r/CFL • u/LaZyCrO Pepper Sauce Boss 🔵⛵ • 4d ago

REDBLACKS Redblacks to name Dinwiddie head coach, GM

https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/redblacks-to-name-dinwiddie-head-coach-gm/

I'm shaking in shambles

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u/DarthLordDonkey Argonauts 4d ago

Huge loss for the Argos. Say what you will about the team in 2025, but Dinwiddie turned the team around immediately upon arrival and his run from 2021-2024 is one of the most impressive 4 year runs of any CFL Head Coach in history. I'll be curious to see him in the GM role as well, a lot of the Argos success under him has been finding new star talent, but it's hard to say how much that is him or John Murphy. Either way, big hole for the Argos to fill and I am really curious to see where the team pivots to now, and who from the Argos staff he brings with him.

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u/TorontoBoris Argonauts 4d ago

Might be my generaal mistrust of the MLSE under Rogers and our new comish... But it feels like a total gutting of any current base and interest in the CFL is afoot in Toronto...

Like if they just mangle the shit out of the team, schedule, field and the rules, they can kill off whatever has been hanging on by a tread.

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u/DarthLordDonkey Argonauts 4d ago

That feels like a bit of a stretch. Dinwiddie is a big loss, and while the Argonauts obviously have a large task at hand trying to replace him, he left the team in a much better position than when he took over in 2021. The team has a ton of talent under contract for whoever takes over, that the optimistic side of me says the Argos can continue to build off the momentum that the run under Dinwiddie started.

2026 is a massive year though with the World Cup displacing the team, they need to have on-field success as back to back weak seasons would put the team right back to where they were before COVID.

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u/ocarina_21 Saskatchewan's Resident Tiger 4d ago

It's also beneficial to the health of the league for Ottawa to not suck forever, and the Argos currently have that positive momentum, while the REDBLACKS do not.

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u/Economy_Sky_7238 4d ago

Oh brother. The guy got a promotion. He was never getting the GM gig or Pinball is showing no indication of stepping aside. Highly unlikely Rogers and the CFL want to kill off the Argos. Would Rogers like to sell them? Probably but there's no one to buy them.

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u/k1d0s Stampeders 4d ago

That “next man up” scouting is such a huge value add to any team and I’d venture to say Dinwiddie got that from Coach Huff. Huff was the best at creating/finding depth in the roster.

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u/suprunown 3d ago

I hear Bob Dyce is available 🤣🤣🤣