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CROWD, Leon Bright didn’t quite manage to hang on to Jerry Tagge’s pass last Tuesday night against |
Saskatchewan Roughriders. Lions are expecting a big test Tuesday against the Edmonton Eskimos.

(Terry Peters photo)

Lions doing it the hard way

Offense still not there

By PAT RICH

Touchdowns are
wonderful things. Not
only are they worth six
missed {i
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but they are worth two
whole field goals, and
even more than that if
they are converted.

Once the B.C. Lions
realize this they will be able
to stop winning the hard way
and will not have to let the
fate of their team forever
rest. of the boot of Lui
Passaghia.

With four straight wins
under their belts, one would
have thought) the Lions
would have learned’ one of
the basic lessons of football,

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that you have to score
touchdowns to win games.

But, judging by last

- Tuesday's 24-15 win over the
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And the funny thing is,
fate is letting the Lions get
away with it, as can be
witnessed by the fact they
lead the Western division,
and are one of the only two
teams still unbeaten — this
season in the whole CFL.

Five field goals on seven
attempts, by Passagha, are
impressive statistics, but
they hide the fact that a field

goal attempt is ai sign of
defeat.

Itis a sign that the offense
cannot push into the op-

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.ponent’s end zone, and
granted, the Lions did this
once against the
Roughriders, but they had at
a rough count, eight good
Opportunities to do so.

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And so, having
~belaboured the point
enough, we move on to other
topics, except for one final
comment.

If the Lions cannot
capitalize on offensive plays
they will surely lose this
Tuesday against the Ed-
monton Eskimos, the other
unbeaten team in the league,
who had no trouble scoring
four touchdowns in one
game in their 44-9 rout of the
Calgary Stampeders — last
Tuesday

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Elsewhere on the field of
battle, the Lions defense
played their usual depen-
dable game, adding four
more quarterback sacks to
their total.

In one exceptional series.
of plays in the fourth
quarter, Joe  Fourqurean
caught Mike Strickland (by
ho means an easy thing to do
anywhere) behind the line of
scrimmage for a_ loss of
eleven, and then on the next
play Doug Seymour caught
quarterback Tom Clements
for a loss of ten.

This d¢ffectively killed any
hope Saskatchewan might
have had of starting a fast
quarter drive

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