Rookie receiver Chris Williams is already over 1000 yards and stands at 1,012 yards with 65 receptions and 6 TDs and fourth overall. Probably a lock to be the Cats nominee for rookie of the year and maybe even win it although if he misses this week with injury that hurts his chances a bit. Dave Stala is in second on the Cats with 586 yards on 43 receptions and 8 TDs. Unless he has a monster three games the Cats will only have one receiver with over 1,000 yards. Last year the Cats had two and Marquay McDaniel was really close as well.
Running back Avon Cobourne is in second for rushing yards in the CFL with 867 yards on 180 yards (4.8 yard average) with 8 TDs and two fumbles. With no Terry Grant the rest of the year, Cobourne should get his 1,000 yards.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
CFL Players of the Week, Week 5, 2011, Dave Stala Wins!
Like I predicted after the Montreal game, the Ticats' Dave Stala won best Canadian player of the week, on the strength of his 107 yards and 2 TDs. How many best Canadian awards does Stala have total? No idea.
The Argos running back Chad Kackert won best offensive player off of 20 runs for 139 yards and 2 TDs. Not really that remarkable a number, but the average was good.
Winnipeg's Jonathon Hefney won best defensive player and BC's Paul McCallum won best special teams player.
Winnipeg now has six awards, Montreal and Edmonton have four, Hamilton and BC have two, Calgary and Toronto have one. The Riders? None.
The Argos running back Chad Kackert won best offensive player off of 20 runs for 139 yards and 2 TDs. Not really that remarkable a number, but the average was good.
Winnipeg's Jonathon Hefney won best defensive player and BC's Paul McCallum won best special teams player.
Winnipeg now has six awards, Montreal and Edmonton have four, Hamilton and BC have two, Calgary and Toronto have one. The Riders? None.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Hamilton Tigercats Cheerleaders
Here's a photo set from the game on Saturday.
Bizarre that Jesse Lumsden tore his ACL playing for Calgary on the weekend and is done for the season. There's not really much to say.
Kudos to Andy Fantuz for being the first non-import to lead in receiving yards (1380) since the Stamps Dave Sapunjis in 1995 (1655). That pretty much locks down the best Canadian award for him. Congratulations also to the Ticats' Dave Stala who finished 12th overall in receiving with 1,023. Sadly Marquay McDaniel finished with 994 yards. Six yards. Ouch.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Hamilton Ticats Noteworthy Stats for 2010
Bruce still leads in receiving yards with 1291 and is in second with 85 receptions. With three games to go Bruce has a shot at breaking Tony Champion's 1656 yard receiving record although he needs 365 yards to do it. Bruce is already in the top ten for single season receptions since three were tied at 8th with 80. Darren Flutie holds the record with 98 in 1998. So Bruce only needs 15 in three games to break that Ticat record.
Dave Stala is tenth in receiving yards with 920 and looks pretty likely barring injury to break 1000 yards receiving. I have no idea what the Ticat non-import receiving record is. Could be held by Mike Morreale with 1076 yards in 1998, could be held by something else. The tenth best year was 1213 yards and I don't think any of the top ten is held by any non-imports so the record must be less than that. Stala is also tied for fourth in receptions with 74.
McDaniel has 886 yards so also has a really good shot at 1000 yards receiving. When have the Ticats last had 3 1000 yard receivers. Tigercatatonia has no idea. Some year with Danny Mac?
Cobb already has 1030 yards rushing, breaking the 1000 mark twice now (barring losing a ton of yards over the next few games). Tenth all time for the Ticats is Jimmy Edwards with 1046 yards, so Cobb is pretty much guaranteed to move up the top ten list. Troy Davis' 1628 yard mark in 2004 is in no danger, but Ronald Williams' third overall mark of 1,264 in 2000 is. Porter is second this year with 227 yards rushing for the Cats.
So some things to watch offensively over the last few regular season games of the year. Maybe a marketing opportunity for the Cats for the last game against BC.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Ticats Lose to the Riders, 32 to 25
It is always annoying when the Cats lose at home to the Riders because you're inevitably surrounded by a shitload of Riders when you sit on the North side of the stadium.
