Heartbreak for Winnipeg Blue Bombers again in 3rd straight Grey Cup loss

It was heartbreak and disappointment for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers each implicit again.

The Blue Bombers mislaid successful the Grey Cup for the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth with a 41-24 decision to the Toronto Argonauts. It was the 2nd clip successful the past 3 years the Argos bushed the Bombers successful the title crippled arsenic the Argos claimed their 19th Grey Cup championship, the astir successful CFL history.

The Bombers trailed by lone 4 points to commencement the last 4th but were outscored 24-11 successful the 4th arsenic they came up abbreviated yet again.

“It’s inactive beauteous raw,” said Bombers caput manager Mike O’Shea. “Anytime you don’t triumph your past game, there’s a inclination to presumption it arsenic failure. I don’t cognize astir that. It was a hellhole of a thrust this year, rather a antithetic season. We conscionable didn’t play our champion shot astatine the end.”

And with the emotion written each implicit their face, it appeared their 3rd consecutive nonaccomplishment successful the title crippled wounded a small much than the past two.

“It feels beauteous atrocious each time,” backmost Zach Collaros said. “There’s conscionable truthful galore radical successful the locker country you attraction for, you make heavy bonds with. You enactment successful a batch of time, a batch of enactment together, truthful to not person it spell your mode successful the eventual crippled is evidently tough.”

The Bombers had won 10 of their past 11 games to participate the Grey Cup, but committed 5 precise costly turnovers erstwhile it mattered the most.

“Everybody wants to marque much plays,” said O’Shea. “It was a choky game. I don’t cognize what clip successful the 4th but erstwhile Willie (Jefferson) gets that interception, we get a tract extremity disconnected of that. I deliberation we’re down four, right? And past conscionable couldn’t marque it enactment aft that.”

Collaros had to permission the  crippled concisely successful the 2nd fractional aft injuring his hand. He went to the locker country for stitches and returned with a mitt connected his throwing hand. But Collaros threw interceptions connected their adjacent 3 consecutive bid to descend their chances.

“I don’t cognize if I took a helmet oregon benignant of a manus deed it,” said Collaros. “A small bloody, had to get immoderate stitches successful it. And numb it but it’s not an excuse for our show tonight. And I admit Osh (O’Shea) and the guys for letting maine trying to gut it retired there.”

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“If it was a regular play game, helium wouldn’t person went backmost in,” O’Shea said. “It was a manus injury. He truly had an highly hard clip gripping the shot arsenic helium enactment a mitt connected it connected his hand. That’s not thing helium would usually do. He inactive couldn’t get a existent bully grip connected the shot and walk the mode he’s utilized to passing.”

Collaros finished the crippled with lone 202 yards passing with 4 interceptions.

“I deliberation it was precise hard for him to person the power connected the shot that helium would usually have,” said O’Shea.

Collaros has present thrown six interceptions with nary touchdown passes successful their 3 consecutive Grey Cup defeats.

“Obviously disappointed,” helium said. “Things kinda snowballed there. It’s conscionable tough. It was conscionable a pugnacious situation.”

The Bombers offence ne'er truly recovered it’s groove arsenic the CFL’s astir outstanding subordinate Brady Oliveira had lone 11 carries for 84 yards rushing.

“They made a batch of plays tonight,” said O’Shea. “And we didn’t marque arsenic many.

“When you lose, you’re ever going to privation immoderate plays back.”

A squad from Winnipeg has inactive ne'er beaten a Toronto squad successful the Grey Cup crippled with Toronto coming retired victorious successful each 9 times they’ve met for the championship.

The Argos person besides won successful their past 8 consecutive trips to the Grey Cup.

The Bombers are the archetypal squad successful astir 70 years to suffer successful 3 consecutive Grey Cups with Montreal being the past from 1954-1956.