TORONTO \u2014 The Battle of Ontario kicks off a Saturday doubleheader as the Ottawa REDBLACKS take on the Toronto Argonauts in the ToonieBet Rivalry Game at BMO Field.<\/p>\n
Toronto fell to Winnipeg, 40-31, in Week 9, while Ottawa secured a 31-11 win over Calgary.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the second matchup between the division rivals this season after the Argonauts won 29-16 back in Week 4.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s three keys to victory for both teams ahead of Saturday\u2019s 3:00 p.m. ET kickoff, which can be watched on TSN, RDS and CTV in Canada, CBSSN in the U.S., and CFL+ internationally.<\/p>\n
RELATED OTTAWA REDBLACKS<\/p>\n 1. DRU BROWN\u2019S FIRST LOOK<\/p>\n It was Dustin Crum<\/a> under centre when these two met in their first matchup. This time around, Dru Brown<\/a> will take the reins as he tries to add to his 1,303 passing yards and seven touchdowns. He\u2019s no stranger to the Argos, as he threw for 749 yards and five touchdowns in two starts against them last season.<\/p>\n 2. EUGENE LEWIS<\/p>\n Justin Hardy<\/a> is in the lineup despite missing parts of this week\u2019s preparation while dealing with a back issue. To help lessen the load, head coach Bob Dyce can turn to Eugene Lewis<\/a> and Bralon Addison<\/a>. Lewis caught five passes for 113 yards against Calgary and ranks sixth in the league in receiving yards ahead of Week 10 action.<\/p>\n 3. GIVE DRU BROWN TIME<\/p>\n Brown is going to have his hands full with an Argos secondary surrendering the second-fewest passing yards per game at 251.3 coming into the week, so making sure he has the time to go through his reads is imperative. Ottawa has allowed 17 sacks, third most in the league. It\u2019s an offensive line that remains without Zack Pelehos<\/a>, so Peter Godber and Dariusz Bladek<\/a> will have to pick up the slack.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n TORONTO ARGONAUTS<\/p>\n 1. DAMONTE COXIE COMING ON<\/p>\n Damonte Coxie<\/a> came into the week leading the league with 774 receiving yards, but was overtaken by Hamilton\u2019s Kenny Lawler<\/a> on Thursday. Coxie is averaging 96.8 yards and has put up 145 and 187 in his last two games.<\/p>\n 2. BETTER ON SPECIAL TEAMS<\/p>\n Toronto fell victim to a pair of return touchdowns by Winnipeg\u2019s Trey Vaval last week on a punt and kickoff. While they\u2019ll miss return man Devonte Dedmon this week, Kalil Pimpleton<\/a> still can do damage when given open space. It\u2019s the Argos\u2019 special teams\u2019 job to make sure quarterback Dru Brown<\/a> starts his drives in less than favourable field positions.<\/p>\n 3. THE RUN GAME<\/p>\n The Argos rushed for eight yards on five carries against the Blue Bombers last week, a total that has to be unacceptable to head coach Ryan Dinwiddie. Given quarterback Nick Arbuckle<\/a> is giving his team a chance in the pass game, Deonta McMahon<\/a> and Khalan Laborn<\/a> need to find a way to do the same on the ground.<\/p>\n NEED TO KNOW:<\/p>\n It\u2019s the final matchup of the season between the Ontario rivals.
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\nKickoff is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. ET, and can be watched on TSN, RDS and CTV in Canada, CBSSN in the U.S., and CFL+ internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Battle of Ontario kicks off a Saturday doubleheader as the Ottawa REDBLACKS take on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-57119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57119","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=57119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}