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<\/p>\n\u201cI really feel like this group loves one another and hopefully, we can finish the job this Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Harris has won two Grey Cups as a backup and lost the only one he started. Winning a championship on Sunday as a starter would cap off a brilliant career.<\/p>\n
Harris was asked if he had ever wondered if he\u2019d get back to the Cup as a starter. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever gone to a game without thinking that we were going to win,\u201d said Harris, who completed 26 of 38 passes for 305 yards and two touchdowns \u2014 including the game-winner in the waning seconds \u2014 of the Riders\u2019 24-21 victory over the B.C. Lions in the CFL West Final.<\/p>\n
Harris also rushed three times for 15 yards.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-three, 212-pound pivot completed 348 of 473 passes for 4,459 yards and 24 TDs in 17 games this season, with 11 interceptions and a CFL-leading 73.6 completion percentage.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrevor is super confident,\u201d said Roughriders head coach Corey Mace. \u201cI\u2019ve got nothing but love for that guy. He\u2019s an unbelievable competitor and a great human being.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s done it for such a long time. He\u2019s super efficient and he does it well. He can get you out of a jam because he\u2019s looking to his fourth read. Some quarterbacks can\u2019t stand back there and do that. And he can let it loose pretty quickly, to let the ball out fairly quickly. Then, if big chunk plays are need, he can obviously do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris was one of the reasons why Mace chose to become Saskatchewan\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just can\u2019t say enough good things about Trevor, man,\u201d Mace said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big part of why coming to Saskatchewan was so intriguing, knowing that Trevor Harris was the quarterback. So, tons of respect years prior, going against him and so much more love now that I get to spend every day with the guy.\u201d <\/p>\n
Alouettes head coach Jason Maas acknowledged that shutting down Harris on Sunday will be a challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s difficult,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s seen it all. There\u2019s not too many things that that man hasn\u2019t seen. He\u2019s super experienced and he does get rid of the ball and diagnose things rather quickly. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the same old thing when you talk about experienced quarterbacks \u2014 you\u2019ve got to affect him some way, whether that\u2019s pressure in the pocket or giving him different looks \u2014 just slowing him down a little bit. You don\u2019t have to slow him down a ton, just enough where he hesitates slightly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris expects a tough battle Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019re looking at mirror images of ourselves in Montreal in terms of toughness, in terms of never-give-up, scrappy mentality, the way they\u2019re built, the belief,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to be a matter of who\u2019s going to make the big play at the big moment. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen that big moment happens, are we going to be able to respond to adversity better than they are? I think it\u2019s going to be a knock-down, drag-out physical game and it\u2019s going to be about hanging in there, regardless of what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Nov. 11, 2025<\/p>\n
Jim Bender, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI really feel like this group loves one another and hopefully, we can finish the job this Sunday.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-278311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}