WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are back in the win column after holding off the Toronto Argonauts 40-31 at Princess Auto Stadium on Friday night.<\/p>\n
The Argos pushed late, but the Bombers \u2014 powered by three non-offensive touchdowns in the first half \u2014 built enough of a cushion to survive a three-pick performance from Chris Streveler<\/a> and move to 4-3.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t the follow-up Toronto was looking for after a strong Week 8 win over these same Bombers. With the loss, the Argos fall to 2-6 and sit at the bottom of the East Division.<\/p>\n CFL.ca brings you three key stats from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers\u2019 win over the Toronto Argonauts.<\/p>\n RELATED 2 \u2013 TREY VAVAL RETURN TOUCHDOWNS<\/p>\n When the offence stalls, special teams can provide the spark \u2014 and Trey Vaval delivered twice. The dynamic returner took both a punt and a kickoff to the house in the first half, torching an Argos unit that leads the league in return yards allowed. Both scores were timely, with the first coming immediately after Cameron Judge<\/a>\u2019s pick-six and the second capping a Bombers run of 17 unanswered points in less than two minutes.<\/p>\n With Vaval\u2019s pair of touchdowns, the Bombers were able to mitigate the damage of Streveler\u2019s late interceptions and stay on top as the Argos attempted a daunting rally.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 4 \u2013 WILLIE JEFFERSON PASS KNOCKDOWNS<\/p>\n Simply put, Willie Jefferson<\/a> was in Nick Arbuckle<\/a>\u2018s kitchen all night. The six-time All-CFL defensive lineman notched a career-high four pass deflections and added a strip sack that led to a defensive touchdown. His bulldog mentality at the line of scrimmage had the Argos scratching their heads late, with knockdowns that stalled both of Arbuckle\u2019s potential game-winning drives in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n 8 \u2013 TORONTO TOTAL RUSHING YARDS<\/p>\n After finally breaking out for 116 rushing yards in Week 8, the CFL\u2019s bottom-ranked rush attack fell back to earth on Friday. While the Argos never really got a chance to establish the run, it was too early to abandon it completely after just five carries for eight yards. As Toronto quickly turned one-dimensional on offence, the Bombers\u2019 pass rushers had an easier time pinning their ears back and attacking the pocket \u2014 a familiar challenge for Arbuckle, who entered Week 9 having been sacked a league-high 21 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are back in the win column after holding off the Toronto Argonauts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-41297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00bb Trey Vaval\u2019s two return touchdowns spark Bombers\u2019 win over Argos<\/a>
\u00bb Depth Charts: TOR<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0WPG<\/a>
\u00bb Toronto at Winnipeg by the numbers
\u00bb\u00a0Game Notes: Argonauts at Blue Bombers<\/a>
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