Real football returns to the lucky.

[Upnorth]

If your a fan of football this weekend ends a four month drought. And I am pleased to announce that the Riders are flipping awesome kicking a certain rats beloved Eskimos 39-18. Ahhh, it's good to be king.

[Guiness]

Hmmm. Had their way with them in the pre-season to boot.

Going to be another long season for the Northern version of the G&G.

[Upnorth]

In other CFL news,
Montreal beats Winnipeg in the dieing seconds 38-33
Toronto beats Hamilton 39-34
Calgary beats BC 44-32

All games were exciting, unless you're an Edmonton fan (salt let me introduce you to wound)

[Upnorth]

Highlight videos of the games,

http://cfl.ca/video/index

They are quite good, just give them a try.

[hoosier]

They are quite good, just give them a try.

You sound like a shop owner trying to get rid of an overstock of Miller Lite.

When I was a kid I used to watch CFL on the rare occasion when all the baseball games were in rain delays. It always felt like watching college baseball, by which I mean that even if the talent gap weren't so drastic (and that was back in the day when the CFL was competing for good college prospects like Bruce Clark) there were just enough rule differences (metal bat in college; three downs, field width, and so on in CFL) to make it unwatchable.

[Upnorth]

While there is a talent gap it is not as pronounced as most think, the CFL has a different skill set due to the larger field.
Also IMO it is watch this or more bs NFL offseason crap. Give me the game any day of the week.
If you like the grind it out style of game, the CFL is not your cup of tea, if you like lots of vertical offense you should give it a try.
I believe this is the third year I have done this, is the third time the charm?

[packer4life]

OK I'll bite. This was actually quite enjoyable. I am salivating for week 1 of NFL however.

http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/85579

[denverYooper]

579

[packer4life]

From the highlights, it seems like the CFL has no presnap count deception. 3 WRs run through the line of scrimmage at the hike of the ball. Doesn't that make it easy for DL to get a quick jump on the OLine and get some easy sacks just based on quickness?

[Upnorth]

From the highlights, it seems like the CFL has no presnap count deception. 3 WRs run through the line of scrimmage at the hike of the ball. Doesn't that make it easy for DL to get a quick jump on the OLine and get some easy sacks just based on quickness?

Pre snap Offensive movement is less limited here as you pointed out, however I don't think it affects the DLs pass rush ability or at least not that I have noticed. I have seen slot receivers pull up and be used to chip outside rushers coming into the backfield. While it looks like the pass rushers may have a cleaner path to the qb, the recent trend of mobile QB's in the nfl has been a rule of thumb in the cfl for over a decade so the DL has their work cut out for them.

As an aside, I think if we do see more of the read option style of play in the NFL we may see smaller faster players on both sides of the ball to combat that speed.

[Upnorth]

So the weekly schedual is as follows,

Winnipeg @ Montreal 4th July at 7pm et
Toronto@ BC 4th July @ 10pm et
Calgary @ Saskatchewan 5th July at 9pm et (GO RIDERS!!!)
Edmonton @ Hamilton 5th July at 5pm et

Montreal should beat Winnipeg but back to back games are hard to win two in a row.
Toronto beating BC would be awesome from my perspective, but I have learnt to put no trust in consistency from Toronto for over a decade now.
Edmonton will have its hands full taking on the Hamilton with Henry (the bastard) Burris throwing to Andy Fantuz.
Calgary vrs Saskatchewan is always a full bore game, but Saskatchewans D is looking great and our O was firing on all cylinders last week.
So my picks are Monteal by 10, BC by 3, Hamilton by 7 and Saskatchewan by 456 (seriously 7).

[QBME]

So the weekly schedual is as follows,

Winnipeg @ Montreal 4th July at 7pm et
Toronto@ BC 4th July @ 10pm et
Calgary @ Saskatchewan 5th July at 9pm et (GO RIDERS!!!)
Edmonton @ Hamilton 5th July at 5pm et

Montreal should beat Winnipeg but back to back games are hard to win two in a row.
Toronto beating BC would be awesome from my perspective, but I have learnt to put no trust in consistency from Toronto for over a decade now.
Edmonton will have its hands full taking on the Hamilton with Henry (the bastard) Burris throwing to Andy Fantuz.
Calgary vrs Saskatchewan is always a full bore game, but Saskatchewans D is looking great and our O was firing on all cylinders last week.
So my picks are Monteal by 10, BC by 3, Hamilton by 7 and Saskatchewan by 456 (seriously 7).

Henry Burris? I thought he was dead.

[Guiness]

While there is a talent gap it is not as pronounced as most think, the CFL has a different skill set due to the larger field.
Also IMO it is watch this or more bs NFL offseason crap. Give me the game any day of the week.
If you like the grind it out style of game, the CFL is not your cup of tea, if you like lots of vertical offense you should give it a try.
I believe this is the third year I have done this, is the third time the charm?

They are different games, with different requirements for the players, and different levels of fitness. When guys get cut from NFL camps and come north, they sometimes show up too 'muscle bound', especially the backs. I find people tend to be a fan of one or the other, not many are a fan of both.

I'm that way with Pro vs College game - I don't really like the amateurs. I don't like ridiculous mismatches that you get when a BSC team is playing some also-ran, and I like to see good execution all over the field instead of half the guys looking like they know what's going on, and the other half not being sure what the play call really meant.

[George Cumby]

Highlight videos of the games,

http://cfl.ca/video/index

They are quite good, just give them a try.

That was fun, UN. Thanks for posting!

My God, that end zone is HUGE.

Your team is Edmonton?

[Guiness]

That was fun, UN. Thanks for posting!

My God, that end zone is HUGE.

Your team is Edmonton?

Yup, he's a closet Edmonton fan, just waiting to show his true colours