There’s nothing you can do, a lot of stuff is out of our control. We can only control what we can control.”
Toronto has an impressive 36-14 regular-season record under Dinwiddie, who enters his fourth year as head coach. The Argos also won the ’22 Grey Cup.
Toronto seemed poised to defend its title in 2023 after posting a 16-2 regular-season record. The 16 wins was a single-season club record and tied the CFL mark for most victories in a regular campaign.
Toronto’s stellar season ended with a 38-17 home loss to Montreal in the East Division final. The Alouettes stunned the BMO Field gathering of 26,620 — the largest crowd for an Argos game since they moved there in 2016 — by forcing nine turnovers.
Toronto committed a CFL-low 27 turnovers during the regular season.
Many of the key cogs of Toronto’s ’23 campaign won’t be in uniform Sunday night when it opens the season hosting the B.C. Lions. The most notable absentee will be quarterback Chad Kelly.
The CFL’s outstanding player last season will miss at least Toronto’s first nine regular-season games for violating the CFL’s gender-based violence policy. The league also banned Kelly from the Argos’ two pre-season contests following an independent investigation into a lawsuit filed by a former strength-and-conditioning coach against Kelly for sexual harassment and the club for wrongful dismissal.
So the Argos will be Cameron Dukes’ team, at least though to the midway point of the season. Kelly’s reinstatement is contingent upon his attending mandatory counselling sessions conducted by a gender-based violence expert and undergoing assessments by an independent expert.
