{"id":288346,"date":"2025-11-17T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288346\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:45:09","slug":"landrys-5-takeaways-from-the-112th-grey-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288346\/","title":{"rendered":"Landry’s 5 takeaways from the 112th Grey Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year in the great northern league is in the books, capped by a thrilling finish and a championship for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in a game that came down to the final seconds.<\/p>\n

Jubilation in Sasky. Heartbreak in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Here are five takeaways from the 112th Grey Cup game.<\/p>\n

\"112th112th GREY CUP
\u00bb Riders take down Alouettes to win 112th Grey Cup<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a0Game Tracker: 112th Grey Cup by the numbers<\/a>
\u00bb Trevor Harris named the Most Valuable Player of the 112th Grey Cup<\/a>
\u00bb Samuel Emilus named the Most Valuable Canadian of the 112th Grey Cup<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a0Sign up and watch CFL games on CFL+ in the U.S. and Internationally<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan quarterback Trevor Harris<\/a> spiked the proverbial ball with such force that it would have deflated it completely.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how emphatic his effort in the Grey Cup was, an effort that forever squashed the \u201cyeah, but\u201d lobby out there, those who wanted to asterisk his fine career because he hadn\u2019t led a team \u2014 as a starting quarterback \u2014 to a championship.<\/p>\n

In being named the game\u2019s MVP, Harris rang up an efficiency rating of 119.7, completing 85.2 per cent of his passes \u2014 a Grey Cup record \u2014 going 23\/27 for 302 yards.<\/p>\n

Afterward, he continued to insist that talk of him never winning the big one didn\u2019t really bother him.<\/p>\n

Now, he doesn\u2019t have to worry about anyone every bringing it up again, because Trevor Harris<\/a> just spiked the ball in all his doubters\u2019 faces.<\/p>\n

WHY WAIT WHEN YOU CAN TURN THINGS AROUND RIGHT AWAY<\/p>\n

Coaches don\u2019t often throw their challenge flags too early in a game, preferring to hold that hankie until later on when you get into the higher stakes of late-game situations.<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan head coach Corey Mace tossed his challenge flag early in the second quarter when it appeared the Alouettes had stopped the \u2018Riders on a third and two, with defensive back Kabion Ento<\/a> swatting a pass away from receiver Dohnte Meyers.<\/p>\n

Mace won that challenge, got a fresh set of downs and then a touchdown on a Tommy Stevens<\/a> sneak. Saskatchewan took the lead, 8-7.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw it live, and thought I\u2019d go upstairs and just double check,\u201d said Mace of the early gambit. \u201cYou know, you don\u2019t want to let emotions get the best of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt made sense for us right there. We knew we\u2019d get that ball one the one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTommy Stevens<\/a> is pretty good at his job, and it all worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

SO, THERE YOU GO<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Harris was never bothered by talk of him not having led a team to a Grey Cup win, it appeared he has been bothered by chatter about the Roughriders having four championships to their credit (prior to Sunday).<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, you can kind of feel the weight,\u201d said Harris, about the duty of winning in a province that desperately wanted another party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like, everybody keeps saying \u2018you\u2019ve only won four, you\u2019ve only won four.\u2019 And you see your fans online defending the team, and they\u2019re like, \u2018you guys only have four Grey Cups.\u2019 Well, now we have five.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll say, \u2018well, now you only have five.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we won the most recent one. So there you go.\u201d<\/p>\n

IT MIGHT HURT LIKE HELL BUT THAT DOESN\u2019T DROWN THE PRIDE<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Montreal head coach Jason Maas did the thing that head coaches hate to have to do when he sat down after the Grey Cup to take reporters\u2019 questions.<\/p>\n

He was eloquent as always and magnanimous to boot.<\/p>\n

Asked if it was too early to feel pride over his team\u2019s efforts and season, he said it was not, despite the pain of a close, close loss.<\/p>\n

Pride trumps pain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does,\u201d said Maas. \u201cI told the guys out here, very proud of the group, very proud of our organization. You know, we all do this to win. We all came here expecting to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I hats off to Sask. I mean, they made the plays in the game, enough of them to beat us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hell of it, Maas said, is the amount of time it\u2019s going to take before his team can get back to climbing the mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, that takes six months to do, or six months before we\u2019ll be together again. But we can all start working, so we\u2019ll have our last team meeting on Tuesday, and then look forward to next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT TIMING<\/p>\n

Maas pointed out something quite incredible during his post-game media conference, and that is that the Alouettes had not turned over the ball in the red zone all season long.<\/p>\n

All. Season. Long.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s 23 games we never turned the ball over in the red zone,\u201d lamented Maas, \u201cand we do it on second-and-two from the three-yard line. I mean, I never saw that coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Als were down by eight with three minutes to go when a promising Montreal drive ended with short-yardage quarterback Shea Patterson fumbling just outside the goal line.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019ll be tough on him,\u201d said Maas of Patterson, \u201cbecause he\u2019s got six months to think about it. I wish we could go back to practice and play again next week so he wouldn\u2019t. But you know, it happened, and you\u2019ve gotta give (the Roughriders) credit for making the play, first and foremost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another year in the great northern league is in the books, capped by a thrilling finish and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-288346","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\/288346","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=288346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}