Toronto Argonauts head coach Ryan Dinwiddie is feeling the effects of his team’s 2-7 start. <\/p>\n
The Argonauts saw a 21-point lead evaporate on Saturday before eventually falling 46-42 to the Ottawa Redblacks. <\/p>\n
A visibly frustrated Dinwiddie met with reporters after the game and made a point to challenge some of his players. <\/p>\n
“I sound like a broken record talking to them after the game,” Dinwiddie said. “I just told them I’m not going to quit on them, and I don’t think those guys quit on us, but I think we have some pretenders in the building who like to talk a big game and don’t show up on game day.<\/p>\n
“If you don’t love it, let me know. I know I love it and I’m not going to quit.”<\/p>\n
Dinwiddie also knows that his team has to be able to bring the mentality to try and pick themselves up when things aren\u2019t going right.<\/p>\n
He believes past versions of the team were able to do that, but it\u2019s something that has been lacking this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think as a football club right now, we don’t have enough courage and we don’t handle adversity very well when things don’t go our way,\u201d Dinwiddie explained. “We got to find a way to fight and find ways to make those plays.”<\/p>\n
It’s not the first time Dinwiddie has called out his team this season.<\/p>\n
He also went on an impassioned rant after a heartbreaking loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Week 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never really got after those guys, this is the first time I\u2019ve had to after a game. Pretty embarrassed by it. I thought it was selfish play, selfish penalties,\u201d Dinwiddie said back on July 8. \u201cI told those guys, ‘someone\u2019s going home tomorrow.\u2019 Heads are rolling. I ain\u2019t putting up with that stuff no more.”<\/p>\n
At 2-7, the Argos sit in last place in the East Division. Their next chance to get the season back on track will come Friday against the 2-6 Edmonton Elks. <\/p>\n
Toronto is still waiting on the return of starting quarterback Chad Kelly, who is still working his way back from a fractured leg he suffered in last season’s East final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Argonauts head coach Ryan Dinwiddie is feeling the effects of his team’s 2-7 start. The Argonauts saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-58662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58662","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=58662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}