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There will be no Toronto Argonauts sweep of Saskatchewan in 2026.<\/p>\n
In front of a sold-out Mosaic Stadium, where 33,350 seats were filled for the CFL’s biggest crowd of the season, the hometown Roughriders used a noisy fan base to expose a few leaks in the Argonauts’ boat en route to a 28-24 win.<\/p>\n
Reminiscent of a 12-round boxing match, the opening quarter featured the teams feeling each other out by trading short touchdown passes. <\/p>\n
Then the bout went from jabs to haymakers when Toronto quarterback Chad Kelly connected with Damonte Coxie for a 58-yard-hookup to set up a second Tyler Kahmann touchdown catch for a 13-7 Argo lead early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
But Toronto had trouble holding the momentum. Botched converts were especially problematic for the Argonauts in this game, resulting in a four-point swing.<\/p>\n
After the second Toronto touchdown, receiver David Ungerer was caught on the wrong sideline, creating an illegal substitution penalty that marched the Point-After-Touchdown back 10 yards, resulting in the kick hitting the upright and the Argos missing out on a single point.<\/p>\n
Then later, after a third Toronto touchdown, Argo kicker Brady Lidster’s kick was blocked by Mike Rose and returned 79 yards the other way by Marcus Sayles to give the Roughriders another two points.<\/p>\n
Argos head coach Mike Miller says it would be unfair to blame the loss on his special teams unit.<\/p>\n
“It really doesn’t come down to one play,” Miller said.<\/p>\n
“It changes the cosmetic of the game but we still have to overcome it. We had opportunities to do that and we weren’t able to.”<\/p>\n
Chad Kelly, who went 28-of-38 passing for 416 yards with three touchdowns and one interception for the Argonauts, took some big hits in this game, including a pair of sacks, and had to leave momentarily in the third quarter, being relieved by backup Nick Arbuckle.<\/p>\n
Kelly, who revealed after the game that he suffered a broken toe, blamed the defeat on self-inflicted wounds.<\/p>\n
“I think we had seven two-and-outs today,” Kelly said.<\/p>\n
“On second-and-long, you’re trying to find the hole, right? And it might take a little longer for the hole to develop and you might have to hold [the ball] a little longer. They have a good defensive line and they’re very well coached. They have great players up front.”<\/p>\n
Trailing 24-21 just before the three-minute warning, the ‘Riders lined up for an 11-yard field goal attempt to try and tie the game when Argo Tarvarus McFadden jumped offside, sparking a roar from the capacity crowd and giving Saskatchewan a fresh set of downs to set up a Tommy Stevens two-yard touchdown run to give the hosts a 28-24 lead.<\/p>\n
For the Roughriders, quarterback Trevor Harris and receiver KeeSean Johnson rediscovered a rhythm that had been missing in their back-to-back losses before this game, connecting 10 times for 146 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Part of a 313-yard passing night for the quarterback who credited the supporting cast of other receivers for making it possible.<\/p>\n
“Dhel [Duncan-Busby] made some big plays tonight. Shemar [Bridges] made a couple big catches and then we had [D’Sean] Mimbs make a big catch on second-and-15 to keep a drive alive,” Harris said.<\/p>\n
“So everybody was kind of doing their part.”<\/p>\n
Head coach Corey Mace suggested earlier in the week his team needed this game to prevent a two-game skid from deteriorating into something bigger. He saw the urgency from his squad.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was more visible in the second half,” Mace said.<\/p>\n
“I thought we were doing some really good things in the first half but the ball just didn’t fall our way in certain situations.”<\/p>\n
The next game will be on Sunday, Sept. 6, when the Riders host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-877185","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\/877185","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=877185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}