Wait ‘til Next Year???
In 2015 the Rider season was over by half time of the first game. In 2016 it may have lasted until half time of the third game.
This might be considered progress.
The Riders 40-27 loss to the BC Lions is being rationalized by saying the ankle injury to Darian Durant, which may keep him out one, two or three games, took the momentum away from the team that built up a 23-10 half-time lead and then faltered in the third quarter with back-up Mitchell Gale.
The problem with that is, it ignores the defense folding like a cheap suit in the second half, leaving Trevaughn Campbell at one point covering two BC Lions while the Riders blitzed BC quarterback Jonathan Jennings, as if they didn’t have another frickin’ idea about how to slow down the BC offense.