The Saskatchewan Roughriders\u00a0lost\u00a0their first game this season against the Calgary Stampeders 24-10.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning is important, but what\u2019s more important is who we\u2019re becoming in the process because towards the end of the year, we\u2019re going to be a different team,\u201d Trevor Harris explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to see Calgary again and we\u2019re excited about that. We\u2019re excited to see them and someday\u00a0we will. We\u2019ll deal with that then, but we\u2019ve got a big test this week at B.C. It\u2019s going to be a lot of fun, great environment and we know that we\u2019re going to need to up our tempo on our game to win this one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The six-foot-three, 212-pound quarterback completed 36-of 44\u00a0passes for 425 yards with one touchdown against the Stamps. This season, the 39-year-old\u00a0has played four games for the Green and White,\u00a0he has completed 76 percent of his passes for 1,231 yards with\u00a0six touchdowns and three interceptions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think one of the paradoxes in football is when you win, a lot of times, mistakes happen. Sometimes, you can\u00a0be like:\u00a0\u2018Oh, hey, we\u2019ve got to get better.\u2019 But a lot of times we\u2019re a little bit more critical when it causes a loss, sometimes that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d Harris explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said in the locker room:\u00a0\u2018The only thing this means is we\u2019re not going undefeated.\u2019 That\u2019s what coach [Corey] Mace said. Shoot, it\u2019s going to be up to us how we respond. We\u2019ve got a great championship-calibre team in that locker room,\u00a0I expect nothing less from us to come up and get better this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Riders can get\u00a0revenge against the Stampeders\u00a0in Week 12 when\u00a0the\u00a0team travels to Calgary\u00a0for a rematch.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, three players from Saskatchewan were picked for the CFL\u00a0honour roll in\u00a0Week 6<\/a>:\u00a0Joe Robustelli, Jaxon Ford and Harris. Robustelli\u00a0led all\u00a0receivers across the three-down league\u00a0with 11 receptions for 191 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n \u201cWe feel very confident in our playmakers that they\u2019re going to be able to make those kinds of plays. I told you guys a long time ago that I called him \u2018Gelliman<\/a>\u2018\u00a0for a long time,\u00a0I think you kind of see a little bit of Greg Ellison in him,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe sky\u2019s the limit for Joe\u00a0and I\u2019m excited for him. But at the same time, we\u2019ve got to make sure we\u2019re getting better every single week. We\u00a0can\u2019t just look at that game and say:\u00a0\u2018Joe\u2019s the man.\u2019\u00a0We need to be critical and ensure we\u2019re improving each week, making sure I\u2019m getting better for him by hitting the right spots and timing, among other things.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0Green and White travel\u00a0to B.C. to tale on\u00a0the Lions\u00a0Saturday. Make sure to catch the pre-game show with Teagan Witko, Justin Dunk and Wes Cates at 2 p.m.\u00a0Dave Thomas and Luc Mullinder\u00a0have the game call at 5 p.m. You can hear everything on the 620 CKRM Co-operators Rider Broadcast Network.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders\u00a0lost\u00a0their first game this season against the Calgary Stampeders 24-10. \u201cWinning is important, but what\u2019s more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,4404,4398,1893,4397,4402,4401,4400,4399,82,4403],"class_list":["post-5617","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-country","tag-country-music","tag-radio","tag-regina-news","tag-reigna-pats","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sports","tag-sportscage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}