GAME 8: STAMPEDERS vs BC Lions

[OzSome]

Game Time: Friday, August 19th 8:00pm at BC Place
Televised: TSN and ESPN3

This is the 3rd game this season between the BC Lions and the Calgary Stampeders. BC Lions won on Week 1 20-18 after trailing Stampeders all game only to come back in the 4th quarter. In Week 6, it was the Stampeders who were trailing all game but came back in the 4th quarter to win 44-41.
This game is the season series for these two team.

OFFENSE:

QB Bo Levi Mitchell completed for over 300 yards every game except Game 1 and last week's game. He was 2 yards shy of 300 yards against Saskatchewan last week and also broke his streak of throwing at least a TD in consecutive games. Mitchell ended up with 18 completed pass on 31 attempts for 298 yards with no TD and 1 INT.
RB Jerome Messam had a decent game rushing 7 times for 27 yards and 1 TD. He also caught a pass from Mitchell and ran for 63 yards before losing the ball for a fumble. SB Marquay McDaniel had a back-to-back over 100 yards receiving against the Riders. McDaniel caught 8 passes for 110 yards. R Greg Wilson who had a great game against BC in Week 6 scoring 2 TDs had a bad game last week dropping some passes and also getting hurt. Looks like Stamps just put Wilson on a 1 game injured list and he will be replace by R Davaris Daniels on the roster.
Stamps OLine is 1st in the CFL in protecting the QB being sack. They only allowed 10 QB sacks. Not bad considering their starting 5 only played together a game or two.

DEFENSE:

Stampeders Defense conceded fewer than 20 points in 3 of the last 4 games. They are 3rd best in the CFL for allowing the least amount of points per game.
DE Charleston "Sackmaster" Hughes had a huge game last week as far as getting through the QB. Hughes sacked Darian Durant 3 times and also helped with 6 tackles. MLB Taylor Reed led the defensive tackles with 7 and also 1 QB sack. DB Tommie Campbell, Brandon Smith and LB Deron Mayo only had 6 tackles. DE Frank Beltre collected 2 defensive tackles, 2 special team tackles and 1 QB sack.

SPECIAL TEAM:

Returner Roy Finch continues to amaze the Stamps fans. Finch returned the Missed field goal by Riders for 41 yards and return punts 6 times for 102 yards and one of them is for 44 yards.
Kicker Rene Paredes had a perfect 4 for 4 in field goal attempts again against the Riders. He's been money on field goal attempts this season but struggles on convert after the TD.

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It is probably going to be a shootout again in BC Place. Stamps D can probably avoid that by going after Jennings a lot more in this game. Jennings is a good QB and he's got some talented receivers to throw to. I hope they pressure him a lot more and hopefully he hurries his throws and makes mistakes. Looking forward to this game.

GO STAMPS GO!!!!

[M*A*S*H 4077]

This is a massive game for the tiebreaker between these 2 clubs. Excited to see it go down

[OzSome]

Bo to Grant TD!!! 21-yard pass.
2-point convert to Parker.

[dash_pinched]

Great start!

[Drake]

That stadium looks fairly empty. CFL is hurting.

[PostandIn]

The CFL have to get serious about the idiotic amount of offensive offside. Why even have the rule they way they (don't) call it. Just let the receivers break huddle and head down field any time they want.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Special teams needs to wake up.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Why wasn't that penalty applied after the first down? Seems like a terrible call.

[OzSome]

Hughes an almost INT. Man, Suitor enough of Arceneaux please.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Flag every play. CFL is really hard to watch the past few years.

[OzSome]

Rob Cote TD!!!!
Missed the 2-point convert.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Tommy Campbell just delivers on D game after game. What a find.

[OzSome]

Nice!! Singleton great tackle.

[OzSome]

Good start and goof 1st half by the Stamps. They are ahead by 8 points right now 17-9.

Looks like Mitchell found Bighill and Eliminiam's weakness throwing the ball to Tory Harrison and even used Rob Cote who scored a TD. Mitchell looks poised and very confident throwing the ball in the first half and hopefully he keeps on going in the 2nd half.

Defense I thought is playing well. Yes they gave up some big plays tonight but they bounced back and stopped BC from scoring TDs 3 times. Instead of giving up 21 points, they only gave up 9 instead. If they keep on harassing Jennings he'll make the mistakes soon.

GO STAMPS GO!!

[OzSome]

Stamps recovered a fumble by Rainey. 2 plays later TD Messam!!

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Bo Levi making things look pretty easy right now. Very calm.

[OzSome]

Damn Beltre came close in swatting the ball from Rainey again.

[dash_pinched]

Get off the field Wally!

