The Eskimos’ QB wasn’t as sharp as he wanted to be, but he hurt the Redblacks more with his legs, extending more than a couple of drives with draw plays and scrambles.
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“The league supports and encourages the presence and participation of the Algonquin Loggersports Team on the field at the Grey Cup game”, the CFL said in a pre-game statement.
“We had opportunities to turn the tide and we just didn’t make the plays, whether it was me missing a throw or making a play or something”, Burris said.
Hearty Grey Cup fans bundled in their seats, prepared for a relatively mild November evening at around -5C in Winnipeg – a city better known for its frigid temperatures and high wind-chills.
The Grey Cup-champion Edmonton Eskimos might be in the market for a new head coach.
In 2013, Edmonton showed marked improvement, finishing second in the conference with a 12-6 record.
Ever since 5.4 million viewers watched the 100th Grey Cup in 2012, audiences for the annual championship have been in decline. Edmonton’s 14th championship now trails only Toronto, which has 16…
“Last year we learned how to win those close games but we learned how to lose the big games”.
The playoffs almost doubled that on November 22, though, as both the East and West Division finals attracted an average of at least one million viewers to TSN. “They found ways to make plays and to get us off the field…” Regular-season audiences for the CFL have been declining in recent years; they were down 15 per cent on average for the 2015 season, to about 600,000 viewers per game.
The revival of the Redblacks this season was dramatic but ended one win short.
Jordan Lynch’s one-yard touchdown run with 3:17 remaining rallied the Eskimos after successfully converting a third-and-one situation to cap a five-play, 78-yard drive. “Sure, you don’t want to be trailing in a Grey Cup final. You just always believe you’re going to win”. “That’s why it’s taken a little bit of time… but this is a great league and there’s a lot of other very good football teams in it so certainly we’re going to have our work cut out for us to get ready for next season”.
Eskimos receiver Shamawd Chambers, who caught two passes for 49 yards, was named the Grey Cup’s most outstanding Canadian.
There are reports the Saskatchewan Roughriders will ask permission to speak with Eskimos head coach Chris Jones about their vacant head coach/G-M position.
“Being able to see him there I just knew when he gave me the opportunity to make a play I had to go out and do it for him”.
The pre-video-replay era wasn’t without flaws, but I can understand human error.
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“Yeah, I don’t think I woke up this morning doing my workout at about 5 a.m. thinking, ‘Man, I hope we’re down 13-0.’ That’s not how we planned it”. So let’s throw the challenge flag and go back to review that play, right?
