Tuesday\u2019s head coaches\u2019 media conference.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThis league is such a tight-knit community. I\u2019m sure in Grey Cups past, you could probably dig up pictures of the head coaches doing the same stuff. I think it\u2019s just cool that somebody dug that up.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got the ball off, though, so I didn\u2019t do my job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mace was not credited with a sack or a tackle on the play. And it was the team, not the player, who received the two points that enabled Calgary to fatten its lead to 43-5.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was toward the end of my career,\u201d Maas said. \u201cIt was my last year playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I concur with Corey. In years past, you could probably do the same thing. It\u2019s obviously a special memory from playing in this league. It\u2019s special coaching in it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both of this year\u2019s head coaches arrived in Montreal with a wealth of Grey Cup experience.<\/p>\n
Maas was the backup to quarterback Ricky Ray when Edmonton won championships in 2003 (at Taylor Field) and 2005 (in Vancouver). In the latter year, Maas sparkled in back-to-back relief appearances after replacing a struggling Ray in both West Division playoff games.<\/p>\n
As well, Maas was the Toronto Argonauts\u2019 quarterbacks coach from 2012 to 2014. One of the Argos\u2019 quarterbacks throughout those three years \u2014 including the Grey Cup-winning season of 2012 \u2014\u00a0was current Saskatchewan signal-caller Trevor Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that I took away from Jason Maas was that he was never going to be outworked, regardless of what was going on,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s somebody who I\u2019ve admired from Day 1 \u2014\u00a0and he knows I love him. Every time I see him, I go up to him and tell him how much he has done and continues to do for me as a person and a player.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s somebody that I really, really appreciate. I got the chance to play for him for quite a while and to watch him succeed. I\u2019ve got a lot of respect and admiration for Coach Maas.\u201d<\/p>\n
After two seasons (2021 and 2022) as the Roughriders\u2019 offensive co-ordinator, Maas was the victorious head coach when the Alouettes won it all in 2023.<\/p>\n
Mace was named the 48th head coach in Roughriders history just 11 days after Maas and the Alouettes captured their most-recent title.<\/p>\n
Like Maas, Mace had a championship pedigree when he assumed his current role.<\/p>\n
Mace has been part of a Grey Cup winner as a player (with Calgary in 2014), defensive line coach (Calgary, 2018) and defensive co-ordinator (Toronto, 2022). Now he is involved in a national final in a fourth capacity \u2014\u00a0that of head coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking back from a player\u2019s perspective and going up in different positions, truthfully, more and more stuff gets added on your plate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis week, it\u2019s a little bit different experience, but just having the understanding of how to navigate it makes it a little bit easier in terms of understanding it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a player, you\u2019re just so locked in on what\u2019s happening with your job and with what\u2019s happening around you. As a position coach, you\u2019ve got a bunch of guys to deal with. As a co-ordinator, there\u2019s even more guys. As a head coach, you\u2019re ultimately responsible for the whole deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it changes a little bit but, at the end of the day, it\u2019s about making sure you\u2019re turning over every stone possible and that you\u2019ve got everything covered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Mace ensured that Jason Maas experienced a two-point landing on Sept. 6, 2010. With barely five minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-277867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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