You can watch the Argos take on the Lions LIVE on TSN1\/4, TSN.ca and the TSN App, with coverage starting at 10p.m. ET \/ 7p.m. PT on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\nThe veteran Arbuckle took about 60 per cent of the reps with the starters at Thursday\u2019s practice, ahead of Jarret Doege, who started last week\u2019s loss to the Montreal Alouettes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, Jarret still got about 40 per cent of it but I was shocked Nick was moving around as good as he was,\u201d head coach Dinwiddie said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how (Wednesday) is going to go. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf he\u2019s full strength like he was (Tuesday), I anticipate him being our starting quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Argos (5-9) had a three-game winning streak snapped by the Als and have a renewed sense of urgency as they try to keep their slim playoff hopes alive. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just told the guys \u2018Great fight, we\u2019re not dead yet,\u2019\u201d Dinwiddie said following the 21-19 Week 16 loss to Montreal. \u201cWe\u2019re down, that was a tough loss. \u201cBut at the same time I think it kind of bonded us together a little bit. We\u2019ve got four games, we\u2019ve probably got to win all four.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toronto sits third in the East Division behind the Alouettes (7-7) and Hamilton Tiger-Cats (9-5). <\/p>\n
The Lions (7-7) have won two straight and four of their past six games, behind an offence that has averaged 39 points over that span.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Nathan Rourke continued his excellent season last week against the Calgary Stampeders, throwing for 331 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for another three scores. The Victoria, B.C., native has now gone over 300 yards passing in five of his past six games and sits third in the CFL in passing yards with 3,935, trailing only Arbuckle (4,089) and Bo Levi Mitchell (4,194). <\/p>\n
With his performance against Calgary, Rourke also broke Russ Jackson\u2019s record (3,641) for most passing yards in a season by a Canadian quarterback.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m doing whatever it takes to help this team win, and I\u2019m one of 12, and so I\u2019m happy to be able to be a Canadian and have success in this position, and I am happy to be part of Canadian football, which I think is very bright at the moment,\u201d Rourke said after last Friday\u2019s 52-23 win over the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n
The last meeting between the teams was a high-scoring 52-34 win by the Argonauts in August. This meeting should once again provide fireworks as the Lons boast the CFL\u2019s best offence (30.7 points per game), while the Argos allow a league-high 31.3 points per contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Argonauts will have their starting quarterback under centre as they visit the BC Lions Friday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,87800,49,48,521,522,520,82,79102],"class_list":{"0":"post-170879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-bc-lions-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-93775","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-canadian-football-league","13":"tag-canadianfootballleague","14":"tag-cfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toronto-argonauts-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-122345"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}