Bombers' 7-7 Skid Meets Injury Crisis as O'Shea's Room Thins Before Montreal
Winnipeg's Tuesday practice report read less like a lineup card than a triage sheet: seven non-participants — Nic Demski (ankle), Jarell Broxton, Jake Ceresna (knee), Michael Fletcher (illness), Nuer Gatkuoth (foot), Matt Jaworski (elbow) and Tanner Schmekel (illness) — plus Brady Oliveira (ankle) a
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Winnipeg's Defensive Line Is Down to Scraps
Of the seven Bombers who didn't practice Tuesday, five are defensive linemen: Jake Ceresna (knee), Michael Fletcher (illness), Nuer Gatkuoth (foot), Matt Jaworski (elbow), and Tanner Schmekel (illness). That's a 71% concentration of non-participants in one position group, and it comes as Winnipeg (7-7) prepares to face Montreal (11-3) — the CFL's second-best record. The front seven is being held together with tape.
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Calgary Traded a Future MOP for a Fourth-Rounder and a Vibe
February 14, 2023. Valentine's Day. The Stampeders ship Bo Levi Mitchell to Hamilton for a fourth-round pick in the 2024 draft. That's the whole return. A two-time Grey Cup champion, the face of the franchise for a decade, for a fourth-rounder. The press release said "transition." The building said something else entirely. Here's what was actually happening: by October 2022, Dave Dickenson had already made the call. Bo got benched for Jake Maier, and the room split — half the vets still believed in No. 19, half the staff wanted the cheaper, quieter, more coachable guy. The whisper around McMahon was never about the arm. It was that Mitchell had started running the offense in meeting rooms, and a quarterback who thinks he's a coordinator wears thin on a coordinator who thinks he's a quarte