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Certainly Jason Maas must now be coaching from the edge of a cliff.

It’s not the time to push him off the ledge but he has to recognize he’s put himself there to give himself one last chance to reel himself back.

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The conundrum involving Maas is that he clearly does have the ability to be an excellent coach. But he continues to allow the environment for players to take selfish major penalties that keep costing his team games. Like the ones that turned the Labour Day Rematch game around and resulted in a third straight loss and a fifth straight to the top team combination of Calgary and Winnipeg and they have yet to play either of the other top two teams, Hamilton or Saskatchewan.

After an excellent start, a pair of major penalties on the same down followed by the continued lack of discipline that has defined Maas’ coaching career here — eight penalties for 88 yards in the first half — did his team in again Sunday in a 33-17 loss to the Stampeders in a third sweep of the Labour Day series in Maas’ four years as head coach.