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The Bombers (8-2) will face the Saskatchewan Roughriders (6-3) in an important West Division clash at Mosaic Stadium on Sunday. They’ll face the Riders again on Sept. 7 in the Banjo Bowl in Winnipeg, again without Harris and No. 1 quarterback Matt Nichols, who is on the six-game injured list.

They won with the run last week in Edmonton, as quarterback Chris Streveler rushed for 95 yards but threw for only 89.

You get the sense LaPolice is going to try to do more of the same.

“Each week is different,” he said. “Our passing yardage is not going to be as much when I run the ball that much. We may have to throw it 42 times this time, it all depends on the flow of the game. I hate trying to say I have to do this more or I have to do that more. The game usually dictates whether you are throwing it deep, short, all those things.

“Certainly, we didn’t execute well enough last week. We could have had way more yards. We had three drops and we missed in some of the routes. We’ll get better.”

IN THE ‘WIN ZONE’

On the other side of the ball, the Bombers allowed 489 yards against the Eskimos but only one touchdown.

Their red zone defence has been exceptional this season and that’s what matters most.

“The guys just buckle down,” defensive co-ordinator Richie Hall said. “We call it the ‘win zone’ cause that’s where you win football games. Our philosophy is zero, one, three (points) and if you keep them out of the end zone, you’re gonna win a lot of football games.

“We won the game. We look at the points, we look at the takeaways and we look at the yardage as to how they accumulated them. They were explosion plays, including the 75-yard one at the end. We always look at minimizing those gains. We don’t look past them but at the same time, once they got into the win zone, they didn’t get the important yards. They couldn’t get the ball over the goal line.”