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“And I think that’s what happens.”

And it sure beats the alternative: Not winning for stretches.

“When you lose a lot and you haven’t won, you are constantly at practice, it’s gone days, now weeks, now a month before you’ve tasted victory,” Maas said. “And trust me, we try to preach here if you only get satisfaction out of winning, you’re doing the wrong things, because you should enjoy practising and grinding and working hard.

“But at the same time, that gets very difficult when you’re not winning as well, because then you start questioning things and wondering about how you’re doing things and you want to start changing. That’s human nature.”

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One loss won’t interrupt the way things are being done around Commonwealth Stadium these days.

“The fact that we just work and we do things and we’ve been doing it now for a year-and-a-half here and it’s been working out, you feel good about the process and about coming to work every day and not having to question anything,” Maas said. “And you get buy-in from all the guys.

“So, the consistency you get, the good feelings you get from winning as much as we have this year, that’s the benefit you get from (a win streak) more than anything.”

For the majority of the Eskimos’ locker-room, it was the first loss since the 2016 East Division final.

“Yeah, it’s been a while,” quarterback Mike Reilly said. “This is certainly not the first time I’ve lost a game, so it’s not uncharted territory, but it is disappointing every time. But that’s how football goes.