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While the Eskimos sizzled, the Redblacks fizzled. Ottawa got killed in the third quarter. How about this for stats: 12 yards passing and nine yards rushing? Line that up against the Eskimos, who had 117 yards passing and 61 yards rushing. An Ottawa offence led by QB Trevor Harris that looked so sharp in the first half flatlined. Time of Possession was 36:04-23:56 for Edmonton, but the Eskimos had the ball for a whopping 20:48 in the second half. That didn’t give the Redblacks much of a chance to have success.

“We didn’t get off the field on defence and we had a couple of two-and-outs on offence, especially in that third quarter,” said Redblacks coach Rick Campbell. “They had the ball almost the whole time. On offence, we need to stay on the field and not put our defence right back on the field after a long drive. The last two weeks we’ve been pushed around or unable to stop the run.

“We played one winning half of football. Obviously you need to play two halves to get it done. They beat us in the second half, for sure.”

“Anybody who was watching the game would probably be able to figure out we couldn’t stay on the field offensively and we couldn’t get off the field defensively,” said Harris, who completed 21-of-26 passes for 291 yards, but 227 of those were in the first half. “We couldn’t get any traction. It’s unfortunate, this would have been a good one for us to get.”

Ottawa opened the scoring on a 32-yard Lewis Ward field goal 3:32 into the game. He would go on to boot three field goals, extending his CFL record to 43 straight.