REGINA \u2014 It\u2019s been the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 mantra for the past few seasons: go 1-0 every week and then move on to the next one as fast as possible.<\/p>\n
As their record over the past couple seasons would indicate, it\u2019s a plan that\u2019s worked exceptionally well, as cliche as it might be.<\/p>\n
So what happens when the team doesn\u2019t go 1-0 and suffers what\u2019s become a rare regular season loss?
To hear the team tell it after their 36-34 defeat at the hands of the Edmonton Elks on Thursday night, stay the course. In fact, the plan was pretty simple \u2014 let it hurt for 24 hours, and then it\u2019s time to get back to work and improve enough to win the next time.<\/p>\n
Not earth-shaking stuff, of course, but when you’re as win-focussed as Saskatchewan is right now, it\u2019s a proven success when it comes to moving on from disappointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSitting here right now, lets fix the things we need to fix to beat a good team,\u201d Riders head coach Corey Mace said in his postgame remarks. \u201cI mean, there’ll be a ton of positives to get on the film, I feel like there were a lot of good things that we did as a football team. Just ultimately, we have to make sure that we fine-tune some of the big mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quarterback Trevor Harris was far more direct when it came to his thoughts on what it would take for the team to rebound and defeat Edmonton in the rematch on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing\u2019s changed, we have a damn good football team in the end and if you think otherwise, I don\u2019t know if you know ball,\u201d Harris said. \u201cOur team has full belief, [the Elks] just won because they made one more play than we did\u2026 This one is going to sting for 24 hours, but we\u2019re going to turn the page and I can promise you one thing, we\u2019ll get better, we\u2019ll reload and we\u2019ll be a better football team next week.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the more positive things about the loss for Saskatchewan is that they get a chance to redeem themselves immediately thanks to the home-and-home schedule. That makes for fun times for the coaching staff from both teams as they try and put together plans against a team they just faced.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a long week and it\u2019s always interesting, these back-to-backs, seeing what you can scheme up, what they\u2019re going to scheme up and anticipate what they\u2019re doing,\u201d Mace said.<\/p>\n
One player who\u2019ll most definitely be looking forward to next Saturday is Kian Schaffer-Baker, who had a career-high eight catches for 185 yards and a touchdown against the Elks. A repeat of that performance, and the odds of a Saskatchewan win certainly increase.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s right back to the drawing board after tonight,\u201d KSB said. \u201cNobody’s out here pointing fingers, and that\u2019s a special part of this team. Everyone’s gonna go home, look in the mirror and just reflect on what they could get better at today. We’re just gonna carry that over the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Riders are back on the field for practice on Tuesday, with their rematch with the Elks set for Saturday at 5 p.m. from Commonwealth Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REGINA \u2014 It\u2019s been the Saskatchewan Roughriders\u2019 mantra for the past few seasons: go 1-0 every week and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[224145,224143,49,48,224144,4398,224142,23752,1893,4397,4402,4401,4400,4399,4403],"class_list":["post-828321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-100-year-celebration","tag-620-ckrm","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ckrm","tag-country-music","tag-countrys-greatest-hits","tag-edmonton","tag-radio","tag-regina-news","tag-reigna-pats","tag-rider-radio","tag-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-saskatchewan-sports","tag-sportscage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828321","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=828321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}