The Saskatchewan Roughriders lost 34-26 to the Calgary Stampeders yesterday, essentially ending any chance the club had finishing in first place. I felt the Riders played about as well as they can play and were beat by a better team yesterday. There isn't much more to say about it than that.
A big complaint from fans yesterday was the inability of the defense to stop the run, however I think if you take a closer look the Gary Etchevarry defense hasn't really stopped the run for two years. There is no sense complaining about it now. If the Riders had a big lead by half time, Calgary would have abandoned the run.
Special teams continued to be a joke, only this time there was nothing funny about possibly losing Luca Congi for a very long time. His leg injury looks extremely serious. Blocked punts & kicks, big returns by the opposition, no returns by the Riders, and on and on it goes. If you watched the Winnipeg-BC game on Thanksgiving Monday, you may remember Javon Johnson returning a kick deep into BC territory to set up a touchdown. That has no chance of happening with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, so the onus is on Darian Durant to move the ball 65-75 yards on EVERY drive.
Dwight "Milli Vanilli" Anderson is classless. I'm glad he plays for another team other than Saskatchewan. His behaviour is embarrassing for the Stampeder management, I'm sure. That's not to excuse some Roughrider fans, who showed equal class with the verbal sparring they were doing with Anderson yesterday.
My two cents on the Henry Burris bra situation is this: the man was having fun at a party and hasn't played for the Riders in a number of years. Let it go. If you can honestly look Henry in the eye and say you wouldn't have done the same thing he did when he left the Riders a few years back, then go ahead and wear a bra to a game and taunt him until your heart's content. But, I'll take Darian Durant over Henry Burris seven days a week and Burris can do whatever he wants with whoever he wants whenever he wants. Thanks.
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