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<\/p>\nMany players have nerves and angst leading up to camp, but Miller said so do coaches.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve always felt this way and I think it\u2019s a sickness among coaches,\u201d Miller said. \u201cAll we worry about are the things that can go wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre we hitting the right topics? Are we making sure we\u2019ve covered the details? We\u2019re putting these players into positions to show what they can do and are we taking advantage of their talents? Then there\u2019s practice management. All of those organizational things, that\u2019s what you\u2019re worried about, that we don\u2019t do our due diligence in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of focusing solely on Toronto\u2019s quarterbacks, Miller must now expand his focus to also include the Argos\u2019 defence and special teams. But over a well-travelled coaching career that\u2019s included stops in the CFL, NCAA, NFL and NFL Europe, Miller has also been a defensive positional coach and defensive co-ordinator.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just making sure I\u2019m communicating with Greg (defence co-ordinator Greg Quick) and the defensive coaches as well as Mickey (special-teams co-ordinator Mickey Donovan),\u201d Miller said. \u201cTo a degree, some of these guys are new to Canada so I\u2019m coaching the coaches as well that this is how we want to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller, a 56-year-old Pittsburgh native, takes over a Toronto team that posted a 5-13 record last year and failed to qualify for the CFL playoffs.<\/p>\n
Miller said starter Chad Kelly, who missed all of 2025 after suffering a leg injury in the \u201924 East final, will be among the veterans reporting Sunday. Miller added Kelly will be a complete participant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve not had one indication from any one of our trainers, doctors or him that there\u2019s been any hiccup,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWhen Chad gets here and we\u2019re ready go to (with) vet camp, Chad will be our starting quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller has the same expectation in camp of Kelly that he has for every player.<\/p>\n
\u201cBring your best, bring that passion, prepare with detail so we can execute with urgency and do it with great physicality,\u201d Miller said. \u201cNow, I don\u2019t expect our quarterback to be physical but I always say each guy can play their position with that level of passion. <\/p>\n
\u201cChad\u2019s a great communicator, he has great eyes for what he does and he\u2019s a great teammate \u2026 he\u2019s all about winning a championship and about team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toronto made notable additions to a defence that struggled last season. The Argos were last in offensive points allowed (28.8 per game), offensive TDs surrendered (54), TD passes allowed (35), 30-plus yard completions (39) and average yards per play (7.07).<\/p>\n
Former Argonauts who played elsewhere have returned to Toronto. <\/p>\n
Defensive tackle Ralph Holley (Cleveland NFL), linebacker Adarius Pickett (Ottawa Redblacks) and defensive backs DaShaun Amos (Hamilton last year) and Robert Priester (Ottawa) all re-signed this off-season. But the Argos lost veteran middle linebacker Wynton McManis to Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Americans Isaac Darkangelo (third season with Toronto) and Aaron Casey (second year with Argos) are expected to top the depth chart in camp to replace McManis.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike linebacker is one of the big question marks,\u201d Quick said. \u201cThat has to be a dominant position in this league.<\/p>\n
\u201cHistorically for myself, we don\u2019t want an average player and we don\u2019t want to have to compensate for our Mike linebacker. I think we\u2019ve got a couple in house, we\u2019ve got a couple (via rookie camp), it\u2019s going to be very, very competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quick said training camp isn\u2019t only about evaluating talent. It\u2019s also understanding where the defence\u2019s strengths \u2014 and weaknesses \u2014 lie.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important for us to maximize the capabilities of the young men we have,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s really why Mike hired me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had a strength that I\u2019d attest to, it\u2019s that ability to identify strengths, weaknesses and then maximize their capabilities within our system. Training camp is just so important and imperative to that process.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 10, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many players have nerves and angst leading up to camp, but Miller said so do coaches. \u201cI\u2019ve always…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-659748","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\/659748","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=659748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}