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[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

Riders -6 vs Stamps - 5 units

Everything points to a Sask blowout here. Calgary has been bad on the road all year. QB Burris has also played much worse on the road.....especially in Sask against his former team where they lost 49-8 this year. It will be even worse this Sunday with the Rider-Priders going nuts for their first home playoff game in 19 years. I can see turnover-prone Burris giving up the ball a few times with the crowd all over him. Riders defence has a great pass-rush, and was one of the top teams at interceptions. Burris has also shown to be a choke-artist when it comes to the playoffs....that doesn't hurt! lol.

Simple....Sask with the #3 defence, and the #2 offence in the league. Calgary has a good offence with Burris...probably ranked just behind the Riders....BUT the big mis-match is with the Riders offence facing the 2nd worse defence in the league (some would argue worst!). They give up yards and points at an alarming rate...especially on the road, and I can't see them stopping the Riders from walking down the field all day.

Calgary's horrible, and very thin defence also lost another body in the nothing game last week with DE Gargiulo getting injured for the rest of the year. They were already missing quite a few guys on the D-Line, and are now down to rookies/3rd stringers. Talk about the weak getting weaker! Joesph should have a field day throwing and running the ball. Calgary also surprisingly have told their allstar linebacker Brian Clark to stay home for this one, as there was some kind of disagreement between him and the coach.

Riders look healthy with Cates & Holmes good to go....Szarka is out, but not much of a drop-off to Hughes, the backup FB.

ALSO....looks to be some bigtime problems in the Calgary dressing room.....a story came out yesterday that the Stamps will be hiring former CFL QB, and NFL coordinator John Hufnagel to coach the team next year. Amazing that they would allow a story like that to come out, right before they play a playoff game in the current season! Crazy.

Riders in a romp...



GL

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Nice write up, just what I was looking for.

Thanks