From Cam Cole on the key play of the game, a game changer ...
The Lions lost hope after that play, it seems to me. A veteran was waiting on the rookie QB. The receiver, Burnham, did not use his body to protect the ball (kind of like the receiver for the Seahawks in the Super Bowl). Raymond made the break on the ball and took it in for the TD.“It was a big emotional lift, created a spark, (that’s) exactly what it did,” said outgoing head coach John Hufnagel, whose swan song at McMahon was a comprehensive rout.
“We were sputtering a little bit and needed a spark to get going, and I just happened to be the spark,” said Raymond, the eight-year veteran who’s made so many big plays for the Stampeders.
“I just saw (receiver Bryan Burnham) run an out, and he kind of stutter (stepped) at me, and I’ve been playing this game a long time, man, and they ain’t too many moves I ain’t seen.
“So I sat on it, and he ran the out and I said, (Jennings) better not throw this ball — if he do, I’m going to the house.”
What had begun as a slow, halting start by the Stamps turned on a dime and it was pretty much one-way traffic from that point on.
The odds are we would have lost anyway, but in football, strange results can happen. If Jennings was red hot throughout the game, as he has been for most of his time starting, the Stampeders were vulnerable.
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