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WINNIPEG — This year, it starts early.

This year, because of Mark’s CFL Week, it starts now.

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Normally in this situation, the core players of the team from the Grey Cup host city don’t get the questions until the start of training camp.

Now they get to deal with the pressure of playing for the host city of the Grey Cup in March instead of June.

The 106th Grey Cup will be played in Edmonton this year, and expectations are going to be high for the only team in the league that has made it to a division final four straight seasons but only made it to and won one Grey Cup in that span.

So as the Eskimos involved in the 53-player CFL Week “car wash” made their way from each one-on-one interview to the next, they found themselves dealing with it before Easter.

“To me, it’s all built-in,” said all-star defensive lineman Almondo Sewell. “For me, I know I would hate to have somebody sit in my locker for the Grey Cup game in my own city. I’ve already thought about that. I mean, I live across the street from the stadium. Having the Grey Cup there is going to be amazing. So the pressure is on. Bring it on.