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June 4, 2018

Levels Not Content, Wants to Get Better

It was a solid first night out on the field this season for defensive back Patrick Levels.

He looked game ready in Friday night’s pre-season match versus the BC Lions, leading the team in defensive tackles with five.

As a second-year competing for a job, that consistency in coverage will be a big help in punching his ticket onto the roster.

“At the corner back positon we got to come in and fill gaps, and I feel like I’m the perfect guy for that,” said Levels.

“Everybody on defence has to tackle, and I feel like in some instances last year we didn’t have that.

“To come out and get five tackles at corner back is good and bad. But we’re playing fast, and overall it feels good to get those tackles.”

However, personal performances mean little to Levels, who was far from content with the overall game.

The Stamps dropped a six point lead in the second half, finishing the game behind the Lions at 36-23.

It’s a score that showed there’s room for improvement on the defensive end.

“We got a lot of things we still have to work on, we’re not too happy about our performance the other night,” Levels shared.

“Just to come out and execute all the plays the way that they were drawn up in the playbook, instead of going out and doing your own thing. Everybody just needs to go out and execute what coach calls.”

The Stamps’ first loss to the Lions in over a year wasn’t an ideal kick off to the pre-season, but a great way to gauge all players and their abilities before heading into the regular season.

“Coach kept it simple, we just wanted to give everybody and opportunity to play fast and get evaluated,” Levels said.

“Overall, as whole we did well, it’s just we gave up plays here and there.”

Levels and the rest of the Stamps will spend the next week evaluating their performance, hoping to tie up loose-ends before they head to Saskatchewan to face the Roughriders in their final pre-season game on Friday, June 8.

“We’re just watching the film from the critical standpoint, more than looking at the good things we did,” explained Levels. “We expect to do good, so when we do bad we want to figure out those things and get them corrected.”