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The job description for the starting safety position with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers should probably start as follows: don’t try to be Taylor Loffler.

Because there simply isn’t another 6-foot-4, 220-pounder who can play the way Loffler did in accumulating three consecutive CFL all-star nods.

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Loffler took his hitting and hardware to Montreal as a free agent, leaving Jeff Hecht and Derek Jones to battle for the gig – and causing some to wonder how much of a drop-off there will be at the position.

The way the two fielded a question about the competition gives a glimpse into their personalities, if not how’d they’d handle the role.

“I love the competition,” Hecht, the 33-year-old, eight-year CFL veteran, said at training camp, Tuesday. “And I hope I’m afforded the opportunity to show that I’m the best man for the job.

“Life is a competition. You either survive or you thrive.”

That’s Hecht, an open book who says what’s on his mind.