Winnipeg at Ottawa Game Thread- Thursday June 13, 2024

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Winnipeg will travel to Ottawa to kick off Week 2 of the CFL Season.

The game starts at 7:30 pm EST with TSN pregame at 7 pm.

Here are some fun facts found in the media notes for tonight’s game;

  • All-Time Gm #83: This game will be the 83rd in their rivalry played across 1961 to 2024 when CFL ‘interlocking’ play began. Winnipeg leads 49 wins to 32 (one tie) and have won 25 of the 43 games played at Ottawa (25-18).
  • The Redblacks and Bombers played each other once in 2023 with Ottawa winning 31 28 at TD Place. The win was their first over Winnipeg since 2018 and snapped a 5-game losing streak vs the Blue Bombers. The 19 point comeback matched Ottawa’s largest (also from -19 pts in 2017 at BC) since a 23 point comeback in 2005 vs Montreal.
  • Dru Brown: Starts 2024 as Ottawa’s #1 QB after 3 seasons in Winnipeg. He has 3 career starts and is 2-1 overall.
  • Dru Brown - A Remarkable TD Rate: Brown brings a 14 career TD passes in just 153 attempts. Though early for his career, that is an incredible 1 TD in every 10.9 pass attempts. Since 1960 among ALL QBs with 150+ passes, that is #1 all-time. Winnipeg’s Jim Van Pelt (40 TDs, 460 Atts) is #2 at 1 in 11.5 passes. For context, Zach Collaros has 1 in every 18.4 atts.
  • Season Opening Defeat - Back to 2012 & 1999: The loss last week was the first time since 2018 that the Blue Bombers dropped a season opener. They won in all 4 openers from 2019 to 2023. It was their largest season opening loss since a 17- point defeat to BC in 2012. It was Winnipeg’s largest season opener loss AT HOME since 1999.
  • Bye in Week #1: The Redblacks did not play in Week #1 - that was their first Week #1 bye since 2018.
  • Looking for 3 in a row: The Blue Bombers won their final two road games of 2023 and look to make it 3 in a row. They have won 4 of their last 5 visits to Ottawa.
  • Experienced Ottawa Roster: The Redblacks’ roster is full of CFL experience to start 2024. They have just 7 first-year players and 32 members of their roster have played at least 30 career CFL games.
  • Success vs the West in 2023: All 4 of Ottawa’s wins last season came against West Division clubs. They were 0-10 vs the East.
  • Dalton Schoen: Has made at least one reception in all 35 of his career regular season games
  • ‘Return’ of Devonte Dedmon: Dedmon played just 2 games last year due to injury and looks to rebound in 2024. In 24 career games to date, he has 5 career kick return TDs already (3 punts, 2 kickoffs).
  • Brady Oliveira: Went over the career 3000 yd rushing mark last week with 38 yards on just 11 carries. In the 2nd Half of last week’s game, he made just 2 carries for 3 yards.

I hope everyone enjoys the game!

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My first in-person CFL game was July 3, 2014 in Winnipeg- the RedBlacks’ first regular season game.

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Hope the weather cooperates. Looking like a thunder storm rolling through just after game time.

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Pretty easy for the Bombers to build off lastweek.

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Just cooked up some burgers & some Honey Brown, ready for the game!
Man, what’s with the Thursday nighters though? FNF is so much better.

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Kates back!

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I’d take Demski or STrev for an anytime TD
I also think there might be a pick 6…

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Those new REDBLACKS look good :eyes:

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I hope the Bomber D can contain Brown, you know he’s gonna want to do as much as he can, and run when he can

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Those RB unis look sharp! Wish they had white pants, though.

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Oh man, possible TStorms? We just had multiple tornadoes in Southern MB lastnight
Edit: Not sure why I quoted myself here…

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Rent on that side of those apartments must be double the other side, lol

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Yep Dedmon is gonna have a huge game.

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I’m good with it!

Anyway, part of me feels like they should play through horrible storms for a few minutes so as to test those waters.

“Danny would do it!”

This is an old pirate saying about pirate legend Lieutenant Dan, who no doubt would not only approve, but also play in those conditions just like when he could in his day before Viet Nam.

But I’m okay with them stopping for tornados or multiple lightning bolts or ball lightning, of course.

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What a play by Ford

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Yup, nice correction there

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#45 for WPG is down and hurting bad. Hope its not serious…

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Oh man. what a year…

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Hala. Jeffcoat’s replacement. It doesn’t look good.

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We only have Adams as the backup at DE

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