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“By that I mean we have to be ready to play at a high level, play in, play out. I thought there may have been a little bit of tiredness the first game, but not as much as I saw. Guys fought through. We hit a wall at some point.”

There’s no doubt the Argos took it on the chin, shin, shoulder, elbow, knee or just about any part of the anatomy.

Chamblin wants his players to feel the pain.

“Hopefully they remember that and they don’t run away from it,’’ he said. “That’s what I told the guys. A lot of people are saying let’s move forward. Yes, you want to move forward, but you don’t cover it up. You look at it and you let it serve as a reminder.

“It’ll always be there and you have to use it as a catalyst moving forward. If that happens and there’s a setback then you’re not mentally strong. No matter the magnitude, there’s going to be setbacks. We’re going to talk about, day in, day out, not by how big we lost but how we lost. It’s about finishing every play, finishing every quarter, finish the game.”

In hindsight, Chamblin admits he and his staff did not do a good job in the days leading up to the season opener by not honing in on the fundamentals of tackling.

“Like anything else, we learn from it,’’ said Chamblin, whose team also was guilty of bad ball security.

Without getting into the details, he did saw how there was some good to emerge.

“But not as much as the ugly and the bad,’’ continued Chamblin. “The film work we did (Tuesday) involved the ugly, bad and good. We made sure we showed that. When we were where we needed to be good things happened. We just have to make sure we apply them consistently over time so we can end up in the end zone and keep our opponent out of the end zone.”