First, the Ottawa Redblacks news of the day. Read MoreThe veteran CFL receiver says he’s hoping trash-talking Garry Peters is on the field when the teams meet again in Vancouver on Friday night.
The veteran CFL receiver says he’s hoping trash-talking Garry Peters is on the field when the teams meet again in Vancouver on Friday night.
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First, the Ottawa Redblacks news of the day.
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Dru Brown will dress, but as the third-string quarterback, when the team visits the B.C. Lions on Friday night in a Canadian Football League game between two teams battling for their playoff lives.
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Now for the spice.
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Veteran receiver Eugene Lewis, who scored the last-minute, game-winning touchdown when the Redblacks rallied to beat the Lions at TD Place last week, shared a personal wish for the rematch.
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“I hope Garry Peters plays,” Lewis said of the 33-year-old Lions cornerback who watched last Friday’s game from the sidelines because of a knee injury. “That’s going to get me going the whole game. I want him to play.”
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Lewis wants Peters to play so he can shut his mouth.
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“They talked a lot of trash before the last game,” Lewis said. “You got guys talking, and they’re not even playing in the game. That sets up the other young guys, and they thought that they were gonna be able to stop us, and the moment was too big for them.
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“So, at the end of the day, I hope he plays. That’s going to get me going, that’s going to get me motivated. I can’t wait.”
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Lewis, who broke into the CFL in 2017, admitted he’s had a long-standing feud with Peters, who entered the league in 2016 and is in his seventh season with the Lions.
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Lewis suggested he used the most recent verbal exchange with Peters and other Lions as fuel when reaching back to make a tough catch for the score that brought the Redblacks all the way back from a game they had trailed by 17 points in the third quarter.
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“We’ve had some good battles and stuff like that,” Lewis said. “When I was in Edmonton (in 2023-24), there was a lot (of trash talking) going on over there sometimes, too. I had a game where I had no catches, and he’s kind of living on that. He thinks it was because of him that I didn’t have any catches, but that was not the reason.
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“So he was talking a whole bunch of trash before the game on the sideline. He was dressed up like he was going to play, but he didn’t play. And he said, ‘Oh, you’re lucky I’m not playing.’ And I said, ‘No, you’re lucky you’re not playing.’
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“You see what happened at the end of the game? His saying all that to me, (he’s) just putting more pressure on those dudes they had out there. You’ve got (defensive back Robert Carter Jr.) out there talking crazy, and everybody gassing him up because he had that interception, and, oh my goodness, and he had an opportunity to do the same thing with me. The ball was behind me at the end of the game, and he didn’t so …”