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“That’s what the overall average is of every team in the league, if you combine every record it’s 44 per cent on the road.

And the Eskimos haven’t helped even out those numbers lately. That win in Vancouver is the only one they have to show for their last 10 road games.

Not that Maas & Co. have spent any time looking in the rearview mirror on their way to Toronto this week.

“Ultimately, our goal this week is to win one game. That’s all that’s in front of us,” he said. “So whatever that ends up doing, we don’t care. We just want to win one game.

“We don’t stack wins. We don’t talk about that in here, we just talk about winning games and this week it’s Toronto and it’s 1-0. That’s all our focus is on.”

When it comes to playing in Toronto, the Eskimos are 5-5 over the last 10 years.

“It’s difficult to win in this league. Period,” said Maas, whose overall record as a head coach is 36-26, including 5-2 versus Toronto. “And then you go on the road with different circumstances – it’s excuses, if you ask me – but there’s obviously a reason they call it home-field advantage.”

The Eskimos certainly had one during the Argonauts last visit to Edmonton, where they were shut out 26-0 on July 25, before returning to BMO Field the following week for a 28-27 upset over the first-place Bombers.

So there are certainly no guarantees on the road.

“But we’re going to change things up this week, we’re going to do some different things on the road because we feel like we need to change,” Maas said. “And we’re more focused on ourselves, again, like we’ve talked about. Do more things that we do more at home, which is play games, have a good time and be there for one another