Obviously the Cats started out hot, going up 15 to 0, so credit to the Riders for not folding.
where a lot of teams would have. For me the TSN turning point was probably giving up the TD to Saskatchewan just before the half. Or either of Cobb's fumbles deep in Rider territory.
What should the Cats do about Cobb anyways? Fumbles are inevitable and the Riders practically tried to strip every time, sometimes to their detriment, but still two critical fumbles in one game is nasty.
Bruce at least went over 1000 yards (1037) and could break the Ticats single season receiving record of 1656 yards set by Tony Champion way back in 1989. Stala has over 753 yards and has a pretty good shot of getting to the 1000 yard mark. I assume the last non-import to do that for the Cats was Mike Morreale, but I haven't checked it. Not sure what the all time mark for non-imports is either.
Kind of surprised the Cats only got 23 thousand and change against the Riders. Relatively poor weather? Up against SuperCrawl? Night game? Cheap Hamiltonians?
Friday, July 16, 2010
Ticats versus Bombers Half Time, Dave Stala Edition
What I had to go through to watch this game here in Germany.But I managed to watch some of it and I'm liking what I see so far, apart from Deangelis sucking yet again. At least no one returned a missed field goal for a TD.
Anyways, home boy Dave Stala is en fuego, with eight catches for 112 yards in the first half. I smell top Canadian and maybe even top offensive player this week. Glenn was 19 for 23 for 227 yards and 2 TDs which was awesome. Kind of sad the Cats are only up by 14, considering the defence is booting some Bomber ass too. Oh wait, that's Deangelis' fault. Here's hoping the second half is more of the same.
Nice pick by Knowlton.
Anyways, home boy Dave Stala is en fuego, with eight catches for 112 yards in the first half. I smell top Canadian and maybe even top offensive player this week. Glenn was 19 for 23 for 227 yards and 2 TDs which was awesome. Kind of sad the Cats are only up by 14, considering the defence is booting some Bomber ass too. Oh wait, that's Deangelis' fault. Here's hoping the second half is more of the same.
Nice pick by Knowlton.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Calgary Game
The Calgary game was disappointing considering how the game ended, with Calgary having a festival of two and outs and Hamilton failing to get the tying point. Calgary was kept scoreless in the fourth quarter and did not get a single touchdown.
Porter was 22 for 33 for 262 yards with a single pick, compared to Burris' 14 for 30 for 132 yards with two picks. Hamilton's defence really seems to have Calgary figured out this year. There's an argument to be made for starting Glenn next game. We could, although I'm not totally convinced that Glenn would have fared that much better so at this point count me agnostic on this point. From the stats however, the one QB who should not be starting next week would appear to be Henry Burris. At least Porter seems to have clued into Stala's existence with six passes for 53 yards.
Winnipeg is looking better, but hopefully we can turn things around. Michael Bishop reminds me of a worse Henry Burris, so hopefully the Ticats defence can do enough to help the offense win the game.
Porter was 22 for 33 for 262 yards with a single pick, compared to Burris' 14 for 30 for 132 yards with two picks. Hamilton's defence really seems to have Calgary figured out this year. There's an argument to be made for starting Glenn next game. We could, although I'm not totally convinced that Glenn would have fared that much better so at this point count me agnostic on this point. From the stats however, the one QB who should not be starting next week would appear to be Henry Burris. At least Porter seems to have clued into Stala's existence with six passes for 53 yards.
Winnipeg is looking better, but hopefully we can turn things around. Michael Bishop reminds me of a worse Henry Burris, so hopefully the Ticats defence can do enough to help the offense win the game.
Friday, September 18, 2009
CFL Previews, Week 11, Part1
Calgary at Hamilton,
Calgary is currently favoured by 3.5 points on the road, which is not surprising considering the Cats have lost 3 of 4 and the Stampeders are coming off back to back victories over Edmonton. Calgary does have a 3 and 2 road record, however the Cats have a 4 and 1 home record, including the last five games. Last week sitting in Dead Ted's Dome, I did have the feeling the Cats would have won if it had been a home game. Incidently, the Cats at 1 and 4 are the worst road team in the entire CFL.
