For those who’ve been playing football in Winnipeg for a while, the changing colours, falling leaves and dropping temperature is comfortably familiar.

What’s not is a record as cool as the weather.

“It’s been a while,” Willie Jefferson was saying the other day. “If you would have said 6-7 at this time of the year, I’d have said no way.”

Those have always been numbers that describe Jefferson’s height, not his team’s won-loss report.

The Bombers haven’t dragged around a losing record this late in a CFL season since Jefferson came on board in 2019. You have to go back a year earlier to match where they are now.

The 2019 season is the year Brady Oliveira started, too.

Since then it’s been mostly sunshine and lollipops, with records of 11-7, 11-3 (the shortened 2021 season), 15-3, 14-4 an

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