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1. Oliveira - stepped in mid-game and decided to take it over. 2. Mourtada - NO ONE came into this game with more pressure on him, with no teammate to cover for him if he missed an assignment, and he came through. We won by 10 points and he accounted for 14. Still holding my breath when he lines up, but he got the job done tonight. 3. Bighill - Jefferson is still the game-wrecker, even if he disappears on some plays, and Jeffcoat has a higher ceiling of big play ability, but no one has been as consistently excellent this year. The glue of the defence. HH - Kenny Lawler caught a pass that got called back on a blocking penalty, then dropped one before converting a 2nd and 20 with a huge downfield catch on a broken play. Two Harris touches later and the Bombers took a lead they would not relinquish. Big turnaround play when the offence had little traction in the first half.

Let’s hope so. So far O’Shea says all the right things with the “we are looking to go 1-0 next week”. But lots of teams don’t repeat, and the sense of urgency isn’t there like the pressure of 29 years of losing. So I don’t want to say they would never party, but it certainly would be out of character for this crew.

Second half, TOP 18:20 to 11:40 Bombers and the run game (with one big play) and our usual 4th quarter D put it away.

Shitty? God it must be tough getting out of bed in the morning living such a downcast life. We are 9-1, our defence is among the best ever, our special teams came through today, we are in the playoffs, and our run game took over the second half. Step back off the ledge, we are in excellent shape. After 29 years of futility, we should all be doing cartwheels this season.

First day here?

Bombers are in the playoffs!!!!!!!!

So for all the gamblers, the point spread was 12.5. FG?

His points were the difference in the win tonight. He did not save his job tonight, but he did more to keep it than lose it with this effort.

Collaros not having an MVP game tonight.

Great effort by Grant to get this extra yards down the sideline.

Why DBs are not receivers. Oh God, Suitor just copied me!

Give up the single and take the yardage. Still a one score game either way.

Well, the first one is a big one against the L’ks.

Redemption bowl so far. Dropsie Rasheed Bailey and wide right Mourtada rewarding the coach’s patience and faith in them

Wow, run your mouth all week and you drop THAT??????

Tied after 3. This is a new look for the Bombers, let’s see if they rise to the challenge.

Collaros still underthrowing on his deep balls.

Brady running with purpose tonight. Hitting those holes quickly and assertively.

Grant has not made our return game appreciably better yet. Time to look at the blocking schemes.

Bombers don’t seem to be fooled by any reverses this year. Great pursuit.

Nah, he just did not listen to the fan boards.

Bombers got away with a huge hold on that missed end zone pass to Lawler, but the RTQ makes it a moot point anyway.

They are 7-0 when having more possession time in a game, and in those games their average was 33:55 to 26:05 against. Their one loss they lost time of possession by 39:46 to 20:14, and the only other game they lost the TOP battle was the Calgary win where it was 27:07 to 32:53 against. So far tonight it is essentially dead even (we are down by 4 seconds). Yes we make some big plays, but it is not typically a quick strike offence, and our defence gets the opponents off the field pretty quickly. We’ll see what adjustments are made and if our defence can wear them down.

Bomber game plan is time of possession and attrition. Wear down the other side with run game and punishing D, and then pull away in the second half.