The Saskatchewan Roughriders have some breathing room atop of the CFL’s West Division after the Calgary Stampeders 31-11 loss against the Ottawa Redblacks on Thursday night, now looking to extend their league best record to 7-1 on Saturday in Montreal to end Week 9.<\/p>\n
Behind a stellar month from quarterback Trevor Harris\u00a0the Roughriders went 2-1 in July. Carrying a TD-INT ratio of 6-1 and completing over 70 per cent of his passes, Harris had 425 yards passing in a July 12 loss to Calgary, 395 yards the next week in a bounce back win against BC, and then 268 yards last week beating Edmonton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Alouettes are coming off a 23-21 win against Calgary, without the services of starting quarterback Davis Alexander who is on the team’s 6-Game Injured List. The Roughriders will be more than happy to face backup McLeod Bethel-Thompson, not based off ability, but the fact that Alexander carved up the Roughriders for a second half comeback victory in Week 8 last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kickoff will be at 5:00 PM, the second half of a Saturday doubleheader as Edmonton hosts Hamiton at 1:00 PM.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Week 9 continues tonight with Toronto in Winnipeg, one week after defeating the Blue Bombers at home 31-17.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders have some breathing room atop of the CFL’s West Division after the Calgary Stampeders 31-11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-40453","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\/40453","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=40453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}