{"id":66032,"date":"2025-08-13T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66032\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:52:05","slug":"riders-look-to-keep-momentum-going-against-ti-cats-after-bye-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66032\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders look to keep momentum going against Ti-Cats after bye week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are looking to avoid a case of the post-bye week blues.<\/a><\/p>\n

Saskatchewan has a 7-1 CFL record with the only loss coming against the Calgary Stampeders \u2014 a 24-10 loss<\/a> that came after the team\u2019s first bye week. After that game, head coach Corey Mace<\/a> said they were out-physicaled in the game.<\/p>\n

So, following the second bye week, the first practice back on Tuesday saw the players strap on the pads to provide an energy boost.<\/p>\n

Mace admitted that how they played against Calgary did play a small part in that decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just to get us humming after some time off. It\u2019s good competition and I thought the guys enjoyed it, so it worked out good,\u201d Mace said.<\/p>\n

The Riders will host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (6-3) on Saturday at Mosaic Stadium. Kickoff for the game is set for 1 p.m. The Green Zone pregame show<\/a> begins at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

Mace said the team needs to learn from its past mistakes to avoid another disappointment following this bye week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to take anything away from Calgary \u2014 as we know they are a good team \u2014 but as far as our effort was concerned and how we looked, it didn\u2019t look like us,\u201d Mace said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust learn from that and just put in the front of your mind the same thing we talk about \u2014 you have to prove it every week and can never let your foot off the gas,\u201d Mace said.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s game also features two of the top candidates for the CFL\u2019s Most Outstanding Player award. Riders quarterback Trevor Harris<\/a> is 6-1 in starts this season and has thrown for 2,183 yards, 13 touchdowns and four interceptions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on the opposing sideline, Bo Levi Mitchell has turned back the clock and is once again playing at an elite level. He has thrown for 2,856 yards, 21 touchdowns and just three interceptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis touchdown-to-interception ratio is as good as I have seen up here since I have been up here,\u201d Harris said. \u201cHe has done a tremendous job in kind of reinventing himself in terms of always wanting to take shots and push the ball down the field, no matter what, to taking what the defence gives him. When you find quarterbacks who can do that and take shots down the field, it becomes a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see he has become a problem across the league. I have a lot of admiration and respect for Bo, but at the same time, I\u2019m not going to be too worried about what he is doing in the game. I just have to make sure I am operating our offence as best we can and going against a really good defence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Riders beat the Ti-Cats 28-23 back in Week 2.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Roughriders are looking to avoid a case of the post-bye week blues. Saskatchewan has a 7-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-66032","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\/66032","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=66032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}