Trevor Harris returns to the starting lineup for the Saskatchewan Roughriders against Montreal

Trevor obviously obviously the week went well that you're sitting here and listed as the starting quarterback but take us through the week of uh of your progression and and how you felt maybe from day one yeah last week uh stayed back on the trip uh just because I really wanted to kind of ramp up the you know the the footwork the foot speed the uh live bullets thrown to live receivers sort of thing because I hadn't got to really to do that yet and so um you know early on the week there was just a couple things that you can't replicate without you know a pass rush and uh you know getting through progressions and flipping your hips and those sorts of things but we were able to kind of take care of that day one and uh came back day two and I really started feeling a lot more like myself day two and so give it a go would you say you're 100% no but uh been shoot good enough is like I mean I can do what I need to do I can escape the pocket if I need to I can move through progressions I can do what I need to do but I I guarantee if you ask uh of the 24 starters do you feel 100% you're not going to get very many yeses you know but um you get the adrenaline rolling but uh can I do everything I need to do and and then some of course yeah I I wouldn't be putting myself in a in a situation or the team in a situation where I couldn't go out there and play effectively and protect myself so you've been here two years having to deal with two injuries at any time did you feel you were a little snake bitten maybe no I don't believe in that TR did you get a chance to meet ludicrous when he came through who ludicrous no no something no I honestly and i' i' embarrassed to say this but if I had a line up of people I probably wouldn't be able to pick him out I'd probably heard a lot of his songs and you know probably Sayang a lot of them you know growing up but uh yeah I haven't got a chance to but maybe I will just because coach M was in here saying that he missed out on the chance to meet him but there was a lot of other players that sound like that took photos of him oh really that's awesome I didn't even know he's here uh yeah so yeah maybe I just been buried head buried too much in the in the sand here you know getting ready for the game but uh that's awesome I didn't know he's here is it go no you um is it reasonable to or what are your expectations in terms of picking up where you left off six game absence but can you pick off where you left off yeah I don't see why not you know it's just about you know making sure that uh you're trust in progressions uh taking what the defense gives you and you know taking your shots uh when they're when they're given to you and a lot of times you know the defense is going to dictate where the ball goes and it's my job to make sure I deliver the mail on time and uh let these guys do their thing with it if I uh deliver the ball accurately um on time and effectively uh and we allow our offensive line to come downhill and Trust the game plan and um I think I think we're going to be just fine um yeah and I think every quarterback every week is a new life in terms of you know getting into a rhythm finding a rhythm uh and you know understanding what the defense is trying to do to you and uh those things all kind of go into it you know and finding a rhythm is is a big thing for a quarterback for sure can you take us through your rehab process yeah the first uh week or so it was just the next day after the game um it kind of ballooned up and swelled up quite a bit and was uh tough walking wise and then kind of just getting the results from the MRI and uh you know you want once you get that that's when you can start to attack the rehab and so it was really just about you know getting the swelling down um so that we could start you know getting more effective range of motion and uh really the big thing was waiting on the the ACL and MCL to kind of heal so that you're not you know putting yourself in a situation where it can uh ret and that sort of thing and so once the ligaments are stabilized in it's kind of go time and time time to put yourself through those uncomfortable situations and uh you know just push through those mental hurdles Trevor how much when you're on the sidelines just it back do you just miss being in theid three minutes left on that yeah that's what you live for and you know there was a couple games where we had game-winning drives and I I tried to not say too much to Shay cuz uh when he's playing I want him to know he's driving the car this is his vehicle go be the leader to the Alpha um but there's just a few times where I felt like I needed to you know go say something to him and kind of give him the advice and told him I was always here in case he needed anything and um you know one time I went to him say hey when you're in your backyard and you're eight years old you don't you're not a part of blowouts uh you know you're down by four minute 10 left the pressure's on those are the moments you live for and uh the moment you live for is being in the Huddle being the man in the arena and uh it's absolutely what we play this game for and that's why you know this entire time you're striving to get back but uh making sure that you're being smart about you know making sure you're putting your team in a good situation not just coming back and being selfish and coming back earlyer too quickly because you know you want to feel that um and so it's one of those things where you're constantly striving for it but that's that's really what you live for the kind of ups and downs of pro football as a quarterback we see throughout the league injuries guys getting benched moved in so how much do you just appreciate these games at this point now to get as many as you can in yeah it's uh you know that's uh on my way in today I actually cried I was crying in the car today on my way here just thankful just grateful and my mom had actually she just got in town last night and she sent me a song about just like how fast life goes and uh you know shoot I'm 38 years old um I wanted to play a couple years of pro football so that I could build my resume to coach and you know it's 15 years in you know Praise Jesus that you know I've got to play this along and it's just like I'm sure you guys can all relate you know being early in your career and all of a sudden someday you're the old person or you're making fun of the old people and then all of a sudden the young people are like man you're old and I'm like man like am I old you know it's just like one of those things but it was just one of those