Leos at the Elks

[TrueBlue4ever]

Cannot find a record for most times being shut out in a season, so I am left to speculate that twice is now the record. I will continue to look into this. 

BTW the NFL record is much more, if you consider the early years of the 1920’s. Akron has 13 consecutive shutouts, and Rochester was shut out 8 straight times. Strangely the NFL record book does not offer a “modern-day” section, but the best I can tell is that the 1976 Pittsburgh Steelers hold the modern day record with 5 shutouts in one season, including 3 in a row.  Baltimore’s 2000 team had 4 shutouts, the the 1985 Chicago Bears had 2 on consecutive weeks in the regular season, and became the first NFL team ever to post consecutive shutouts in the playoffs  

And the Oakland Raiders were shut out in 3 consecutive games in 1981

[rebusrankin]

BC is going to be a tough game on Thursday. That D has been lights out.

[Geebrr]

We’ll see.

[Stickem]

Shut down Betts and all bets are off....We can't let this guy prowl around our backfield like we did in the last game .....Put the hurry up on Evans and we should have a good result.....I think it's time for our offence to bust out and make a serious statement

[3rdand1.5]

BC's front 7 looks really good, I am concerned we can control them. 

If we /Buck figures out how to beat that front we have a great shot at making the cup

[Mark H.]

55 minutes ago, Stickem said:

Shut down Betts and all bets are off....We can't let this guy prowl around our backfield like we did in the last game .....Put the hurry up on Evans and we should have a good result.....I think it's time for our offence to bust out and make a serious statement

They have, but not for 4 quarters. 

[Tracker]

Chris Jones is an example of the "Peter Principle" where someone does well at something and is promoted until s/he reaches a level of incompetence and is left there. 

[Booch]

Betts had a good start but bet he tails off...never liked the guy either...he's a bit of a doucher on the field too...so I am told...

TSN likes creaming over this record sack pace he is on and is what...1 ahead of WJ but doesn't have the knockdowns WJ has...they sure like to push the anti bomber stories but that is how our team likes it anyway

27 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Chris Jones is an example of the "Peter Principle" where someone does well at something and is promoted until s/he reaches a level of incompetence and is left there. 

He's an example of coming inan.winning a cup from someone else's work...but got all the glory and accolades for it..and since...has been paid and revered as this great mind..and has effectively driven 2 organizations into the dumpster..luckily Sask hired even more incompetent people in his place to keep adding to the dumpster 

[Brandon]

Did they fire him yet?

[Booch]

If I was a betting man I bet Jones and Dickie get canned in and around labour day

[Noeller]

The problem with Jones is how can they do it?? He's really got them over a barrel financially, and they're still paying the last guys too... They're stuck with him.

[Pete Catan's Ghost]

1 hour ago, Booch said:

If I was a betting man I bet Jones and Dickie get canned in and around labour day

Here’s the solution to the coaches salary cap. 
They shouldn’t be cut, they should be traded. 

[Mark F]

this has to be Jones last job (s)  in the CFL.

doesn't it?

and, Cornelius. Can not see that guy emerging from this on another team.

Edited July 30, 2023 by Mark F

[SpeedFlex27]

2 hours ago, Booch said:

Betts had a good start but bet he tails off...never liked the guy either...he's a bit of a doucher on the field too...so I am told...

TSN likes creaming over this record sack pace he is on and is what...1 ahead of WJ but doesn't have the knockdowns WJ has...they sure like to push the anti bomber stories but that is how our team likes it anyway

He's an example of coming inan.winning a cup from someone else's work...but got all the glory and accolades for it..and since...has been paid and revered as this great mind..and has effectively driven 2 organizations into the dumpster..luckily Sask hired even more incompetent people in his place to keep adding to the dumpster 

Jones is just getting Karma for dumping on the Eskimos, going to sask & then dumping on them to go to Cleveland. Looks good on him.

[Jpan85]

58 minutes ago, Mark F said:

this has to be Jones last job (s)  in the CFL.

doesn't it?

and, Cornelius. Can not see that guy emerging from this on another team.

