The Saskatchewan Roughriders may have believed they could win a Grey Cup last year, but they really weren’t ready for the challenge. Article content

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“The way I think we attacked last year is everybody was geeked up and, you know, a storm-the-castle kind of vibe,” said Roughriders head coach Corey Mace, whose team plays host to the B.C. Lions in the CFL’s West final on Saturday.

“(This year) we’re just operating business as usual for us, which I think is a good thing.”

Everything was too new, too unfamiliar last season. Mace was a first-year head coach, surrounded by assistants he knew and a few he didn’t. Their strategies weren’t well-defined and they made some strategic blunders.

The roster was a mixture of holdovers and

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