Quinton Porter is scheduled to be the starter, which isn't a huge surprise, although it is more surprising that coach Marcel announced who the starter would be. No Chris Davis at receiver, because the Cats gave him his release and apparently no Prechae Rodriguez who is hurting. That still leaves Porter with two prime targets in Bruce in Stala and Cobb is still in the backfield.
Calgary has running back Joffrey Reynolds and receiver Jermaine Copeland, plus Henry Burris' legs to keep drives going. Relatively medicore defence, but the Stamps are likely to win a shootout. Calgary in a close one.
Calgary 29, Hamilton 27
Toronto at BC,
BC is a ridiculously hard place for an Eastern Standard Timezone team to win in, although Hamilton managed to earlier in the year. Toronto this year has been a bad team, but seems to be on a slight upswing after beating the Cats at home in overtime last week. Cody Pickett has emerged as a not completely terrible quarterback and Toronto's traditionally strong defence has also started to reemerge. BC lost last week in Montreal and have now lost Jarious Jackson to a rotator cuff injury for the foreseeable future. Conveniently the oft concussed Buck Pierce is back to start at QB. One decent hit on Pierce could easily knock out the CFL's reigning man of glass and I have no idea who BC's backup quarterback is.
Surprisingly, this game has play off implications as BC at 4 and 6 is one game ahead of Toronto at 3 and 7 for the crossover spot in the East. If Toronto wins, by the tiebreaking rule for the crossover, the double blue would get the playoff spot. I'll go with Toronto, despite the three time zones and the fact that they're a terrible team because I have absolutely no confidence in the health of Buck Pierce.
Toronto 19, BC 15
Calgary is currently favoured by 3.5 points on the road, which is not surprising considering the Cats have lost 3 of 4 and the Stampeders are coming off back to back victories over Edmonton. Calgary does have a 3 and 2 road record, however the Cats have a 4 and 1 home record, including the last five games. Last week sitting in Dead Ted's Dome, I did have the feeling the Cats would have won if it had been a home game. Incidently, the Cats at 1 and 4 are the worst road team in the entire CFL.
Quinton Porter is scheduled to be the starter, which isn't a huge surprise, although it is more surprising that coach Marcel announced who the starter would be. No Chris Davis at receiver, because the Cats gave him his release and apparently no Prechae Rodriguez who is hurting. That still leaves Porter with two prime targets in Bruce in Stala and Cobb is still in the backfield.
Calgary has running back Joffrey Reynolds and receiver Jermaine Copeland, plus Henry Burris' legs to keep drives going. Relatively medicore defence, but the Stamps are likely to win a shootout. Calgary in a close one.
Calgary 29, Hamilton 27
Toronto at BC,
BC is a ridiculously hard place for an Eastern Standard Timezone team to win in, although Hamilton managed to earlier in the year. Toronto this year has been a bad team, but seems to be on a slight upswing after beating the Cats at home in overtime last week. Cody Pickett has emerged as a not completely terrible quarterback and Toronto's traditionally strong defence has also started to reemerge. BC lost last week in Montreal and have now lost Jarious Jackson to a rotator cuff injury for the foreseeable future. Conveniently the oft concussed Buck Pierce is back to start at QB. One decent hit on Pierce could easily knock out the CFL's reigning man of glass and I have no idea who BC's backup quarterback is.
Surprisingly, this game has play off implications as BC at 4 and 6 is one game ahead of Toronto at 3 and 7 for the crossover spot in the East. If Toronto wins, by the tiebreaking rule for the crossover, the double blue would get the playoff spot. I'll go with Toronto, despite the three time zones and the fact that they're a terrible team because I have absolutely no confidence in the health of Buck Pierce.
Toronto 19, BC 15
Monday, September 7, 2009
CFL Previews, Week 10, Part 2
Toronto at Hamilton,
We're still not sure who is going to start, Glenn or Porter. Things are looking towards Glenn, although I'm not sure what the call would be if Porter's knee was 100% (of if Porter is even injured anymore, Porter's knee injury could serve as a face saving explanation for Bellefeuille). We do know that Cody Pickett will be starting as quarterback for Toronto. Hamilton still has some injuries on the defensive line, although last week they didn't look too bad without Adams and McIntyre. Apart from that we are not too bad, except for special teamer Barrenchea being out with blood clots. Not exactly sure about the Toronto injuries.
