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By Gregg Xenakes, Associate CFL Editor

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) -

TORONTO ARGONAUTS (3-13) AT EDMONTON ESKIMOS (7-9)

DATE & TIME: Friday, October 30, 9:00 p.m. (et).

GAME NOTES: The sluggish Toronto Argonauts will try yet again to put an end to their lengthy slide this coming week as they challenge the Edmonton Eskimos at Commonwealth Stadium on Friday night.

The Argos have been floundering all season, despite kicking off 2009 with a win against Hamilton and being 2-2 at the end of July. Since then, Toronto has won just a single game, defeating the Tiger-Cats again by a score of 25-22 in overtime on September 11. At this point the program has fallen in six consecutive outings, including a 26-17 final at home versus that same Hamilton club last Friday.

The Toronto offense was shutout in the first half and it wasn't until Kerry Joseph hit Jeff Johnson with a one-yard TD pass in the third that the Argos were even heard from. Joseph later went from one extreme to the other as he completed a 95-yard TD pass to Jason Carter to make the score a little more respectable.

Joseph finished the meeting 14-of-23 for 242 yards, adding a team-best 55 yards rushing on six attempts. Running back Jamal Robertson was held under wraps with a mere 33 yards on 13 carries, one of his worst outings of the campaign. Even though the overall effort seemed a bit weak, Robertson still made a bit of history with a six-yard carry in the first quarter as he became just the sixth player in club history to rush for 1,000 yards in a single season.

As for the Eskimos, losers of four of their last five outings, they were taken apart by the Calgary Stampeders in a 30-7 final on the road. Edmonton, which will play its final two games of the regular season on Friday nights, has been disappointing in games leading into the weekend this season with a record of just 1-4 at the moment. At 7-9, the Esks sit in last place in the West Division heading into action this week.

Quarterback Ricky Ray managed to complete better than 63 percent of his passes against Calgary, generating 239 yards, but he failed to get his team into the end zone even once, leaving them to settle for a pair of Noel Prefontaine field goals instead.

Of the seven players who reeled in passes for Edmonton against the Stamps it was, ironically enough, Fred Stamps who led the way with his six catches