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The Calgary Stampeders have had a lot of time to digest their disappointing season-opening performance against the Ottawa Redblacks.

Too much time, you might argue.

With a bye in Week 2 of the Canadian Football League season, it was all they could do, really.

Usually after a loss, teams want to get right back to work and start fixing the mistakes they made. That just wasn’t an option, though, and it meant that by the time the Stampeders returned to practice on Monday at McMahon Stadium, everyone around the team was desperate to get back to work.

“Most of (the coaches) came in for a good chunk of the days,” said Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson. “The weather was a bit crappy, so it’s not like people were out enjoying the nice sun. We feel prepared. We know we’ve got a great opponent coming up (Saturday against the B.C. Lions).

“For me, it was kind of like, ‘Hurry up, and let’s go.’ You watch other teams play and you had a loss, you just want to get back on the field and play and work, and I did feel like obviously we were a little bit rusty (Monday), but the energy was good.”