Bombers Freeze Roster for Must-Win Week; Rourke's Injury Status Is the Only Roster Lever That Matters
Winnipeg enters Week 21 at 8-9 with no roster churn to report — no signings, no cuts, no practice-squad shuffling surfacing on the CFL transactions wire. That silence is the story. Mike O'Shea's club dropped a 35-27 decision to Edmonton last week and now faces elimination, with its nine-year run of
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Collaros’s Must-Win Week Exposes a Zero-Start QB Contingency
Collaros is 37 and Winnipeg is 8-9 in a win-or-go-home Week 21, yet the Bombers’ transaction-wire answer at QB has been Shea Patterson and Terry Wilson, not a veteran starter. Patterson has CFL starts but no playoff starts; Wilson has none. That is a deliberate roster bet media hasn’t priced into a must-win game.
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The Riders Scapegoated Cody Fajardo — Then He Won a Grey Cup Without Them
Remember September 2022? Saskatchewan opens 4-1, then the wheels come off. Cody Fajardo gets pulled in the Banjo Bowl for Mason Fine, Jason Maas gets stripped of play-calling before October, and the Riders finish 6-12. Behind closed doors the locker room split clean down the middle — a chunk of veterans believed Fajardo was getting hung out to dry by a staff with no answers on the O-line, while football ops had quietly decided the quarterback was the problem. Jeremy O'Day released him in February 2023. No trade, no thank-you card, just a door. Fourteen months later — Nov. 19, 2023 — Fajardo is hoisting the Grey Cup in Hamilton, Grey Cup MVP, after beating Winnipeg 28-24, while Saskatchewan watches their former QB do it from the couch. Here's the take: the Riders never had a quarterback p