Stamps Offence Lifeless
Did you know that if you rag on the ref long enough in a game because he spends the entire game by your head coach, you complain non stop, and then with a minute an a half left you do an acting job to get a call, that it actually works? Just like the boy who cried wolf (I'm guessing he gets eaten in a gory death by the wolf?) Quinton Porter did a fantastic acting job, grabbing his head in pain, jumping up right after and smiling as he extended a drive that would have given Calgary a chance to tie tonight's football game.
The penalty was unnecessary roughness--hit to the head. Replays clearly show very little contact to the head....I guess I just don't know the rules. Nonetheless, all the complaining by the Hamilton coaching staff caught on TSN all night long paid off with the bogus call at the end. Did it change the game? Yes. Completely. Was it the reason for Calgary's loss? Not a chance.
Let me sum up Calgary's offence.
Dropped passes, 15 yards throwing for Burris in the FIRST HALF, 100 yards throwing in the second. One trip to the red zone on their own, one touchdown.
The story of the entire game, really, apart from the great acting job, was Quinton Porter's gifts to the Stampeder offence. Fumbles and interceptions gave Calgary 14 points. In fact, had BUrris and the offence got their crap together, they would have walked away with this because Hamilton had nothing going.....
That's essentially the game. The defence gave up a couple big plays, they had penalty after penalty, but on the bright side Charleston Hughes looked good with two QB sacks. On the downside the Stamps lost Ryan Thelwell for what looks like the season.
Back to the drawing board for this team. No need to tear it apart, but when your offence was this terrible less 100 yards plus by Reynolds, you have to do something in your gameplan. It's pretty lame to loose to Hamilton even though they are a better team this year.
Grey Cup champs again? At this rate I'd be surprised for a Grey Cup appearance.
2 responses so far ↓
Dave Holland // Sep 22nd 2009 at 9:37 pm
I'm not sure who wrote this piece of garbage but you had one thing right - one trip to the endzone on their own. I will agree that Calgary played poorly but take away points given by Hamilton errors and Calgary walks away with 3 points. Terrible.
Now...give it a rest whiner...all players try for an advantage. Some players claim to catch trapped receptions while linemen point fingers at the opposing player when THEY are the one offside. The shot to the head of Porter was NOT from a helmet but from a right hand/forearm - take another look Commish!
Face it. Calgary is just a so-so team with some really good players - Burris and that snapper Randy excluded. I'll dog on Randy another time. Hamilton will always be a hard core football town with passionate fans - unlike our super polite western alienated Flames fans - I mean Stamps fans?
Not ME!
darly // Sep 23rd 2009 at 8:27 am
No replay I saw showed any contact with the head. Hamilton is worse than a so-so team, it only happens that Calgary didn't play any better that day. If you had a real QB and healthy stars you'd be slightly better, but right now I don't expect fireworks this year.
Are you Saying BUrris and Chevrier are bad players? Burris is one of the top QBs in the league period as stats and Championships would indicate (what do you measure by? Your gut feeling?).
Chevrier on the other hand has NEVER EVER made a bad snap his ENTIRE career with the Stamps. So again how do you measure good players? Or do all Hamilton fans make stupid decisions like this?
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