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There are other disturbing stats: Ottawa’s net offence of 304.4 yards per game is worst in the CFL and so is its 5.3 average yards per play. With 11 offensive touchdowns, the Redblacks are tied for worst with Toronto and with 143 first downs they’re ahead of only the Argos.

“It’s as simple as saying when you get down there, you have to score in the red zone — that’s a big thing,” said Sinopoli. “And you have to have sustained drives. Last game, we had longer drives, but we don’t want to settle for, ‘OK, we had a couple of nice drives,’ and that’s it. We have to have drives and we have to finish them. We had a couple of big plays last game, something we’ve been lacking. Hopefully we can get a couple of those.”

Campbell said it’s not just a matter of getting the ball into Sinopoli’s hands.

“We need to get the ball more to a lot of people, not just Brad,” he said. “We want to up our numbers, period. We can’t force it to Brad, but we need to be aware of where he is and moments where we can get it to him. That’s through playcalling and making sure we’re making an effort to get him the ball. We don’t want to force it in there, but we definitely want to get it to him more. We can all make each other look good. If everybody starts functioning at a higher level, everybody looks good.”

PRUNEAU SPEAKS: Last week, two days before the Redblacks faced the Eskimos, DB Antoine Pruneau took some jabs Edmonton QB Trevor Harris, his former teammate, in an interview with this newspaper’s Tim Baines (yep, that’s me). The story got plenty of local attention, it ticked off a lot of people in Edmonton and it was discussed a lot on TSN’s national broadcast. Pruneau said, “It doesn’t make (Harris) a bad person, but I didn’t like the fact sometimes he was pointing fingers at other guys. Sometimes, it’s tough to expose yourself to critics. I’ve always been my toughest judge so I expect teammates to be the same way — look at yourself first. If you have something to say, keep it down low.” Asked on Wednesday if he had any regrets in talking about Harris, a teammate for three seasons in Ottawa, Pruneau said, “No. I knew people would see it, but I didn’t think it was as big of a story as it was. When you take shots at somebody like that, you know there are going to be repercussions. I stick to what I said. I said a lot of good things about Trev, too, but none of that was retweeted.”