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Wed, Aug 25 04 "CFL update! My interview with Cookie Gilchrist the former CFLer! Ricky Ray and Matt Dominguez play for the NY Jets!" Moose

CFL scores, week nine -

Toronto 14, Winnipeg 6, Edmonton 31, Saskatchewan 7
Hamilton 31, Ottawa 19, B.C. 25, Calgary 18

CFL week nine notes: I am still not 100% convinced that Casey Printers is Dave Dickenson in his prime, though I am convinced he is now better than Spurgeon Wynn. If B.C. beats red-hot Toronto this week (which I don't think they will) then I'll say they are the 'best in the west' for now. I still say Saskatchewan will turn to Rocky and he will save the season. Gotta believe in sumpin'! 

Here's my picks for week 10 in the CFL: Toronto by 5 OVER B.C. 
Edmonton by 11 OVER hapless Ottawa, Montreal by 2 OVER Winnipeg
Hamilton by 15 OVER even more HAPLESS Calgary

My 3 part interview with Cookie Gilchrist is now on Total-CFL Discussion Click here

Ricky Ray plays for the NY Jets - Plenty was said Messers McGuire, T-'smann & Summerall as the game went on. Summerall mentioned that Ray lead Edmonton to the Grey Cup win last season, T-'smann said how accurate Ray was and he liked his last's years TD-to-INT ratio and McGuire liked Rick's savvy. 

Matt Dominguez - Dominguez was on the receiving end of 2 Pennington and one Ray passes. The jury is still out on whether he will DEFINITELY make the Jets final roster. I see the practice squad looming and a trip to the NFL 'AAA's in Europe next season. I hope I'm wrong, but I'd love to see him return to my beloved Saskatchewan RoughRiders, who've hit a bit of a slump lately. Mike Vandejagt - Vanderjagt, who also kicked for Tampa Bay and Minnesota in the Ar.FL, was force into Punter duty yesterday as Holder/Punter Hunter Smith had a tweaked hammy and the Colts' wisely rested him." Moose

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Wed, Aug 11 04 "CFL Update: The demise of Coach Dave Ritchie" Moose

OK...2001. - You're 14-2-0-0 going into the last two games of the '01 CFL season. You decide to rest Khari Jones for most of the last two games. You use Brian (Honolulu) Ah Yat and third pivot, Jose Davis. You get blown out in the final two games. You end the regular season, 14-4-0-0 (they still had overtime loss points then - so did the Ar.FL). OK, so you get a first round bye in the Grey Cup playoffs and win over your Conference Opponent and get in the Grey Cup v.10-10-0-1 Calgary. The the bottom drops out. You lose the biggest game in the country by 8 when you are favored by 10 and a half points.

What does you in is you get burned for two long TD passes in the second quarter with Wally Buono's six-pack of receivers. You only had six DBs on the roster for the big game. Whoopps! You Coach the under acheiveing Blue Bombers for two-and-a-half more seasons, bench your favorite QB, the one who got you to the Grey Cup two-and-a-half yrs. earlier. You go 2-5-0 into the '04 season and you get the ax. Your name is Coach Dave Ritichie. You have 108 career CFL wins, good enough for 6th place in the 96 year history of the CFL. You feel....relieved. The ax has been hanging over good 'ole Dave Ritchie's head for a llooonnnngg while now...Now it hangs over Jim Daley, you're replacement's head. Jim knows the score. He took the 10-10-0 Saskatchewan Roughriders to the Grey Cup in '97. They get beat by 16 by Flutie and the Argos. It wasn't that close! He got fired two seasons later. Welcome to Coaching in the oldest Pro Football League on planet earth. There's only nine spots out there in the fraternity. Think hard before entering: THE CFL COACHING ZONE!" Moose

Tues, Aug 10 04 "CFL Update!!" Moose Salzer

A good article (albeit flawed) in the Virginian Pilot today about Alphonso Curry, former Univ. of Virginia CB, now playing for the Montreal Alouettes. He leads the CFL in interceptions with 6 for 41 yards and one major. The errors in the still good articles are: 1) Doug Flutie is NOT 5 ft 9". He is five feet nine and three quarters or five-eights. (2) Doug Flutie did not "start in the CFL", he started in the USFL in '85, played four NFL seasons [1986-89] before signing with the B.C Lions of the CFL, (3) William & Mary Alum Mike 'Pinball' Clemons is not "5'5" as Ed Miller's article states, he's Five ft 6.5, (4)

