WPG @ EDM, Oct 16

[ben_the_eskimo]

During our last cup run Mike Reilly won a game down the stretch with 7/22 completions for 49 yards, just a 31% completion percentage.

Stats are for losers, all that matters is W’s, and that’s what Cody does....

[ben_the_eskimo]

Kilams gotta be a shoe in for Coach of the Year right??

From worst to first in one year, incredible....

[ben_the_eskimo]

This team can beat anyone’s in the league, they’ve proven that. The only one that scares me a little is Rourke, not even the Lions as a whole so much, just Rourke because he always seems to have his best games against the green and gold....

[ben_the_eskimo]

First place feels pretty damn good!...

[ben_the_eskimo]

4/5 in the red zone tonight too....

[ben_the_eskimo]

This team wins games....

[ben_the_eskimo]

The officiating this game has been flat out disgraceful....

[ben_the_eskimo]

O still making too many mistakes. Play calling has been good so far, mixing in a bunch of different stuff. But we keep stalling drives with missed passes, dropped passes, alignment penalties etc.

I expect them to be better in the second...

[ben_the_eskimo]

No Beard and no Kordell tonight.

Take care my of business and we clinch 1st, lose and things get a little hairy....

[ben_the_eskimo]

For sure they are.

And we both know that there are enough smart football people in this organization to solve the puzzle here....

[ben_the_eskimo]

For sure. Stats wise we’re pretty consistent moving the ball down the field, just get stuck in the red zone always. And even that had a stretch of good production during the middle third of the season so it’s disappointing to see that fall...

[ben_the_eskimo]

I’m not totally unhappy with him, he’s been able to make in-game adjustments really well, but our game plans going in have seemed pretty vanilla lately.

I think a big part of that has to do with what other teams are doing well...

[ben_the_eskimo]

Ha, I don’t disagree with you on that.. I’ve been stating my case on the CFL CHATTER Facebook group all morning lol. I love our current setup and the fact that the EE is featured prominently. I was just thinking that now that Ed and Mark...

[ben_the_eskimo]

I was playing around with chat gbt and came up with this.

If they were to go that route I wouldn’t mind seeing them lean into the Elks theme a bit since they have done a great job of promoting the EE brand since the Thompsons took...

[ben_the_eskimo]

[ben_the_eskimo]

Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t want it as a full time look, but once a year on the LDR would be nice. I always wanted to see it with a green lid but the timing of those two things never lined up....

[ben_the_eskimo]

That game is forever burned into my memory for whatever reason. Hope the ALs play another game in the big O now that it’s being refurbished....

[ben_the_eskimo]

I know I’m probably in the minority but I want the yellow 3rd jersey back so badly!

As for the riders, they need something different because their current home and away kit is awful. Too patchy and clunky, their retros are their best...

[ben_the_eskimo]

Playing Rourke in the dome off a weeks rest will be infinitely more difficult than playing him in frigid CW temps after hopfully getting beat up a bit the week before.

Again, worried that that TO loss will come back to bite us....

[ben_the_eskimo]

And I don’t love our chances in that scenario…

In the event of an BC and EDM West Final I expect the host team to take it so locking up first is extremely important....