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MISSISSAUGA – With the health of Cleo Lemon still up in the air, first-year Argos quarterback Dalton Bell is preparing like this is his time to show both his current and former team what he has to offer.
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Argos quarterback Dalton Bell addressed members of the media Tuesday afternoon as he discussed the possibility of starting against his former club, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, on Saturday.
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“I’m going to go in and prepare as if I were going to start,” said Bell. “If I don’t start, I know the team will do well with Cleo. If I do, I don’t want to let this team down. I want to take the opportunity and run with it.”
Should Bell see action on Saturday when the Argos take on Saskatchewan, it will be a fitting debut for the West Texas A&M product who would be facing a Roughriders squad that traded him to Toronto in the off-season.
Despite his time spent there, Bell points out that the advantages of having faced Saskatchewan’s scout team do exist but they are marginal.
“It is a little bit of an advantage and you know the personnel a bit but practice is one thing and games are a different thing.”
The Argos made the aforementioned trade with the ‘Riders in hopes that Bell could one day be a premiere pivot in the CFL. According to head coach Jim Barker, those expectations haven’t changed.
“Dalton is a guy that we brought here because we thought that he could be a starting quarterback, and if this is the week that he gets his opportunity than we are going to see where he is at.”