Entertaining game aside, the Stamps just aren't the fundamentally good team they used to be. Coaching and execution simply not good enough. Every week it seems like one of the units lets the team down. Special teams and the offense have taken their turns but the defense went really, really soft to end the game. Maybe it's me but I feel Monson's defenses always seem to leak badly at the worst of times. I don't know maybe you want to have someone cover the opposition's best WR in OT?
Good to see Maier connecting on some deep passes but the turnovers on successive offensive series spotted the Redblacks 14 points. Dave has to work on this as Maier's turning the ball over way too much this season. Also as said above Paredes missing that first extra point was extremely costly but really shouldn't have been had Dickenson just kicked extra points on their other TD's rather than failing on all those successive 2 point conversions largely due to suspect play calling. Icing on the cake was Ottawa winning the game with a 2 point conversion that was a high percentage short pass rather than the lower percentage attempts the Stamps kept trying. It's going to be a long season and it's looking like the Riders and Stamps will be battling to become playoff doormats for the Lions or Bombers.
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