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A Grey Cup champion could be decided in wintry conditions for the second consecutive year.

Not even three months after the Calgary Stampeders captured a championship on the treacherous terrain of Commonwealth Stadium, the busiest of all CFL free-agency periods is about to begin.

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And if a team cannot fare well over the next few days of this insanely cold February, given the abundance of premier players who will flood the open market, good luck winning a Grey Cup in November.

That is especially applicable to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who desperately need to build their passing attack — virtually from scratch.

It is all fine and dandy to point out that the 2018 Roughriders won 12 games and earned a home playoff game despite the lack of potency through the air.

Football, though, is a bottom-line business, and the bottom line is this:

• The quarterbacking was horrendous.

• The receiving corps wasn’t much better — and that was with 2018 West Division rookie of the year Jordan Williams-Lambert, now of the NFL’s Chicago Bears, in the lineup.