

Jake Maier’s performance was in part him not playing as well as he needed to but mostly Montreal’s defense playing well. He was pressured quite often by the Montreal pass rush and Montreal’s secondary was not giving him options downfield often. Maier completed 44 of his 24 passes (55%) for 256 yards and 2 interceptions one of which was a pick 6. A lot of his incompletions were thrown while he was pressured by an Alouette defender. Calgary also failed to provide him with run support in a rainy game as they only handed the ball off to their runningbacks a total of 8 times gaining 34 yards. They seemed to give up on the run game for the 2nd week in a row which cultivates some predictability in the play calling.
Jake Maier was criticized for not running for the first down on the final offensive play for Calgary but he actually did a good job recognizing that Montreal had 2 linebackers ready to hit him long before he would have picked up the 3 yards needed. What he needed to do was find a higher percentage pass to make.
8. Mason Fine, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Previous Ranking #QB8

Mason Fine made a lot of good plays in this game. The first interception was underthrown on a go route and the 2nd one he threw it as he was hit by Shawn Oakman and it was picked off by DaShaun Amos and taken by for a Toronto touchdown. Fine completed 27 of his 39 passes for 302 yards with 2 interceptions. He made a lot of good passes over the middle primarily to Shawn Bane and Jr. Tevin Jones. On one play Fine was getting sacked by Orimolade and he tossed it to Morrow who took off for 18 yards on what was a heads-up play. Fine was unable to play at a high enough level to put Saskatchewan in position to win the game but it is hard to fault him as the Toronto defense did an excellent job pressuring Fine very often. Fine has been thrown into the fire with his 2 starts being against defenses that did very well pressuring him in the BC Lions and the Toronto Argonauts.
Taylor Powell’s only play in week 8 was a kneel down after Bo Levi Mitchell was injured on 2nd to last play of the game on a QB sneak.
10. Taylor Cornelius, Edmonton Elks, Previous Ranking #QB10

Taylor Cornelius completed 16 of his 30 passes (53%) for 187 yards and 2 interceptions. Cornelius has not been good enough at quarterback for Edmonton and they are going to change things up after their bye week. His stat lines have been terrible however when watching him play it’s quickly apparent as to why. He almost never has any time to throw the ball. The loss against BC was very similar to the previous loss to BC in regards to the pass rush which was all over him. Cornelius was sacked 1 time but he was knocked down a lot and there were at least 3 times that he was getting sacked but threw the ball away as he was going down so that he would have an incompletion rather than be sacked. Both of his interceptions came in the final 7 minutes of the game during desperation time.
Elks fans are happy to see a change at quarterback but there might not be a QB in the world who could find success with the pressure rates that BC was bringing Edmonton this past week. The Elks are planning to go with either Jarret Doege or Tre Ford.
Trevor Harris completed 16 of his 22 passes (73%) and 115 yards before leaving the game due to an injury in week 6. He will need to undergo surgery to repair a tibial plateau fracture and it is not yet clear if he will return later this season.
(IR) Jeremiah Masoli, Ottawa Redblacks, Previous Ranking #QB5
Masoli completed 6 of his 10 passes for 37 yards and an interception before going down with a non-contact injury. Masoli’s season was ended by a ruptured achilles in week 5 which was his only game played this season.
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