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Insights and Analysis

Oliveira, Bombers Too Much For Ticats on Friday Night

October 5, 2024 | Steve Milton
So many of the negative things –turnovers, penalties, dropped balls, failure to successfully run–which they’d flushed out and turned the other way over the past six weeks came back to haunt ...

Two Future Hall of Fame Quarterbacks Go Head to Head on Friday

October 2, 2024 | btretter
Even in a nine-team league, you don’t see this as often as you might expect, so it’s worth enjoying it for its own sake. Friday night at Tim Hortons Field, the two hottest teams in the CFL—both ...

Next Play Mentality Rewarding Ticats’ O’Leary-Orange

October 1, 2024 | Steve Milton
If at first, you don’t succeed… You know the rest of that cliché, and so does Brendan O’Leary-Orange. The 28-year-old  Tiger-Cat receiver out of the University of Nevada and Toronto’s Michael ...

“I’m On Cloud Nine” Father-to-Be Litre Ices Ticats Fourth Straight Victory

September 28, 2024 | Steve Milton
Another victory for the Ticats on the final play of the game — that’s two in a row now, both on the road — and, along with his wife Katarina, the man who scored the winning touchdown had more ...

Late Bloomer Robinson Finding a Home with the Ticats

September 25, 2024 | Steve Milton
If you’re going to be a late bloomer in a pro sport, it helps if you can bloom quickly. And that’s exactly where we find Jevoni Robinson. The Tiger-Cats’ rookie tight end may be 31 years old but ...

Ticats Extension of Peters a “No-Brainer”

September 23, 2024 | Steve Milton
The Ticats couldn’t have asked for a much better weekend, as they fashioned a pair of significant advances in their present and future. On Friday the Cats  won their most important game of the ...

Liegghio’s Walk Off Leads Ticats to Season Sweep of Argos

September 21, 2024 | Steve Milton
Perched on his teammates’ shoulders like a pharaoh and slamming his fist into the air in happy relief, Marc Liegghio couldn’t see what was going on behind him:  The devastation his right instep ...

CFL’s Honour Roll Highlights Ticats Outstanding Play

September 18, 2024 | Steve Milton
It’s akin to a loud aside in a stage play, but it speaks directly to what’s at stake on Friday night in  Toronto. Each week, Pro Football Focus extensively analyzes every play of every CFL game ...

Ticats’ Cohesiveness Paying Dividends on Defence

September 17, 2024 | Ticats Staff
As their head coach was saying today, it’s impossible to know whether the Ticats would have still won Saturday afternoon against Ottawa without Lawrence Woods III’s punt-return touchdown. But he ...

Ticats Defence Looking to Continue Aggressive Play

September 12, 2024 | Steve Milton
The Ottawa Redblacks are becoming one of the more interesting stories in the CFL this season, as they’ve been inching themselves into discussions about legitimate contenders for the Grey Cup. ...

Bell Earning His Shot at Running Back

September 11, 2024 | Steve Milton
In a different CFL world—one where roster ratio considerations wouldn’t conspire against it—the Tiger-Cats would like to have both James Butler and Greg Bell in uniform on game days. But there is ...

Focusing on Little Details Key For Ticats Success in Montreal

August 8, 2024 | Steve Milton
The Ticats are entering the party zone, which is what Molson Stadium becomes when the Montréal Alouettes are playing well—and they certainly are right now—so how do the Ticats disrupt the ...

Young Ticats DBs Looking to Emulate Peters’ Aggressiveness

July 18, 2024 | Steve Milton
Argos one year, Ticats the next. For six players, the “next” year happens to be this one.

Bridges Takes Aim at Rookie History

July 17, 2024 | Steve Milton
The Tiger-Cats knew they had something special and the CFL is confirming just how special.

For the Ticats’ Ex Argos, Saturday Has a Little More Urgency

July 16, 2024 | Steve Milton
When you need wins, you take them where you can get them, but in Hamilton –where wins are definitely needed, and then some—it’s always a little sweeter if the team on the losing end happens ...

McKnight, Ticats Returned to the Hammer Wednesday Ahead of Sunday’s Matchup with BC

July 3, 2024 | Steve Milton
As the Tiger-Cats hit the field today, looking ahead to the hot B.C. Lions and not back to another disappointing Sunday night, a familiar voice resonated a couple of times around Tim Hortons ...

Ticats Looking For Change of Direction in Nation’s Capital

June 26, 2024 | Steve Milton
The Ticats will be changing their direction in reality—because the CFL schedule dictates it—and also, they hope, metaphorically because they definitely need a win.

Ticats, Peters, Optimistic Shutdown Corner Will Play Sunday

June 14, 2024 | Steve Milton
Final approval won’t come until after tomorrow’s walkthrough or even on Sunday’s game day, but the Tiger-Cats’ defensive backfield could get a big boost for the home opener. Jamal Peters, the ...

Encouraging Signs, but Early Mistakes Cost Ticats in Calgary

June 8, 2024 | Steve Milton
There were certainly some positive indicators: most notably Mitchell’s significantly re-configured physique and theoretical approach to the game; the offence’s resurgence in the second half;  ...

Ticats Looking To Re-Write The History Books In Calgary

June 4, 2024 | Steve Milton
As we mentioned in Ticats Today on Monday, when Hamilton last was in Calgary they prevailed 35-32 and that was their first win there in 18 years. A big part of that was Tim White—who looked ...
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