Not much right on opening night in Steeltown.

Not much right on opening night in Steeltown.
By Thomas Riddell BRG














You know it's going to be a bad night when
the F-18 Fly over screws up the National Anthem..

Then as The Team is hitting the field rookie half back Tre Smith leaves the Tunnel early ..
This cause the fireworks to be missed timed
It was a Vision of things to come.
As the Ticats disappoined every Ticat fan getting blowen out 33-10.

What else can go wrong?

I was afraid that you where going to ask me that .
Well the Flag Parade that Plagued Hamilton was back for one.
Turnovers 3 of them Killed us as well
Miscues and Laps of concentration by players didn't help aether.


It all Started to go wrong the 1st time Montreal Touched the Ball
As the Al's Drove down field with little resistance from the Hamilton toothless defence
But we limited the Damage to just 3 points

No big deal right we'll get it back Right and we started a promising drive
But Then the dumbest call on a 3rd and inches
I have ever seen in pro Ball happened.
you hand off to Jessie Deep in the back field and he is hammered for a loss.
this should been a QB sneak.. you don't hand off to that deep Backfield
with 8 or more in The box
This was just Plan Dumb With a QB Sneak it's a 1st down
Then may we drive for a least 3.

Montreal takes over on downs and drives down the field for 7
The lead Lead was now 10
Hamilton was now in Quicksand that now they would not Escape
This was the turning point of the game.

It was bad break after bad Break of the toothless Tabbies.
Printer Runs for a big gain Then Slams the football into the turf
He is Flagged for taunting
Ugggg............. This is inexcusable in starting QB
Then we lose Gagne-Marcoux for the rest the game
Dyakowski comes in holding got worse.
Woodard did not have good game at one of the tackle spot
He was Flagged for holding more then once.

Printers Had Scramble for his life all game..
Finally with less then a Min.
Printers and Pat Woodcock got us going .
with the 2 Min offence.
I did't think Woodcock should make the Team I was wrong
He was bright spot in the 1st half


The half time show was bad.. Magic can't be done in a stadium
I know I had problems seeing the Tiger From the North Stands .
On the Bright side there was a real illusionist There
He was on the field and his nick name is .A.C.
He me made Ticats Defence Disappear

You can't sit in a zone defence and blitz all night when you have an experienced QB Like A.C.
You have challenge his WR at the line bump them and go man to man
once in a while Mix it up..please.
all I saw was zone all night. A.C Saw it too ripped us good for it .
what do you think Toronto will do next week the same thing .

Now for Offence :
At the end of 1st half we went 2 min Offence...
It worked very well.
Why did we not stay with this coming out at half time
The Adjustments where Poor by Charlie and Marcel.
this would kept Montreal personal Changes to minimum
Allowing us to Gain some Confidence.

This was a poor effort for a Home Opener
All Round The Ticats Fumble it
From the Marketing Team to Football Ops.
So Turn the Page.. Get Ready for Our 1st Visit to Hog Town.

On The Bright side:
WR look better
QB look fine for all but 1 bad Moment
Kicking Game was good

Everything Else needs work if we are to beat Toronto
They can not afford to go 0-2
They must win big to get good draw for 2 weeks from this Saturday
When DJ Flick and Roughriders come to town.