Comments on: CFL Pool Preview Report – Week 16

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:28:38 +0000

That edmonton guy is bad – Bryan Hall is his name (might have spelling wrong). He totally does interrupt the other guy. I think the only reason he’s still allowed to continue is that the advertisers must love him. Every second sentence is practically about the advertisers. It’s funny when the colour guy says something and Bryna Hall interjects: “I don’t care about that right now. It’s [blah, blah]“. The colour guy is just trying to explain to the LISTENERS – it’s not a private conversation.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:03:32 +0000

Yeah, the radio can be pretty bad. Whatever happened to good play-by-play guys? Luckily with all games televised and blackouts lifted, I only had to listen to a couple this year.

I was thinking that if I had the chance next year I would buy a broadcast from CFL.ca for $9.99 instead of listening to the radio. It would be perfect if they provided the television feed of the game with crowd noise and no broadcasters, especially if it was a CBC broadcast. It would be much better, like being there.

Regarding the play, of course Edmonton is claiming it doesn’t matter if the ‘Riders would have scored, it wasn’t a fumble by Butler in the first place. Uh yeah, and if it had happened earlier and the Eskimos recovered, it would have been a fumble. It was clearly a fumble in my eyes, he did not have control of the ball before he went down.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:04:50 +0000

Just wanted to mention the radio broadcast since that’s all that is available to me. I just caught the tail end of the game (as well as bits and pieces of other games during the season). Rod Pederson and Carm Carteri (sp?) really suck. Most games when you tune in all you hear is silence. They don’t talk. You just hear the faint crowd noise (if that even) for 7 or 8 seconds. You start to wonder if your connection is working and then Pederson will say what just happened on the play followed by another 7 seconds of silence. They put me to sleep.
While calling the last play in the Edmonton game, Pederson said that Butler was sacked and the game was over. Then both commentators must have looked away or something. Many seconds later he says “oh wait, the play is still going on… their pitching the ball” The listener had no idea what was happening, who had the ball, what yard line they were on, nothing!!! And then Carteri starts complaining that the last guy with the ball should have pitched it one more time to someone else and they would have scored. But really, the play call wasn’t exciting at all, and you wouldn’t even think that they were close to scoring by the way the commentators called it. Afterwards they just laughed and said ‘yeah, that was cool!’. Boneheads.
The play-by-play guy on Edmonton is pretty wacked too. He’s like senile or something. Quite obnoxious and always sticking it to his sidekick. Always talks over the other guy like what he says is so much more important.
I found BC radio to be the best. Only listened to part of one game the two guys seemed to work well together and had some pep. I always knew the score, who had the ball, and what was going on. With Edmonton I know what’s going on too, but they’re annoying. With the Regina broadcast, quite often I don’t know what’s going on and I even don’t know the score for huge lengths of time.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:01:39 +0000

It was a good ending. The team is putting it behind them and focussing on next week, so that is good.

The fans however have a right to be upset. You cannot let opportunities like that get away. Edmonton is bad this year and we lose two games to them?

The turning point was 2nd and five with the 3 minute warning (2.5 minutes approximately) at the Saskatchewan 40. With plenty of time to talk about it, and the ‘Riders needing a first down, they have Butler throw a deep ball to Armstead, incomplete. What were they thinking?! Roll Butler out, find a dump pass or curl or out or he runs for the first down. Drive the ball and kill the clock. Do not put it back in Ray’s hands. Edmonton was motivated and despite Ray’s ineffectiveness in the second half (he was 4-14 starting the last drive), they were in a perfect position for the final drive with our defence on their heels.

It is fundamentals people. The ‘Riders will not like the criticism, especially from people “who haven’t played the game”. It is valid though, not even in hindsight. Butler’s play and the (lack of) successes they had in the second half and needing to kill the clock all point to a play with more options when you need 5 yards, not a home run.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:07:58 +0000

Too bad about the rider game – it was a pretty good battle. Those pesky turnovers reared their uglt head. And since when is Pat Woodcock a returner? What’s up with that?!?

I really liked the rugby ending – that was pretty cool. It would have been sweet if we had scored from that! It was getting close!