Collaros Returns, Bombers Cull Calgary 33-28 as West Race Hits Week 19 Chaos
** Zach Collaros' return from a two-game head-injury absence steadied Winnipeg's playoff push in Saturday's 33-28 win over Calgary before 32,343 at Princess Auto Stadium. The 38-year-old is 5-4 as a starter this season, completing 70.6 percent of his passes for 2,204 yards, 11 touchdowns and six in
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Winnipeg's max-protection is losing to four-man rushes, and Collaros's scramble throws are masking it.
Against Calgary, a seven-man protection still couldn't give Collaros more than three seconds against a four-man rush before he hit Tim White for 41 yards on the run. That's a structural red flag: if seven blockers lose to four rushers, the Bombers' deep shots are not schemed cleanly. Collaros still has 2,204 yards, 11 touchdowns, six interceptions, and a 70.6 percent completion rate in nine starts this season.
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The Argos' Grey Cup Win Was a Locker-Room Referendum on Chad Kelly
Here's what the confetti in Vancouver hid: when Chad Kelly limped off with that leg injury in the first quarter of the 111th Grey Cup, more than a few Argonauts exhaled. Not because they wanted him hurt — because they finally had permission to win without him. Rewind to May 7, 2024. The CFL dropped a nine-game suspension on Kelly after a former strength coach sued him and the club for harassment. That room split clean. The vets who watched the organization slow-walk the allegations wanted him gone. The skill guys who'd spent the offseason building timing with him wanted him back. And the front office had been warned about the allegations before the lawsuit ever hit the docket — and still handed him first-team reps all spring. Then Nick Arbuckle, a career backup, hung 41 on Winnipeg and t