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Before Vernon Adams Jr. became the talk of the town as the Alouettes’ starting — and winning — quarterback, he was a 23-year-old rookie in 2016. And Anthony Calvillo was the team’s quarterbacks coach.

Adams started the final three games that season — all victories — although the Als already had been eliminated from the playoffs.

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“He showed a lot of poise when he was with us. He was young,” said Calvillo, in his first season with Université de Montréal, where he coaches the quarterbacks and is the assistant head coach under Danny Maciocia. “I remember as a young quarterback, when we had him, he was always very poised, a student of the game and knew where he needed to go (with his reads). He did the preparation.”

While Calvillo hasn’t seen much this season of the team he quarterbacked for 16 years, leading Montreal to three Grey Cup titles, he knows they have a 5-4 record halfway through the schedule, and Adams was the starter in each of those victories.