The Eskimos Report

After watching yet another horrible performance by the Eskimos this season you have to wonder yet again what will happen with the team should they fail (and it looks like they will) to make the playoffs.

Should they gut the team and start over, possibly building around Ricky Ray? They have a fairly young group of O linemen that could, should start to get better. Perhaps though that is the problem and the playes that they thought were going to steadily improve have leveled off and that's as good as they are going to get.

They have some young players on defense that could, should get better with age. Those players I believe should get more benefit of the doubt than the O line, they have just been brought in this past season. The O line has been a work in progress the last several seasons with many of these young players having been here that long.

I heard a comment the other day that it wasn't so much that the Esks were playing that poorly, but rather the rest of the league has started to catch up. I think teams like BC and Montreal have been there with us for the last several years. Calgary has been knocking on the door and Toronto has been solid for some time (although they have not looked it this year). It's tough to swallow stuff like that when you see the same mistakes over and over again. Sloppy tackeling and bad penalties have nothing to do with the talent level of the rest of the league.

The same goes for poor game planning and missed assignments on defense.

We've been over and over this. I think the Eskimos are going to come out and win Friday night against Hamilton, but where that leaves them in the playoff race, who knows? The roller coaster definitely went zooming down the hill on Friday in Hamilton.

Cheers