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“You spend a lot of time with the teammates, and you get to build bonds on the first day, two, three days,” said Daniel Adeboboye, who was acquired from his hometown Toronto Argos in a January trade and will be the Redblacks starting running back against the Alouettes. “By the end of training camp, it’s like your family.”
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A strong special-teams player like Peter, Adeboboye won two Grey Cups with the Double Blue.
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He senses the Redblacks have an intangible for success that was prevalent with the Argos.
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“I wasn’t the No. 1 running back in my time there, but something that I did understand is that, on teams, when everyone knows their role and they do it to the best of their abilities, those are the teams that win,” he said. “I’ve been on teams in the past when guys were not content with their job, and they wanted to do this or that. There might not be as much buy-in. But, when you have everyone on the field that wants to win, who wants to be the best at their position, whatever it may be, those are the teams that go the furthest because they understand what it takes. That’s when championships are won.”
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At the very least, there will be pressure on the Redblacks to go further than they did in 2024, when they lost the Eastern semifinal 58-38 to Adeboboye’s Argos.
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But Peter doesn’t see that as a problem.
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“We had pressure that we instilled on ourselves last year, so it’s kind of just a carry forward,” he said. “The expectations are still the same. The only expectation that’s different is to actually win that Grey Cup. So, with that, it’s more so that everybody has got to be that thermostat in the room and just turn it up.
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“In terms of us on the defensive side of the ball, we’ve got to go out there and just play fast and physical football, and expectation-wise, it’s also the same. We just have to be the dominant group that we are, just carry forward how we were last year, and be even 10 times more dominant, 10 times more physical, and just go there and have fun.”
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A 2024 file photo of Redblacks linebacker James Peter (42). Photo by David Kawai /PostmediaArticle content
Peter plans on doing just that Friday, the last team tuneup before things get real.
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“My mindset is to go in and just show that I’m physical, I’m dominant, I’m able to command a defence, I’m able to get everybody aligned, assigned, and make sure that we’re all ready to go and play,” he said. “We’ve just go to go out and show that, ‘Hey, we are the Redblacks and we’re here to win a Grey Cup.’ At the end of the day, go out there and ball.
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“It really is a tempo setter.”
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