Uninspired Roughriders thumped by Alouettes in CFL 'schlocker'

The Saskatchewan Roughriders turned in their worst 200-minute performance of the CFL season on Saturday against the Montreal Alouettes.

Yep, three-plus hours of badly played, when-is-this-gonna-end schlock from — surprisingly — the team with the league’s best record, worsened by a CFL-controlled God Centre that couldn’t let the lopsided contest proceed at a civilized pace.

Aware that earlier losses by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Edmonton Elks had earned Saskatchewan a postseason berth, the Roughriders have stumbled into their final bye week still sitting atop the West with a 10-3 mark despite looking totally uninspired in a 48-31 thumping that ended Montreal’s five-game losing streak.

“We weren’t doing our job,” Roughriders middle linebacker Jameer Thurman told CJME’s Britton Gray.