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Try as they might, battle as they did, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were simply not as good as the Calgary Stampeders on Saturday.

They played well at times, fought hard till the final whistle and put up 33 points, but also had some familiar shortcomings and did not execute in the clutch.

It was an exciting, entertaining football game that featured Winnipeg’s dynamic rushing attack and Calgary’s high-powered passing game.

In the end, the latter won out — it ended 37-33 for the Stamps — and the final result was another loss for a Bombers team that is now 2-5 since Sept. 1 and 10-7 overall.

A once highly promising season has turned into a Grey Cup long shot.

The Bombers are still a good, scrappy football team but they’re not playing at an elite level right now.

Not when they have virtually no passing game to speak of and not when their defence can’t defend well enough against the pass. Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell fed the Bombers secondary its lunch on Saturday and that’s not the first time a top quarterback has done so this season.