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Stamps Blog

Statsguy’s Post Gameday Blog

Well, as the old saying goes – when someone throws you a lemon, make lemonade.



The Stamps lost their season opener to the Montreal Alouettes last night, 40-27. Was it that bad? In a word, yes. Even worse!



However, a deeper look into the numbers gives you an indication of what an elite ballclub the Stamps are when they want to be. Consider this:



- the Stamps scored all of their points in the 2nd and 3rd Quarter – when their time of possession was just over 10 minutes (the Als had the ball for almost 20 minutes in this same period, and generated just 10 points).

- They generated 27 points pretty much without a running game; Joffrey Reynolds was given the ball 6 times in the whole game

- Henry Burris completed just over 50% of his passes

- Offensive stalwarts Nik Lewis and Brett Ralph didn’t have ...
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