Dru Brown's RPO Read and the Late Breakdown That Cost Winnipeg 30-28
Dru Brown's fifth start in place of Zach Collaros (six-game injured list) opened like a blueprint: two early touchdown throws, a touch-pass score to Dorian Singer, and a 22-yard catch-and-run to Tim White working the middle of Toronto's secondary. The six-yard rushing touchdown was the tell — a quar
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Dru Brown's Red-Zone Menu Is Three-Dimensional
In his fifth start for the injured Zach Collaros, Brown threw two early touchdowns—one to Dorian Singer on a touch pass and one to Tim White on a 22-yard catch-and-run—then added a six-yard rushing score. That's three distinct red-zone stressors: QB mobility, slot fade, and middle-of-field YAC. Toronto's defense had to defend the goal line and the intermediate middle, which is why Winnipeg scored 28 in a one-score loss.
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Collaros's Six-Game Stint Is Winnipeg's QB Handoff in Disguise
Dru Brown made his fifth start Friday night and carved up Toronto's secondary for two early touchdowns — one to Dorian Singer on a touch pass, one to Tim White on a 22-yard catch-and-run — plus a six-yard rushing score on a read nobody in the building saw coming. Final score: Argos 30, Bombers 28, in front of 32,343 at Princess Auto Stadium. Zach Collaros watched it from the six-game injured list, where he landed "earlier this week." Here's what nobody in that organization will say on the record: the six-game is the CFL's favourite accounting trick, and Winnipeg just used it to buy a graceful transition. Brown is 29. Collaros is 38 in a league that eats 38-year-old quarterbacks for breakfast. The offence has looked faster and more vertical in five starts, and the receivers know it — White