It was just one of those games.

The Winnipeg offense couldn't get into any sort of rhythm.

The Blue Bombers defense didn't come up with the big stop.

Even Justin Medlock was held to just one field goal.

The end result was a 23-10 loss to Ottawa Saturday at Investors Group Field as the Redblacks clinched first place in the CFL's East Division.

How bad was it?

“Not good,” said Winnipeg head coach Mike O'Shea. “All three phases, Ottawa took it to us.”

Henry Burris, who completed 23-of-33 passes for 338 yards, had an one-yard touchdown plunge with one minute left in the first quarter and Mossis Madu ran in from three-yards out two-and-a-half minutes into the second quarter.

The Redblacks were successful on both two point conversions and the Blue Bombers just couldn't cut into that deficit.

“I felt like we were kind of fighting it trying to get the energy level up but it wasn't where it needed to be,” said receiver Weston Dressler. "That's what got us to where we were when we were playing good football is high energy level, high sense of urgency, just tremendous focus through all that while maintaining that energy. We need to get back to that.”

Burris tossed just one interception and Winnipeg linebacker Maurice Leggett said the defense wasn't in sync.

“That's not us. Even if the offense is doing well or struggling, what we do is take the ball away and we didn't do that. We weren't aggressive like that.”

Winnipeg quarterback Matt Nichols was picked off three times.

His lone touchdown pass was a five-yarder to Darvin Adams with 10 seconds left in the game.

Andrew Harris, who ran for 98 yards and caught eight passes for 41 yards, was asked if it was alarming that the football team put up that kind of performance this late in the season.

“Rather now than two weeks from now,” answered Harris. “That's the beauty of this. We have another week to come back from this. It's how you enter the playoffs. We have another game to get better and I have full faith that we're going to bounce back from this during the week. It starts tomorrow on our recovery day and for the rest of the week to get it going.”

Winnipeg will play it's regular season finale Friday, November 4th in Ottawa.

The Bombers (10-7) are two points back of the B.C. Lions (11-6) who hold down second place in the West.