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The suspension of an official came as news to Reilly following Tuesday’s practice at Commonwealth Stadium.

“I honestly hadn’t followed it, haven’t heard anything about it,” said the quarterback, who also suffered a helmet-to-helmet hit from Calgary Stampeders defensive lineman Ja’Gared Davis, making it two in his last two games, both of which went unpenalized. “I’ve said it since I started talking to you guys that they have a very hard job and they do a great job.

“It’s like anything else. We come out here and we play football, and we try to execute our plays as best we can, and we’re going to make mistakes. Anybody that has a job has challenges, and there are going to be mistakes that are made, and whether that was or not, I don’t know what the league’s stance was on it.

“Those guys are always doing their best to try to protect us back there, so I try not to worry about those things and, more often than not, they do a great job.”

But two in a row makes for a disturbing trend that becomes even more concerning if the league isn’t being transparent in its reprimanding of officials, thereby admitting a mistake was made.

Still, the Eskimos aren’t blaming anyone but themselves for their losses.

“That’s unfortunately part of football sometimes,” Reilly said of the back-to-back non-calls. “And we always try to worry about the things that we can control. Certainly, in these last two games there were those situations, but there was also stuff that we could have and should have done better on our own part, which would have made the result of the game different. Those are things we can control, that we can do better, that we need to do better.