Midseason all-star team
Calvillo has still got it.
Quarterback – Anthony Calvillo (Montreal Alouettes): Is the 38-year-old feeling the effects of his age? Not a chance. Calvillo has a league-best 111.7 quarterback rating and a 70% completion percentage. He has thrown for 2,472 yards, 17 touchdowns and a ridiculously low three interceptions.
Running Back – Cory Boyd (Toronto Argonauts): Boyd has been the biggest surprise this season. He is leading the league with 846 yards rushing and also has five touchdowns. He gives the Argonauts the rushing threat they have been lacking for a long time.
Running Back – Joffrey Reynolds (Calgary Stampeders): Reynolds doesn’t have many 100-yard rushing games, but has still had great success. He has 706 yards and four touchdowns while sharing a lot of carries with Jon Cornish.
Receiver – Arland Bruce III (Hamilton Tiger-Cats): “Bruce Almighty” has not disappointed after a slow start. He leads the league with 862 yards and also has five touchdowns. Earlier this season, Bruce tied the record for most catches in a game.
Receiver – Terrence Edwards (Winnipeg Blue Bombers): Edwards has bounced back after a sub-par 2009 campaign with 778 yards. He also has seven touchdown catches.
Receiver – Nik Lewis (Calgary Stampeders): Love him or hate him, Lewis is having success and no one saw that coming. After barely getting 1,000 yards last season, he is easily on pace with 607 yards. After only one receiving touchdown in 2009, Lewis already has five this season.
Receiver – Kerry Watkins (Montreal Alouettes): The consistent outside threat is at it again. With 630 yards and six touchdowns, he is easily on pace for another 1,000-yard season. His stats could drop with Calvillo out.
Receiver – Weston Dressler (Saskatchewan Roughriders): Dressler has been a solid deep-threat, accumulating 664 yards and three touchdowns. He has really stepped up against big teams.
Offensive Tackle – Gene Makowsky (Saskatchewan Roughriders): When Wayne Smith fell to injury, Makowsky was forced to move out to tackle. Despite his age, Makowsky has still been able to handle this move and dominate opposing linemen.
Offensive Guard – Scott Flory (Montreal Alouettes): The play of Montreal’s offensive line has improved as the season has gone on and Flory has been the anchor once again.
Centre – Tim O’Neil (Calgary Stampeders): Playing in place of Rob Lazeo this season, O’Neil has been the leader of a group that is one of the best in the league
Offensive Guard – Brendon Labatte (Winnipeg Blue Bombers): He didn’t do too well as a offensive tackle in the Labour Day Classic, but Labatte has excelled as a guard.
Offensive Tackle – Ben Archibald (Calgary Stampeders): Archibald hasn’t been a surprise on the offensive line for Calgary this season. He was the one player everyone know would be a solid lineman for sure.
Defensive End – Philip Hunt (Winnipeg Blue Bombers): Hunt is emerging as one of the dominant defensive ends in the league. He leads the league with eight sacks.
Patrick leads the league in interceptions.
Defensive Tackle – Jermaine McElveen (Montreal Alouettes): He has taken over for Keron Williams nicely, picking up four sacks and a forced fumble.
Defensive Tackle – Kevin Huntley (Toronto Argonauts): Toronto’s defence has been a big part of its success, and with four sacks, Huntley has done his part.
Defensive End – John Bowman (Montreal Alouettes): With players like John Chick, Stevie Baggs and Rickey Foley gone, Bowman is one of the better defensive ends left with seven sacks.
Linebacker – Kevin Eiben (Toronto Argonauts): Eiben has been one of the best defensive players of the year this season. He leads the league with 57 tackles and has two interceptions.
Linebacker – Jamall Johnson (Hamilton Tiger-Cats): Johnson has been the leader of Hamilton’s front seven. He has 54 tackles, two sacks and an interceptions
Linebacker – Chip Cox (Montreal Alouettes): Cox is another favourite so far to be named defensive player of the year. Cox has been versatile, with 42 tackles, two sacks, two interceptions and one touchdown.
Cornerback – Brandon Browner (Calgary Stampeders): Browner has solidified Calgary’s secondary. He leads the team with four interceptions.
Halfback – Chris Thompson (Edmonton Eskimos): Thompson has been a bright spot for the Eskimos in their terrible season so far. He has five interceptions.
Safety – James Patrick (Saskatchewan Roughriders): Patrick has developed into an elite safety. He leads the league with seven interceptions and one touchdown.
Halfback – Lance Frazier (Saskatchewan Roughriders): Frazier has three interceptions on the season and has also added one sack. He also has four forced fumbles.
Cornerback – Dwight Anderson (Calgary Stampeders): Anderson might not be the cleanest player in the league, but he is one of the more effective ones.
Kicker – Paul McCallum (British Columbia Lions): McCallum has only missed one field goal this season and has nailed a 50-yard field goal.
Punter – Burke Dales (Calgary Stampeders): Dales continues to be a consistent punter. He is averaging 45.8 yards and has given Calgary great field position.
Kick Returner – Macus Thigpen (Hamilton Tiger-Cats): Out of nowhere, Thigpen has emerged as one of the most explosive returners. He has a kick return touchdown, a punt return touchdown and a missed field goal return touchdown.
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Thigpen actually emerged from Saskatchewan Jon. Nice release by the Riders. ;-)
Lol, I know. No one expected him to have this kind of sucess, though…
haha, suck it!!!!!!
btw, it looks like chick and baggs will be back in the cfl soon enough as they got cut along with a few other former and soon to be cfler's.
but, honestly i was going to flip a desk if you picked anyone besides thigpen, someone would have to be insane to do that, even if you picked owens from the argos.
i say that in a pure statistical sense…ok, there was some homerism in there.
no otis floyd? and i also think noel prefontaine should be the kicker, but, w/.e
It's hard to make so many picks…
Man Brandon…. If you ever want anyone to take you seriously, you have GOT to treat people with more respect.
We can sit and talk about who from our own teams should be there, but I think Jon has put together a pretty decent list.
Thanks Scott.
By the way, great time to be a Stamps fan! My god, they are really taking care of business.
It's true. I almost felt bad for the Eskimos though. Mostly for guys like Ricky Ray and Richie Hall.
seriously, scott. chill down. i'm glad you don't take me seriously because that's the last thing i want, most of the time i'm joking and just bugging.
unless, i put seriously, i'm just dicking around with you, infact you are coming off as a prick to me. so, i'm just here to straighten things out.
now, feel bad for the eskimos all you want but it's not like ricky ray is helping out the team and having a good year, i mean in blowouts like these there is never one guy playing good unless he's on defence and his name is chris thompson.
oh yeah, and scott i don't know whether you just decided to be a prick and jst splurt out a comment ,but, i said i thought prefontaine should be the kicker, which last time i checked he plays for edmonton.
Very nice. You called me a prick after me asking you to treat people with more respect. What does that say?
We've had decent conversations before, and it's always been serious, so I had no reason to not take you seriously. I've never seen you say "Suck it!!!" before either. That's the part that bothered me. It seemed pretty disrespectful to me.
As for the other comment, all you ever have talked about, besides Prefontaine, has been the TiCats. I want to give the TiCats as much credit as they deserve, but we all try to point out the other teams as well.
I want to take your opinion seriously, but start giving an opinion other than just about Hamilton. We're all Homers, me for Calgary, You for Hamilton, and Jon for Saskatchewan. We do discuss the other teams as well.