Edmonton Eskimos end Ottawa Redblacks’ dream season with comeback victory to

Lynch, the former Northern Illinois star in his rookie season with Eskimos, scored on a third-down play in a 20-degree chill.

“To win the Most Outstanding Canadian award was pretty cool”, said Chambers, who caught two passes for 49 yards, including one for 32 yards that led to an Edmonton touchdown in the second quarter.

Jones said on Sunday night that if Reilly had stayed healthy at the end of 2014 season, the Eskimos might have won the Grey Cup previous year.

Ottawa was in black helmets but the Eskimos were the ones wearing black hats after Edmonton club president Len Rhodes complained to the league in advance about the Redblacks’ signature lumberjacks who for two seasons have chainsawed a logoed “cookie” off a log after every scoring play. He also ran for 66 yards on 10 carries.

“I thought I saw (pass interference) and I saw for sure illegal contact but I couldn’t get them to tell me for sure so then the clock starts up”, said Jones, who registered his first successful challenge in the West Division final.

“It’s not anger, it’s disappointment”, Ottawa coach Rick Campbell said. “It’s something that I’ll never take for granted”. “It’s been an up-and-down season for me just because coming off a knee injury, you still have a lot of work to do when you actually get into the off-season, so I’m just happy I can walk off the field and I’m healthy”.

“You could pull tons of positives out of this year”, defensive tackle Keith Shologan said, “but right now all we’re thinking about is we just lost the Grey Cup”.

“I’ve got full confidence in our team”, he said.

The Ottawa Redblacks’ dream lasted deep into the fourth quarter of the 103rd Grey Cup game, and then it died on an instant replay of an incomplete pass. “That’s how it transpired”.

Edmonton’s defence got speed-bagged to start the game – Henry Burris & Co. drove the offence to two TDs on their first two possessions – but was absolutely stifling in the second half, limiting the Redblacks to 93 yards total offence.

Edmonton responded with a 25-yard Sean Whyte field goal, then got a Burris interception on a terrible under-throw and turned that into points as well, with Mike Reilly connecting with Adarius Bowman for the score. Edmonton took a 17-16 lead on Reilly’s 2-yard pass to Shavers with 12 seconds left in the half. Edmonton punter Grant Shaw had a 69-yard single in the third, and Milo countered with a 72-yarder in the fourth to make it 20-18.

“Give Edmonton credit because they made the plays and we didn’t”.

The 40-year-old Burris was 22 of 29 for 220 yards. That’s tough to say, that this might be the last time we see each other maybe, and we finished like that, losing the Grey Cup. We ask officials to make judgment calls to improve the flow of the game, and DPI is a judgment call that we have asked officials to make for decades, as is holding.