1. BC Lions
The Lions keep rolling in a league full of mediocre teams. Sure last week's game against the Argos was close, but the Lions still won. You can't blow out teams every week.
2. Montreal Alouettes
The Alouettes aren't at the Lions level, but they have won a lot of games behind Anthony "Dorian Grey" Calvillo. I'm not really keen on the fact the Alouettes having significantly less points scored than points allowed. That generally indicates a lucky team and teams don't stay lucky forever.
3. Calgary Stampeders
Was quarterback Drew Tate going down with a season ending injury addition by subtraction. The Stamps are better with Kevin Glenn playing who benefits from Jon Cornish's running. The Stamps offence is enough to beat most teams in the CFL, but Kevin Glenn can strike with a boneheaded pick at any time. Just wait.
4. Toronto Argonauts
Made the game against the Lions close in BC, which is saying something for Eastern teams. Chad Owens is having a career year, proving that the Argos weren't totally deficient in receivers last year, more that they were stuck with Cleo "the Party" Lemon at quarterback.
5. Saskatchewan Rough Riders
Getting close to 500 is positive, although doing it by racking up games against Winnipeg isn't that impressive. Play a real team and we'll see what you can do.
6. Hamilton Tiger-Cats
The Cats are back! Maybe. At least for one game where everything clicked. The Cat offence is capable of doing damage quickly, or burning time with a long drive. The Cat defence is capable of blowing leads for the offence. Fortunately the Ticats have Winnipeg to build up their confidence this week.
7. Edmonton Eskimos
Is the Ricky Ray trade coming home to roost for Eric Tillman and the former Evil Empire? Trotting out a geriatric Curtis Joseph didn't turn out too well last week in the Hammer. Inexplicably the Esks ran little last week, which they really should, even if they're behind. Maybe the Esks will realize that this week.
8. Winnnipeg Blue Bombers
What happened to the Swaggerville defence of last year? Why didn't the Bombers sign any free agents this off season? Who knows, but the Bombers are proving this year that you can go from the penthouse to the doghouse in one season in the CFL. If the Bombers lose this week they're pretty much done, if they're not already. At least they have a new stadium to look forward to next year.
2 comments:
I'm pretty sure it wasn't Curtis Joseph playing last week...
And I think Edmonton did try the run early on in the game, and got pretty emphatically stuffed. After a couple of negative and short yardage running plays, I think they gave up on it. Maybe too early, by the look of things. I guess they thought they had everything pretty much in order after the first quarter though...
Maybe Curtis Joseph would have done better than Kerry Joseph.
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