Mike O’Shea was asked the other day about the differences between regular-season and playoff football.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach made a hockey comparison, referring to the dramatic difference between puck passion in, say, November, compared to the postseason.

“Football is football,” O’Shea said. “It doesn’t change that much.”

Except for one thing: every football playoff game is like a hockey Game 7.

The Bombers’ boss didn’t stickhandle around that.

“The finality of it is there,” he said. “It looms. So there’s got to be a little more pressure, probably.”

O’Shea’s team has handled that pressure with aplomb the last five years, winning all six playoff games it’s played to reach a franchise-record five consecutive Grey Cup games.

The way it’s handled pressure in recent Grey C

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