He will get a DC job some where

[Mark H.]

2 hours ago, Mark F said:

and, Cornelius. Can not see that guy emerging from this on another team.

10 years ago, he'd probably be done. With the current QB situation, someone will sign him.

[kelownabomberfan]

Corny just looks like he has zero confidence, and his OC is not helping him.  BC bringing straight blitzes all game and no hot routes designed to help, so Corny just gets creamed every play.   Reminded me of how our offence used to be run pre O-Shea.  Other teams would stack the box and we'd run it up the gut for a loss or Buck/Goltz/Elliot/Willy/Brink would just get destroyed on a sack for a loss.

[WinnipegGordo]

14 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

10 years ago, he'd probably be done. With the current QB situation, someone will sign him.

And isn't he guaranteed 100k for next year from the Elks? Someone might try to sign him for 80k.

[rebusrankin]

11 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:

And isn't he guaranteed 100k for next year from the Elks? Someone might try to sign him for 80k.

He is indeed. Wonder if Edmonton is willing to eat that $?

[TrueBlue4ever]

OK, so have done a year-by-year check of the game scores from 1958 onward from the cfl.ca site (that’s as far back as they go) and if they are accurate, this is what I can tell you:

1958 - Ottawa was shut out against twice (and had a 3rd game where they only scored 1 point), BC came close (shut out once and scored 1 point in another game), and Toronto had two shutouts for, coming in consecutive games. 

1959 - Weird year. Edmonton was shut out 12-0 by B.C. and then beat Saskatchewan 55-0 the next week. They also shut out Saskatchewan later that year, so if that is accurate then Farhan’s first tweet is incorrect (he himself has since acknowledged the error) and B.C. is not the first team to shut out the same opponent twice in a season (I cross referenced the league site with the Statscrew page that had the same info. Wikipedia did not have a team page for Edmonton or Saskatchewan for the 1959 season to verify it, and newspaper archives - the best resource, IMO - for that time are hard to find online without a lot of digging). Edmonton came close to getting a 3rd shutout, beating Winnipeg 16-1 (incidentally, the Bombers played again 2 days later and rebounded by putting up 61 points in a 61-8 thrashing of, you guessed it, Saskatchewan). Montreal was also shut out twice, once in the regular season and once in the playoffs. Like I said, weird year.

1960 - Edmonton had 1 shutout but were close 3 more times. They beat the lowly green Riders 19-1 and then blanked B.C. the following week 26-0, coming close to back-to-back clean sheets. Late in the year they gave up only 2 to Winnipeg and 2 more against Sask. again in consecutive games. The ‘Riders followed the first 19-1 loss mentioned above with a 27-0 loss to Winnipeg, so they almost had consecutive goose eggs. 

1965 - Toronto is shut out twice, and the Bombers blank two opponents in the span of 3 games. 

1966 - Ottawa, who had shut out Toronto earlier in the year, and Montreal, who had been shut out by Sask., play the lowest scoring game in CFL history, with the Alouettes winning 1-0. 

1967 - Calgary blanks their opponents 3 times this year, Edmonton and Winnipeg each suffer a shut out loss twice.

1968 - Calgary earns 1 shut out in the regular season and another in the playoffs

1970 - Calgary becomes the last club before B.C. this season with multiple shut outs earned in a season, with 2. 

1972 - For the first time since the CFL was established in 1958, there are no shut outs league-wide for the entire season. This will happen twice more this decade, in 1975 and 1978. 

1980-81 - The CFL goes back-to-back seasons with no shutouts for any team for the first time. The non-shutout streak is broken the next year when Winnipeg wins in Montreal 36-0. That would be the only shutout in a 5 year span. In fact, there are only 5 shutouts league-wide in the whole decade, and the Bombers have 4 of them (‘82, ‘85, ‘86, and ‘88), with Edmonton dishing out the only other blank slate, also in 1988. The 1986 Bomber shutout is notable in that they beat Saskatchewan 56-0, the highest scoring shutout in league history.

