WINNIPEG \u2014\u00a0Shortly before The Catch, there was The Catch.<\/p>\n
A leaping, 21-yard reception by Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Dohnte Meyers was followed by a three-yard, game-winning grab by Tommy Nield in the CFL\u2019s Western Final last Saturday at a sold-out Mosaic Stadium.<\/p>\n
Nield scored with 11 seconds left in the fourth quarter to propel Saskatchewan to a 24-21 victory over the B.C. Lions \u2014 and a berth in Sunday\u2019s championship game against the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
Leading up to the 112th Grey Cup Game, Meyers was delighted to discuss back-to-back highlight-reel plays that capped the Roughriders\u2019 comeback.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I heard the play call, I knew Tommy was going to get the ball,\u201d recalled Meyers, referencing a quick slant pattern from left to right, two yards inside the goal line. \u201cI was on the front side of the play, so I knew the catch was going to happen behind me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we were watching the film with the guys, I told them, \u2018Look at me right here,\u2019 because when I saw him catch it, I jumped up. It was like in the Rocky movie. It was the best thing I could have turned around and seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meyers had a much better view of the previous play \u2014\u00a0a spectacular catch he made despite being surrounded by a handful of Lions defenders who were in deep zone coverage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s \u2018see ball, get ball,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those plays that you thrive off making, building on the other ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat play, it was my turn. Before that, it was Sam Emilus\u2019s turn and A.J. Ouellette\u2019s turn. Trevor\u2019s back there throwing the ball behind the O-line. The next play after mine was Tommy\u2019s touchdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just my turn. The next play, it\u2019s going to be somebody else\u2019s turn. When it\u2019s up there, you\u2019ve got a responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll those plays work together in unison to score one touchdown for this one team.\u201d<\/p>\n
The common denominator was Harris, who led a seven-play, 76-yard drive that consumed just 52 seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he gets enough credit for his talent,\u201d said Meyers, whose own talents produced 65 catches, 1,056 yards and a team-high eight aerial TDs in 15 regular-season games.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe performs well statistically. He makes the right reads. He has pocket presence. But they don\u2019t give him enough credit for his touch.\u201d<\/p>\n
The kind of touch that allowed him to find Meyers, who was greatly outnumbered, for the Roughriders\u2019 penultimate pivotal play.<\/p>\n
The kind of touch that enabled Harris to somehow thread the football between four Lions defenders and hit Kian Schaffer-Baker in stride for a 25-yard advance that set up Saskatchewan\u2019s first touchdown.<\/p>\n
That kind of touch.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a hell of a quarterback,\u201d Meyers continued. \u201cHe has made those plays and he made that (climactic) drive happen. We leaned on him and he leaned on us.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s the man. I\u2019m a fan, man. I know he\u2019s my quarterback, but I\u2019m a fan \u2014 a serious fan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014\u00a0Shortly before The Catch, there was The Catch. A leaping, 21-yard reception by Saskatchewan Roughriders receiver Dohnte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-279959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}