Warriors in the Pros: Ryan Grice-Mullen

Ryan Grice-Mullen talks to Lowell Ulrich of The Province about the ball that slipped through his hands late in the BC Lions season opener.

Grice-Mullen spent most of the contest in a cat-and-mouse game with various Riders defensive backs and when he needed to go deep, he took off. Buck Pierce's throw found Grice-Mullen alone behind coverage, but he adjusted to the ball a split-second too late.

Game over. Unless, of course, you have two days to think about what happened.

"Of course I'm still mad about not making that play, because it's one I make over and over," the receiver said. "But that's what Saturdays are for. I have Saturday to stay home, yell, slam things around. But as soon as Monday practice comes around, it's totally out of my system." That's not entirely accurate, however, as Grice-Mullen looked at a replay Monday so as to work on avoiding a repeat.

"Clearly there's no excuses, especially in the last seconds of the game. [The ball] kept drifting and I didn't adjust until the last second," he said.

Great quote from RGM at the end of the article:

"I'm a man about it," he said. "Guys who don't trust their skills make excuses. That was a great ball by Buck. I just didn't finish."

The article also notes that he'll be returning punts sometime soon.