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Assistant coaches for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are only allowed to speak to reporters one day per week.

Usually, that’s not a day they look forward to.

Invariably, the coordinator who’s putting out the most fires is the one called onto the carpet.

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As the Bombers returned to practice, Tuesday, it may as well have been a red carpet Richie Hall walked out on.

The much-maligned defensive signal-caller, already fired numerous times over by the social media machine in his three years in Winnipeg, had a near-perfect game to answer for, in Saturday’s 30-3 road killing of Edmonton.

If the previous two games had provided hope for Hall’s defence, the last one had the effect of a rousing closing argument.

“We created a lot of havoc,” Hall acknowledged. “They did the job, against arguably the best quarterback in the league… they’ve got so much offensive firepower – for them to come out with a dominating performance, that was pretty impressive.”