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After winning their opener, they’d probably rather just keep playing.

Indeed, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers aren’t treating Week 2 as a typical bye week.

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“Where this one falls, a lot of guys are choosing to stay around here,” quarterback Matt Nichols said. “We’ve got a lot of work to put in and prepare for the next one. So we get a few extra days off, but the guys are going to be around each other and just trying to get better.

“It’s a different approach to this bye week probably than it would be if it was Week 6 or 7.”

Defensive end Willie Jefferson says his family came to Winnipeg this week, so he’s sticking around, too.

“Get this first big Western Conference win under our belt, in a tough place,” Jefferson said. “Now we have a little time to relax, get that training camp off our back, get that pre-season off our back, get this first game off our back. And then another good thing about it is we just beat B.C., B.C. has to go to Edmonton… and Edmonton has to come here.”

After a 33-23 road win over the Lions, the Bombers host the Eskimos a week from Thursday.

Jefferson, Winnipeg’s prized free-agent signing, had a quiet first game, as the defence bent a little but didn’t break against Mike Reilly and the Lions.

“It’s coming along,” he said of meshing with his new teammates. “Not slowly-but-surely, but it’s coming along faster than a lot of people think. It’s gonna be fun. This season’s gonna be fast, this season is gonna be physical. We gonna make a lot of noise.”