Ticats v. Riders preview package, a hospice visit & football at the Fringe

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Source: scratchingpost.thespec.com --- Saturday, July 20, 2013
The best laid plans of Cats and coaches By Steve Milton Kent Austin acknowledges that an important part of his blueprint for the 2013 Tiger-Cats' season has already "been blown out of the water." That would be the part that set a rough deadline for him and his staff to decide upon a group of 24 starters, give or take one or two, around whom they could build more sophisticated and nuanced offensive and defensive schemes. The head coach never publicly said what that deadline would be, but four or five games into the season - the very stretch the team is entering with its home-and-home week against Saskatchewan - would probably be a pretty good guess. Due, mostly, to injuries that plan is behind schedule and the Cats are now into read (the medical charts) and react. There have been factors other than injury - Winnipeg bringing a completely noncompetitive roster to the exhibition game in Guelph; the near-Typhoon which reduced Opening Night in Guelph to little more than an exercise in survival. But you only have to look at the receiving corps to get the idea of what the Cats' coaches are up against as they try to resculpt a team that needed resculpting. As Austin was noting Friday, Hamilton hasn't employed the same set of receivers in any game this year. Sunday in Regina, for instance, two of the starting receivers will be guys who, just 10 days ago, were long-gone from the team's radar. Personae non-Catae. Non-import Glenn MacKay, wh ...

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