{"id":3289,"date":"2025-07-17T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3289\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:04:08","slug":"ferland-focuses-on-film-in-never-ending-quest-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3289\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferland focuses on film in never-ending quest for improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long after all the fans had left Mosaic Stadium for the second successive day, Logan Ferland<\/a> wasn\u2019t in any hurry to leave.<\/p>\n

All because of an urgent quest for answers.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 starting centre used the first few hours after Saturday\u2019s 24-10 CFL loss to the Calgary Stampeders to immerse himself in video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt told me the story of the game,\u201d Ferland said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt told me what we needed to work on right away. It told me what I needed to work on personally, which was a lot, and how we can continue to get better and kind of regroup for the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The previous day, the Roughriders-Stampeders game \u2014\u00a0originally slated for a Friday night \u2014\u00a0had been rescheduled for Saturday afternoon due to unacceptably high air-quality levels.<\/p>\n

After a long-awaited game ended at 4:59 p.m., Ferland remained at the stadium until around 8 o\u2019clock in the evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a game like that, nothing is on my mind more than to see what happened and see how we can change it and how we can get better from it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still watch it when I get home, but this one was a little different. I was in the building. It was an earlier game. I had tons of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

And no time for losing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re always hungry and we\u2019re always ready to get better,\u201d Ferland said. \u201cWe\u2019re never scared of a challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always look at each other and see how we can get better and how we can continue to push the envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n

That approach has been a spectacular success for Ferland, who earned All-Star CFL honours in 2024 in addition to being named the West Division\u2019s Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman.<\/p>\n

In that capacity, Ferland flew to Vancouver during Grey Cup Week for the 2024 CFL Awards presentations. Now he is preparing to head westward once again \u2014 for Saturday\u2019s game against the host B.C. Lions.<\/p>\n

He would much rather make the trip as part of a team, with the goal of returning as a member of the victorious side.<\/p>\n

The Roughriders\u2019 first four games of the 2025 season had ended with a victory. Then came the matchup with Calgary, which held Saskatchewan to 16 yards rushing. The Green and White entered the game with a league-best average of 138.5 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got no stats (as offensive lineman), so we take great pride in that,\u201d Ferland said. \u201cObviously, we need to get a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hence the extended film study.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take a lot of pride in being from here,\u201d said Ferland, who hails from Melfort. \u201cI\u2019m lucky to be from this province and play for this province and I take that personally.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if there\u2019s certain situations that maybe won\u2019t be my fault necessarily, I try to take that on myself to make it my fault and to take the onus so we can be better as a group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it just trickles down to the rest and I think it does. We have a lot of hard-working guys and a lot of very selfless guys in the room and I think everyone else is very similar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long after all the fans had left Mosaic Stadium for the second successive day, Logan Ferland wasn\u2019t in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","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=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}