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“We’ve got a quarterback who has played eight quarters and that’s it,’’ said head coach Marc Trestman of an offence that could not finish off drives in the opening half. “We have to grow with him. He’ll tell you he could have made some throws in the first half that could have finished drives.

“But on the other side, he made some big throws when we needed to make them. That’s a work in progress. We’re rebuilding and our roster is fluid right now.”

It was a tale of two halves, the first featuring too many field goals and no touchdowns, from an offensive perspective.

Defensively for the Double Blue, Lulay was given too much time to throw.

Overall, there was a lack of discipline.

In the second half, that changed and the Argos persevered, much as they did when Ottawa came to town and built a 24-point lead only to see Toronto storm back to score the game-winning touchdown with one second left on the clock.

Saturday’s matchup also went down to the wire, B.C.’s final play featuring Emmanuel Arceneaux catching an underneath pass, running up the middle and trying to kick it down the field for game-tying single as time expired.

On B.C.’s penultimate series, Marcus Ball appeared to have put the game away for the Argos. On second and long, the veteran linebacker intercepted Lulay at the Lions’ 38 and ran it back inside the 25 before inexplicably dropping the ball. B.C.’s Chris Rainey recovered, giving the Lions not only possession again, but a fresh set of downs and 2:25 to work with.

Ball made amends a few plays later when he recovered an Arceneaux fumble as the teams combined for the rarest of football’s version of a turnover hat trick.