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INSIDER: The league of slow starts
July 30, 2008
While much fuss has been made about slow starts by the Stamps in 2008, truth be known, only two CFL teams have scored more first-quarter points than Calgary this season. A trend around the league is one of slow starts.
First quarter scoring
| Team | 1Q Pts | |
| 1 | Montreal | 59 |
| 2 | Edmonton | 26 |
| 3 | Calgary | 24 |
| 4 | Winnipeg | 17 |
| 5 | BC | 15 |
| 5 | Saskatchewan | 15 |
| 5 | Toronto | 15 |
| 8 | Hamilton | 6 |
As a whole, CFL teams are averaging just 4.425 points per first quarter. The Stamps are averaging 4.8.
Now, this isn’t to say the Stamps are lighting it up, but the tendency of teams taking a quarter to feel out the opposition has become a league-wide trend.
There have been 1,093 points scored in the CFL this season and just 177 have come in the first quarter. That works out to just 16.2 per cent.
A few further points of interest with regards to this trend:
• The Stamps have taken heat for “slow starts” but the truth is they’ve only trailed twice after the first quarter (11-0 in Mtl, 2-0 in Wpg). And only two teams have more first-quarter points.
• Montreal is the only team to score more than 10 points in a first quarter this season. They did it three times.
• Saskatchewan is 5-0 and only has one first-quarter touchdown.
Comments
| 1. | yyc7 |
| July 31st, 2008 at 12:56 pm MDT | |
| Brilliant analysis. It's not how you start it's how you finish. Would it be nice if the Stamps started better, yes... but more than that the defence has to learn that focus and not giving up gimmie drives in the last minute is way more important. Put your foot on the throat and stand there! | |
| 2. | digger18 |
| August 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pm MDT | |
| I agree, the 2 big concerns I have is the inability of our secondary to stop deep passing plays, and this team just deos not show the will to win on the road. They are terrible on the road and have been for much too long...both of these issues need to be addressed quickly or it will be another early exit in November! | |
| 3. | lisa |
| August 5th, 2008 at 6:17 pm MDT | |
| ..Come on, they are just not good enough. Been the same old story as well regarding the Flames. Too much praise from the media and fans. Take a reality check. | |
| 4. | JSB |
| August 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pm MDT | |
| C'mon, Lisa. They are just not good enough? If you've been watching the CFL closely (or even the NFL, I'd argue), you'd know that peaking too early in the season is asking for trouble (it should be accompanied by a death knell--just ask the BC Lions). | |
| 5. | RAVEN |
| August 7th, 2008 at 7:02 pm MDT | |
| come on we are just jelling, we have some promising rookies that are just getting a feel for the cfl. we have allowed less than 20 points in three of four games this year. Smith and hughe's will get better as the year goes and will add to an already powerful defense everyone knows defense wins championships. When we stop getting beat by the long ball we will be unstoppable. Quote the Raven never more. | |
| 6. | Hero |
| August 7th, 2008 at 7:05 pm MDT | |
| I agree with Raven we have two really nice rookes, in hughes and smith. If hughes can get a few mores sacks under his belt he could be in the running for rookie of the year also. | |
| 7. | cammaflamma |
| August 15th, 2008 at 3:22 pm MDT | |
| come to touchdowndesign.blogspot.com where cfl football and art meet. | |
| 8. | Kaydee |
| August 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm MDT | |
| Interesting. While you re checking points by quarter, Im wondering how many we ve given up in the fourth, as we have caved in three close ones this year. Thats the quad that deternmines wins and losses. | |
| 9. | ex-colts |
| September 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am MDT | |
| lisa reminds me of an esks fan visiting the calgary forums. well when kick off hits today... the stamps will be kickin' some eskimo butt back up the number 2. | |
| 10. | lisa |
| September 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 am MDT | |
| Well......Seems the Eskimos kicked some butt, again the Stampeders are surely over rated, not now! | |
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