Monday, August 3, 2009

CFL Power Rankings

1. Montreal
2. Saskatchewan
3. Hamilton
4. Edmonton
5. Calgary
6. Toronto
7. Winnipeg
8. BC

Some difficulty this week, although not as many teams log jammed at 2 and 2. Montreal at the top is still an easy pick. Saskatchewan managed to pull out a win against Calgary on the road and generally finds weird ways to win. Hamilton has to go above Edmonton, simply because I still don't believe in the Eskimos over the long term. We'll see in any case this week if the ranking is justified. Calgary manages to lose at home to go below 500 but they are still miles ahead of the bottom three. Toronto wins handily last week, loses incompetently by one this week at home. Still better than Winnipeg, even if Winnipeg is somewhat better with Michael Bishop at the helm. BC still hasn't shown anything and one has to wonder if after being favoured last week against Hamilton whether they can be favoured again.

In BC news, the Lions have picked up JoJuan Armour, a former Cat linebacker and a winner last year with Calgary of a Grey Cup last year, before being booted for altercations with teammates during training camp. The Lions defence was effectively a sieve last week against Ticat running back DeAndra Cobb. Often Cobb would get past the line and where one would expect a linebacker to be, instead there was open space. Armour is getting up there in age, but the Lions defence is holding them back and they'll rarely win if they can't stop the run

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