Released Sep 28, 2024 – Last upgraded 8 hours ago – 4 minute read
Unlike their last bye week– which rudely disrupted a three-game winning streak– this one truly might not come to a much better time for the Ottawa Redblacks.
For something, it comes throughout a losing streak that has actually reached 3 video games, the most current of which being a very weak 29-16 revealing versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Mosaic Stadium in Regina on Saturday.
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Coincidentally or not, it was likewise the Redblacks’ 3rd chance at clinching a playoff area.
The second-place Redblacks are one point up on the Toronto Argonauts (who beat the Montreal Alouettes on Saturday night) and 5 ahead of the charging Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who are winners of their last 4 video games.
At this point, it’s imaginable that they miss what 3 weeks back was a one-foot gim me putt.
The bye comes at the best time for Ottawa’s injury scenario– especially quarterback Dru Brown, who dressed for the Saskatchewan video game however didn’t play since of a high-ankle sprain he suffered a couple of weeks earlier.
Here’s the fascinating feature of the injury: Of the 9 beginners that were out Saturday, receiver Bralon Addison and deal with Dino Body were the only 2 from the offense.
The makeshift defence played well versus the Roughriders.
The offense was horrible, mainly due to the fact that quarterback Jeremiah Masoli tossed 3 interceptions.
Ottawa’s only goal featured 2:07 left, an 11-yard toss to a really large open Kalil Pimpleton.
In its last 5 video games, the Redblacks have actually lost 4 times, and in those 4 losses they have actually balanced 16.25 points.
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Brown had actually used a bad ankle throughout the group’s previous 2 video games.
“We’re still battling,” Masoli informed TSN1200’s A.J. Jakubec. “I’m happy of the defence, the method they played, and specials … however we got to choose it up on offense, and I’m particularly speaking about myself, simply looking after the football.
“We do that, and who understands where we’re at.”
A few of the hurt gamers will be back for the Redblacks’ next video game, Monday Oct. 14, versus the first-place Alouettes in Montreal.
5 days later on, they’re in Toronto for a date with the Argos, and 6 days after that they play their regular-season ending, in the house versus the Tiger-Cats.
They much better get an excellent rest now, due to the fact that when they return from this perfectly-timed break, they’re going to be hectic.
“We take a look at it as a good idea,” novice linebacker Bennett Williams informed Jakubec of the approaching day of rests. “We get a bye, time to sort of re-nourish our souls, or whatever you wish to state … to get that energy back and be all set to assault those last 3 weeks.”
THE TURNING POINT
The Redblacks were routing 15-6 early in the 4th quarter when a rushing Masoli zipped a strike to Keaton Bruggeling in the end zone. The ball struck the previous Carleton Ravens star in the numbers, then popped out and to the ground.
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Not to put all of it on Bruggeling– who went into the video game with simply one reception (on one target) for 3 lawns on the season and 7 receptions on 10 targets over his 3 years with the Redblacks– however that was the video game.
Rather of pulling to within 2 (or one, with a two-point conversion), Ottawa padded its credibility as a terrible red zone group by choosing a basket. And the Roughriders came right back with a six-play, 70 lawn drive culminating in a 26-yard goal run by Thomas Bertrand-Hudon and a two-point conversion by KeeSean Johnson.
Unexpectedly it’s 23-9, and after that, after a two-and-out from the Redblacks, Saskatchewan assembles a six-play 72-yard drive that consumes 3:04 and ends with another basket that makes ball game 26-9 with 4 minutes left.
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