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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Overall a decent game to watch. Not the most exciting and I would have expected more out of both offences to be honest, maybe both D's just came to play. The field conditions were not at all what I would have expected for a game on turf in good weather, not sure what was up with that but perhaps a combo of the high humidity and low (relatively) temperature made it more slippery than otherwise would be expected. If the paint for the logo's on the field makes that much of a difference then the league needs to seriously reconsider that.
My two biggest takeaways from the game:
1. very few penalties. Very nice to see and kept things moving
2. kick off to final buzzer was pretty much 3 hours. And that includes a half time show that is probably longer than usual for a CFL game. Lack of penalties would also have contributed to this. The NFL could learn a lesson from this and maybe get rid of the 4+ hour snorefests the Super Bowl is threatenign to become.
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Not sure how much of this was discussed on tv but I got the impression the field was too hard/slick from being left uncovered for several weeks leading up to the game. I don’t know if field turf can freeze but normally you see the little black pellets flying up and this did not happen at all. Didn’t seem like the painted logos made a difference although it probably didn’t help.
I think it did significantly impact playcalling strategy (more than I realized at the time) and the Stamps were smart to go with a short passing game because Ottawa’s DBs weren’t really able to break on the ball. Even Bo looked a bit tentative on his drops — I wonder if the bad footing affected him on a few of his errant throws early on.