took first-team reps in the team\u2019s practice on Tuesday<\/a>, after starter Jake Maier was benched in Saturday\u2019s 26-23 loss to the Toronto Argonauts. Bethel-Thompson threw for 192 yards and a touchdown in relief as Ottawa lost on a walk-off field goal.<\/p>\n\u201cThis game can be very cruel sometimes, it was a very cruel ending to what could\u2019ve been something very promising,\u201d said Bethel-Thompson after the loss. \u201cJust disappointed I played my role in the trials and tribulations of this tough season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maier has 3,139 yards, 14 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in 12 games this season, his first in Ottawa after being brought over from the Saskatchewan Roughriders.<\/p>\n
The Redblacks have lost 18 consecutive games dating back to last season, but have some positives to build off heading into the road matchup at McMahon Stadium, as Saturday\u2019s three-point loss was their best performance since a two-point loss to the Blue Bombers on July 19. Their average margin of defeat in the five games between the two narrow losses was 21.2. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no moral victories when your backs are against the wall like this,\u201d Bethel-Thompson said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t get that zero, that goose egg off the board, it means nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Redblacks currently hold the second-longest losing streak in CFL history, trailing only the Ottawa Senators\/Rough Riders mark of 25 games from 1928-32.<\/p>\n
\u201c[A win] would mean everything, man,\u201d Bethel Thompson said. \u201cJust to get the weight off our shoulders, just to stop (people) talking about us; everyone is adding more weight to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust get the goose egg off our shoulders and not be some stupid mark on the long history of this. We just have to block out the outside noise and continue to go to work and chop wood.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Redblacks have six more games this season to earn their first win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Stampeders and Ottawa Redblacks will clash on Saturday in a game between two teams in desperate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,84068,48,521,522,520,89888,82],"class_list":["post-896911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary-stampeders-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-112939","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-ottawa-redblacks-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-88019","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896911","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=896911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}