invite to camp by one of the worst teams in the NFL.

AT THE BREAK

There wasn’t much separating the two QBs in the first half, as Ricky Ray had completed 13-of-19 for 145 yards while Harris was good on 15-of-19 for 148 ... The Redblacks offence had the ball for 18:30 of the opening 30 minutes.

QUICK SNAPS

New to the playbook of an Ottawa football team is the type of quick-kick Sinopoli attempted in the fourth quarter with the first down marker so far away. Had it worked, the play would have been ingenious. Instead, it was a botched rugby-like move ... Gotta like the nickname given to the Argos defence — The Dreaded ‘D’. Six of the 12 starters wear dreadlocks ... Honoured during a play stoppage in thesecond half was Robert Goulet. A proud member of the Canadian Armed Forces, not the late American singer ...Scouting the game was Mike McCarthy, whose lengthy CFL resume includes the GM title in both Ottawa and Toronto. McCarthy, one of our favourites, is now the director of football operations for Major League Football, a soon-to-start-up spring time, eight-team development league that will be based in Florida and comprised of teams only in the U.S. McCarthy’s bio says he’s now 64 years old, but nobody would guess it by looking at him.

THE POINT AFTER

Nobody would have been concerned that the Redblacks lost Chris Williams to free agency if only Marcel Desjardins would have said he was replacing him with Diontae Spencer. As it looks now, they’ve upgraded in the