Riders dominate Esks, finally win against west on the road
Roughriders head coach Chris Jones didn’t want to call it a statement game, but his team certainly did make quite the statement Friday night in Edmonton.
Coming off back-to-back blowouts of western opponents the Riders are out to prove they’re the real deal. With a 54-31 win over the Eskimos on Friday night, it’s hard to argue otherwise.
“That’s up to y’all to decide all that if it’s a statement or not,” Jones said to reporters after the game. “We just wanted to win our next game which happened to be here, on the road, against a very good opponent.”
A very good opponent indeed. Few gave the Roughriders a fighting chance against the league’s number one team, those who did didn’t predict the battering the Riders gave Edmonton in all three phases.