At the beginning of the season the Stampeders appeared to have one too many cooks in the kitchen when it came to the quarterback position, with some media speculating an impending QB controversy on the horizon.

Fast forward five weeks into the young Canadian Football League season and depth at the pivot position is quickly becoming the envy of the rest of the league with all three quarterbacks having seen action due to a counterpart getting injured, and all three performing admirably to get the Stamps to a 4-1 record.

“The best thing about us three is that Dave (Dickenson) is our coach,” says Drew Tate, who is designated as number one on the Stamps depth chart. “I think a lot of the credit does go to Dave in terms of having the three of us ready to play at any given moment, and then the accountability is on us as players to do our job.”

And do their job they have.

When Tate went down with his arm injury in week two versus Saskatchewan, Kevin Glenn started the next match against Montreal and led the squad to a hard fought road win against a desperate Alouettes team.

In the rematch the next week Glenn was sidelined in the middle of a rallying drive, giving way to Bo Levi Mitchell who stepped in to complete the largest comeback in CFL history by a team when they were down 24-0 in the first quarter.

Having three very capable quarterbacks who can each step in and lead an offence to victory is a dream come true for any football team.

But when you have three highly competitive leaders on one side of the ball — all competing for the same job — how do you make sure everyone is happy?

“It’s amazing,” marveled Mitchell, before his taking the field for his first CFL start against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers — a game in which he went 29 of 33 for 376 yards and three touchdowns in a Stamps 37-24 victory. “I don’t think a lot of guys in the league have what we have as far as how tight knit we are as a group. One thing we always do, that Kevin kind of started, is we get together as a group and just break it as all-for-one, one-for-all. It might sound cheesy to some, but for us it’s true.”

For his part, Glenn – the savvy veteran of 13 years – knows that a team-first attitude is the best way to win.

“That’s big,” he says “when you can be on a team where you’ve got guys who play the same position but when it’s one person’s opportunity to play, he gets supported by the other guys in the group. You go into the game with a lot of confidence knowing you’ve got the other guys behind you.”

All three quarterbacks see and think through the game in a very similar manner, making it easier for them to succeed offensively because the system doesn’t change depending on who is taking the snaps.

“We don’t have robots out there that are just running lines like they are drawn up on paper,” says Tate. “We’ve got football players. It’s a communication process from the quarterbacks, the coaches, the receivers; from everybody. It’s really the communication process that has been able to help us be efficient as an offence.”

It isn’t uncommon to look on the Stampeders sidelines after a drive and see the huddled trio analyzing what worked and what didn’t.

“No matter who is on the field, Drew or Kevin,” says Mitchell. “They could be looking to one side of the field and then you can say ‘Hey, on this side, this is what happened, just so you know’.”

The quarterbacks’ teamwork has helped the Stamps overcome a litany of early season injuries to key members of the team, en route to a strong record good enough for second place in the Western Conference – highlighted by week four’s comeback gem.

“Everybody had a part in it,” says Glenn. “And it wasn’t just one guy either — that was a big ultimate team win. If you haven’t seen one before, that was probably the one. I think it speaks for itself when it was the largest comeback in CFL history. It’ll be on CFL classics, we can almost assure that.”