moments of gratitude you I was tearing up on the way in just like I get to do this again you know and like just insanely just grateful you know that we get to play this game I grew up loving this game you know my son all the time run around our living room and he's doing the announcer voice TJ J Harris catches a touchdown you know and like I was that kid I remember that and here I am like you know not with not with 10 years left in my career you know it's you know it's you know it's starts to dwindle and you just get more and more grateful you have a little bit more perspective and so yeah just very grateful was there one thing that brought about those tears just like just just thinking about like hearing the song and just like how fast time goes it's just kind of just like lets you remember how quickly it goes and how quickly things can be taken away from you and a lot of times we start thinking about the future uh uh anxieties or past failures we've had um and we just uh sometimes it's good to think about how awesome things were or the good old days as they say or to think about the game the next day but it's also the most effective thing we can do is just sit here right now be in the present moment and uh work with a mental performance coach Dr shanto leier out of when I from my time in Ottawa and we sometimes we just talk about like being present i' wiggle my toes just to remind myself that I'm right here right now and being in this moment right now is really the most the most effective thing we can do because then we can be present for other people we can love other people um we can be grateful for the Times instead of thinking about the old times I guess what did you think of D Myers's performance last week in his debut he's awesome man he's uh he's done nothing but do great things all training camp and all throughout this season and um he's a guy he's going to make contested catches he's really good after the catch uh he could be a really Dynamite player in this league and uh you know he had a great debut last week and I think uh we can expect more of the same for him it like to return in this game not just against your former team but I got lots of those though so everybody's like your foral team or which one man um but yeah they uh it's it's fun um you know this is the like I said you want to play in the big games you know this is you know the defending great Cup champs are 8-1 um they had a Young quarterback playing insanely well who you know has been a stud since since he came in the league uh was worked with Davis just a great dude and awesome football player and uh excited to go out there and just like you know teed up against you know high level competition and I know there's going to be smack talking and people telling me how old I am and stuff like that and so uh it's going to be it's going to be fun I'm just ready to go out there and and go to battle man it's just one of those things where you look forward to you know the hits the ones you got to stand in there and deliver a pass when you know when it's not quite as clean and find pockets and make plays in big moments and just looking for to those moments countings as you did the day before the game what do you think it's going to be likeor when you're coming out of theun or the national an is playing or even you wake up on on game days what what are you anticipating in that I think I kind of I take care of that stuff today and then it's more or less just like be in the moment be in the present moment and do the best thing do the next right thing uh that I can for the team and so tomorrow I'm not sure that uh it'll be emotional or anything of that nature I'm just going to be thinking about what I need to do next to to be effective for the team Trevor quick two-part question through the halfway point of this season you were 53 and one which is good for first in the west division but to a man in that locker room I would suggest that doesn't seem good enough what does that say about that group and what do you need to do to advance to getting closer to good enough yeah I think it's good that we don't feel good about that because that means our expectations are raised and uh you know a lot of times beginning of the year somebody says hey you start five five and three or you're in first place in the west everybody like we'll take it you know I'm not sure that we would take that the way that uh you know we are right now but to advance it it's just about uh just doing what we can to become a better team in terms of execution in terms of figuring out what we're good at in terms of making sure we're manipulating defens as what we can do taking what they give us and uh you know making sure that as an offense we're being a great you know in terms of Defense of keeping their offense off the field extending drives getting our defense a breather our special teams flipp in the field those sorts of things just focusing on the big things the key takeaways that coach ma talks about our offense defense special teams every week uh if we can just focus on those things and make sure that we're tuned into those details and the details of the details uh that's really how you kind of just do it but it's a progression thing you know it's a constant evaluation as one who's played here as a visiting player and have to deal with the crowd noise uh how much of a factor could that be more how much of a factor would you like that yeah there's not very many places where you have to worry about that in the CFL and this is always one of them um it always takes up time in a meeting room during the week it says the the crowd will be a factor we've got to use Cadence we've got to uh we've got to use silent Cadence rather we've got to practice this in in games and sometimes you know when you've got to use that silent Cadence that just little click of time where your head is down a little bit longer can make a little bit of a difference and so we need the uh the rider Nation the rider faithful to get out there loud and proud tomorrow and make it difficult on them talk about the high level competition you're facing obviously this this week um what uh challenges do the monal defense a particular northp defense is always going to be fast physical know what they love to do um when they play their coverages they always they can play differently just because they play a certain coverage uh last week and they play the exact same coverage their defens their Defenders can play things differently they do a good job of Route reading understanding what you're trying to do but that's why we watch film too and uh we're we plan on being a uh a problem for them as well awesome thanks