Well it appears that Jimmy Johnson was correct after all. Just days after the former Dallas Cowboys head coach and FOX Sports analyst tweeted that Marc Trestman would be going to the Chicago Bears, Trestman is indeed off to Chicago.
Trestman, who has spent the last five years with the Montreal Alouettes, will try to follow in the footsteps of Bud Grant and Marv Levy rather than Hugh Campbell and Mike Riley.
The Bears are making a strong commitment to offense in the NFC North and hope that Trestman will be able to deliver the same sort of magic with Jay Cutler that he had with Anthony Calvillo.
Once again this weekend I’ll be watching four kinds of football from both side of the border.
Th most interesting matchup will be the Western Final on Sunday afternoon between the Calgary Stampeders (12-6) and the British Columbia Lions (13-5) (2:30pm, TSN). This week there has been more drama in the Stampeders’ dressing room than an entire week of the Young and the Restless, and for that I give the Lions the advantage.
Travis Lulay is expected to be at the top of his game and the Lions are well rested. My only concern however is that it has been a while since they played a very meaningful game, so it will be interesting to see how they come out mentally.
The Edmonton Eskimos might have lost to the Montreal Alouettes, but exceeded expectations in many ways against the top team in the Eastern Conference.
Yes, Anthony Calvillo threw three touchdown passes as the Alouettes defeated the Eskimos 27-25 at Percival Molson Stadium Sunday afternoon. But the Eskimos hung with the Alouettes until the very end. They had a chance to tie the game but failed to capitalize on a two point conversion.
For most of the season, Calgary running back Jon Cornish has made the headlines for all of the right reasons. He leads the Canadian Football League with 947 rushing yards and is a strong contender to be the first Canadian to be named the Most Outstanding Player since Ottawa Rough Riders quarterback Russ Jackson in 1969.
On Sunday however, Cornish made the headlines for the wrong reasons.
According to the Canadian Press, Cornish was fined Monday for mooning the Saskatchewan Roughrider crowd in Calgary’s 30-25 loss Sunday at Mosaic Stadium. He apologized for his actions on Monday.
In a press conference, Calgary Stampeders’ head coach and general manager John Hufnagel confirmed Cornish “pulled his pants down low”.
It will be interesting to see if Cornish’s inappropriate conduct will cost him a chance of winning the Most Outstanding Player award, where he is presently up against Montreal Alouettes quarterback Anthony Calvillo and British Columbia Lions quarterback Travis Lulay at this stage of the CFL season.
Who do you think should be the CFL MOP so far this season? Has Cornish blown his chance for his inappropriate act? Let us know at www.anysportanytime.ca.
The Montreal Alouettes may be the best team in the Eastern Division of the Canadian Football League but got some significant bad news on Tuesday when it was reported that Brandon Whitaker is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
Whitaker suffered the injury Sunday, during Montreal’s 28-17 win at home against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The Alouettes are now in need of a running back and I know the perfect team they can make a trade with– the Edmonton Eskimos who have three running backs–Jerome Messam, Hugh Charles and Cory Boyd.
The Edmonton Eskimos got a big help Friday night from the Montreal Alouettes.
Anthony Calvillo continues to be great over forty years of age. Friday, Calvillo threw for two touchdown passes and 321 yards in a 30-25 win over the British Columbia Lions.
With the win both teams move to 6-3, but most importantly from an Eskimo perspective, Edmonton can move into first place with a victory Monday in Calgary in the Labour Day classic at McMahon Stadium.
The Montreal Alouettes are still a serious contender in the Canadian Football League’s Eastern Division and a major reason is their forty year old quarterback Anthony Calvillo.
On Thursday night at the University of McGill, Calvillo continued his greatness in throwing for 329 yards in a 31-29 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
This week on the show we dish our theories about the pending lockout in the NHL, we discuss what happened to the Eskimos in a big loss to the Alouettes last week and we have a look at the Stephen Strasburg situation in Washington.
In the GABBYs: Felix Hernandez, Charlie Sheen, Gary Carter, Chad Johnson, the Boston Red Sox and peewee football. The Punchline this week is Melky Cabrera!
The Edmonton Eskimos played horrible Friday night at Commonwealth Stadium, losing 38-25 to the Montreal Alouettes.
It was quite possibly their worst first half in quite some time– on offense and defense. The Alouettes scored the first four touchdowns of the football game en route to the easy win.
Anthony Calvillo had a field day, going 22 for 32 and 327 yards passing. He was easily able to find Patrick Lavoie, Brian Bratton, Victor Anderson and S.J. Green, as all four of them waltzed into the end zone.
The Montreal Alouettes recorded a dramatic victory in beating the Calgary Stampeders 33-32 at Percival Molson Stadium in Montreal on Thursday night.
