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WINNIPEG – Maybe it isn’t strange that the Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers have completely foregone the trash talk that generally accompanies any game in which two teams are playing for a third time in a season.

Maybe there’s just no bad blood between the Stamps and Bombers, as unlikely as that seems.

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Or maybe the stakes are just too high.

“I think we both want to be in the same place, and that’s the top of the West Division and the top of the CFL,” said Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell. “The way we get there is following in the footsteps of the guys who coach our teams and run our teams.

“That’s the way (Stamps president/GM John Hufnagel and head coach Dave Dickenson) deal with things, they don’t come out here and talk about the other team and how bad they are and how we’re going to attack this guy or talk down their all stars.

“We have a lot of respect for those guys for a reason, because they are guys who can ruin football games. When you have guys on the other side like that, you don’t want to do anything to motivate them.”