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Defense played great and limited Hamilton to only 3 points. Ryan Phillips continues to be a ball hawk. The defense has showed some interesting looks. Sometimes showing a 3 man rush, but bringing in 2 extra rushers after the ball is snapped. Offense was so so, but punched it when it counted and was able to run the ball late in the game to run some clock down. Shawn Gore looking a lot better now playing inside on the short side of the field. Offensive line had a good game. They no longer got confused by stunts like last week. Jermiah Johnson picked up the blitz pretty well and as a whole they only gave up 1 sack. 

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3 hours ago, Mr.DirtyDangles said:

Start of a season is always ugly

That's a good point.  There are only the two preseason games.  Happy our guys won too.  That's two games in a row where our offence was better in the second half.  I guess that a sign of good coaching.

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14 hours ago, YummyCakeFace said:

Wow. It's early so let's not get ahead of ourselves here but wow. Very impressive. 

That's my take as well. The defense looked great, but lets face it, they were facing a backup. Collaros would have been a much tougher match up.

 

Still, it's 2-0 and no blocked punts! Bring on the Bombers...

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1 hour ago, RUPERTKBD said:

That's my take as well. The defense looked great, but lets face it, they were facing a backup. Collaros would have been a much tougher match up.

 

Still, it's 2-0 and no blocked punts! Bring on the Bombers...

Agreed, but the most important thing we've seen so far is adjustments. The Wally of the past was all about we'll beat you straight up with talent and there is no need to change the way we play. So far this year's Wally has been open to change. The game against Calgary was all about adjustments. First half punts were getting blocked and our Oline was getting confused with stunts the Calgary Dline was showing. Coming out of the half, they adjusted and the oline has been playing great since especially when we need to run the ball late in the game to run out some clock. The special teams adjusted as well and Wally didn't seem to be alarmed at the 3 blocked punts and just called it being the rookies being star struck. The made some adjustments and everything is fine. The biggest change I've seen is a more aggressive defensive philosophy from Mark Washington. Is it because Wally is finally letting his coordinators doing their jobs? In the past, no matter who was the defensive coordinator, it was always the same soft zone defence and anytime we need to protect a lead, we just sit back and get killed. The most annoying was 90% of the time they will call a 3 man rush on 2nd and long and just get eaten alive. So far in these last 2 games, we've seen the defense go after them and with interesting looks. Last night I saw a bunch of times where they called a 3 man rush, but would bring in 2 extra rushers and this seemed to confused the young QB causing him to make terrible throws. Even on offense, we've seen Khari Jones use a 2 back set a bunch of times and bringing in double tight ends to bring in some more protection. Jones was our offensive coordinator 2 years ago, but we saw none of that back in those days. Many of the fans that follow the Leos for many years always believed that Wally has been a control freak and even when he was just GM, he seemed to have too much control over the coaching. Probably the main reason Tedford left because he wasn't allowed to do the things he wanted on offense. Now we see a Wally that embraces change, lets players listen to music during practice and allowing his coordinators to be a bit more aggressive. I haven't been this excited for a start of the Lions season in many years. 

 

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Awful game score wise and breaks wise but that's the CFL for ya. As soon as Ryan dropped a free pick six I knew it would be one of those games. Every bounce went against them and they compounded it with self-inflicted wounds. 

 

Good thing they have Saskatchewan for their bounce back game.

 

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Chris Rainey could have made the difference but he was bottled up. The Lions offense really struggled without Rainey being able to give them good field position to start with.

 

The CFL is such a field position game. Rarely do you see teams march down the entire length of the field from their own end by putting long drives together.

 

Meanwhile in the NFL long drives are common. In the CFL you need big plays because you only get 2 downs to make plays instead of 3 really.

 

Lot's of punting and return opportunities make the game interesting if you have good returners playing, but if not too many punts make the game boring and difficult to watch.

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14 hours ago, Shift-4 said:

No one watching the game?

 

Leos have a chance for a comeback with all the Rider injuries.

I was watching at the pub...was a great win.  When we were down at halftime it took a lot of resilience to bounce back, and they did.

 

LOVE beating the Riders.  Hi Stealth.  :)

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I saw on the highlight package that several of the Riders are (indirectly) calling the Brooks hit on Durant "dirty" and suggesting that the league "take a look at it". I only saw one quick replay of it, so what is the consensus?

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47 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:

I saw on the highlight package that several of the Riders are (indirectly) calling the Brooks hit on Durant "dirty" and suggesting that the league "take a look at it". I only saw one quick replay of it, so what is the consensus?

He actually got called for 2 hits and one was a bit iffy..I have a feeling he might be fined...Jones was on the tube after the game calling for the league to have a look....oh..did I mention I dont like Jones..losing looks good on him.

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44 minutes ago, ShakyWalton said:

He actually got called for 2 hits and one was a bit iffy..I have a feeling he might be fined...Jones was on the tube after the game calling for the league to have a look....oh..did I mention I dont like Jones..losing looks good on him.

Yeah, I saw the interview with Jones. What really had me shaking my head with the TSN Saskatchewan nut hugger, asking Durant if maybe the league should implement a suspension or fine for two roughing the passer penalties in one game.

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