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<\/p>\nHervey, who spent his entire eight-year CFL playing career with Edmonton and considers the city home, says credit has to be shared.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere was a lot of heavy lifting done by a lot of people who don\u2019t get mentioned,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s so many names. But the fact is that when you have buy-in and there\u2019s alignment in the organization \u2026 good things can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
A year after guiding Edmonton to the Grey Cup, Hervey was fired in the spring of 2017 for what then-president Len Rhodes said was \u201cphilosophical differences\u201d and stubborn contract negotiations.<\/p>\n
So why would Hervey, who spent time with the B.C. Lions and Hamilton Tiger-Cats after his dismissal, return to Edmonton in November 2024?<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, they wanted me back,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s home. I\u2019m an EE alumnus and those of us who have played here, built a career here and the club has given us an opportunity to do things for our families \u2026 there\u2019s a place in our hearts for the organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest part for me was having Chris here, knowing that I can actually do my job with someone I can actually trust in the president\u2019s chair and who\u2019s going to have the same interest in seeing the football team do well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team should be the priority, not our own individual personal goals and I think the last time I was here there was a lot of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, he says, everyone is committed to the same goal: to build a team that can be competitive and be a part of the community.<\/p>\n
Beyond the management changes, Hervey says the roster and the player experience needed an overhaul \u2014 everything from the quality of the food, to the inconsistency of travel, to how the players were treated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a lot of things that needed to be fixed with respect to the player experience and for the players to feel good about playing here and wanting to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n
With only 17 players still on the roster from 2024, Hervey says he wants players ready to not only play in Edmonton but embrace the community and the arduous work needed to be successful.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to embrace putting the ego at the door and coming out here and working hard for one another,\u201d he says. \u201cOur players are always on time, our players are not missing curfew. Our players are supporting one another, they\u2019re holding each other accountable. They\u2019re doing all the things that good teams do on the path of trying to achieve greatness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not letting just anyone into the building. We want to get back to the standard of being the flagship franchise that this place once held so proudly \u2026 and we feel that we have the opportunity to do that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
John Korobanik, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hervey, who spent his entire eight-year CFL playing career with Edmonton and considers the city home, says credit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-949245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949245","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=949245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}