The CFL field is not "about 12 yards wider than an NFL field, it's 14.5 yards wider (see synopsis below:), (5) Ed's comments that "the CFL rules allow unlimited motion in the offencive backfield", is also not on point. To state it correctly, the CFL allows up to two offensive skill position players to be in forward motion BEFORE being on the line prior to the snap of the ball. That is, anybody except of course Linemen and the QB.

All in all a good article by a fine writer who unfortunately is unfamiliar with the structure of the Canadian game that predates our own US football. Here is the synopsis I promised to coincide with the above:

CFL - 150 YARD field; 110 yard surface includes. two 20 yard end zones. 68 yards across with eighteen and one foot wide goal posts. Three downs, twelve men per side, single points on missed field goals that are not returned from end zone. I.E Rugby sized field.

NFL - 120 YARD field; 100 yard in play surface includes. two 10 yard end zones. 53.5 yards across with eighteen foot wide goal posts. Four downs, 11 men per side, no single points. I.E Soccer sized field. Ar.FL - 66 YARD field; 50 yard in play surface incld. two eight yard end zones. 28.334 yds across with fifteen foot high goal posts nine feet wide. No single points. I.E Hockey sized field. A good article never the less. Always good to see any little thing in Pilot Sports about local kid doing well in the CFL (or Arena League like Norfolk States James Roe).

Week nine Picks:
Montreal OVER Toronto
Edmonton OVER WINNIPEG
Hamilton OVER B.C
Saskatchewan OVER Calgary" Moose

Thurs, Aug 5 04 "CFL Update! Henry Burris career!" Moose Salzer

Is the best in the west now better than the beast from the east? How about before answering that think about how Myk & Jackie Jacobs B.C. Lions hammered the previously undefeated Montreal Alouettes. The Green Riders have gotten a big boost the last two weeks from Travelin' Hank Burris. Burris started in the CFL as a rookie getting a Grey Cup ring (shades of my mate, Dan Crowley) in '98 behind Jeff Garcia and Dave Dickenson with Calgary. In 2000 he moved to Saskatchewan and won the backup job to Jim Ballard, who promptly broke his arm after only two plays and Burris ended up starting the last 17 games of the 5-12-1 campaign. In 2001 he was on the Packers active roster for 10 games before they moved him down to the practice squad for the rest of the season because of roster space needs for the playoffs. 

In 2002 he signed as a free agent with Bill and Sue Haddox Chicago Bears, playing 8 games and starting one. He threw his first 4 NFL TDs but also threw 5 INTs. The Bears optioned Henry to Berlin of NFL ('AAA') Europe where he split 5 games with another QB who's long gone from Football. Separated shoulder. He rehabbed but was released by the Bears after two weeks of camp and returned to Saskatchewan last summer where he was number three behind Nealon Greene and Kevin Glenn, who is playing very well for Winterpeg. Burris worked hard last off season but was told in no uncertain terms this year that Greene was number one. Seven minutes into the season opener on that hard turf at SkyDome, Greene's season was over. Enter Rocky Butler (Burris was out with a high ankle sprain). 

The Butler turned out to be TOO GREENE (whoops er, ah, green). Enter Hank Burris. It remains to be seen how long Burris stays in the rotation. He'll be a free agent this coming Feb. '05. And the Greene, (whopps, er, ah) green Riders have plenty of live bodies in the bullpen (Brian Stallworth,Dennis Gile and fellow Af2 vet kanaka Shawn Ke'ali'i Withy-Allen reppin' with the Hawai'ian Islanders in the minors). As long as Henry wins more than he loses, Danny, keep him in the lineup. Same can be said about Kennedy in Ottawa or Glenn in Winterpeg.

Week Eight Scores:
Ottawa 31, Calgary 30
Saskatchewan 33, Hamilton 24
B.C 32, Montreal 9
Edmonton 41, Winterpeg 24

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