Five Pressures, Five Rookies: How Harris Beat Winnipeg's Young Secondary
Winnipeg's Labour Day loss starts with one number: five quarterback pressures on 33 Trevor Harris dropbacks — a 15.2 percent pressure rate, well below the league's typical range. When a four-man rush can't get home, defensive coordinator Jordan Younger has to send extra bodies, and that is precisely
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Winnipeg's Pass Rush Is Failing, Forcing Younger Into a Coverage-Blitz Bind
The Bombers generated just five quarterback pressures on Trevor Harris' 33 dropbacks, a 15.2 percent pressure rate. With three first-year DBs seeing significant snaps—Major Williams, Ridge Texada, Trey Vaval, Jake Kelly, Jaylen Smith—Younger admitted that committing more to the rush isolates them. Harris exploited that trade-off, averaging 10.97 yards per attempt (362 yards on 33 throws) and 15.7 yards per completion.
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The Riders Cut Cody Fajardo on Valentine's Day. Nine Months Later He Lifted the Cup.
Here's what nobody in Regina wanted to say out loud in 2022: Cody Fajardo wasn't the problem. The offensive line was. Saskatchewan gave up more sacks than any team in the league that year, Fajardo was gutting through a shredded knee, and Craig Dickenson still let the narrative calcify that the quarterback had lost the room. February 14, 2023 — Valentine's Day, of all days — they cut him. The tell was Jason Maas. Maas was Fajardo's offensive coordinator in Saskatchewan in 2022. He watched the film every single week. He knew exactly how many free rushers were coming clean. So when Montreal hired Maas as head coach in December 2022, one of his first asks to Danny Maciocia was: go get Cody. Maciocia did. Nobody in the East blinked. November 19, 2023. Tim Hortons Field. Fajardo throws for 290