2018 Toronto Argonauts season

2018 Toronto Argonauts season
General managerJim Popp
Head coachMarc Trestman
Home fieldBMO Field
Results
Record4–14
Division place4th, East
Playoff finishdid not qualify
Team MOPS. J. Green
Team MOCSean McEwen
Team MORTrumaine Washington
Uniform

The 2018 Toronto Argonauts season was the 61st season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 146th season overall. The Argonauts failed to improve upon their 9–9 record from 2017, losing their tenth game of the season to the Calgary Stampeders on September 28. Following their week 17 loss to the BC Lions on October 6, 2018, the Argonauts were the first team eliminated from post-season contention.[1] They became the first team since the 2006 Edmonton Eskimos to fail to qualify for the playoffs in the year after winning the Grey Cup.

This was the second season with Jim Popp as general manager and Marc Trestman as head coach.[2] It was announced the day following the Argonauts 24–9 loss to the Ottawa Redblacks on November 2 that Trestman would be relieved of his coaching duties for the Toronto Argonauts football team, following a 4–14 season with minimal success in Ricky Ray's absence. [3] Ricky Ray was also indecisive about retirement at the end of the 2018 CFL regular season after sustaining a season-ending injury in the Argonauts 41–7 loss to the Calgary Stampeders on June 23 though he ultimately retired prior to the start of the 2019 Toronto Argonauts season. [4]

  1. ^ Updated Playoff Scenarios: Stamps look to secure home field, Als on the brink
  2. ^ Argos make Marc Trestman highest paid coach in the CFL
  3. ^ "Argos part ways with Head Coach Marc Trestman - CFL.ca". CFL.ca. 2018-11-03. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
  4. ^ "Argos' Ray carefully pondering football future - CFL.ca". CFL.ca. 2018-11-03. Retrieved 2018-11-03.