Edmonton Eskimos win Grey Cup, beating Ottawa 26-20

Lynch, the former Northern Illinois star in his rookie season with the Eskimos, scored a third-down play.

It was a defensive struggle in the second quarter, with Chris Milo increasing the Redblacks’ lead with a field goal before Reilly connected with Akeem Shavers for a two-yard touchdown before the half.

So the Redblacks were still in the lead until Reilly threw deep for Walker and the penalty on Sermons put the ball on the Ottawa 10. I always feel like I could have done a little bit more, but right now we have to learn from this and come back next year, and let’s take it one step further. “I was happy with our special teams, other than the fumble on the first return, and I was happy with our offence and how it bounced back after that tough start”.

Edmonton Eskimos wide receiver Shamawd Chambers has been named the Most Outstanding Canadian of the 103rd Grey Cup.

“Every team in this league is disappointed except for Edmonton this year”, said Campbell. That’s part of what you sign up for when you’re in this business. “It’s disappointing not to come out with a victory, especially when you fought so hard and got this thing turned around with all these young guys in this locker-room”, Burris said afterwards.

In TSN’s post-game recap, analyst Matt Dunigan said he was “glad they got it right”. After the assistants upstairs got to see the slow-motion replay, Jones challenged the call.

Two plays later, short-yardage quarterback Jordan Lynch punched it in for a touchdown and the winning points in Edmonton’s 26-20 win.

10 – The winning streak by the Eskimos en route to the Grey Cup; eight straight to finish the regular season followed by the West Final win over Calgary and Sunday’s Grey Cup. “I call time out and I said, ‘Look at this because it’s too big a situation and if it is, then we need to throw a flag.’ So that’s how it transpired”. “That’s how it transpired”.

Order was restored gradually, first with a Sean Whyte 25-yard field goal after a good Edmonton drive stalled, and then when Burris threw a rare lame-duck trying to go deep, Patrick Watkins picked it off to set Reilly up with a 60-yard field.

The Eskimos cut it to 13-10 late in the quarter on Reilly’s 23-yard pass to Adarius Bowman.

The six-point lead after the touchdown was enough for Edmonton in what had been an offensively challenging second half for both teams. Despite having the ball for 10 minutes in the third quarter, Edmonton was outscored 3-1 as Ottawa took a 19-18 advantage into the fourth. Burris finished 22-of-29 passing with 220 yards and two TDs and an interception after registering a league-record 481 completions and CFL-high 5,703 yards. “I think through the 4-14 season we learned how not to win, we learned how to lose the close games”.