Winnipeg leaned on its backfield and a pair of trick-play touchdown runs from a backup quarterback to bury Ottawa for good.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers<\/a> pulled away in the second quarter and never looked back, beating the Ottawa Redblacks<\/a> 33-21 at Princess Auto Stadium. Winnipeg improves to 6-4 and stays in the thick of the West race, while Ottawa drops to a brutal 0-10 with no end in sight.<\/p>\n Box Score<\/p>\n Team<\/p>\n Q1<\/p>\n Q2<\/p>\n Q3<\/p>\n Q4<\/p>\n OT<\/p>\n Final<\/p>\n Ottawa Redblacks<\/a><\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n 9<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n 21<\/p>\n Winnipeg Blue Bombers<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n 20<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n 10<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n 33<\/p>\n See full player stats and game details<\/a><\/p>\n Game Highlights<\/p>\n Top PerformersWinnipeg Blue BombersOttawa RedblacksTeam Stats<\/p>\n Stat<\/p>\n Ottawa Redblacks<\/p>\n Winnipeg Blue Bombers<\/p>\n Total Yards<\/p>\n 341<\/p>\n 343<\/p>\n Passing<\/p>\n 28\/45, 314 yds, 2 TD<\/p>\n 23\/33, 249 yds, 0 TD<\/p>\n Rushing<\/p>\n 8 att, 27 yds, 0 TD<\/p>\n 16 att, 94 yds, 3 TD<\/p>\n Turnovers<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n Quick Hits<\/p>\n Ottawa actually out-gained Winnipeg’s air attack and finished with more passing yards, but three rushing touchdowns from the Bombers made the difference.<\/p>\n Bryce Perkins came in as a change-of-pace piece and scored twice on the ground on just four carries \u2014 a wildcat wrinkle that worked exactly as drawn up.<\/p>\n Maier threw for 314 yards and 2 TD in the loss, proof he can still put up numbers even when the record says otherwise \u2014 worth keeping an eye on for anyone still rostering him.<\/p>\n What’s Next<\/p>\n CFL Standings<\/a> | Full Schedule<\/a> | League Leaders<\/a><\/p>\n What’s your takeaway? Drop your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg leaned on its backfield and a pair of trick-play touchdown runs from a backup quarterback to bury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-859273","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\/859273","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=859273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}