Archive for the ‘Canadian Football’ Category

August 24th, 2011 By Andrew Ryan

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Picks
Week 9 CFL Odds: Winnipeg -3.5
CFL Week 9 Lines: Over/Under 49.5

The time is now for Winnipeg to ensure that it will have a home game in the playoffs this year, and this is the perfect game to lock this all up. No, mathematically, the Blue Bombers won’t be set in stone for a home game in their final year at Canad Inns Stadium with a win, but they would have three games up with the tiebreaker for the season on Hamilton with just 10 games to play. The Tabbies didn’t prove anything the last time around when these two teams played, getting beaten badly on their home turf as huge favorites. We got that one right by backing Winnipeg. We’re going to get this one right as well by backing the Bombers once again. There’s a real class differential between these two teams. Free CFL Picks: Winnipeg -3.5

Montreal Alouettes @ Calgary Stampeders Picks
Week 9 CFL Odds: Calgary -1
CFL Week 9 Lines: Over/Under 54.5

It seems like the whole world is ready to jump on the Calgary bandwagon after watching it beat up Hamilton and Saskatchewan in its previous two games before the bye week. Sure, it’s true that the Stamps are looking like a significantly better side than the one that arguably could have limped to an 0-4, maybe even an 0-5 start to the season, but we just aren’t sold that they are good enough to tango with the Alouettes. Remember something about AC and the gang. Montreal is 5-1 in games in which Calvillo has started and finished, and the one game that was lost, he was still dealing with some eye injuries. The offense has also averaged 34.4 points per game in truly “healthy” games for Calvillo. This is all just too good to pass up on. There’s no way that the Alouettes should be an underdog, though we definitely do expect a close game. Free CFL Picks: Montreal +1

 
August 16th, 2011 By Andrew Ryan

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Saskatchewan Roughriders @ Toronto Argonauts Picks
Week 8 CFL Odds: Toronto -3
CFL Week 8 Lines: Over/Under 54.5

The Argonauts and Roughriders are both absolutely atrocious this season, but one of them needs to come up with the two points when they face each other in Week 8. The winner will likely be on the inside track towards that last playoff spot. QB Cleo Lemon, believe it or not, is the better of the two quarterbacks right now, and of the three 1-6 teams, the Boatmen are the one team with no QB controversy whatsoever. Lemon has thrown for almost 700 yards and five TDs against just one pick since spending basically two games out injured. Saskatchewan has the ability to win this game, but unless it finds some way to come up with a Herculean effort like it did at Montreal a few weeks back, it will probably get run off of the field at Rogers Centre. Free CFL Picks: Toronto -3

BC Lions @ Edmonton Eskimos Picks
Week 8 CFL Odds: Edmonton -6.5
CFL Week 8 Lines: Over/Under 50

These two teams might be separated by four games in the standings, but they are a heck of a lot closer than that outward appearance looks. The Lions still really don’t know if they are going to go with QB Travis Lulay or QB Jarious Jackson. Neither option looks all that good right now, but at least the defense for the Lions has played relatively competent ball over these last few weeks. Sure, Edmonton’s defense is one of the best in the league, but the team has now played two games without WR Fred Stamps. The team only has 20 points to show for those two games, including scoring just four last week against the Montreal Alouettes. And now you want us to lay a TD with these guys? The Eskies are going in the wrong direction… and fast… Free CFL Picks: BC +6.5

 
August 10th, 2011 By Andrew Ryan

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Edmonton Eskimos @ Montreal Alouettes Picks
Week 7 CFL Odds: Montreal -6.5
CFL Week 7 Lines: Over/Under 54.5

Records will be falling left and right on Thursday night, as QB Anthony Calvillo should reach the 70,000 passing yard mark and the 400 TD mark for his career all in this game. To make matters even better for him, his Alouettes came up with a big time win last week against Toronto, and now, it has its sights set against an Edmonton team that they have a great history against. The Eskies have lost WR Fred Stamps thanks to a fluky injury, and if last week’s bad loss to Winnipeg on the road was any indication, this is going to be one ugly battle. Don’t be shocked if the Alouettes have knocked Edmonton out of this one by intermission. Free CFL Picks: Montreal -6.5

Calgary Stampeders @ Saskatchewan Roughriders Picks
Week 7 CFL Odds: Calgary -3.5
CFL Week 7 Lines: Over/Under 48.5

Just two weeks ago, these two teams had it out right here at Mosaic Stadium in a game that really could have gone either way. The Stamps took the ‘W’ 22-18, but there just has to be better in the tank for the men in green this one. Saskatchewan, the two time West Division defending champs are just 1-5 on the season, and though they are going to get every chance in the world to still get in the playoffs even if this one is lost, we know that the Riders really need to start putting games in the win column. Could we see QB Ryan Dinwiddie this week in place of the struggling QB Darian Durant? Don’t be shocked if that happens and if it provides just the shot in the arm necessary to get Saskatchewan over the hump for the upset in this one. Free CFL Picks: Saskatchewan +3.5

Toronto Argonauts @ Hamilton Tiger-Cats Picks
Week 7 CFL Odds: Hamilton -7
CFL Week 7 Lines: Over/Under 50

