Because we almost exclusively handed the ball off after the Bailey touchdown to kill the clock. Our game plan was situational based on being up a touchdown. If we were down a touchdown the play calling would have reflected that (just like how when it was tied, we threw a deep ball to Bailey).
Edmonton wouldn’t have scored anymore points because they didn’t when they actually needed to. They were down by a touchdown and still weren’t able to score when they absolutely needed to, so it’s fair to say that even trying their hardest to score they weren’t able to. If anything, their playcalling would have been more conservative with the lead just like ours was.
Does this mean that the Bombers would have come back had they been down by seven? No, not necessarily. But they did score ten points after what may have been a Grymes pick six from fairly similar field position to where a good kick return could have gotten them, so it’s certainly not out of the question that they could have done that.
These are pretty simple concepts to understand…