[OzSome]

That's a BS offensive PI on Campeau's TD.

[Corral]

BC defence is tiring out - time of possession for Calgary tonight is amazingly good and seems like they played most of the 3rd quarter in Lion's side of the field. Dickenson is destroying Washington's defence.

[Corral]

That's a BS offensive PI on Campeau's TD.

seems a bit soft - but I think that roughing the passer call that went in Calgary's favour was also a softy.

[OzSome]

seems a bit soft - but I think that roughing the passer call that went in Calgary's favour was also a softy.

It's a softie but Ontkyo slightly hit Maver in the head that's why it was an automatic roughing the passer penalty.

Nice effort by McDaniel and almost scored a TD too.

[dash_pinched]

That's a BS offensive PI on Campeau's TD.

It wasn't much of a push, that's for sure. The good thing is that the Stamps are taking more time off the clock and might still score a major on this drive.

[OzSome]

3rd touchdown of the season by Andrew Buckley.

[dash_pinched]

Yup, TD Buckley!!

[Corral]

here comes Lulay. Surprised he didn't start the 2nd half

[OzSome]

here comes Lulay. Surprised he didn't start the 2nd half

BC was only behind by 8 after the first half so no surprise there.

[Pizza]

loving that the BC fans are booing their own team lol

but i guess you cant blame them... a laundry list of costly mistakes made by the Lions team

[OzSome]

nice hit on Ianuzzi..

[Corral]

BC was only behind by 8 after the first half so no surprise there.

Fair enough, but it seemed to me that Calgary had him figured out pretty good tonight.

[Corral]

Dave - why not put Drew Tate in for the last 10 minutes?

[OzSome]

That should have a fumble. Iannuzzi did nt have the control before he lost the ball.

[OzSome]

Buono is fishing for PI penalty. I hate this bogus challenge.

[dash_pinched]

This Daniels guy from Notre Dame looks like quite the find.

[Bobblehead]

Has Wally won ANY challenges this year?

[dash_pinched]

Has Wally won ANY challenges this year?

I think the updated ledger is 2 won, 12 lost.

[OzSome]

Now Dickenson can sit Mitchell and put Tate on the next possession. BC is getting chippy now.

[Pizza]

Buono looks like he's a turnover away from having a heart attack

[Redrum]

Ah cmon give Drew one throw at least.

[Pizza]

they finally put Drew in...

... for the victory formation

[Corral]

although the score was lopsided, I thought this was an entertaining football game to watch. Great execution by the Stamps in all facets of the game, and the BC defence was likewise until they tired out in the 3rd.

[OzSome]

Good overall game by the Stampeders. All 3 facets were awesome tonight. They were all prepared to play and wanted to prove they are the best tem in the CFL. Great dominating win.

OFFENSE:
Bo Levi Mitchell was very poised, very comfortable and proven he is one of OR the best QB in the CFL tonight. Mitchell exposed the weakness of the best LB crew in the CFL by throwing the ball to Harrison a few times and to Cote, who happens to score a TD. Eliminiam and Bighill couldn't cover our RB/FB on passing plays. Mitchell spread the ball around and his receivers were making nice plays and catching the ball. Parker played well so as Daniels, Grant and McDaniel. Offensive Line was not perfect but they protected Mitchell very well in this game. I don't think I ever seen BC DLine and LBs came even close to touching Mitchell all night. Dickenson called a good game tonight.

DEFENSE:
This is the best full 60 minutes game by the defense this season. They were constantly pressuring Jennings in this game. Jennings made some good throw and BC went to the red zone 3 times but defense shut them down and only gave up 3 FGs instead. Then in the second half they totally shut BC offense down. I can't even pick the defensive player of the game tonight because there are too many of them who played well.
I've been critical of Claybrook's play calling this season but I think he is getting better and getting comfortable.

SPECIAL TEAM:
Hats off to special team cover team for shutting down Chris Rainey. Maver was awesome directing his punts away from Rainey. When Rainey gets the ball, the cover team are there to stop him and even made him fumble the ball. Paredes was perfect again.

[Erick Estrada]

Men against boys.

[You Need a Thneed]

Huge game to secure first in the division, even for s game in the first half of the season.

BC now has to win 2 more games than the Stamps in the last 10 games to pass us. So, if the Stamps go 6-4, the Luons would have to go 8-2 or better to finish with more points.

[Roof-Daddy]

Gotta say that I'm impressed with the Stamps. I thought this would be a down year with some key losses on both sides, plus with Huf stepping down as HC, but they look better than ever so far.

[dino7c]

remember the first game when everyone was saying how bad the stamps would be?