Ticats QB Masoli in hot pursuit of CFL mark for 300-yard games
that season. He’s followed up with three more 300-yarders this season, having guided the Tiger-Cats to back-to-back victories.
While Masoli’s play has heated up, he has cooled off stories about his backup — former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel.
Manziel has been a huge story across the league since signing with Hamilton shortly before training camp, but he has yet to take a regular-season snap due to the strong play of Masoli.
“It was definitely important to play well early on,” Masoli said when asked about dealing with the hype surrounding Manziel. “I’ve got a lot of great teammates that make it easy.”
One of the teammates to whom he alludes is Manziel, who has fit in nicely.
“He’s just like everybody else — another one of the guys on the team,” Masoli said of Manziel. “He’s another one of the teammates who is contributing to help us win.” Jeremiah Masoli is gunning for The Rifle.
Masoli, the Hamilton TigerCats’ quarterback, needs one more 300-yard passing game to tie a long-standing CFL record that is currently shared by Sam ‘The Rifle’ Etcheverry and Kent Austin.
Etcheverry had nine consecutive 300-yard games for the Montreal Alouettes in 1956. In 1991, Austin matched that feat as a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders — whom Masoli and the Tiger-Cats take on Thursday at Mosaic Stadium.
“The significance of (the streak) is, it’s a good sign that our offence is rolling and that we’re executing,” Masoli said Wednesday after the team arrived in Regina. “As long as we win these games, we’ll be all right.”
Masoli, who became the TigerCats’ starting quarterback in their ninth game of 2017, hit the 300yard mark in the final five games of