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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ quest to end the CFL’s longest Grey Cup drought picks up stakes and heads to the nation’s capital on Friday.

In Ottawa they’ll try to do something a Bombers team has done just once in the past 15 years: jump out to a 3-0 start.

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They last did that in 2014, Mike O’Shea’s first season as head coach.

Unlike then, when they lost eight of their last nine and finished 7-11, these Bombers look for real.

Not playing anywhere near their best game, they’re still winning.

Three games in, you’d expect they’ll start showing what they really have.

“Effort’s been there,” O’Shea said on Wednesday. “But, obviously, we’d like to really ramp up the execution and have a game that’s really clean in that regard.”

This one’s a peculiar matchup at the key position.

Matt Nichols vs Dom Davis was never much of a competition in Bombers camp. And when the Redblacks said Davis was going to replace the departed Trevor Harris (to Edmonton) heads were scratched from coast to coast.