Collaros sacked seven times, Argos snap Bombers win streak

For the archetypal clip since July, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers person tasted defeat.

Zach Collaros was sacked 7 times by a ferocious Toronto Argonauts defence arsenic the Bombers fell 14-11 Friday nighttime and their eight-game triumph streak came to an end.

Winnipeg fell to 10-7 connected the play and was incapable to clinch apical spot successful the West, but tin inactive bash truthful this week if  Saskatchewan loses to B.C. Saturday.

After respective encouraging efforts successful caller games, the Bombers offence fell flat, getting held to nether a 100 yards of nett offence successful the archetypal half, portion uncovering the endzone conscionable erstwhile the full night.

But contempt the offences struggles they inactive had a accidental to triumph the crippled successful the dying moments. Collaros dove for the gait instrumentality connected a 3rd down, past accidental effort, but aft a measurement, it was determined helium came a fewer inches abbreviated to crook the shot implicit connected downs.

“I don’t cognize what they’re look astatine regarding the situation if my ft was retired oregon not,” said Collaros. “I was intelligibly past the enactment if my ft wasn’t retired and I couldn’t archer connected the surface if my ft was out.”

The Bombers challenged the telephone but it was held up upon review.

“I disagreed with the spot, obviously,” said caput manager Mike O’Shea. “But it’s precise hard astatine that constituent the mode they people it.”

The Bombers finished with 322 yards of nett offence with Collaros passing for 249 yards with 1 interception connected a hail mary connected the last play of the game.

“We got to marque plays earlier successful the game,” Collaros said. “There’s opportunities to instrumentality a pb determination successful the archetypal quarter. Defence and peculiar teams did a large job. Offensively, we got to decorativeness drives, people touchdowns, not crook the shot implicit successful the people zone. All those things, right.”

It was the archetypal clip the Argos swept the play bid with the Bombers since 2015.

It was besides a uncommon off-night for Bombers kicker Sergio Castillo, who missed 2 tract goals. And the Bombers near a batch of points connected the tract aft besides getting stopped connected an Argos extremity enactment stand.

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“Better 2nd half,” said O’Shea. “Not bully capable successful the first. We’ll look astatine it time and makes immoderate corrections and distant we go.

“I thought we had opportunities to people points and we didn’t, but past again our defence took distant immoderate of their opportunities too. Both defences, I thought played beauteous dam good.”

Bombers moving backmost Brady Oliveira had a overmuch quieter nighttime than we’re utilized to seeing arsenic the Argos, with the league’s apical ranked tally defence, held him to conscionable 64 rushing yards connected 12 carries.

“They’re a bully defence, man,” Oliveira said. “They got a large antiaircraft line.

“They got large linebackers. I said it during the week. They’re a large defence and we knew we had a large situation successful beforehand of us. But we got to thrive successful those situations. We recognize the portion that we got and astatine the extremity of the day, we conscionable didn’t play bully capable I would accidental successful the archetypal half.”

With the win, Toronto moved to 9-7 connected the play and clinched a playoff spot.

It was the 4th consecutive sellout astatine Princess Auto Stadium. The Bombers’ full location attendance this play volition decorativeness astatine 280,497 fans, an mean of 31,166 per game. Both marks are single-season franchise records.

The Bombers present caput into a bye week, earlier closing their regular play successful Montreal against the Alouettes connected October 26.