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Tiger-Felines lead trainer Steinauer won’t say who’ll be his beginning QB versus Alouettes
Orlondo Steinauer wasn’t showing his cards Thursday with respect to who’ll be his beginning quarterback Saturday.
The Hamilton lead trainer says he’s expecting the two veterans Bo Levi Mitchell and Matt Shiltz to play when the Tiger-Felines visit the Montreal Alouettes in the East Division elimination round. When squeezed, Steinauer said the club has decided who’ll begin the season finisher game yet wouldn’t uncover who it will be.
“It never really stays here and divulge that the present moment,” said Steinauer, Hamilton’s lead trainer/leader of football tasks. “The two quarterbacks will play.
“How much, that not set in stone by us. I believe what’s most significant is that inside we know the very plan and what we’re doing. Mainly, Bo, Matt and Kai (short-yardage quarterback Kai Locksley) comprehend their jobs heading into this game and the potential outcomes and actually that is the concentration.”
Shiltz took the majority of first-group reps during training Thursday at Tim Hortons Field.
Mitchell, 33, was the starter for Hamilton’s last three standard season games in the wake of supporting a cracked leg July 28 against Ottawa that expected a medical procedure. Mitchell was feeling quite a bit better in last week’s 22-20 street misfortune to Montreal by new kid on the block Taylor Powell while Shiltz took over from Mitchell against B.C. also, Saskatchewan, individually.
Wounds have restricted Mitchell to only six beginnings this season, his first with Hamilton. He marked a three-year, $1.62-million expansion in January with the Ticats, who obtained his playing privileges in November from the Calgary Stampeders.
The six-foot-two, 199-pound Mitchell finished 78-of-133 passes (58.6 percent) for 1,031 yards with six TDs and 10 captures this season.
Mitchell started his CFL profession with Calgary in 2012 and burned through 11 seasons in Alberta. During his experience with the Stampeders, Mitchell drove them to two Dim Cup titles (2014, 2018), acquiring game MVP respects each time. Two times he was named the association’s exceptional player (2016, 2018).
Shiltz, 30, is in his second season with Hamilton. The six-foot-two, 205-pound American began three (2-1) of the 11 ordinary season games he showed up in this year, finishing 108-of-161 passes (67.1 percent) for 1,556 yards with seven TDs and five captures.
Shiltz has run multiple times for 160 yards (seven-yard normal) and a TD. Shiltz started his CFL vocation with Montreal (2017-19, ’21) preceding joining the Ticats.
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