Lions look to next year
Posted November 20, 2012 4:54 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The BC Lions held their final locker clean-out today with plenty of questions about which players will make up the 2013 team. Most players agreed on one thing. There will be change before they open training camp next June.
“There’s always going to be change. The core was kept together based on what I believe,” said head coach Mike Benevides who says he believes in the men in the locker room but says that there will be change.
Benevides could also be facing some player retirements from a squad that is the oldest in the league. Centre Angus Reid admitted today that he is thinking about it, after 12 seasons in the CFL, but he admits that leaving the game is always the toughest decision for an athlete.
Receiver Geroy Simon says that he will return for a 15th season, but some players admitted that it was just too soon to talk about next year, still hurting from Sunday’s West Final loss.
“That’s a definite possibility,” said quarterback Travis Lulay when asked about the possibility that the Lions starting quarterback is planning to sign a contract extension. Lulay, who’s entering the option year of his current contract said that Sunday’s loss happened too fast, to be thinking about “all that stuff”.
One Lion did end the week with a win. Kicker Paul McCallum was named Gibson’s Finest Special Teams Player of the Week after booting five field goals in Sunday’s 34-29 loss to the Stampeders.
