{"id":953552,"date":"2026-10-31T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953552\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:40:47","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-advance-to-eastern-final-with-late-comeback-win-against-toronto-argonauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953552\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers advance to Eastern Final with late comeback win against Toronto Argonauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Winnipeg Blue Bombers got their offence in gear just in time, coming from behind late to defeat the Toronto Argonauts 25-22 Saturday in the Eastern Semifinal on the road at BMO Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nic Demski hauled in a long touchdown pass from Dru Brown in the final minute as the Bombers pulled off the upset without starting QB Zach Collaros, who did not play because of a rib injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They will hit the road to take on the Montreal Alouettes with a trip to the Grey Cup on the line next weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Bombers struggled on offence all day and trailed 19-10 in the third quarter, but made it a one-score game on a scoop-and-score by David Reese. Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/cfl\/article\/argos-qb-kelly-exits-eastern-semifinal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/cfl\/article\/argos-qb-kelly-exits-eastern-semifinal\/\">suffered an apparent arm injury<\/a> on the play and was replaced by Nick Arbuckle midway through the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crossover team entering the CFL Playoffs after a 9-9 record during the regular season, Winnipeg gets set to take on an Alouettes team that finished with the best record in the CFL this season at 14-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Saskatchewan Roughriders will take on the BC Lions in the Western Semifinal later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Blue Bombers got their offence in gear just in time, coming from behind late to defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-953552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","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\/953552","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=953552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}