Game 2 : STAMPEDERS at Riders

[moon]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

I sure wish the Stamps would put BLM in there instead of Glenn. See what the kid can do, so that when push comes to shove we don't end up losing him to the RedBlacks, and are left with Glenn and Pierce V2.0.

I think at this point you protect BLM and have Glenn there a year with him to mentor/step in.

Tate hasn't shown enough to offset his injury questions.

[Roof-Daddy]

Originally Posted by moon

I think at this point you protect BLM and have Glenn there a year with him to mentor/step in.

Tate hasn't shown enough to offset his injury questions.

That's just it though, BLM has shown even less than Tate has because they don't give him the ball despite Tate being injured constantly.

[Redrum]

What they might be doing is hiding BLM so Ottawa doesn't know enough to take him. I think you have to find out for sure though. If Tate can't get through the season without injury I would move on with BLM. Tate looks good so far but being injury prone is the same or worse than inconsistent play.

[Red Potato Standing By]

Originally Posted by Dogbert

Maybe, if the stripes would blow the whistle after the Stamps have the ball carrier tied up for 10 seconds, we wouldn't have to?

The league's going to do everything it can to hand Saskatchewan the Grey Cup this year, and the TSN crew's going to be on its hands and knees to suck them off every step of the way there. It's gonna be a GREAT season...

Always seem to hear people say this but yet every team has won it more? To me that says that the league is trying to have them lose, if you believe in conspiracies that is. Sounds more like fans trying to make excuses on why there team lost.

[moon]

Originally Posted by Zethrynn

Always seem to hear people say this but yet every team has won it more? To me that says that the league is trying to have them lose, if you believe in conspiracies that is. Sounds more like fans trying to make excuses on why there team lost.

It has been an issue in the past 5-10 years as the CFL has exploded on TSN and TSN has been pushing the idea of how great the Prider fanbase is and trying their best to suck up to them to draw viewers in.

When there is clear evidence of them getting a ton of favorable calls it is not excuses why a team lost but clear that one team gets a ton of help from the refs.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by moon

It has been an issue in the past 5-10 years as the CFL has exploded on TSN and TSN has been pushing the idea of how great the Prider fanbase is and trying their best to suck up to them to draw viewers in.

When there is clear evidence of them getting a ton of favorable calls it is not excuses why a team lost but clear that one team gets a ton of help from the refs.

Where is the clear evidence of the riders getting preferential calls? I assume you have some back up for this statement.

It also doesnt make sense to cater to the largest fanbase. They already watch the games so it doesnt make sense to help them win. Catering to less passionate, more fairweather fans makes much more sense. Forcing Tilman to trade Ray to the Argos makes much more sense as the Argos need to win to be popular in Toronto and edmonton always has the best fan support anyway.

[moon]

Originally Posted by GGG

Where is the clear evidence of the riders getting preferential calls? I assume you have some back up for this statement.

It also doesnt make sense to cater to the largest fanbase. They already watch the games so it doesnt make sense to help them win. Catering to less passionate, more fairweather fans makes much more sense. Forcing Tilman to trade Ray to the Argos makes much more sense as the Argos need to win to be popular in Toronto and edmonton always has the best fan support anyway.

The PI call on Hefney twice last night, the awful call on Simpson, the holds from week 1, the repeated garabge PI calls they have received over the last 5-10 years, the Cates fumble from the play-offs s couple of years ago that was reviewed by the league and still given back to the Priders.

[Drake]

Spotted loping across the McMahon Stadium parking lot Saturday just past lunchtime, Drew Tate’s right arm was not encased in a large swath of Saran Wrap, as it had been the night before at Mosaic Stadium.

But he wasn’t on his way to the obligatory 12:45 p.m. rundown with teammates, either.

No, the injury-bitten quarterback was off to have an MRI performed on a suddenly-problematical elbow.

“That’s where he’s at right now,’’ said coach John Hufnagel in drizzly conditions. “We’re hoping for the best. He was battling a little bit of tendinitis. Whether it’s more than that, we’re not quite sure right now.

“It probably developed as the game went along because I didn’t realize there was a problem until the time he thought he should come out.’’


http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...722/story.html

I went back and noticed something most people might not have caught, Drew Tate was massaging the upper part of his right inner forearm on the sideline during the second play on the second possession of the game. It was where Bo Levi Mitchell QB'd that 2nd and inches play.

As for where I think he got hurt was when Ricky Foley chased him out of bounds in the 3rd quarter and it wasn't exactly a hard hit. I'm just speculating, but I think Tate may haven broke his forearm. It was exactly the same tackle (Brackenridge) had in the WSF that broke his forearm.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Buck Pierce II.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by moon

The PI call on Hefney twice last night, the awful call on Simpson, the holds from week 1, the repeated garabge PI calls they have received over the last 5-10 years, the Cates fumble from the play-offs s couple of years ago that was reviewed by the league and still given back to the Priders.

Go read the cfl rule book on the simpson call. The play does not need to be over for unecessary roughness to be called. Cates fumble was inconclusive so the call on the firld stood. No one has ever been able to show conclusive proof it was a fumble so the call on the field had to stand.

The PI call when Dressler was in the endzone was definately a legit call. Not sure about the other one. You are probably still mad that Browner got a PI call when he in his own words beasted Dressler to the ground well outside of the allowed contact area.

To whine about officiating when the offense scored no points in the second half of a football game is assinine. The stamps got worked in the 2nd half because the riders adjusted to the stamps playcalling and the stamps didnt. Your blind hatred of the riders really clouds any objectivity you might have had.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

^^^good post GGG. Except that in the CFL there is no 5 yard allowed contact zone. In the CFL you are allowed to make contact with the receiver at any point on the field IF you hit the receiver square in the front or are defending your territory.

[GeoffSK]

That was a penalty on simpson. All the tsn panel during todays halftime think there possible could be a fine too. Both the PI calls, the recievers were hit/grabbed before the ball came. One was an underthrow so hard for the db to do much but run into the receiver.

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[Drake]

The Canadian Football League announced today that it has fined the following players:

Calgary Stampeders offensive lineman John Gott and Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Jermaine McElveen were fined for their involvement in an altercation after the whistle in last Friday night's game.

Stampeders linebacker Juwan Simpson was fined for a dangerous tackle on Roughriders receiver Weston Dressler.

As per league policy, the amounts of the fines are not disclosed.

http://cfl.ca/article/four-players-f...l-after-week-2

[GGG]

Originally Posted by M*A*S*H 4077

^^^good post GGG. Except that in the CFL there is no 5 yard allowed contact zone. In the CFL you are allowed to make contact with the receiver at any point on the field IF you hit the receiver square in the front or are defending your territory.

The CFL has a 1 yard contact area, then you are allowed to defend your position. Relavent sections of the rules below.

Defenders may contact receivers in the neutral zone (one yard in depth on their own side of line of scrimmage).

Beyond the neutral zone, defender may use hands and arms to ward off an offensive player who is threatening his position.

Defenders may re-route receivers but not by stepping up, or stepping out, and attacking them. They may only defend their position.

Defenders may alter their established position by moving their feet.

Defenders may then defend that new position or their “line” on the field.

If they achieve a position where they are face up on a receiver and use hands and arms to defend their position, there is no foul.

Defending established defensive position with hands and arms is legal.