It helped me grow as a man. You might assume that growth arc really spiked after he was suspended for two games for traces of MDA, a recreational drug similar to MDMA or ecstasy, three years ago and apologized profusely and publicly to his teammates and Ticats fans.
But your assumption would be misguided. That incident, he says, was a small blip, a bump on the maturity road begun long earlier and still continuing. I never made any excuses about it but people who know the real me know I don't do stuff like that. I was at a party I should not have been at. I was wrong. It's still definitely my fault Banks recovered well from his collarbone surgery but had a setback when a metal plate securing the bone shifted from contact during late off-season workouts.
He wears special protective pads so he doesn't feel any discomfort after even the hardest hits. He's leaning toward having the plate removed after this season, but it's clearly not affecting anything in his game. His maturity as a pass receiver was enhanced by June Jones' pass routes, some of which are still an integral part of the new offence under Tommy Condell, and the day-to-day example of Luke Tasker.
In the NFL, touchbacks, fair catches, and the fourth down limit kick and punt returns. But on vast Canadian fields, Banks is too fast to be corralled. No CFL player has returned as many missed field goals five for touchdowns.
Following a coaching change in , he became the Ticats' go-to receiver. Within two years, he led the league in catches, receiving yards, and TDs. Banks and Hughes were teammates for a few hours in when Hamilton rerouted Hughes from Calgary to Saskatchewan in back-to-back offseason trades. But even without playing together or matching up positionally, they've seen enough over the years to marvel at each other's gifts.
This season especially: The Thanksgiving game is the third of four Argos-Ticats matchups in I wish he was still on our team," he said. Early in his career, after that Detroit tryout, he took another crack at the league, sticking with the Philadelphia Eagles until the end of training camp in He eventually decided he was content with his path - not to mention the chance to best Covington's sack mark.
Banks, meanwhile, is in Grey Cup-or-bust mode. Hamilton has reached three CFL title games with him on the roster but lost all of them, most recently in and most painfully in Trailing Calgary in the last minute of that year's final, Banks fielded a punt on the bounce and scampered 90 yards to the end zone. But a teammate's illegal block negated the go-ahead score. I'd be retired somewhere," Banks said.
If they named a price, I'd probably pay for one. Instead, he keeps going to work. Banks made headlines earlier this season for showing up at the Ticats' practice facility not knowing players had the day off. That Hughes hasn't retired yet exhibits his commitment to the grind. For perspective, consider that Lobendahn, Hughes' rookie locker mate with the Lions, last played nine years ago for Saskatchewan.
They enlisted a range of celebrity guests - comedians, politicians, retired hockey players, Banks - to regale the audience with stories about their lives. Hughes and Lozinski named the show " Better with Age ," the idea being that everything improves over time. You've got whiskey. We are trying to figure out ways to get him the ball. During the first half of the season when the Tiger-Cats were losing eight straight games, Banks had eight catches for 51 yards and one touchdown.
In four of those games he was targeted just once. Hamilton has won three of the four games since Jones took over the head coaching duties from Kent Austin. In those games Banks has 18 catches for yards and two touchdowns.
At five-foot-seven and just pounds Banks is one of the smallest players in the CFL. What he lacks in size he compensates for with blinding speed and the ability to find an open space in the defence. He barely made his presence known through three games, then caught fire in the last couple and now has yards, good enough for fifth in league receiving.
He has also scored two TDs. With QB Dom Davis on the sidelines for another week, the Redblacks are thinner than most teams behind centre.
So the advantage goes to the Stamps, who are getting just enough out of Nick Arbuckle to stay afloat while Bo Levi Mitchell spends time on the six-game. Calgary by seven.
This tilt marks the end of a three-game, day western odyssey for the Argos, who lost in Winnipeg and Calgary, and are good bets to keep losing. They have opened up the playbook to include Derel Walker, finally, but there are too many other holes in their game to close all at once. Edmonton by Ticats QB Jeremiah Masoli and receiver Brandon Banks have ripped up some lesser defences this season, but the Bombers have made a habit of blocking all entrances to their end zone.
Winnipeg by three. Home-and-home affairs are often split, though this game could put that truism to the test because the Lions are in trouble on offence. The Alouettes found a way to overshadow the long awaited return of Postmedia beat man Herb Zurkowsky last week by beating on the Edmonton Eskimos. For the second time this season the Eskimos failed to find an end zone. And for the first time this season, Trevor Harris threw a pick.
In fact, he tossed two of them. The game was up for grabs and Edmonton allowed Montreal to grab it. So that burst from the gate was what, exactly? Through three straight losses, the Redblacks have barely exhibited a pulse.
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