CALGARY — Most yards produced, most points recorded. But in the bottom-line world of pro football, all of the Argos’ offensive efforts amounted to yet another loss, the team’s fourth in as many games.

In an early season when so much has gone so wrong, anything worth highlighting is viewed as good.

McLeod Bethel-Thompson threw for a career-high 388 yards in the Peg, but the quarterback knows he must be more fine with his throws and exercise better judgment when reading defences.

Admittedly, he forced a ball in the end zone intended for Derel Walker, which was picked off.

A second pick would follow, but this one wasn’t on Bethel-Thompson, but rather on Canadian slotback Llevi Noel, who should have secured the football and not allow it to go off his hands.

And then came a failed short-yardage sequence after Alden Darby Jr.’s interception, prompting James Wilder Jr. to show his frustration — which was justified — when the Argos came up short on back-to-back quarterback sneaks from the one-yard line featuring backup Dakota Prukop.

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“They all want that opportunity to change the game,’’ head coach Corey Chamblin said of the frustration shown by Wilder Jr. “We’ve had several opportunities and it doesn’t come down to one opportunity.

“That’s just part of this game. You want guys with fire and passion, emotion. We have to make sure it’s directed in the right way and not end not scrounging for points.”

In Regina, the Argos were backed up on their side of the field facing a third and short.

Chamblin decided to call in the punt team.

Wilder Jr. expressed his frustration.

When B.C. came to BMO Field, the Argos went for it on third and short, but Wilder Jr. came up short on a run play.

While there was some improvement offensively in Winnipeg, the hole the Argos dug themselves was far too daunting, despite the season-high 21 points they scored.

The host Bombers had 21 points in the first quarter.

Walker came close to having a 200-yard receiving game, while adding two touchdowns.

“I don’t think it’s just about Derel,’’ Chamblin said. “I know we’ve been talking about it for the past couple of weeks (lack of Walker’s involvement in the offence). There are a lot of guys and it’s just not about him.

“I’m happy because there were a lot of positives in all three sides. There were more negatives, of course, the biggest being the scoreboard. Biggest thing is we’re starting to function as an offence. He’s (Walker) a key part of the offence, but not the only part, and we’re starting to function.”

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By making a change in the ratio following the release of American kicker Drew Brown, the Argos were able to dress Brandon Burks.

On the first play to begin the second half, the Argos handed the ball to Burks out of the backfield.

He gained 12 yards, but fumbled as Winnipeg recovered the loose football.

“We added Burks to the mix and we have to get this thing going,’’ Chamblin added. “We had our highest output, but we have to finish off drives. We have to play complementary football.

“We’ll continue to work until we put this thing together and turn this into a winning football team.”

Bethel-Thompson knows he can’t afford any lapses.

“I was not a good quarterback at the wrong time for this team (against Winnipeg),’’ he said. “We’ll be better. We know what we can be better.”

Quarterbacks lead and Bethel-Thompson must find a way to keep this team moving in the right direction without players going their separate ways, which can happen when the losses begin to mount.

“We have to get out of our own way,’’ Bethel-Thompson said of an Argos team that turned the ball over five times against the Blue Bombers. “I think we have to go back to the drawing board. We know we have 14 more games left. The other teams aren’t going to stop showing up. We have to show up and be the team we want to be.

“It’s going to take a lot of leaders, it’s going to take everyone in the locker room being together seeing the team we can be. When we become that team it’ll be fantastic. Right now we’re not playing that way. It’s not pretty.”

Indeed, it hasn’t been pretty.

Pretty ugly, if you get right down to it when summing up this start.

They Argos must play clean, fundamental football in all three phases.

It’s nice to rack up yards and go on a long scoring drive that requires only three plays, but no team can afford to yield an opening game kickoff return for a touchdown and commit the amount of errors the Argos were guilty of and come away with a win.

No chance.