Riders are Ottawa bound after fizzling out versus Esks
The Saskatchewan Roughriders will be packing their bags and heading to Ottawa after losing to the Edmonton Eskimos 28-13 Saturday night.
A win would have had the Riders stay west and play Winnipeg, but now the road to the Grey Cup goes through the east. No team in CFL history has crossed over and made to the championship game.
The Riders spent the week stressing the importance of going out on a high note but shot themselves in the foot with a costly 11 penalties which Edmonton took advantage of nearly every time.
“I think we were just undisciplined, took too many penalties, missed too many assignments. Certainly, I hope that’s not indicative what we’ll do next week,” said head coach Chris Jones of the effort.