The long national nightmare of fans of the rider ended.
Well, it was only three weeks, but the racers ended their series of losing from two games in Ottawa thanks to the victory of 20-13 for the last place Redblacks.
While green and white, perhaps approached the first place in the Western division and earn the right to hold the Western final in November, you cannot blame fans if they are still not enthusiastic about the state of your football team. The riders won, but it was not very close to the performance that would win the game in the play -off.
Here is a good, bad and stupid 11th victory in riders in the season.
Good
A week ago, the protection of the riders kept the team in it for most of the night in Edmonton, but ultimately the walls lost, and in the end it was a severe result.
Against Ottawa, the defense completed all the work to guarantee that the riders left the capital of the country with a victory.
In the future, Ottawa has many questions in the defender. The defense took advantage of the mistakes of Drew Brown with three interceptions, including one of them, that Sam midfielder Antoine Brook-Brook-Jr. took 85 yards to the house to give the riders the advantage of 14-0. It was a lead that they never gave up.
They did it differently than we saw from them. They did not have the best game in advance, but still managed to preserve the red -legged.
Perhaps the most impressive part of the night was how the protection adapted to the red, inserting defender Dustin Kram into the composition. Immediately you saw an energy shift from Ottawa, but they withstood the early storm and held Crum up to 99 yards. It is possible that even more important, they limited its eight yards along the ground.
When Crum makes these legs in the nearest games late, dangerous things, as a rule, happen. Thanks to protection, riders escaped the fall of the victim of another baby.
Bad
During the second week, the attack of riders stuck in the mud for most of the night. Remove the landing at the beginning of the drive and one 66-fair game Splash, and they did nothing.
The most alarming thing remains the game of Trevor Harris, who fought for the second week in a row. The defender finished the night with a passage of 341 yards, landing and, most importantly after last week, without interceptions. Nevertheless, he never looked so comfortable and again tried his best to find or hit his receivers.
I think that there are some efforts for receivers, such as Sam Emilus and Kian Shafffer-Baker who are returning to the composition. They are obviously talented players, but are trying to catch up with an attack that played most of the season without them. But this should not lead to this poor performance.
The mysterious part of all this is their unwillingness to use their best player running back AJ Ouellette, much more. The native of Ohio had 18 transfers in this, but this was highlighted by a team that decided to use it in a short yard without quota Turmmy Stevens in the list.
They should be able to generate more than 87 yards with which they coped after the first movement of the game and until the beginning of the fourth quarter.
Harris fell on the five yard line of Ottawa in the last minutes of the game, was bad, but it was placed in a bad place thanks to the game call, which was to firmly draw the ball in Wellett's intestines. Oddly enough, running back finished what he did, perhaps, a game of the game when he managed to pursue the defender Redblacks Bryce Carter and retained the landing. Ottawa ultimately agreed to the field goal, guaranteeing that the riders would remain in the future.
I understand the desire to get Harris and the rest of the attack, but sometimes you just need to rely, who ride. Recently, it was Oullett.
Blunt
I have to pay tribute to the analyst TSN Paul Lapolis. A couple of years ago, the former CFL coach debuted as an analyst at the end of the season after working with the panel for most of the year.
It was not a completely smooth transition, since I believe that Lapolis was struggling to find his character in the stand. We all know that he knows the game, but be a good broadcaster more than this.
Over time, Lapolis charisma has improved significantly, and I think that we saw a great example of this during this broadcast, when it was included in reading for the promo for the NCAA on TSN+. With great energy, Lapolis exclaimed that he was not interested in watching Kerling, tennis or hockey. He wants to watch football.
We will take Lapolis for the fact that he threw an unnecessary shade to the great game in Kerling, because reading was a cheerful and long -awaited addition to the broadcast.