The Battle of Alberta has historically belonged to the Ti-Cats, but in this case, we aren’t so sure that they are going to be able to get the job done. We just don’t trust either of these teams right now, as both are about as consistent as the Dow Jones. The Tabbies went a stretch of 3.5 games where they scored almost 120 points, and then they turned around in the second half against Calgary last week and put a goose egg on the board. The defense has a game this year with three points allowed (thanks to the even more inconsistent Saskatchewan offense), but in all other games, at least 24 have gone up on the board for the bad guys. Meanwhile, Toronto just can’t get out of its own way offensively. QB Cleo Lemon has shown some promise, and we really love what we see out of rookie RB Chad Kackert, but the rest of this team could be condemned for all we care. That being said, the Boatmen are probably the lesser of the two evils right now, especially when you consider the fact that there is such a big spread in this one. Free CFL Picks: Toronto +7

Winnipeg Blue Bombers @ BC Lions Picks
Week 7 CFL Odds: BC -1.5
CFL Week 7 Lines: Over/Under 49.5

One would think that Winnipeg is the right play on Saturday night right off the bat. After all, it is 15-5-1 ATS in its last 21 games overall and is the only team in the league with a perfect ATS mark at 6-0 ATS. On top of that, BC is just 4-10 ATS in its last 14 home games. The Bombers are 5-1. BC is only 1-5. Winnipeg is coming off of one of its most important wins of the year. The Lions are happy to just have their one win. However, last season, once Head Coach Wally Buono’s team started to get the taste of winning, it just never gave back games again. The Blue Bombers are in for a rude awakening in this one. It looks like a fish. It smells like a fishy. And it’s probably fishy. Take the hosts. Free CFL Picks: BC -1.5

 
August 3rd, 2011 By Andrew Ryan

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Montreal Alouettes @ Toronto Argonauts Picks
Week 6 CFL Odds: Montreal -4
CFL Week 6 Lines: Over/Under 52.5

Last week, Toronto coughed up a game that it should’ve won and Montreal choked a game that should’ve never been much of a game, and one of these two teams is going to be reeling in a big way going into Week 7 next week. The Argos are only playing their second home game though, so we are tending to give them the benefit of the doubt whether QB Dalton Bell or QB Cleo Lemon ends up taking the ball under center. QB Anthony Calvillo has had back to back absolutely atrocious games, something that he just doesn’t do unless he is hurt. We just can’t run the risk that AC’s eye injury is still bad enough to blur his vision, especially on the road against a hungry Toronto team that has to be glad to be back in its own building. Free CFL Picks: Toronto +4

Edmonton Eskimos @ Winnipeg Blue Bombers Picks
Week 6 CFL Odds: Edmonton -1
CFL Week 6 Lines: Over/Under 50

Edmonton and Winnipeg are surprisingly the two best teams in the league this year, as scary as that sounds. Will one or both of these teams end up collapsing? Odds have it, both of these teams are going to fall back a bit, but we see Edmonton falling a lot faster and a lot further than Winnipeg will. The Blue Bombers have the No. 1 ranked defense in the league, and they have a signal caller in QB Buck Pierce that, when healthy, is one of the best in the league. The Eskimos really were lucky to survive games against Calgary and Toronto over the last two weeks. This is the last trip to Canad Inns Stadium for Edmonton before the Bombers move into their new facilities. It won’t be a good one. The wrong team is favored in this game. Free CFL Picks: Winnipeg +1

Saskatchewan Roughriders @ BC Lions Picks
Week 6 CFL Odds: BC -3
CFL Week 6 Lines: Over/Under 53.5

Whereas the Bombers and Eskies have been the two most pleasantly surprising teams, the Riders and Lions have been the two most disappointing ones. QB Darian Durant really looks lost right now without WR Andy Fantuz, who is now in the NFL, and it is clear that WR Weston Dressler can’t do it all by himself. The defense has allowed over 30 points per game as well, something that isn’t going to yield a whole heck of a lot of victories. BC’s problems are a heck of a lot deeper than that. QB Travis Lulay has a hard time completing more than 50 or so percent of his passes at this point, and the defense, though putting up somewhat respectable numbers, just finds ways to choke down the stretch in big games. Still, the Lions have looked the more complete of these two teams, and they’ll get the ‘W’ on Friday. Free CFL Picks: BC -3

Hamilton Tiger-Cats @ Calgary Stampeders Picks
Week 6 CFL Odds: Calgary -4
CFL Week 6 Lines: Over/Under 50.5

Logic would tell you that the Stamps are the right play in the final game of Week 6. They haven’t lost a game against the Tabbies at home since 2004, and they are definitely due to win a home game since they haven’t won one since the end of last regular season. You know that the hometown crowd at McMahon Stadium is going to be restless with another setback, especially against a team that is perennially a loser. QB Henry Burris should outshine QB Kevin Glenn as well… Right? Maybe not. Glenn has better numbers than Burris does on the year, and Hamilton is a hot team right now having taken three games in a row. The Stamps just haven’t looked all that great this year, and in spite of the fact that they are 3-2, they very well could be 0-5. They’ll drop down to .500 on Saturday night in what will be the big upset of the weekend. Free CFL Picks: Hamilton +4