Blue Bombers agree to terms with veteran defensive lineman Jake Ceresna

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Their poor performance against the top teams in the West is the marker I always look at, 0-3 against the Stamps in which 2 games were not close, 1-2 against the Riders, with their win coming in a meaningless late season game in Wpg. or they'd have been 0-3 against them too.  They got lucky with the Lions and beat them twice early in the season before Rourke found his game, a late season matchup might have been ugly. 

Games against the East are never as definitive, but if they can't win the season series against their Western opponents, the odds of advancing in the playoffs are poor.

This is closest to the truth. If you want to look at results for the defense, look at how well they faired against top teams game to game. Or even the better zone reading QBs. Arbuckle embarrassed our zone coverages mid way though the season. It never really got any better against the QBs who could do that.

The defense did have their moments, they played really well in a home game against Hamilton late in the season (as just one example) but it really was a middling year for the unit overall and for that reason, JY needs to have a good year. It shouldn't be hard for him if he's half a good as some of you think he is.