Lions’ Rainey, Fraser have risen from the scrap meet

The best defence against the kind of season the B.C. Lions are sliding into is talent. This team didn’t have enough to face down the Ottawa Redblacks, never mind the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, the two teams next up on B.C.’s dance card. Indeed, two of the best Lions in Sunday’s 31-18 debacle against the Redblacks were free agents, players who essentially got here by accident and luck.