of course that makes these last 3 weekends super interesting. Can we win in Edmonton next week, as we should? Can we beat a resting Bomber squad at least once in two meetings, with so much on the line for us? Can the Riders beat the Stamps in one of their last two games?
You can say if the Lions cannot take second place now, and give Doman some much deserved extra revenue, they certainly don't deserve it. Let's hope the special teams finally get special tonight (as covered in The Sun) and that the rest of the team rises to the opportunity.
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Walt67 wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:04 am
Okay, so the "magic number" is now 2. Again showing the brilliance of CFL rules in the final minutes, Hamilton's stunning and unlikely last-minute win last night gives the Rourke-less Lions more hope to cement second place.
After the Cats lost a very late, and horribly executed, third-down gamble leading to a Stamp score, things looked very black. But a fabulous kick return - with no holding penalty! - and clutch plays gave the Tabbies the win.
Of course that makes these last 3 weekends super interesting. Can we win in Edmonton next week, as we should? Can we beat a resting Bomber squad at least once in two meetings, with so much on the line for us? Can the Riders beat the Stamps in one of their last two games?
You can say if the Lions cannot take second place now, and give Doman some much deserved extra revenue, they certainly don't deserve it. Let's hope the special teams finally get special tonight (as covered in The Sun) and that the rest of the team rises to the opportunity.
It's sure seems clear that Bombers will play Collaros at home and he'd not be a likely candidate for 2 picks like the young Dru Brown threw for bad results.

Others may sit on the DEF side in that final game for good parts of it.

A good part of what will happen in WPG will be which VA turns up. The big play VA who sees the field well. He has to as his OC certainly won't dial up anything to help him like Buck Pierce calls for the Bombers. Even last night I had to admire Buck's ability to spread the DEF out from side to side - something that the Lions OC simply doesn' tseem to grasp in his narrow playbook based on the Wally Principle - it's all about players executing!

Yah that bone head third-down gamble by Steinhauer should have won the game right there for the Stamps!

Williams as a kick returner last night was exciting! He's looking comfortable now.
"Ability without character will lose." - Marv Levy
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