Loopy unusual draw with Gray Cup-champ Alouettes one other head-scratcher for host Calgary membership
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It’s a head-scratcher for the Calgary Stampeders.
That’s the end result itself mixed with the continued blunders that stored them from profitable — once more — Saturday night time at McMahon Stadium.
It was a tie that ought to’ve been a win.
But it surely was a tie that felt precisely just like the form of losses which might be piling up for this struggling CFL workforce.
“We want a win — we have to win,” mentioned Stampeders GM/head coach Dave Dickenson, moments after the loopy unusual 19-19 draw with the defending Gray Cup-champion Montreal Alouettes in entrance of 20,187 bewildered followers. “It’s very tough to really feel nice a couple of tie.
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“Clearly, we haven’t had a win shortly, so powerful for our guys to be ok with that.”
Particularly since they allowed a win to slide by means of their fingers for his or her fifth straight loss.
Certainly, in what’s turn into far too widespread an issue for the Stamps, they botched an enormous probability to upset the 10-2 Alouettes with mistake after mistake.
You title it …
It occurred within the face of victory.
Dropped balls on key passes within the double-overtime classes.
A well timed turnover — a uncommon Tommy Stevens’ fumble at that — on the Alouettes two-yard line to maintain the Stamps from going up 17-7 within the second quarter.
Even ultra-rare missed field-goals — two of them from robo-reliable kicker René Paredes — within the fourth quarter, together with one which doinked off the upright and fell straight right down to the bottom.
And the true killers had been back-to-back main penalties on what ought to’ve been the put-away drive for the Stamps simply forward of it.
“It appeared to me like we had been in management late, and we took some very, very pricey penalties,” mentioned Dickenson, of a face-mask by rookie Christy Nkanu adopted on the subsequent play by an pointless roughness name towards fellow offensive lineman D’Antne Demery that pushed the Stamps from the Alouettes 16-yard line all the way in which again to the 45-yard line.
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“It’s all of the stuff you don’t see from championship groups,” lamented Stamps veteran linebacker Micah Awe. “You don’t get dumb penalties, you do your job at essential moments …
“As a result of when it comes right down to it, if you wish to be in a championship recreation, you need to do your job and you need to not get penalties at these instances. In any other case, you received’t be in that recreation, and that’s form of what we confirmed right here — we haven’t realized from it.
“Should you’re enjoying a championship-calibre workforce, which is what Montreal is, you possibly can’t give them penalties — you possibly can’t give them free yards.”
Reality be informed, Stamps defence didn’t give the Gray Cup kings an entire lot of yards on the night.
It was an immensely robust recreation in that vein, with Awe & Co. permitting simply 292 yards and enjoying bend-but-don’t-break ball.
On the opposite aspect, Jake Maier returned after being benched final recreation to QB duties to go 29-of-37 for 236 yards and an early landing strike — off an Alouettes fumble — to Marken Michel masking 18 yards. Most noticeable of Maier’s effort was no turnovers — no interceptions thrown.
And the quarterback connected with Michel for six passes and 73 yards, with Reggie Begelton — who was merely stellar within the second half — for seven connections and 68 yards and with Cam Echols for 5 completions and 41 yards.
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In the meantime, on the bottom, Stamps working again Dedrick Mills was the offensive star with 21 carries for 122 yards.
But it surely simply wasn’t sufficient to get the win.
Too many missed alternatives … once more.
“The movie received’t lie — there have been a number of performs that if we make, we win,” Dickenson mentioned.
“We additionally might need caught some breaks right here or there, too,” continued Dickenson of a blocked Cody Grace punt that was returned for a scoop-six by the Alouettes however was known as again on a roughing-the-kicker penalty and an end-of-half fumble that fell 5 yards in need of paydirt for the guests when Peyton Logan tracked down would-be scorer Mustafa Johnson simply in time.
“And there’s different performs that actually went towards us, too.”
Certainly, there was loads of silly luck holding them from the upset of the top-spot Als (10-2-1).
Paredes’ ball off the left upright from 51 yards away with 10:53 remaining, for one. Then his subsequent try from 52 out with 95 seconds left that appeared like an over-adjustment and missed to the suitable, for one more.
And on the subsequent march, the Alouettes erred on a run name with simply seconds left that noticed ball-carrier Walter Fletcher fortuitously journey and fall to the bottom to cease the clock with only one click on left, permitting for the tying field-goal to be taken — and made — by José Maltos from 42 yards out.
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“Loads of unhealthy performs and adversity went towards us,” Dickenson mentioned. “And I didn’t really feel like anyone let up.
“However we now have to discover ways to win,” continued Dickenson. “We now have to be taught as a membership and as a company learn how to win.
“It’s laborious to have an ethical victory with a tie. I feel we will play with anyone, although. I do know we will. However can we do it constantly? And might we win a recreation first? We now have to win a number of video games in a row, and that has but to be achieved this 12 months.”
They’ll want that to occur to trace down a playoff spot.
The one level from Saturday actually is effective in that it retains them simply two again of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who maintain down the ultimate playoff spot within the CFL West Division.
And the Stamps (4-8-1) play the Riders (5-7-1) twice within the closing 5 video games of the common schedule, together with Friday at McMahon (7:30 p.m., TSN, QR Calgary).
“I’ll say, ‘We didn’t lose (Saturday), in order that’s a step in the suitable course,” added Awe. “However … man … we preserve form of doing the identical factor again and again.
“On the finish of the day, it is a good check if we will be taught from it. However we’ve been studying this entire season. It’s time for us to begin placing some wins within the win column.”
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SHORT YARDAGE
OL Bryce Bell (calf) was as soon as once more a late scratch from the Stamps’ lively roster … Legendary Stampeders Marvin Coleman and Vince Goldsmith had been honoured Saturday in the course of the CFL Corridor of Fame Recreation in Hamilton. The profession for Coleman, a strong defensive again and harmful kick returner, spanned 10 seasons (1994-2003) and 166 mixed video games with the Stampeders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, as he earned 9 divisional all-star nods, three CFL all-star choices, two Most Excellent Participant nominations and a rookie-of-the-year candidacy for the Stampeders. Goldsmith, a deadly linebacker, entered the CFL in 1981 and notched 17 sacks to earn probably the most excellent rookie award and be saluted as a CFL all-star — his first of three division nods over a 10-season profession (1981-90). The 2 star Stamps be a part of receivers Chad Owens, S.J. Inexperienced and Weston Dressler, builders Ray Jauch and Ed Laverty and Soccer Reporters of Canada personalities Farhan Lalji and Steve Daniel within the Canadian Soccer League’s Class of 2024.
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