HAMILTON — It’s virtually present time.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes are about to go face to face for the a hundred and tenth Gray Cup on Sunday at Tim Hortons Discipline in Hamilton, with the Bombers taking the sphere first for walkthroughs on Saturday adopted by the Alouettes as they wrap up their preparation.
Alouettes’ head coach Jason Maas spoke to the media about Bombers’ quarterback Zach Collaros and their time collectively in Toronto, whereas additionally referring to the workforce’s reference to the province of Quebec. Fajardo echoed his coaches’ sentiments concerning the id of the Alouettes being intently tied to town of Montreal.
Collaros and Willie Jefferson took the rostrum to speak about their expertise being in a number of Gray Cups, the advise they offer younger gamers on the roster and taking a second to understand the week earlier than the sport.
Head coach Mike O’Shea of the Blue Bombers additionally talked about his workforce’s management and never underestimating an Alouettes workforce that’s at present on a seven-game successful streak.
Try the standout quotes from the ultimate day of walkthroughs:
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“I’ve enjoyable. I lock in once I have to lock in, focus up once I have to focus. When it’s time to go to conferences and apply and issues like that. I’m a frontrunner and I don’t need guys to slack off and assume that is simply one other journey. We’re right here to deal with enterprise. We’re right here to maintain enterprise. We’re right here to play a sport.”
— Jefferson on his expertise being in a number of Gray Cups and speaking to the younger gamers concerning the preparation through the week
“With the ability to come out right here, embrace the Canadian tradition, embrace the Canadian Football League, embrace the followers. That is the place I wish to be. That is what I really like and that is the place I could make a reputation for myself.”
— The defensive lineman about speaking to younger gamers who’re new to the CFL
“Simply a type of guys, a uncommon athlete you don’t see come round fairly often. So being round him is fairly neat, watching him work on the sphere. He’s an amazing chief for us. He’s been so constant. I don’t know that we’ve ever heard him complain. He doesn’t complain. Doesn’t have the time for it or simply chooses to not. I don’t know the place he realized that or how that occurred, however it’s so refreshing.”
— O’Shea on Jefferson’s management on and off the sphere
“We’ve got a really sensible, giant pool of veteran gamers to protect towards that. After which in the event you simply placed on Montreal’s movie and watch what they’ve accomplished within the final six or seven video games, I don’t assume that’s going to be a problem.”
— The Bombers head coach on the potential for his gamers overlooking the Alouettes and the way properly they’ve performed over the ultimate stretch of the season
“As you grow old, you admire it much more and also you perceive how briskly it goes. You attempt to soak all of it in, spend as a lot time along with your workforce as you presumably can. Whether or not that’s watching tape, grabbing a chunk to eat, swimming within the pool, recovering, all these various things, I simply assume it means extra. Once more, since you perceive how onerous it’s to get right here and how briskly all of it goes, win or lose, there’s not one other sport.”
— Collaros on how completely different it feels to be in his fourth straight Gray Cup
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“You see when a quarterback has the it issue. I noticed that with Zach (Collaros). There’s a confidence about him. Clearly, he has capability, he has a ability set. His motion patterns within the pocket, he has nice capability within the pocket shifting round, he can find receivers, he could make performs out of nothing. He’s correct, sturdy arm, sensible.”
— Maas on working with Collaros early of their careers with the Toronto Argonauts
“I feel you all the time have a imaginative and prescient, you all the time have a purpose in thoughts. And that purpose is to make a Gray Cup and win a Gray Cup as a workforce and group. You understand how particular that’s and the way memorable that may be. After we’ve solely gained seven Gray Cups as a company and but we nonetheless speak about these groups. There’s a variety of groups that you just don’t speak about, as a result of they didn’t win that sport.”
— About how a lot it could imply to the Alouettes to win the Gray Cup
“There’s an amazing sense of pleasure and figuring out we’re from Quebec. And we talked about that pleasure within the locker room concerning the Quebecois. We’re happy with the heritage, we wished the People and the Western Canadians, the remainder of Canada to be proud as they’re. And that was solely going to occur if we may come collectively and be taught each other very properly. I’m simply so proud that that every one occurred.”
— On the Alouettes coming collectively as a workforce to rejoice their Quebecois heritage
“To inform you the reality, that’s the inspiration of our workforce. Lots of these guys have been with this workforce for a number of years, or have been in that metropolis for a number of years. They had been the primary guys I requested for meals suggestions or what to do when my spouse was on the town. Whenever you see simply how they work each single day.”
— Fajardo on the native ingredient of Montreal being built-in to the DNA of the workforce
