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1. DEFENSIVE DUTY

Following a bad quarter one week earlier against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats where they allowed three touchdowns on three straight snaps, the Eskimos have only allowed one TD over the past seven quarters. And as much as Tevaun Smith’s 17-yard catch at the back of the end zone with no room to spare put the Eskimos ahead in the fourth quarter, a tremendous open-field tackle with even less room before the first-down marker by defensive back Money Hunter kept them there as they hung on to win a game where they were taking nothing for granted. That much was made apparent during a final snap they ran 35 yards backward into their own end zone to literally run out the clock. They are expecting to have to earn absolutely everything from here on out.

2. RED-ZONE REDEMPTION

On Saturday, the Eskimos scored touchdowns on both of their visits to the red zone, which is an area where their offence has come under much scrutiny over the season. In the games Logan Kilgore has started over these past two weeks, however, the Eskimos are four-for-five in touchdowns on drives that have reached the opposing 20 yard-line. And that’s head and shoulders above the 53 per cent success rate on the season, having scored 20 touchdowns in 38 visits.

3. SACK ATTACK

The Eskimos won the sack battle 6-2 Saturday, with takedowns registered by Mike Moore, who led with two, Vontae Diggs, Don Unamba, Nick Usher and newcomer Mathieu Betts. The rookie draft pick now has two sacks in two games since joining the Eskimos after spending the NFL pre-season with the Chicago Bears. That puts the Eskimos back on top of the CFL’s sack race at 43 on the saeson, giving them a lead of one ahead of a Saskatchewan Roughriders defence that has a game in hand.