So, Does Anyone Else Feel Cheated?
The Saskatchewan Roughriders went out of the 2016 season with a whimper in an embarrassing 41-18 loss to the BC Lions that showed for all intents and purposes, the longest ever training camp that saw over 100 players suit up for the Riders and did not result in any improvement.
Sure there was a stretch of four games that raised hopes, even in myself, that this team may have turned the corner and was finding the consistency that comes from playing together.
A three game losing streak, starting with a Rider team taking a Montreal team for granted in the cold rain of the second last game at Taylor Field, to back to back losses to the BC Lions, showed the reality is the Riders are not that good. Period.
So with the season in the books, I reviewed the games and used the criteria of if the Riders lost by more than seven points, I counted that as a loss, and anything seven points or less would be a possible win. Likewise any Rider win of less than seven points was counted as a loss.