Tracking the Preaux Career of Fred Stamps

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 EDMONTON - Edmonton Eskimos slotback Fred Stamps has made some remarkable catches among his 34 receptions this season, so when a sure touchdown pass slipped through his outstretched fingers in Calgary on Monday, it was a bit of a shock.

"If you threw nine more balls to him just like that, he would catch all nine. I'm completely and totally confident of that," receivers coach Mike Kelly said Wednesday. "That was kind of a fluke play, the ball just drifted a bit on him."

Maybe so, but it was still bugging Stamps on Wednesday because he figures any ball he gets his hands on he should catch.

"When your number is called you have to make the play," said the second-year Eskimo before taking the practice field for the team's final full scrimmage before Friday's rematch with the Stampeders at Commonwealth Stadium.

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John Korobanik, The Edmonton Journal

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  If somebody by the name of Al Oulette came along, the guy should play in Montreal, right?

Ty Katz, you'd expect, would belong in Hamilton. Anybody by the name of Lyons ought to be with BC, especially if he had those initials.

And somebody named Stamps should be with Calgary.

"I've heard that a lot," said Fred Stamps. "It's kinda weird. I kinda get caught by the Stamps thing. I'll be listening to radio or TV and somebody will say something about Stamps and then I'd realize they're talking about Calgary." Stamps had no idea there was a team in this league with his name.

"No clue. I didn't know that at all. I knew the Eskimos were called the Eskimos. And I came to know Calgary's team was called the Stampeders but I didn't know they were called Stamps for short." Until Calgary comes up with somebody named S. Keys to offer up in a trade, Stamps will stay where he is, employed by the Edmonton Eskimos. Especially now that they've found out Stamps does his best work against the Stamps.

Headline writers love it too.

'Stamps licks Stamps.'

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By Terry Jones

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 EDMONTON - If the C.F.L.'s East Division final evolves into the expected target practice contest between quarterbacks Ricky Ray and Anthony Calvillo, somebody on the receiving end of all those passes will probably play the hero.

The usual suspects on the Montreal side of Olympic Stadium would be clutch Canadian Ben Cahoon, Jamel Richardson, who led the league in TD catches with 16, or their third 1,000-yard man, Kerry Watkins.

Edmonton would respond with deep threat Kelly Campbell, their own go-to-non-import Kamau Peterson and Maurice Mann.

Or so you might think, given the 18-game stats.

But Eskimo head coach Danny Maciocia said the return of Fred Stamps has given the offence a shot of adrenalin and his potential impact should not be under-estimated.

"I think if there is an X-factor going into this game, because people know what Kelly Campbell can do, people know what Maurice Mann can do, K.P. and Andrew Nowacki, I think we've got Fred Stamps as close as possible to 100 per cent right now, and there is a sense of excitement about having him on that football team, knowing full well what he can do on a fast track," said the coach.

Stamps, a 26-year-old sophomore C.F.L.er from New Orleans, didn't seem affected one way or the other by the label. Truth is, it's hard to get a discernible reaction out of Stamps. The man personifies even keel.

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Dan Barnes
Canwest News Service
Edmonton Journal
dbarnes@thejournal.canwest.com

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  . . Fred Stamps, signed a two-year extension with the Eskimos.

The University of Louisiana-Lafayette product had 50 receptions for 751 yards last season with six touchdowns. An injury kept him out of the last four regular-season games but returned for the playoffs, making three receptions for 67 yards in two games.

"He's got the ability to be one of the better receivers in the league," Maciocia said. "I thought he had a breakthrough season for last year. He missed the last four games of the year and he still accumulated 750 yards, so he's got ability to break that 1,000-yard barrier.

"He's young, he's explosive and he should be able to do really well for himself this year."

With the retirement and subsequent coaching promotion of Jason Tucker and the return to the NFL by Kelly Campbell, the Eskimos will be relying heavily on Stamps this season.

"He just brings so much to the table," Maciocia said.

"He's athletic, he can go up to challenge for the deep ball and has tremendous hands. He can be really special and it's just a question of him coming back and getting a better understanding of what the league is all about and some of the guys he's going to be going up against and some of the coverages he's going to be seeing."

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