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Led by Jesse Lumsden's 189-yard, two-touchdown rushing night and Casey Printers' smooth-and-patient quarterbacking, the sadsack Ticats looked like a different kind of team: a suddenly dangerous one. The Argos, in contrast, who drew 30,822 for the biggest home-opener head count since 1992, were stunningly ineffective for much of the night. Kerry Joseph, the starting quarterback coming off a championship season in Saskatchewan in which he ran for about 43 yards a game, looked only slightly more mobile than Michael Bishop, the backup QB, and Bishop spent the entire evening standing on the sideline.
Photo: Former Florida A&M University quarterback Casey Printers lead the Tiger-Cats to a 32-13 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on the road (photo courtesy JOHN SOKOLOWSKI).
The Ticats, meanwhile, attacked with an efficient use of both ground and air, Printers making good on 16 of 23 for 171 yards passing. And it made one wonder how a team that looked positively disorganized a week before – turning it over three times in ceding Montreal the early momentum – could look so estimable. Printers and Lumsden ran zone-read fakes with convincing precision. Lumsden, held to 36 yards on nine carries in the opening-week loss, rushed for 86 yards in last night's first half alone, and the Ticats – who got 75 rushing yards from Tre Smith – tallied 313 yards on the run all told. Lumsden leant two hands on another key play, helping to push Printers into the end zone after Printers – in a quarterback sneak not far from the goal line – hit the wall and needed a little more oomph on his second-effort thrust for six points.
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