It’s been a inferior 12 months for the Edmonton Elks. Heck, it’s been a inferior many years for the Elks. A once proud, perennial playoff contender and 2015 Gray Cup champions, the team has plummeted to earth and now owns the one in all the worst records in North American wearing historical previous.
The Elks lost at dwelling 27-0 to the BC Lions on Saturday evening, taking their dwelling shedding scuttle to an unheard of 21 games. The last time the Elks gained at dwelling used to be on October 12, 2019 — and there’s no signal of the team turning issues round any time soon.
Edmonton’s new memoir has ended in the CFL team to dawdle Main League Baseball in dwelling-self-discipline futility. It broke a 70-12 months memoir owned by the St. Louis Browns, who went 0-20 in 1953 the 12 months sooner than the team moved to Baltimore and have develop to be the Orioles.
The team have been left without solutions as they fell to 0-21 in front of their dwelling crowd. It looks no person can expose why this team is so profoundly inferior.
“It’s an oddity to me to now not be in a build to play trusty soccer and, secondly, now not so that you can play trusty soccer at dwelling,” Elks head coach Chris Jones said. “That’s outlandish to me.”
The 14-time Gray Cup champions have routinely been one in all doubtlessly the most attention-grabbing teams within the league since entering the CFL in 1949, nonetheless the team collapsed to terminate out 2019, sooner than the Covid pandemic cancelled the 2020 season. When the CFL returned the Elks have been a shadow of their ancient selves and have since develop to be doubtlessly the most hapless team within the league.
2021: 3-11 (last within the CFL)
2022: 4-14 (last within the CFL)
2023 (ongoing): 0-8 (last within the CFL)
It’s now not appropriate on-self-discipline efficiency that has been a self-discipline for the Elks, nonetheless disastrous resolution making off of it. In 2022 the team traded the No. 1 overall make a selection to the Montreal Alouettes so that they’d presumably well also fetch the draft rights to Carter O’Donnell, an offensive guard who has been signed to the Colts since 2020, with no indicators of him leaving the NFL. Then, in 2023 the team spurred all common sense by selecting linebacker Michael Brodrique with the No. 2 make a selection, despite him being the 11th most attention-grabbing player overall in keeping with CFL scouting.
There’s reputedly no result in leer for the Elks’ extremely inferior scuttle, and now we wait to deem how low they would possibly be able to dawdle.
