Riders looking to steal one from Lions

REGINA The 2017 Saskatchewan Roughrigers are better than last year’s underperforming squad so far, but just barely.

One-third of the way through this season, the Roughriders (24) have just one more win than they did at this time last year as they prepare to try and even a home-and-home series with the visiting B.C. Lions on Sunday.

Quarterback Kevin Glenn, who wasn’t part of last year’s squad that had a dismal 1-5 record at this point, said inconsistency is his team’s biggest stumbling block.

“Roller coaster — up, down; up, down; up, down. Plain and simple, it’s a roller coaster,” Glenn said.

The Roughriders have yet to win a 2017 game against a West Division opponent, a crucial must if the team has any hope of making the playoffs.

Their latest loss was a 30-15 defeat to the Lions (5-2) in Vancouver last Saturday. It was second time this year that Saskatchewan beat an East Division team (a 38-27 win over Toronto on July 29) only to squander its momentum with a loss to a West opponent in the following game.

“We’ve got to stop it,” Glenn said of the inconsistency. “I mean, it’s frustrating, because we want to try to make sure that we put wins together, especially when we’re playing West teams. So that’s something that we need to focus on and we need to get better at, plain and simple.”