In their games last week, Toronto lost by three at home to Calgary, and Hamilton by one on the road to Edmonton, with Hamilton looking at least somewhat dominant until some incompetence at the end. Hamilton is favoured by 6.5 now and Ivor Wynne will be packed and should give Hamilton a bit of an edge. Pickett has passed for over 300 yards the past two games, but his completion percentage is not particularly hot, which generally means field goals over TDs (and consequently losses). Arland Bruce should be on fire for the Cats, looking for revenge against Count Floyd lookalike Bart Andrus. The Cats also have Chris Davis back in the lineup, which should be an upgrade over Drisan James (at least first namewise).Ticats by more than a TD and even in the Harold Ballard Cup.
Hamilton 29, Toronto 21
Edmonton at Calgary,
Calgary is favoured by 6.5, which I don't really understand. Sure they are at home, but Edmonton had proved to be the better team over the first part of the season, plus the Stampeders barely beat the somewhat improving Double Blue last week. Calgary just hasn't looked like the team that won the Grey Cup last year, with a weaker defence and a weaker offense to boot. Loosing top receiver Ken-Yon Rambo has hurt, although the Stamps are still decent in the receiver department. Not sure if non-import running back Calvin McCarty will play for the Smos this week. Calgary's at home, but I still like Edmonton in a shootout.
Edmonton 39, Calgary 35
We're still not sure who is going to start, Glenn or Porter. Things are looking towards Glenn, although I'm not sure what the call would be if Porter's knee was 100% (of if Porter is even injured anymore, Porter's knee injury could serve as a face saving explanation for Bellefeuille). We do know that Cody Pickett will be starting as quarterback for Toronto. Hamilton still has some injuries on the defensive line, although last week they didn't look too bad without Adams and McIntyre. Apart from that we are not too bad, except for special teamer Barrenchea being out with blood clots. Not exactly sure about the Toronto injuries.
In their games last week, Toronto lost by three at home to Calgary, and Hamilton by one on the road to Edmonton, with Hamilton looking at least somewhat dominant until some incompetence at the end. Hamilton is favoured by 6.5 now and Ivor Wynne will be packed and should give Hamilton a bit of an edge. Pickett has passed for over 300 yards the past two games, but his completion percentage is not particularly hot, which generally means field goals over TDs (and consequently losses). Arland Bruce should be on fire for the Cats, looking for revenge against Count Floyd lookalike Bart Andrus. The Cats also have Chris Davis back in the lineup, which should be an upgrade over Drisan James (at least first namewise).Ticats by more than a TD and even in the Harold Ballard Cup.
Hamilton 29, Toronto 21
Edmonton at Calgary,
Calgary is favoured by 6.5, which I don't really understand. Sure they are at home, but Edmonton had proved to be the better team over the first part of the season, plus the Stampeders barely beat the somewhat improving Double Blue last week. Calgary just hasn't looked like the team that won the Grey Cup last year, with a weaker defence and a weaker offense to boot. Loosing top receiver Ken-Yon Rambo has hurt, although the Stamps are still decent in the receiver department. Not sure if non-import running back Calvin McCarty will play for the Smos this week. Calgary's at home, but I still like Edmonton in a shootout.
Edmonton 39, Calgary 35
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Whither Dave Stala?
Certainly Tigercatatonia is not one to question a victory too much, but one wonders about whether hometown boy Dave Stala gets more passes when Kevin Glenn is in as opposed to Porter. Stala caught a single pass for eight yards last week with Glenn in the entire game. Last week with Porter and Glenn splitting the quarterbacking duties, Stala caught seven passes for 86 yards. Part of this may be due to the relatively paltry passing numbers put up Porter in the last game, with Porter going 17 for 31 for 171 yards, a TD and a pick. There just wasn't that many completions, with Rodriguez having the best day with five catches for 49 yards. Stala did appear to be shaken up on on play, but did come back to play. When Arland Bruce III is fully integrated into the Ticat offense and the Cats still running the ball, how many passes will be available for the remaining Cat receivers?
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