2009 Grey Cup: Ken Miller's Saskatchewan Roughriders Blow It

This will go down in team history as a completely wasted opportunity.

You can only wonder if Kent Austin was really making the right decision to take the offensive coordinator position at the University of Mississippi.

Kent, just be honest with yourself: you should have stayed in Regina instead of going down to Oxford, MS and watched your Ole Miss Rebels get punked by the Mississippi State Bulldogs yesterday.

Because the writing is on the pedestal: the coach who took over for you simply doesn't know how to win a Grey Cup.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders-the Chokers of 09-gave up a large rally capped by a Damon Duval late in the fourth quarter at McMahon Stadium to give up a 28-27 victory in the 2009 edition.

Ken Miller, you and the coaching staff (especially defensive coordinator Gary Etcheverry) should be ashamed of letter Marc Trestman's Montreal Alouettes come from behind.

In fact, it should have been a done deal at a few stages in the fourth quarter.

With 8:48 to go, a badly-thrown ball by Anthony Calvillo was tipped and was a clear interception. But instead, it's dropped and ruled incomplete. A good defense should be able to catch those tipped passes. You cannot drop these badly thrown balls against East champions, or they will capitalize.

And Calvillo made you guys pay with a 33-yard pass to Brian Bratton. Told you.

Secondly, with 6:19 to go, Riders QB Darien Durant throws a bad pass to Jerald Brown. This was not the only pick he made. He also blew a would-be touchdown pass to Rob Bagg with an interception to Billy Parker with 7:39 to go in the third.

Calvillo would then score his 9th Grey Cup touchdown pass of his career, a three yard pass to slotback Jamel Richardson.

Finally, your team gains the delusion that this is a rugby league game. Shame be the coach who cannot tell a legit 13th man (the crowd) from an illegit 13th man. That missed field goal by Duval would have ended it.

This goes to show you, Ken Miller, that you simply let your province and Roughrider fans around the world down with a lack of fundamentals combined with your team's inability to execute in the clutch.

Let this be on all of your heads for the rest of the off-season and into next year, Sasakatchewan Roughriders. This choke of a contest will be something that Green and White fans around the world will never be thankful for.