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“The second half, we just came out in the same exact place, same schemes, it was just players making plays out there. We decided we didn’t want to go home with another loss. It was critical. The defence stepped up, the offence put points on the board and we just came together as a unit.”

It was a timely turnaround that couldn’t have arrived soon enough for the rookie, who was playing in his first full starter’s role at short-side defensive halfback in place of Marcell Young

“I knew coming into the week I was going to start,” Peters said. “Marcell had hurt his hand in the last game, so I got to pretty much play that whole second half and this game, I just prepared my mind and myself.

“It’s so ironic because my mom’s birthday was this past weekend and she came to the game. She had already planned it like months ahead of time, so it was pretty cool.”

With his mom up from the family home in Atlanta for her first live CFL experience, the Canadian gridiron certainly felt less foreign. But Peters already had a little taste of home at his side throughout his inaugural CFL campaign in the form of fellow Eskimos rookie and SAM linebacker Kenny Ladler.

“We grew up together from little kids, played little league and in school,” Peters said. “We just went to different colleges and ended up here.

“It was my first start as a rookie, so having Marcell there and the guys to pick me up, it just felt awesome.”

It’s an all-for-one-and-one-for-all approach that could earn the Eskimos locker-room the nickname of The Three Eskiteers, if it wasn’t for the fact there are 46 of them on the roster.