1990-99 - Only 3 shutouts all decade, the most notable of which is Sacramento beating Baltimore 18-0 in the only game where a U.S. based team is involved in either end of a shutout.

Shutouts dried out even more in the 2000’s and beyond. Nothing too noteworthy before BC’s pair this season. 

[Booch]

27 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

OK, so have done a year-by-year check of the game scores from 1958 onward from the cfl.ca site (that’s as far back as they go) and if they are accurate, this is what I can tell you:

1958 - Ottawa was shut out against twice (and had a 3rd game where they only scored 1 point), BC came close (shut out once and scored 1 point in another game), and Toronto had two shutouts for, coming in consecutive games. 

1959 - Weird year. Edmonton was shut out 12-0 by B.C. and then beat Saskatchewan 55-0 the next week. They also shut out Saskatchewan later that year, so if that is accurate then Farhan’s first tweet is incorrect (he himself has since acknowledged the error) and B.C. is not the first team to shut out the same opponent twice in a season (I cross referenced the league site with the Statscrew page that had the same info. Wikipedia did not have a team page for Edmonton or Saskatchewan for the 1959 season to verify it, and newspaper archives - the best resource, IMO - for that time are hard to find online without a lot of digging). Edmonton came close to getting a 3rd shutout, beating Winnipeg 16-1 (incidentally, the Bombers played again 2 days later and rebounded by putting up 61 points in a 61-8 thrashing of, you guessed it, Saskatchewan). Montreal was also shut out twice, once in the regular season and once in the playoffs. Like I said, weird year.

1960 - Edmonton had 1 shutout but were close 3 more times. They beat the lowly green Riders 19-1 and then blanked B.C. the following week 26-0, coming close to back-to-back clean sheets. Late in the year they gave up only 2 to Winnipeg and 2 more against Sask. again in consecutive games. The ‘Riders followed the first 19-1 loss mentioned above with a 27-0 loss to Winnipeg, so they almost had consecutive goose eggs. 

1965 - Toronto is shut out twice, and the Bombers blank two opponents in the span of 3 games. 

1966 - Ottawa, who had shut out Toronto earlier in the year, and Montreal, who had been shut out by Sask., play the lowest scoring game in CFL history, with the Alouettes winning 1-0. 

1967 - Calgary blanks their opponents 3 times this year, Edmonton and Winnipeg each suffer a shut out loss twice.

1968 - Calgary earns 1 shut out in the regular season and another in the playoffs

1970 - Calgary becomes the last club before B.C. this season with multiple shut outs earned in a season, with 2. 

1972 - For the first time since the CFL was established in 1958, there are no shut outs league-wide for the entire season. This will happen twice more this decade, in 1975 and 1978. 

1980-81 - The CFL goes back-to-back seasons with no shutouts for any team for the first time. The non-shutout streak is broken the next year when Winnipeg wins in Montreal 36-0. That would be the only shutout in a 5 year span. In fact, there are only 5 shutouts league-wide in the whole decade, and the Bombers have 4 of them (‘82, ‘85, ‘86, and ‘88), with Edmonton dishing out the only other blank slate, also in 1988. The 1986 Bomber shutout is notable in that they beat Saskatchewan 56-0, the highest scoring shutout in league history.

1990-99 - Only 3 shutouts all decade, the most notable of which is Sacramento beating Baltimore 18-0 in the only game where a U.S. based team is involved in either end of a shutout.

Shutouts dried out even more in the 2000’s and beyond. Nothing too noteworthy before BC’s pair this season. 

Well done...now have a beer!

[TrueBlue4ever]

12 hours ago, Booch said:

Well done...now have a beer!

[Jpan85]

Fall out has begun

[Booch]

bout time tho....

[Fatty Liver]

11 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Fall out has begun

I think Stamps OC Pat DelMonaco is going to suffer the same fate soon, maybe not fired, but have Dickinson take over the play-calling again.