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In professional sports, the only thing harder than winning a championship is repeating the feat the following year.

Obviously, the Edmonton Eskimos would like nothing more than to raise Canadian football’s grail once again, which is the same ultimate end goal for all eight other teams in the league every year.

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That goes without saying

But the big question for the reigning Grey Cup champs heading into 2016 is, what has to happen in order for it to be considered a successful season?

“Just play our brand of football,” Ed Hervey said on a conference call Wednesday, during the annual CFL season preview series. “You go out there and play hard, play consistent, play the kind of football that we expect.”

The thing is, those expectations have skyrocketed since going 4-14 in 2013 to finish in last place. In the two years since, former head coach Chris Jones helped take the team from bottom of the barrel to top of the heap.