Thoughts on Week Four in the CFL

Things seem to be back to normal in the Canadian Football League this weekend with the possible exception of the British Columbia Lions.
The Lions dropped their record to 1 - 3 and last place losing 43 - 10 to the Calgary Stampeders with the Stamps now evening their record at 2 -2.
The Saskatchewan Rough Riders lost 38 - 33 to the Edmonton Eskimos leaving both those teams with 2 - 2 records as well. The Riders managed to blow a 22 - 0 lead on the way to their loss. The unfortunate thing about the Riders loss to Edmonton is that now all the glaring errors on defense and the blowing of a huge lead will be overshadowed by two questionable calls made by the CFL officiating team. One could of gone either way. Did the Riders get the first down they needed to keep a late drive alive or was it a bad spot by the referees? Probably it was but those things do happen and its pretty tough to review and almost impossible to overturn. But a drive killer it was.
Then the pass to Dressler. Was it a completion? It looked like it. The Rider broadcast team (hardly impartial) moaned and groaned and declared the officials had blown it. The fans were in complete agreement. But you know what. Lost in all that is that the Riders blew a 22 - 0 lead, that Edmonton running backs ran through the Rider defense like a hot knife through butter and finally don't leave it to the officials to decide the outcome. If you needed to get one yard on a third down gamble to win the game well then get two or three to be sure. If you're driving for the winning score, don't drop the ball and the officials won't have to decide. I'm not a great fan of the CFL officials, but they have a tough job as to all officials in all sports.
I attended the Canada - New Zealand game in the ISF world championship softball and sat in front of an iron lunged lady who's hollering at the umpire was an embarrassment to Canada, the fans sitting around her and should have been to herself as well.
Try putting yourself in their shoes sometime.
Back to the CFL -
So after four weeks in the west the Riders, Eskimos and Stampeders are all at 2 - 2 and the Lions at 1 - 3.
The Riders go to Calgary and then BC so the next two weeks will be tough.
In the East its Montreal way out in front followed by Toronto, Hamilton and Winnipeg.
As to the quarterbacking. Darian Durant moved the ball and looked pretty good. His defense let him down this time.