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From one year to the next, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have improved from abysmal to merely awful.

Halfway through the 2015 CFL season, Saskatchewan sported an 0-9 record that prompted the firings of head coach Corey Chamblin and general manager/vice-president of football operations Brendan Taman.

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The current edition of the Roughriders is 1-8 at the midpoint of Chris Jones’s first year as the team’s head coach, defensive co-ordinator, general manager and vice-president of football operations.

Nobody could have envisioned the continuing futility when president-CEO Craig Reynolds wooed Jones away from the Edmonton Eskimos, whom he coached to the 2015 Grey Cup title.

After all, Jones had a transformative effect on the Eskimos. He inherited a four-win team and guided Edmonton to records of 12-6 and 14-4 before bolting for Saskatchewan.

Hindsight, always infallible, tells us that it was foolhardy to expect Jones to simply snap his fingers and replicate the success he enjoyed in Edmonton.