Bombers at 4-4, Banged Up: Expect Trade-Deadline and Practice-Squad Moves
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers hit their second bye week at 4-4, but as the club's own site notes, they're "limping into" it "literally and figuratively." The loss to B.C. — which included a fourth-quarter collapse where the defense surrendered 206 rushing yards and a record 377 total — exposed a run-sto
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Bombers’ Pass Rush Is a Two-Man Dependency
Willie Jefferson and Jake Ceresna have combined for 12 of Winnipeg’s 17 sacks — 70.6 percent of the team total — after the Bombers finished last in the CFL with just 23 sacks all of last season. Each has six sacks, tied with B.C.’s Mathieu Betts for the league lead, but the absence of a third consistent pressure source means one injury on the defensive line could collapse the entire rush.
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The Bombers’ “Blur” Is a Locker-Room Cop-Out — And It Stinks
I was in that Winnipeg locker room Thursday night, and let me tell you — hearing Brady Oliveira, Nic Demski, and a half-dozen guys call that collapse “a blur” took more nerve than the fourth-quarter defence did. Blur? Try 206 rushing yards allowed in one quarter. Try 377 total on the ground to a B.C. Lions team starting a rookie quarterback and missing half their O-line. You’re up 19-13 with six minutes left at home and you give up 25 straight points. That’s not a blur. That’s a choke job. Here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud: the offence is the real disease. Oliveira leads the CFL in rushing, and the coaching staff just fed him 33 carries — but the dirty stat is that when he tops 100, the Bombers are 3-4 since last year. From 2021 to ’24, they were 16-1. This zone-run scheme is s