{"id":281110,"date":"2025-11-13T20:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281110\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:41:18","slug":"landrys-3-takeaways-from-riders-thursday-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281110\/","title":{"rendered":"Landry’s 3 takeaways from Riders’ Thursday practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

You couldn\u2019t ask for better conditions for a Grey Cup practice in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

The field at Princess Auto Stadium was sun-splashed on Thursday, the temperature pleasantly on the plus side. We all looked very cool in our sunglasses and parkas.<\/p>\n

Here are three takeaways from Saskatchewan Roughriders practice and the interview sessions that followed.<\/p>\n

(Note: Takeaways from the Montreal side of things will come after the Alouettes\u2019 afternoon practice.)<\/p>\n

\"112th112th GREY CUP
\u00bb\u00a03 storylines that could define the 112th Grey Cup<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a03 strengths for each team in the 112th Grey Cup<\/a>
\u00bb Trevor Harris on Samuel Emilus: \u2018This guy is a future Hall of Famer\u2019<\/a>
\u00bb Riders, Als manifested 112th Grey Cup appearance<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a0KPMG Playoff Probability: Who will win the 112th Grey Cup?<\/a><\/p>\n

SASKATCHEWAN RECEIVERS UPDATE: COULD BE, MIGHT BE. IF NOT, NO WORRIES<\/p>\n

Roughriders receiver Joe Robustelli, who did not practice on Wednesday due to a head injury, was out on the field today, taking limited reps with first team but also getting some extra work in with quarterbacks Trevor Harris<\/a> and Jake Maier<\/a> on the side.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwesome seeing him out there,\u201d said Saskatchewan coach Corey Mace on Robustelli\u2019s presence, adding that the 28-year-old receiver went through protocols following a head injury before being cleared to practice.<\/p>\n

KeeSean Johnson, the thousand-yard receiver who\u2019s been out of the line-up since suffering a knee injury in a Week 19 game against Toronto, was present, but just in civvies for the second straight day.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to need just a little bit more treatment for him to get out there and do what he wants to do at the speed he wants to do it,\u201d said Mace.<\/p>\n

And the coach left it at that other than to say that with this particular receiving corps he had \u201ctons of guys we got faith in, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

THAT SEEMS LIKE A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR FILMMAKER TIM BURTON
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

What kind of impact will Samuel Emilujs make in the 112th Grey Cup? (Thomas Skrlj\/CFL.ca)<\/p>\n

Roughriders\u2019 quarterback Trevor Harris<\/a> said that receiver Sam Emilus had \u201cvice-grips for hands,\u201d as he paid tribute to his teammate who was sitting next to him at the post-practice media conference.<\/p>\n

Harris pointed out that the battles Emilus has gone through to get back from two episodes of injury were inspiring, and then lauded the 28-year-old\u2019s abilities both as a pass-catcher and as a blocker.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe blocks like he\u2019s an O-lineman, man. He\u2019s an animal,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s super friendly in his routes,\u201d added Harris, pivoting to Emilus\u2019 strengths as a target.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gets his depth in his routes, and he\u2019s on time. We understand where each other\u2019s at and what we\u2019re thinking. The best receivers I\u2019ve played with were the ones that kind of think as a quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emilus, he said, is one of those guys.<\/p>\n

HE\u2019S GOT 12\u2019S BACK<\/p>\n

Long snapper Jorgen Hus<\/a> was asked about the occasional troubles that the Roughriders have had in the area of placekicking over the course of this season.<\/p>\n

He replied with complete confidence in the unit, and particularly in kicker Brett Lauther<\/a>, who finished the season going 39-for-54 in the field goal department during the regular season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in Brett, he\u2019s going to go out there and do his job,\u201d said Hus, adding \u201che did his job in the West Final (3\/3 on field goals, 2\/2 on converts). He\u2019s, in my opinion, the greatest kicker to ever play for the \u2018Riders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You couldn\u2019t ask for better conditions for a Grey Cup practice in Winnipeg. The field at Princess Auto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281110","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\/281110","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=281110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}