After returning from his sternum injury, Anthony Calvillo's Alouettes beat the Eskimos, but A-C said he wasn't happy with his performance. He couldn't have said that after last nite's game. Calvillo shredded the Bombers for almost 500 yards in passing and five touchdowns in a 44-40 win. That 5th touchdown took some major league onions as he called for the deep ball on a 3rd and 4 and ended up throwing perhaps his best pass of the night over two Bomber defenders right into the hands of Brian Bratton for a touchdown.
Bomber fans will argue that Calvillo should never have gotten the chance to throw that pass because Jamel Richardson had fumbled the ball away after a hellacious hit by Ian Logan. They might be right. Its becoming more and more troublesome to me that every week we are talking about a controversial decision by the referees. The CFL has to do something to correct this. It isn't an anomaly, its now a recurring theme and its been this way for a while.
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Ben Cahoon caught his 1000th pass in the victory. In fact, it came the play before the Bratton touchdown. I threw this out there on the Sportscage yesterday with Scott Schultz about Cahoon. The question being is Cahoon the greatest Canadian receiver the CFL has ever seen. I know full well that in Saskatchewan, Rider fans are going to say that honour goes to Ray Elgaard. I understand that and would probably vote that way too. However, if you take your loyalty out of the equation, one could make a solid argument for Cahoon. One argument you can't take away though is that there has been no better quarterback-receiver combo in this league than Calvillo to Cahoon. There have been great combos, but none equal that one.
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I don't have to tell you its a big game for the Riders today as they are in Hamilton. Its a big game for the hometown Tabbies too as they and keep the pressure on Montreal. I think this will be a very good football game and it will be one of those ones that the Riders pull out in the 4th quarter.
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How about the U of R Rams! They went into Vancouver and pasted UBC 41-6. Adrian Charles had 193 yards for the winners who are now 4-1 on the season. Reginans can't complain about their football teams this year. The Riders, Rams and Thunder are all championship calibre. Its been a long time since we could say that around here. In fact, have we ever had a chance to say that in Regina. By the way, I thought that game was supposed to be live on Access last nite. What happened??
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I talked about Scott Schultz co-hosting the Cage with me yesterday. The man is a natural and just keeps getting better and better. There is only one Schultz that Saskatchewan football fans should depend on for analysis of the game and I'm not talking about the big guy in Toronto.
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Huge news for the Pats as Carter Ashton is returned to the team by Tampa. I know many thought he wasn't coming back and some of those people can be found at the Brandt Centre. Ashton makes the Pats a much better team and they got some help with the pick-up of Thomas Frazee from Moose Jaw. I guess that's what you get when you get Chad Lang involved. He ruins the rivalry by making a trade. Just kidding Chad!!
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Congrats to a friend of mine who is moving home. Scott Clark, the first media and public relations man for the Pats under the Parker regime, is moving back to Saskatchewan after spending eight years with the Blue Jays. He has been named the first general manager of the new Moose Jaw multiplex. Clark is a good man with a shrewd mind. He also used to play a mean centerfield for my slowpitch team. This is an excellent hire. I'm sure it will be an interesting lifestyle change going from Toronto and working for the Blue Jays to the mean streets of Moose Jaw, but he'll survive. Someone may have to remind him though that if he starts work at 830, he doesn't have to leave the house at around 6. I'm thinking he won't have many traffic problems to deal with in Moose Jaw.
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Before leaving Yorkton yesterday, I stopped in at a 7-11 to grab some water for the trip home. Imagine my surprise and my joy when I saw the cover of the latest MAXIM Magazine. ANNA KOURNIKOVA!!!!!! She has re-confirmed why she is an all Scruffy team first ballot hall of famer. YOWZA!!!
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The Mrs and I ordered Chinese food from our favourite place to get Chinese last night. we've been giving a lot of business to the local neighbourhood restaurant and we may be giving more in the future. I don't know if they have changed something up at this place, but its just not as good anymore. The neighbourhood place is better and much cheaper. Maybe the last couple of visits have just seen us order at the wrong time, but its two strikes. Do you have two strikes or have you just stopped going to a certain business because of bad service or something else. The Mrs. has a long standing vendetta against one south end Regina restaurant because of an incident that had to have happened over 10 years ago. She swore she would never be back and she hasn't. It really sucks because I love going to this place.
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How many of you have decided to take one last run to the lake to spend the weekend at the cabin? I know of a few. Why not?
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Get out there and enjoy your day. I think I'm hosting the post-game show on CKRM from the Four Seasons after the Rider game today, but I'm not 100 percent certain of that. If I am, I'll talk to you over the air then. If not, I'll give you my thoughts tomorrow as its going to be a late night watching UFC after the Rider game. Have a good one.
GO RIDERS!!!!!
6 comments:
Perhaps in ten years time there will be a combo still at play called Durant to Fantuz which will match the Calvillo to Cahoon.
KJ
Where's all the McCrystal haters now? Contrary to their misguided ad campaign a couple of years ago, "This might be the best Rams team ever!!"
LD
Carter Ashton or no Carter Ashton, the Pats don't win 20 this year.
you mean the ben cahoon who was born in utah but is classified as a non-import? just checking...
Yeah, I would be talking about two time Canadian of the year Ben Cahoon who was born in Utah but spent a good part of his childhood in S. Alberta thus making him a non-import. What's your point?
You and Scott have outstanding chemistry. Very much like Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
Last week Scott did an analysis with Sheldon Nap? regarding the Calgary game. Two linemen going over the technical aspect of blocking. It was just phenomenal anaylisis. The key to football is in the trenches and line play. To many glamour guys as former Recievers and QB's stating the obvious just doesn't add anything. You Schultz doing more of that it is just golden to listen to. Then he jokes around, but isn't trying to be a goof, and it's fun to listen to.
When he said he's a "Cunnning Linguist" I almost started hyperventalating I was laughing so hard.
Mitch you sound the best you've ever been. I think you're grinning like the cat that swallowed the canary waiting for that ratings book to come out, and it's well deserved. Keep up the great work. It's a pleasure to listen to you both.
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