Eskimos gift-wrap a win for Riders

The Saskatchewan Roughriders may indeed be the best team in the CFL at the moment, as I suggested last week. But that doesn't mean they've arrived.
Take Saturday's home game against the Edmonton Eskimos, which the Riders "won" 24-20 to move to a perfect 3-0 on the season. I use the quotation marks because the Riders didn't so much win the game, as the Eskimos lost it.
The 0-3 Eskies limped off the field with bullet-riddled feet - Kelly Campbell dropped an easy TD catch in the end zone just before halftime, and Calvin McCarty and Fred Stamps had momentum-crushing fumbles in the fourth quarter.
The Roughriders, for their part, played fairly badly compared to the lofty standard they set in last week's blowout win over the B.C. Lions. The offence sputtered for much of the game, until some creative fourth-quarter play-calling bailed them out. The defence, so dominant the previous week against B.C., was rendered ordinary by an Eskimos o-line that was less generous than that of the Lions. But the Riders defenders deserve credit for being opportunistic in generating the turnovers, and it's the mark of a quality team to pull through with a victory when it's not firing on all cylinders. We'll see how this develops.
On a side note, I got a huge kick out of the Roughriders' new red-and-black retro uniforms - particularly the hideous argyle-type slacks that the coaching staff were made to wear. Those pants would have embarrassed even a professional golfer. Good times.