RIDERS BACK TO WORK
The Saskatchewan Roughriders returned to the practice field on a windy, cool day Tuesday at Mosaic Stadium. The Riders are coming off their fourth loss in a row, 53-7 at Hamilton on Saturday night which dropped their record to 1-7.
Roughriders quarterback Darian Durant says it’s not a game tape they can take a lot out of.
“It’s one you just trash,” Durant offered. “I mean of course there’s some learning things throughout the film but we’ll bring that up the next time we play those guys. As for now, it’s time to trash it and get ready for Edmonton and a western battle. It was one of those days.”
Several Rider fans have mentioned that the team “wasn’t ready to play” in Hamilton, falling down 13-0 after the first quarter and 27-4 at halftime. However Head Coach & GM Chris Jones took umbrage with that notion.
“I’ve watched the effort,” Jones snorted. “I’ve watched it very closely in all three phases. We played, probably, our best special teams game. If they don’t like it, they can go back and watch the film like I have. The effort was there, even in the fourth quarter. The score’s not indicative of how hard we played. Did we play smart at times? No. Did we play execution football? No. That’s the way I’d answer that.”
Fans are also concerned at the amount of change the roster has seen through the club’s 1-7 start, including 10 changes from Week 9 to 10. Four more transactions were announced on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately we can’t help that (cornerback) Buddy Jackson got hurt so we had to put #45 Kacy Rodgers in the roster and then we’ve had some injuries on the offensive line and have got some players coming off of 6-Game that we were able to return,” Jones answered. “They were starters coming out of training camp for a reason. They were the best guys and when we get those guys back, we have to insert them. As for the cohesion, we’re looking for that.”
Jones noted that slotback Rob Bagg is “doubtful” for Friday’s game at Edmonton after taking a hard hit against the Tiger-Cats. Offensive tackle Xavier Fulton is scheduled to return from injury and he’ll try it out in practice this week. Newly-acquired defensive back Fred Bennett will be activated for Friday’s game.
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@rodpedersen
Fans need to be fans and let coaches coach because for the most part fans DO NOT know what they are talking about period.
Clark
This season has passed us by. I trust CJ and company can continue the rebuild and I look forward to seeing the results next year at training camp.
I saw the same effort that Coach saw. With all the changes, its tough to get consistency. The effort is there. Better results (i.e. wins) will happen.
Glenn
More Hogwash comments. Let's get a real QB and some real football players and quit all the babbling about nothing. This Football team is a disgrace to the Province. Or should we just change the name to Regina Roughriders?
Rome wasn't built in a day. It's not like CJ inherited a strong Grey Cup contending team. Give him time and space to do a job he's been very successful at every where he has been.
~Kb
It's more obvious now than ever. When you rip the heart and soul out of a team and discard them like trash. You get the same in return. No one in SK is saying that players like Chick was a leader. However he has proved this year as he has in the past he does his job and plays his position as well as anybody in the league. This team is just putrid. Right to the bone. The special teams played their best game?? So they stopped Banks for 1 game. Banks may not have taken one to the house.… Read more »
Chick and Dressler were overpaid and wouldn't take a pay cut. Can we get past them now? They are gone.
So fire Jones, is that what your saying. We'll be paying Chamblin and Jones, that makes sense.
Like it or not, Jones is here till the end of next season for sure.
Patience grasshopper, he's had 8 games. We can't keep firing coaches and managers every year. This is frustrating but he will turn it around. He's had success everywhere he has been.
finally someone that makes sense and knows what direction things shouldn't be going^^^
Rod, please stop allowing anonymous posters on your site and to the last poster, no one cares what you think. We all know improvements are needed and if changes were not made you would still be complaining. Stay away from this site or at least have the guts to use your name
Not much heart and soul left in a 3 – 15 team. The castle needed to be rebuilt and moving on this year from the three stars from 2015 who were over 30 was part of the longer term reality. A tough task for sure.
Why do you guys jump all over a person who states they have lost faith in this team or the coaching staff? I would say after the last game that is how the majority of this Province is feeling.
The comment above was calling for anyone to be fired.
John Knight your entitled to your opinion. Why is that person not allowed to state his opinion?
Spock Logic
We should be looking forward to having the 1st overall pick at next year's draft.
What a disaster of a season. Defense is actually WORSE than last year and it was a trainwreck last year.
We should trade DD now before we get him killed behind our turnstile O-line. We owe it to one of our warriors to have a chance at winning with a real team and not a glorified arena football squad run by a Napolean-wannabe.
Hi Rod, Off topic but do you happen to know anything about the status of Armanti Edwards? He was on the 1 week injury list back in week two, then evidently moved to the 6 week injury list. I'm not that familiar with Canadian football and how to find out news on players, but there is absolutely no info available on Armanti or any other injured player that I can find. Thanks! Evan
On the Rider app he's still listed on the 6 game.
James Franklin a nice addition to the Roughriders roster with a bright future long term.
In other words, according to Jones, they tried their best…
…Sean Connery's character in The Rock had a really good quote about that.