{"id":943311,"date":"2026-10-23T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943311\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:08:09","slug":"davis-cfl-teams-resting-qbs-before-weird-playoffs-next-year-will-be-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943311\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis: CFL teams resting QBs before weird playoffs; next year will be worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this weird?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the possible chagrin of ticket buyers across the CFL, only one team on this weekend\u2019s slate of season-ending games is committed to playing its high-priced, high-profile starting quarterback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it ain\u2019t the 9-8 Saskatchewan Roughriders, who have qualified for the playoffs and subsequently decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/leaderpost.com\/sports\/football\/saskatchewan-roughriders\/jack-coan-named-roughriders-starting-qb-against-elks\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"100220430\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">use backup Jack Coan instead of veteran starter Trevor Harris <\/a>for Saturday\u2019s somewhat-meaningless home game against the 13-4 Edmonton Elks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this weird? To the possible chagrin of ticket buyers across the CFL, only one team on this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[322887,49,48,521,522,276177,276912,276178,158032,520,276176,82],"class_list":["post-943311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-322887","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-category-cfl","tag-category-football","tag-category-saskatchewan-roughriders","tag-category-sports","tag-cfl","tag-leader-post","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943311","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=943311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}