Given the relatively green Stampeder secondary, a vibrant pass rush will be essential to Calgary’s potential success this season. Orimalade collected one of three Stampeders sacks on the night, with Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund and Stefan Banks also getting to the Montreal passer.
Orimolade also made a perfect open-field tackle on a scramble from Adams late in the fourth that ended a drive, forcing the Alouettes to take a field goal. Rose added a defensive tackle and a special teams tackle on the night as well.įolarin Orimolade had himself a game on the defensive line, as he was in Alouettes’ quarterback Vernon Adams’ face for a good portion of the evening. Rose tipped the ball near the line of scrimmage, which was then deflected into the air by Stampeders’ rookie Dionte Ruffin back to Rose, who secured the ball and dove to the turf. The interception came off of a double deflection. However, given his game ball performance against the Alouettes in which he had an interception and a blocked field goal attempt, I’m not sure he will be discounted again any time soon. I can’t be absolutely certain that Mike Rose knows he was left off of 3DownNation editor John Hodge’s TSN Top 50 ballot. We had a brand new holder and he gave me a little bit of high blood pressure there.” “Every year, I don’t know how many game-winning kicks he makes, it’s almost like a given.”ĭickenson wasn’t entirely happy with the final field goal attempt though, as the ball was snapped with quite a bit of time left on the play clock. “Say what you want, but the guy is money…” said Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson after the game. There have been a few misses that fell short for Paredes in the >50-yard category over the years that have cost the team wins. Paredes owns five of the top eight most accurate kicking seasons of all time, but there is a question as to how far downfield the Stampeders can rely upon the long-time veteran.
That paid off as the Calgary defence held the Alouettes and got the ball back with enough time for the game-winner. The Stampeders did pass on what would have been about a 52-yarder late in the fourth quarter, choosing instead to pin the Alouettes deep.
Stampeders’ placekicker Rene Paredes was perfect on the night, making all six kicks asked of him, three field goals and three converts. Here’s what else I saw from Row 52 in Section I: While Mitchell was hardly perfect in his 2022 debut - more on that later - the Stampeders won regardless, securing a 30-27 win thanks to a late field goal from Rene Paredes. It even led to a heated Twitter battle between Danny Austin of Postmedia and Regina reporter Mitchell Blair, who claimed that Mitchell would be displaced as the team’s starter by Labour Day. Most of this coming without seeing anything of Mitchell since the West Semi-Final game last year. Media types in many markets were quick to say that the lustre was gone from the Stampeders and that Bo Levi Mitchell was done. Bulletin board material was everywhere for the Calgary Stampeders heading into the 2022 CFL curtain jerker at McMahon Stadium.
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