Saskatchewan Roughriders legend Darian Durant is not planning\u00a0the 2025 Grey Cup championship parade yet and he’s\u00a0cautious about\u00a0how the next stretch of games will turn out for the Green and White.<\/p>\n
“You hope to rack up as many wins early in the season as possible. We all know that the real season starts after Labour Day and this team still has a long way to go. They’re winning the games that they’re supposed to win. They’re being dominant in spots where I think there were a lot of question marks before the season started, but\u00a0there’s still a long way to go,”\u00a0Durant said on\u00a0the SportsCage.<\/p>\n
“You have Hamilton after the bye\u00a0and we’ll see how they do. They’ve won six in a row\u00a0and it could be seven after this week. That’s gonna be a tough game at home.”<\/p>\n
After Saskatchewan takes on the Tiger-Cats, the Riders\u00a0travel to Calgary for a match-up with\u00a0the\u00a0Stampeders and\u00a0then\u00a0play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers twice.<\/p>\n
“Calgary’s the only team to beat the Riders this year and they won at Mosaic Stadium. Before you look at Winnipeg,\u00a0I know everyone\u00a0wants to measure the Rider team against Winnipeg, you still have to look at Calgary. Don’t even let me get to Calgary first, you still have to worry about this red-hot Hamilton team coming in.\u00a0Then you have to go to Calgary and we all know that Calgary is a tough place to play, even though Rider fans always dominate that stadium,” Durant said.<\/p>\n
“You have to go and deal with a good Calgary team with Vernon Adams Jr., back under centre and then you have Winnipeg back-to-back. This is gonna be a tough four-game stretch for the team. The bye week is coming at a good time. Try to get Samuel Emilus back if his injuries are not too major.”<\/p>\n
The Roughriders last game was against the Montreal Alouettes\u00a0and the team\u00a0won\u00a034-6. Onlookers were curious to see how Saskatchewan’s offence would match-up against\u00a0the Alouettes\u00a0defence, which is led by coordinator\u00a0Noel Thorpe<\/a>.<\/p>\n “If you look at Noel Thorpe historically, he doesn’t like to play a lot of man-to-man.\u00a0He likes to sit back and make you take the completions right in front of you and hopefully you make a mistake. Sometimes you can’t do that with Trevor [Harris]. [He’s] so good at taking the underneath throw,\u00a0making sure that he gets his early completions,\u00a0gets everyone involved and gets into an early rhythm,\u00a0he did that. What that did was force Noel Thorpe in Montreal to come up and play man-to-man, when they did, you could\u00a0see the corner routes were on point,” Durant said.<\/p>\n “He was able to spot the blitz. He did a great job of looking off coverage and freezing linebackers. Trevor’s\u00a0balling right now\u00a0and when I say ball\u00a0that’s with the capital B. He’s doing everything right, he knows exactly where to go and he’s doing a great job of manipulating the defence with his eyes. Whenever you’re hitting and clicking like this, it doesn’t matter what you do defensively, all you can do is hope that your offence can score,\u00a0you can get into a shootout and\u00a0hope that Trevor makes a mistake.”<\/p>\n Harris finished the game\u00a0completing 19-of-27 passes for 289 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions. The 39-year-old has completed 75 percent of his passe\u00a0for 2,183 yards with 13 touchdowns and four interceptions in seven starts this season while compiling a 6-1 win-loss record.<\/p>\n After the Riders\u00a0bye this week, Saskatchewan’s\u00a0next game will be\u00a0against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday, August 16 at home.\u00a0You can catch the pre-game show with Teagan Witko, Justin Dunk and Wes Cates at 10 a.m. Dave Thomas and Luc Mullinder have the game call at 1 p.m. You can hear everything on the 620 CKRM Co-operators Rider Broadcast Network.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Roughriders legend Darian Durant is not planning\u00a0the 2025 Grey Cup championship parade yet and he’s\u00a0cautious about\u00a0how the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[3878,49,48,521,522,520,3290,4398,27684,27683,1893,4401,27682,4400,4399,82],"class_list":["post-52204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-agriculture","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-contests","tag-country-music","tag-gx94","tag-manitoba-news","tag-radio","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-news","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52204","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=52204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}