Eskimos receiver Chambers named Grey Cup’s Most Outstanding Canadian

After the assistants upstairs got to see the slow-motion replay, Jones challenged the call.

“We just have to take care of the football and play our game”. “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.

“We had opportunities there at the end to make plays both offensively and defensively”, echoed coach Rick Campbell.

Centre Jon Gott, top, and punter Ronnie Pfeffer of the Ottawa Redblacks exit the plane in Ottawa after returning from a loss in the Grey Cup game at Winnipeg. Jones (Chris, Edmonton head coach) did a great job of putting this team together.

“A new standard has been set for Grey Cup festivals and for the festivities on Grey Cup Sunday”, Bombers president and CEO Wade Miller wrote in an e-mail on Monday. Edmonton’s 14th championship now trails only Toronto, which has 16…

Edmonton won their final 10 games of the year, many of them by close scores, but Grymes said that was no fluke.

“That was actually the second challenge of the year that we won”. “We’ve been built to do this multiple times, and it’s on us to make sure that happens”. Regular-season audiences for the CFL have been declining in recent years; they were down 15 per cent on average for the 2015 season, to about 600,000 viewers per game.

Edmonton weathered the storm, a staunch defence anchoring the club’s 4-3 record until Reilly returned as the starter September 12 against Calgary.

Reilly orchestrated an eight-play, 88-yard drive just before the half, capping it with a short touchdown pass to Akeem Shavers with less than 10 seconds left on the clock.

So instead of heading into the 2016 season with the hunger of chasing a championship, the Eskimos will have to adopt the mindset of defending champion.

Barely selling out the least attended Grey Cup in almost two decades probably doesn’t qualify as the “best ever”, but those who came to Winnipeg expecting to have a good time appeared to have just that. “All the restaurants you go to, people are wearing Redblacks hats or jerseys”.

“We went through the progression and didn’t just get a bunch of quick fixes and bring in a bunch of high-paycheque free agents in order to just fix it right away”. “We’re going to go singing “We Are The Champions” out those doors”.

Eskimos’ wide-receiver Shamawd Chambers was named Most Outstanding Canadian player of the 103rd Grey Cup.

There are reports the Saskatchewan Roughriders will ask permission to speak with Eskimos head coach Chris Jones about their vacant head coach/G-M position.

“Yeah, I don’t think I woke up this morning doing my workout at about 5 a.m. thinking, ‘Man, I hope we’re down 13-0.’ That’s not how we planned it”.

“There’s nobody in this league that I’d rather play for”.