Bombers' 7-6 Tie With B.C. Sets Up a Week 21 Roster Reckoning
Winnipeg enters the final five weeks at 7-6, deadlocked with B.C. in the West's crowded middle behind Saskatchewan (8-5) and well back of Edmonton (10-3). The season series is the tiebreaker, and the Bombers sit on the wrong side of it: B.C. took the first meeting by 16 points, with the rematch set
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Winnipeg's Hardrick Exit Was a Cap-for-RB Trade, Not a Loss
When Jermarcus Hardrick left for Saskatchewan in 2024 free agency, the Bombers backfilled right tackle with Eric Lofton on a cheaper one-year deal and redirected the savings to Brady Oliveira. Oliveira responded with a league-leading 1,353 rushing yards and 7 rushing TDs, winning Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Canadian. Media framed Hardrick's departure as an OL downgrade; the transaction wire shows it was a deliberate cap reallocation.
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Chris Jones Buried the Only QB Who Won Games in Edmonton
Everybody remembers the 22-game home losing streak. The real story is the quarterback room in the winter of 2024. Chris Jones ran Edmonton like a fiefdom — GM, head coach, defensive play-caller, all of it. So when he handed McLeod Bethel-Thompson the Week 1 job over Tre Ford, that wasn't a football decision. It was a power move. Ford, the eighth-overall pick in 2022 out of Waterloo, went 4-3 as a starter in 2023. Every other Elks quarterback that season went 0-11. He was the only reason anybody in that building could look at the standings without flinching — and Jones still buried him. Edmonton opened 2024 with seven straight losses. Jones was gone in late July, Jarious Jackson taking over on an interim basis and Geroy Simon sliding into the GM chair. Ford started, the offence woke up, C