CFL Thoughts - Week Two

I received an email tonight that was titled CFL SEASON ENDS - START PLAYOFFS NOW !
The reasoning was, said the writer, that if they ended the season now and started the playoffs an eastern team would be the cross over team coming to the West and the British Columbia Lions and the Calgary Stampeders would both be out and watching from the sidelines.
As appealing as it would be to have Smiling Henry Burris and frowning Wally Buono sitting out, well its just not going to happen.
But some thoughts from week two.
The biggest surprise? Who would have predicted that the Stampeders would be 0 - 2 prompting Coach John Hufnagel to state the obvious. "We're not a very good football team right now" Or how about the Lions also at 0 - 2. Or even the Hamilton Tigers Cats managing a win and a 1 - 1 record. The last couple of years the season has almost been over before the Tiger Cats got into the win column. And who would have expected the Montreal Alouettes to lay a 50 - 16 beating on the Edmonton Eskimos on their way to 90 points in their first two games.
The stars of the week - Quarterback Quinton Porter in the win over the BC Lions.Porter, sacked 10 times in a 30-point loss here last year, threw for 222 yards and what proved to be the winning touchdown without an interception.
He also ran for 55 more and a second major in a 31-28 CFL victory over the stumbling B.C. Lions.
"You're starting to see him mature and progress and he'll be the first to tell you he probably left a few more plays on the field," said coach Marcel Bellefeuille.
Terrence Edwards in the Blue Bombers win over Calgary
"They can doubt us all they want," said Edwards, who had a pair of touchdown catches of eight and 12 yards in Winnipeg's first win of the season. "What matters is we don't doubt each other in this locker-room.
Pick almost anyone as the star of the Montreal Alouettes clobbering of Edmonton. Montreal has demonstrated a potent offense combined with what always has been a pretty good defense.
And the Saskatchewan Rough Riders closed the week out with a 46 - 36 win over the Toronto Argonauts making quarterback Darian Durant 6 - 0 as a starter.
There's a long way to go and next week the Riders will really be tested as they host Montreal. How good is the Rider defense?
Next week against a team that has scored 90 points in two games we will have a pretty good idea.
As for that email - well I wouldn't count on either Henry Burris or Wally Buona missing the playoffs anytime soon.