Finally a close battle in the CFL where 75% of the teams are terrible. Tonight in Saskatchewan the Stamps were tested and probably got what they deserved. The Roughriders did one thing other teams haven't against the Stamps--beat up on the defence racking up over 400 yards.
Milt Stegall was a great receiver, but he's a horrible TV analyst. This post is a running collection of lame, hilarious, embarrassing, and stupid quotes and thoughts the dude makes on TV.
I'm not sure why he keeps getting the invite back, cause he's making TSN look bad. Some of his insights are astute, but frankly, someone's slipped him a $20 to bash the Calgary Stampeders. Take for example his comments in Week 2.
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Well, the sad part is the Stampeders didn't score 200 points in 4 games (pretty close mind you). The great news is the record Joffrey Reynolds broke to becomes the all-time leading rusher in Stampeders history. He hit the milestone in the second quarter as his 17-yard rush pushed him past Kelvin Anderson, who ended his career in Calgary with 8,292 yards. Reynolds finished the evening with 145 yards on the ground (only his 3rd 100-yard rushing game this season).
Reynolds joined the Stampeders during the 2004 season and is currently in his sixth full season with the football club. He accomplished the record breaking goal in one season less than Anderson.
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Do you know how good the Calgary Stampeders are? The defence didn't surrender offensive points until late in the second half, a field goal, and that was IT for scoring! Offensively they've put up over 156 points in three games using 2 running backs and 3 QBs.
Yes, they are that good.
Again, I'll point out, Milt Stegall and his second week prediction that 'the Calgary Stampederse are an average team' is not only dead wrong, but they shouldn't let the dude back on TV.
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The Stampeders have sent lineman Jesse Newman to BC for a 2011 2nd round selection in the CFL Draft and a conditional 2012 fourth-round pick. Newman left the Stamps abruptly at the beginning of the season and returned last week. In his absence the Stamps haven't missed a beat so his departure makes little difference to the team today.
You have to think that BC got the better of this deal, assuming Newman sticks around in football. He very well could anchor that O-line for the next 15 years, assuming he sticks around.
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The BC Lions may have looked and felt like a team that was better than their 1-6 record would indicate, but after Friday's beating by the Stampeders it's pretty clear, BC is the worst team in the CFL. Apart from some late game heroics that gave BC an extra 14 points, they put up negative yards in the second half. That's how bad the offence is.
The defence is perhaps slightly stronger, but staying on the field all day was too much against a strong Calgary offence.
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Man things aren't going well in Edmonton. The brunt of all jokes from Calgary, the city of Edmonton is at a loss for words after their depantsing Sunday versus the league leading Stampeders. You can't even make fun of the Eskimos because the team is just SO bad that you'd feel like it's kind of like kicking a lame puppy.
Nothing for the Eskimos is working and now they may be without starting QB Ricky Ray after he was crunched early in the first quarter. The only interesting thing about the Eskimos is the sporadic attempts at the Bronco formation.
All of the hubbub before the game surrounded a controversial Tweet Nik Lewis made in reference to Geroy Simon and the defensive secondary of BC. Comments swirled around Lewis' musings that the Lions defence liked to hit low. Well Nik Lewis is wrong, they didn't like it, they LIKE it, in that the BC Lions secondary is a bunch of laughable prospects who relish in the chance to end SB and WR careers. What those morons don't understand is when Calgary saw the Lions D took Lewis' playful comments seriously, the Stamps D responded with even more hellacious hits below waist.
After the dust settled the Stamps scrapped together another important divisional W and sit atop the West division alone. The Lions went 1-5 and the worst start in Wally Buono's coaching career. They also looked stupid when the likes of Davis Sanchez pulled the 'I've chopped Joffrey Reynolds below the knees and will emphatically make chop signs to show how tough and crappy my Lions team is'.
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