Darrell Davis, Regina Leader-Post

It’s a bye week for the CFL’s top team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

That means no football games, practices or meetings for the players until they’re tentatively slated to resume workouts Aug. 12 in preparation for an Aug. 16 visit from the red-hot Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who have won their last six games.

That leads to The Big Question: Is a bye good or bad for the Roughriders?

On a three-game winning streak with a CFL-best 7-1 record, coming off a near-perfect, 34-6 on-the-road pummelling of the normally stout Montreal Alouettes, the Roughriders likely don’t want a break right now. Riders quarterback Trevor Harris said as much following the victory in Montreal, that he didn’t want to possibly divert a team that was starting to look like a true Grey Cu

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