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The Ticats play host to Edmonton on Thursday night as the Eskimos look to avenge a home loss to Hamilton, while the Argos are in Montreal for a Friday night matchup against the woeful Als. Take care of business in Montreal and the race in the East tightens.

Then, if the Argos can do likewise against the Ticats when the two teams stage their home-and-home set, they will have a winning record, something they could not accomplish at any point last season.

No matter how one breaks it down, it’s been quite the turnaround for the Argos. Despite back-to-back one-point victories, they know they must get better in all three phases of the game, particularly on offence where slow starts precipitated the need for second-half comebacks.

“Last week, we got in our own way in the first half,” said quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson. “We’ve gotta build and not do that next week, obviously, if we want to have a chance to win. We can’t win every game by a point.”

In theory, the Argos can continue to walk this delicate tightrope, but they would do themselves a huge favour by not continually falling behind early. Lack of discipline and execution, absent awareness on special teams when fakes are attempted, finishing off drives, creating duress on opposing quarterbacks, there are plenty issues that must be ironed out.

But at least they have given themselves a shot by fighting back in wins over Ottawa and B.C.

Head coach Marc Trestman will glean more about his team when he and his staff break down the Lions game film. From there, they’ll make adjustments and react to the roster once the injury report is completed.