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“They’ve now upped their games. We look like a group of five.”

Kasitati was signed as a free agent by the Stampeders as 2018, and was originally considered as an option at centre.

Sceviour was drafted in the first round by the Stampeders in the 2018 CFL Draft and spent most of last season as a backup guard, only to start this year’s training camp competing for the starting centre spot.

When Brad Erdos suffered a season-ending injury during camp, it forced a shuffle.

Ucambre Williams went back to the centre spot he went last year, while Sceviour went back to guard and Kasitati took over the starting right tackle position.

Especially after quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell went down, there were moments where the Stamps were giving up sacks early this season.

On Monday, though, they didn’t allow the previously-dominant Eskimos defensive line to pick up a single sack, and the run game also exploded for 201 yards.

It was a good afternoon.

“I think for us, it’s a monkey off our back,” said starting left tackle Derek Dennis. “Early on, all year, Dicky has been challenging the o-line to kind of pick up our aggression. Especially losing Bo early on and trying to pick up our running game, I feel like yesterday, the five of us made a conscious decision to go out and kind of try to maul stuff. Just watching the film, you can tell we had a different mindset. Now that it’s on film, we’ve just got to keep on building.”

Being so effective was particularly rewarding for that right side of the offensive line.