Courtesy Winnipeg Sun:

Terrence Edwards has a message for all you Bomber fans who are doubting this team going into the CFL playoffs: Don’t worry about it.

When asked after Friday’s 20-17 win over the Montreal Alouettes if the Bomber offence wasn’t cooking at a hot enough temperature heading into do-or-die season, the team’s leading receiver said yes, but …

“It’s a concern, but if we win the Grey Cup in that fashion are people going to ask these same questions,” Edwards said, “like, ‘You won the Grey Cup. Was it an ugly win?’ No. It’s a win. It’s a win, it’s a win.”

The man has a point.

Prickly mood

Slotback Milt Stegall had a similar reaction when pestered about the team’s sluggish offence in the second half of the win over the Als, whom the Bombers will host again in this Sunday’s East Division semifinal.

“We won the game,” Stegall said, clearly annoyed with the questioning.

Stegall was in a prickly mood likely because he dropped three passes against the Als a week after putting two on the ground in their loss to the Toronto Argonauts that ultimately cost them first place.

Do you really think, however, that Stegall is going to have slippery fingers three weeks in a row? Pigs are likely to fly before that happens.

Quarterback Kevin Glenn, meanwhile, has fallen back into that is-he-good-enough category in the eyes of some Bombers boosters, even though he is the East’s most outstanding player this season.

Glenn completed only 132 of 251 passes (a 53% success rate) for eight touchdowns and nine interceptions in his last seven games.

He didn’t throw a touchdown in his last two matches, and he passed for fewer than 200 yards in each of his final three.

Bombers head coach Doug Berry said Glenn deserves a break, considering his receivers dropped 12 passes in the last two games.

“Kevin Glenn’s numbers look not so good,” Berry said, “but goodness, add six completions to each of the last two games, and who knows what happens to the offence if they’re able to keep drives alive.”

Glenn, meanwhile, is doing his best to take the pressure off his pass catchers.

“They know what they did,” Glenn said. “Let’s get over it and get past it. It happens. I’m just one of those guys that’s like that. I don’t like to dwell on things.

“Hopefully we don’t have that kind of thing going on in the playoffs, but if we get help from our defence like we did (Friday) night … they played a tremendous game.

“When you do have miscues or something, then you get help from other aspects of the team, and that’s what we did (Friday) night. And that’s how you win games — as a team.”

Glenn’s correct.

The defence is playing well, and the maligned special teams showed some life on Friday with a punt block that eventually turned into a touchdown.

The offence is also expected to get Charles Roberts back from injury this week, which will only help the situation.

Although they lost four of their last seven, the Bombers have shown they have the talent, and they are tough at home in the post-season, boasting an 8-2 record in their last 10.

So there’s plenty of reason for optimism, Bomber fans. Just don’t think about the fact that Winnipeg is 3-15-1 in Toronto since 1995.

You can worry about that next week … as long as there is a next week.