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“The pit stop, I think, was Ottawa, but then there were some connections along the way.”

Milanovich will wear multiple hats, primarily as Eskimos head coach and offensive co-ordinator, while also acting as quarterbacks coach and special-teams assistant. And that sort of juggling act could become more of the norm throughout the league with the football operations salary cap that’s been implemented.

“I think so,” Sunderland said. “Not every team’s doing it. There are teams that have the, quote, CEO approach where it’s head coach only and then they have three co-ordinators and so on. But, yeah, I think with the football ops cap you’ll see more of this. But I don’t think it will be 100 per cent across the board.

“It’s the choice of an organization. If you have someone that calls plays extremely well, the way we feel Scott does, then I think it’s advantageous to have him do that.”

The Eskimos say additional assistant coaches are yet to be announced, but for now, at least, those who make up the current roster know who to look to as training camp approaches.

“Starting with coach Milanovich, I had him for two years in Toronto, so he’s an extremely familiar face,” said receiver Natey Adjei, who was drafted in the third round (22nd overall) by the Argonauts in 2014. “He was head coach and coach Maas was receivers coach, so I know a lot of the stuff coach Maas learned was from coach Milanovich, so it will be a lot of carryover.”

And having his unit coaches in place is an added bonus.

“You can kind of relax a little bit just not having that up in the air,” Adjei said of Milanovich’s staff. “But it was kind of a little more stressful when we didn’t have a head coach because you were just wondering, ‘Who could it be? Is this guy going to fit what we have going on?’ Just so many questions that had to be answered, but once we got coach Milanovich in it was a sigh of relief because we knew we got the best guy and we can get the ball rolling from there.”

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