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If the trend continues for the Edmonton Eskimos, Kelly Bates is going to have a busy year.

Recently hired as offensive quality control coach with the club for which he once played offensive lineman, his new job will focus on an Eskimos offence that has led the Canadian Football League in net offence the past two years under head coach Jason Maas.

But what exactly does a quality control coach do, again?

“A little bit of everything,” Maas said. “There are reports, there are drawings, assisting the position coaches with their daily routines, getting ready for meetings, prepping film breakdowns.

“A quality control guy is a Jack of all trades, really. There’s a defined role and a defined set of things he has to accomplish on a week-to-week basis, but he’s assisting with the assistant coaches and with me as the head coach, daily jobs we have to do to accomplish our goal.”

In other words, whatever needs to get done.