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On paper, the numbers are daunting.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have allowed fewer sacks than any team in the CFL.

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The Toronto Argonauts, over the same period, have fewer sacks than any defence in the league.

Put the two together and it appears Zach Collaros is going to have all day to pick apart the Argos.

But the game of football is not, nor ever has been, played on paper.

Yes, the Argos are well aware of their shortcomings in the department of putting quarterbacks on the turf, but that doesn’t mean it will always be that way.

To date, the Argos have been credited with 13 sacks total. Far and away the least of any team in the league.

Saskatchewan has allowed just 15 all year, five fewer than any other club.

Cleyon Laing is Toronto’s team leader with four, which ties him for 10th in the CFL.

Neither Laing nor defensive co-ordinator Mike Archer offer up excuses when the subject of their inability to get to oppossing quaterbacks is brought up, but there have been contributing factors.