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Other than the play of the Tiger-Cats, why couldn’t the Eskimos fire this week like they did last week?

“I don’t know,” said Maas.

“We’ll have to look at the film.

“But we had a couple of injuries that took us out of a few packages that we wanted to get to. And turning over footballs. When you do that, you take yourself out of it. In a game like this, every opportunity matters.”

Two interceptions and two lost fumbles does have a tendency to do you in.

But at a time when there will be great debate about the future of head coach Jason Maas, this game came with the debate of why, when the Eskimos were down by double digits in the second half, they insisted on handing off to Gable up the gut again and again and again.

If you were scoring, it was: plus three, minus four, minus one, plus three, plus two, plus one, plus two and plus three on repeat handoffs to Gable.

It looked mostly like Maas being stubborn like Maas can be stubborn sometimes.

“We’re just calling plays. We’re just doing what we can to keep them off balance,” said the head coach.

“When Mike Gibson and I talk about how we’re going to start a drive and what we’re going to do, that’s the mindset we took. We never expect a play not to work,” he said of his assistant head coach.

“Play calling is not an exact science. It can always go right and it can always go wrong.”

After completing his first 22 consecutive passes for a playoff record last Sunday against Montreal, Trevor Harris threw an interception on his third play from scrimmage and watched former Tiger-Cats running back C.J. Gable turn the ball over on a fumble on his fourth. Those two turnovers led to a field goal and a touchdown and a 10-0 Tiger-Cat lead halfway through the first quarter.