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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I feel that opening night loss to a bad team in the Redblacks could be costly for them. This is not a season where they can likely afford to lose too many games to bad/mediocre teams as they are probably going to struggle to beat top teams and end up around .500 by the fall leaving small margins for error if they ever can put together even 3/4 of a healthy roster by then. If they lose more players tonight (which is highly likely) it's going to be as bleak a scenario as we have seen maybe ever as DD already has very little to work with. Adversity is good but this is getting a little ridiculous.
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Ill fully admit I haven't caught up with the rest of the CFL yet. Hamilton is good. Montreal and Toronto look and sound terrible. If Ottawa isn't great, that's 3 out of 4 in the East.
Ok, looks like the Bombers are coming out ok so far. Sask is under 500.and maybe the Esks are ok. Lions are 0 and 3.
So that's 5 teams that are mediocre out of 8. So 4 other teams that the Stamps have just a good a shot at winning over the next 16 games with Arbuckle, let alone Mitchell. Mitchell would be a boost once he gets back into swing of things and maybe push the Stamls into being a step above mediocre.
Point being, with the majority of the teams not great, door is wide open with 16 games to play, the majority against those mediocre teams.
There will be one spot in west up for grabs among 3 teams and one spot in east for 2 additional. So 2 of 5 mediocre teams get a playoff spot, and I'll take a rested and healthy Mitchell come early or mid August to be able to get one of those two spots by Oct.