RedBlacks give DeMarco look at QB
With rain heavy at times and a chilly wind blowing through TD Place on Wednesday, the Ottawa RedBlacks’ starting quarterback, Henry Burris, was mostly a spectator.
Four days before the RedBlacks’ biggest game of the season — the first of a regular-season-ending, two-game home-and-home series with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats that will settle first place in the CFL East — backup quarterback Thomas DeMarco was taking first-team snaps, all of them.
Even though Burris had a bit of a scare in the final seconds of the first half of a 27-20 win in Winnipeg on Saturday on a late hit to the knee by Jamaal Westerman, there’s no need to be concerned. He’s OK.
“We fully expect Henry to be ready,” said RedBlacks coach Rick Campbell. “We’ll call it a Vet Day. Since he’s 40, he gets to have a Vet Day every once in a while.”
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