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<\/p>\nLast week, Hamilton\u2019s defence faced Montreal starter Davis Alexander, who had six straight 300-yard passing games with no interceptions. The Ticats picked Alexander off once and held him to 187 passing yards and no TDs, but a late Tre Ford interception helped the Alouettes outscore the Ticats 14-0 in the fourth quarter for a 31-18 victory.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA hot quarterback is a problem,\u201d said Hamilton head coach Scott Milanovich. \u201cI\u2019ve said it every time I\u2019ve played him since he\u2019s been in the league that (Adams) can get streaky and he\u2019s on a season-long tear right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to get pressure, got to put him in second and long, all of those things that make quarterbacks uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calgary leads the CFL in offensive points (37.0) and offensive TDs scored (31). Hamilton\u2019s defence ranks second in fewest offensive points allowed (25.3) and is tied for second in fewest offensive touchdowns given up (18).<\/p>\n
\u201cA very good defence versus a very good offence that\u2019s been playing very efficiently,\u201d Stubblefield said. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a game that\u2019s going to be played throughout four quarters and I also believe the most physical, disciplined and consistent team will win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milanovich said Hamilton\u2019s defence can get to Adams through Calgary running back Dedrick Mills, the CFL\u2019s rushing leader with 584 yards (6.1-yard average, three TDs). Last week, the Ticats allowed 167 yards rushing versus Montreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, as hot as Vernon is, it\u2019s going to start by stopping the run,\u201d Milanovich said. \u201cThat goes back to putting him in second-and-long situations where our pass rushers can kind of tee off, pin their ears back and apply some pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milanovich feels Hamilton could help itself offensively by also establishing the run. The Ticats are fifth overall in rushing (95.3 yards per game) while Calgary is seventh against the run (106.3) and last in both pass defence (345.3 per game) and net offensive yards allowed (435.1).<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it (establishing run) is very important, especially against a hot quarterback and a hot offence,\u201d Milanovich said. \u201cKeep them on the sidelines in the heat, wear them down and not let their pass rushers pin their ears back and come after our quarterback.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve got a really good defence, a really good front.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calgary\u2019s special teams aren\u2019t bad either. Last week, former Ticat Tyreik McAllister became the first CFL player to score rushing, receiving and return touchdowns in the same game.<\/p>\n
Hamilton\u2019s Isaiah Wooden Sr. had a 100-yard punt-return TD versus Montreal and accumulated 212 combined yards. Wooden knows McAllister well as the two share the same agent and admits he took notice of McAllister\u2019s scoring exploits last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cMan, I\u2019m telling you I\u2019d be lying if I said that it didn\u2019t cross my mind,\u201d Wooden said. \u201cSeeing him do something like that, obviously that\u2019s a big thing that\u2019s very historic, and I know I could do the same thing if granted the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ford makes a third straight start for Hamilton. He was 15-of-23 passing for 164 yards with a TD and ran three times for 24 yards last week.<\/p>\n
But his fourth-quarter interception set up Travis Theis\u2019s eight-yard TD run with 28 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking back, there were unfortunate turnovers, which was on me,\u201d Ford said. \u201cI wish we could\u2019ve done more; it\u2019s definitely a down for us, but the good thing about when you\u2019re down is you can only go up, so looking to go up against Calgary.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although it\u2019s only been roughly two weeks, Milanovich feels Ford is slowly getting acclimated to the offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d think he\u2019s feeling more comfortable just verbalizing the plays, what we\u2019re looking for,\u201d Milanovich said. \u201cIt\u2019s being suited to him, which it wasn\u2019t in training camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of it is the same, but there are some things that Tre does better. Hopefully he\u2019s feeling more comfortable and will play well.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 31, 2026.<\/p>\n
This is a corrected story. A previous version stated that Tre Ford was making his second start instead of his third.<\/p>\n
Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Hamilton\u2019s defence faced Montreal starter Davis Alexander, who had six straight 300-yard passing games with no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[879,49,2798,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-840643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840643","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=840643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}