Down 32-20 with less than two minutes left, Alouettes quarterback Anthony Calvillo capped off an impressive drive by throwing a seven yard touchdown pass to S.J. Green.
Then on the next Stampeders’ drive quarterback Kevin Glenn threw an interception to Jerald Brown, who ran the football all the way to the one yard line. Then after two failed attempts to punch the football into the end zone, Calvillo threw a three yard touchdown pass to Patrick Lavoie.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have named Corey Chamblin as their next head coach.
If you say the word, who, I don’t blame you.
Chamblin spent last season as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive co-ordinator. You can almost say the Roughriders are going back to the future, as they hired defensive co-ordinator Greg Marshall in last year’s offseason.
That didn’t work out very well at all for the Roughriders as Marshall went 1-7 as Saskatchewan missed the playoffs for the first time since 2001.
What even makes this move even more odd by General Manager Brendan Taman, was how poor the Tiger-Cats played defensively in facets of their game in the postseason. In the Eastern semi-final, they couldn’t stop the pass in a 52-44 overtime win in Montreal, as Anthony Calvillo threw for an amazing 513 yards. Then in the Eastern final, they couldn’t stop the run in a 19-3 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, as Chris Garrett ran for 190 yards.
Prior to his role as defensive co-ordinator, Chamblin worked with defensive backs in Calgary and Winnipeg. As a player, Chamblin played 11 games with the Jacksonville Jaguars as a cornerback in 1999.
It appears Anthony Calvillo will play one final season in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alouettes.
On Monday, Calvillo, who is 39 years of age, made the decision to play one more season.
Calvillo is the all-time leader in CFL passing yards, touchdown passes and career completions for a quarterback. The four-time CFL All-Star is also a three-time recipient of the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player award and three-time Grey Cup champion.
There was substantial speculation that Calvillo would retire at the end of last season, after his Montreal Alouettes lost a dramatic thriller in overtime in the Eastern Semi-Final to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. But the veteran quarterback who has also spent time with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Las Vegas Posse, still feels he still has some more football left in him.
Staying with the Alouettes’ theme, it was interesting to watch former Alouette Tyler Palko record his first win as an NFL quarterback Sunday as Kansas City defeated Chicago 10-3. Palko made 17 completions in 30 attempts for 157 yards and a touchdown. His touchdown pass to Dexter McCluster was of the Hail Mary variety that put the Chiefs up by four points at the end of the first half. If you don’t remember him on the Alouettes’ active roster for three weeks in November in 2009, that’s ok because neither do I. He didn’t see any action because a guy by the name of Anthony Calvillo was leading the Alouettes to a dramatic Grey Cup victory.
According to TSN, the Toronto Argonauts have replaced Jim Barker with Scott Milanovich, the offensive co-ordinator of the Montreal Alouettes, as head coach.
But this does not mean that Jim Barker is leaving the Argonauts’ organization, as he is expected to stay on as the team’s general manager.
Last year, the Argonauts finished last in the Eastern Division at 6-12, after making the playoffs the season before.
Milanovich has been one of the most brightest minds from the co-ordinator position in the Canadian Football League. Over the last five years, he has been the Alouettes’ quarterbacks coach, offensive co-ordinator and assistant head coach. Over that time the Alouettes won back-to-back Grey Cups in 2009 and 2010, and Milanovich was key in the progression of Anthony Calvillo, in the latter stages of his professional career as an elite quarterback.
Milanovich, who quarterbacked the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1996, also spent a brief time with the Calgary Stampeders in 2003.
The Canadian Football League handed out its annual awards last night, and Travis Lulay, the quarterback of the British Columbia Lions, was named the Most Valuable Player.
Lulay led the CFL with 32 touchdown passes. Even though he had fewer passing yards to Anthony Calvillo of the Montreal Alouettes (5251 to 4815), and a lower passer rating (95.8 to 98.2 for Calvillo and 99.3 to Ricky Ray of the Edmonton Eskimos), Lulay led the Lions to a 11-7 record, best in the CFL, and a dominating 43-1 win over the Alouettes in the final week of the regular season.
An Edmonton Eskimo also received some hardware Thursday night in Vancouver. Running back Jerome Messam was named Top Canadian after becoming the first Canadian since 2000 to run for 1,000 yards. Messam was third in rushing with 1,057 yards.
Other award winners were Josh Bourke of the Montreal Alouettes who was named the most outstanding lineman, Jovon Johnson of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers who was named the most outstanding defensive player, kicker Paul McCallum of the British Columbia Lions who was named the most outstanding special teams player, wide receiver Chris Williams of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats who was named the most outstanding rookie.
Well it appears that Jimmy Johnson was correct after all. Just days after the former Dallas Cowboys head coach and FOX Sports analyst tweeted that Marc Trestman would be going to the Chicago Bears, Trestman is indeed off to Chicago.
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