The Edmonton Eskimos will head into the 2019 Canadian Football League season with new coaches in all three co-ordinator positions, following Friday morning’s announcement that Mike Benevides will not be returning with the club. The 50-year-old native of Toronto was Edmonton’s defensive co-ordinator and assistant head coach over the past three years since Jason Maas replaced Chris Jones as head coach. But with the mid-season firing of special-teams co-ordinator Cory McDiarmid, along with his replacement, Dave Jackson, last month, and Maas looking to step away from the dual role of co-ordinating the offence next season, Benevides was the last co-ordinator standing. So people are always going to say s__t about people and find the negatives, but he’s extremely genuine, he’s extremely intelligent, he finds ways to get things done. “It’s like I said last year, nobody had won more games than coach Maas.

Source: National Post December 07, 2018 18:33 UTC