Coach Rick Campbell will have to walk a delegate line with Rourke, Adams Jr. and his locker room
Guiding a team through a CFL season is tough enough but Campbell also has to deal with the distribution of playing time for two elite quarterbacks in Nathan Rourke and Vernon Adams Jr. as was the case this past Friday when the Lions lost 33-17 to the Toronto Argonauts at BC Place Stadium.
What had some questioning the change was that Rourke had just led the Lions on a four-play 49-yard touchdown drive that he capped off with a nine-yard run. The Lions would have been more than satisfied to go into halftime just down two considering how poorly they had played but their defense, which was resilient until that point in holding the Argos to four Lirim Hajrullahu field goals, gave up a six-play 82-yard drive which ended when Argos quarterback Chad Kelly hit Makai Polk with a 11-yard touchdown pass with just six seconds remaining in the half.So now the Lions have a bye week to regroup for the final four games of the season.
Players will say the right things to the media and claim that they have faith in whoever is playing but they’re human. They will have ‘their guy’ and hope for him to succeed.When you win – as the Lions recently did against Ottawa and Montreal – it solves a lot of potential conflicts.Whereas winning suppresses any issues or problems, losing brings those same issues and problems to the surface.
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