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Argos 28, Redblacks 21

TORONTO — Their CFL playoff hopes are officially dead — the thinnest of threads the Ottawa Redblacks were hanging to have vanished.

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Even with some gadget plays pulled out of their bag of tricks, the Redblacks fell short again Friday night at BMO Field. The latest in a disturbing series of defeats — the Redblacks have now lost 12 of their past 13 games —was 28-21 to the Toronto Argonauts. While both teams now have three wins, Ottawa is technically in last place, the worst team in the CFL. Give Ottawa credit, though, it showed plenty of fight down the stretch. And, it recovered two onside kicks in the game.

Quarterback Will Arndt, in his first CFL start, showed flashes — he made enough good throws to merit at least another start, throwing two touchdown passes (he completed 28-of-42 passes for 288 yards). But he also threw three interceptions.

“It’s disappointing,” said Redblacks coach Rick Campbell. “I like that we had fight in us, but we have to have more than fight. Our margin for error is very little. You can point to four or five plays in the game where — give credit to them — they made some plays and we didn’t. That’s why you come up short.”