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“I thought Jon played lights out the other night,” praised head coach/GM John Hufnagel. “He ran hard. He had the one mistake and put the ball on the ground, but I’m very pleased with Jon’s play.

“The one thing that we haven’t done is break a long one, but we are getting to the second level. They’re putting people around the box also, so it’s a bit tougher. The year is yet young; now we’ll have to make more adjustments on the offensive line, but I’m OK with our running game right now. Usually after we run the football on first down, it’s a manageable second down, and that’s important.”

“Overall, I wasn’t really cognizant of how many yards I had until the end of the game,” said Cornish, who finished with 56. “But off the bat, we had a few mistakes and that cost us a bit of run-game momentum. It’s one of those things you can keep improving on. We’re maybe one step away from having a run game where we want it to be.”

The 30-year-old — the defending three-time CFL rushing champ — would love to go for a long romp as well.

“Soon enough,” he promised. “I’ve definitely been relearning to be a football player. Last year, the year before, I had a lot of easy times running behind a slightly different offensive line. But you have to go with the guys you’ve got and I really look forward to playing with these guys.”

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Hufnagel, not one to mince words, made the ultimate compliment to special teams man Adam Thibault after the Toronto game.

‘Out of this world’ was how he described the second-year player out of Laval.