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It seemed like the perfect cocktail when the Alouettes assembled at Bishop’s University at the end of May for the start of training camp.

They finally had their veteran quarterback who would be there from the beginning. Sure, Kevin Glenn historically had been a .500 pivot — the kind of guy who would win a team as many games as he would lose — but he was the best they had. He wasn’t Anthony Calvillo, but he was a step up from sophomore Rakeem Cato and rookie Vernon Adams.

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Receivers Duron Carter and Kenny Stafford returned; Carter coming off a one-year stint of sitting on the Indianapolis Colts’ bench and Stafford from the Grey Cup-champion Edmonton Eskimos. They would combine with Tyrell Sutton, the Canadian Football League’s leading rusher in 2015, along with a defence that had been the team’s strength a year before.

And holding it all together would be general manager Jim Popp, who would return as the Als’ head coach — although he’d had limited success, at best, in that capacity throughout the years — for “stability and harmony,” the team’s catchphrases that ultimately would implode on the organization.