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<\/p>\n\u201cHopefully it motivates us to keep it going. We know each game from now on is a playoff game for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Redblacks fell to 0-13 to become only the second team to start a season with 13 straight losses after the Shreveport Pirates in 1994.<\/p>\n
Redblacks quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson threw five touchdown passes in his first start for Ottawa, which lost a second straight game on an opposing field goal. <\/p>\n
Bethel-Thompson cited Greek mythology\u2019s Sisyphus to describe the team\u2019s state \u2014 pushing a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it nears the top.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes anybody know the story of Sisyphus?\u201d the 38-year-old quarterback asked. \u201cCan\u2019t say it any other way, right? We\u2019re right there at the top. Think you\u2019re getting the boulder over the top, down it goes rolling, so it\u2019ll challenge us. <\/p>\n
\u201cTake these lessons, take this hardship, and not go against each other, and not go against yourself, and come out of this stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Redblacks host the Stampeders on Saturday in the second game of a home and home.<\/p>\n
Ottawa led by a point with 72 seconds remaining. Calgary\u2019s offence got to Ottawa\u2019s 45-yard line, but quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. was penalized for throwing to an ineligible receiver to drop 10 yards. <\/p>\n
A missed throw to receiver Tevin Jones left the game on the leg of the 41-year-old Paredes, who hit a 57-yarder earlier, but said he would have missed if not for a tailwind. <\/p>\n
Paredes had a breeze behind him again. He drilled the ball through the uprights.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was walking off the field, I said, \u2018I believe he\u2019s going to make it,’\u201d Adams said. \u201cI said \u2018God, give us a little bit of wind\u2019, he did, and that\u2019s what it was, so I believed from the jump.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the CFL\u2019s 2026 record book, the longest field goal made in the CFL was 63 yards, by both Saskatchewan\u2019s Paul McCallum (2001) and Winnipeg\u2019s Sergio Castillo (2025).<\/p>\n
When Paredes threw his helmet in celebration, he nearly cracked the helmet on his quarterback\u2019s leg. Adams was already hobbling after an offensive lineman rolled on his ankle in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWasn\u2019t sure Rene had 62 in his leg,\u201d Stampeders head coach and general manager Dave Dickenson said. \u201cWe needed it. It was a bit of desperation mode. Obviously didn\u2019t play perfect football or anything like that, but really needed that win and we got it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calgary\u2019s Quincy Vaughn scored a pair of short-yardage rushing touchdowns and Jones and Jalen Philpot each caught touchdown passes from Adams, who finished 28 for 41 in pass attempts for 357 yards. He was intercepted a fifth time in as many games after a clean sheet in his first eight starts.<\/p>\n
Paredes also produced field goals from 23 and 19 yards, plus four convert points, in front of an announced 20,113 at McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n
Bethel-Thompson, who came off the bench to generate five point-producing drives in the previous week\u2019s 26-23 loss to Toronto, compiled 379 passing yards and was picked off once. <\/p>\n
Keelan White caught three of his touchdown throws and Justin Hardy and Kalil Pimpleton the other two. Kicker Brett Lauther missed a field-goal attempt from 43 yards, but was good from 37 yards and added five convert points.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel like the win\u2019s been coming for a few weeks,\u201d Redblacks head coach and GM Ryan Dinwiddie said. \u201cThe guys are fighting. I don\u2019t think they quit. I don\u2019t think they quit all year. Now are we making plays we need to make? No.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have a win at this stage, I\u2019m surprised we don\u2019t have full-out brawls in the locker room, so those guys have been sticking together and I appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Stampeders were minus top rusher Dedrick Mills (hip). Deonta McMahon came off Calgary\u2019s practice roster for the game and rushed for 102 yards. <\/p>\n
Calgary led 17-14 at halftime. Temperature at kickoff was C 22 with winds gusting to 44 km\/h. <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n
Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHopefully it motivates us to keep it going. We know each game from now on is a playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-904076","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\/904076","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=904076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}