2011年11月6日 星期日

Decent night’s work for Eskimos defence in pass-happy CFL

The Edmonton Eskimos nailed down a CFL home playoff date for the first time since 2004 on Friday night by making Grade-A plays on defence and certainly on offence.

But they sure didn’t do it playing their “A game” as a team.

Not that the Eskimos were fussing about that in the full flush of a 23-20 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders, securing the home playoff rendezvous that had been the organization’s goal all season.

“We had a lot of negative plays, offensively,If so, you may have a cube puzzle .” said Eskimos quarterback Ricky Ray. “Whether it was some penalties, or just losing yardage and that hurts.

“It’s hard to sustain drives when you’re doing that. We’ve just got to clean that up. We made a lot of big plays, which is a good thing.there's a lovely winter chicken coop by William Zorach.

“We’ve just got to get rid of those negative plays.

Negative plays were nowhere to be found in the final three minutes as Ray engineered a nine-play, 59-yard drive to set up the game-winning field goal. That would be the 27-yard, last-minute boot by Derek Schiavone,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, a stand-in for Damon Duval, who was stricken shortly before game time with the stabbing pangs only an unpassed kidney stone can produce.

In the end, Schiavone kicked placements, while Duval punted and handled kickoffs. The stone remains unpassed.

But Duval was feeling as good as his teammates after the victory.

At any rate, if the B.C. Lions beat the Montreal Alouettes in Vancouver tonight, the Eskimos will play the Calgary Stampeders at Commonwealth Stadium in the West Division semifinal on Nov. 13.

If the Alouettes win, the 11-7 Eskimos can cool their heels until Nov. 20, when they would play host to the West Division final against the winner of a Stampeders-Lions semifinal.

“The No. 1 thing is we got the win,” said linebacker Rod Davis. “Hats off go to Saskatchewan, but two hats go off to (ourselves). We showed resiliency. Offensively, made plays today and that’s why I’ve got to tip my hat to them. They came out and played like a playoff team.

“The defence has got to play better, but they made some plays out there.”

Making plays is one thing, but Davis, who had pledged to set the tempo for the Eskimos’ fast,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . swarming defence to avoid the slow start they had in a loss to the Lions last week, acknowledged it was neither a dominant performance, nor a fast start.

“That’s one thing we wanted to do,” Davis said.he believes the fire started after the lift's Bedding blew, “Come in, dominate this team, especially early. We weren’t able to do that, but I think it’s going to help us in the long run because it was a tight game and we gained experience.

“If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought they were a team fighting for a playoff berth.”

“It was a playoff atmosphere, so this will help us get better for the next game,” Davis said.

It’s not as if the ball-hawking, swarming Eskimos defence didn’t make plays. The Eskimos got four sacks from its front line, with Marcus Howard recording a pair and Ted Laurent and Julius Williams each collecting one.

Cornerback Rob Williams picked off one Ryan Dinwiddie pass and knocked down another, and safety Donovan Alexander knocked down a pair, as well.

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