A quarterback controversy has arrived in Toronto involving Kerry Joseph.
So what else is new?
It's been that way since the team acquired Joseph back in 2008, and he's never been allowed to feel totally comfortable as the starter.
The 36-year-old pivot wants to know if he'll be starting against Regina on Saturday, but rookie head coach Bart Andrus has declared he might not indicate his preference until game time.
That's either good strategy to keep the opposition off balance or just another in many rookie mistakes that Andrus has made thus far. The Roughriders have one of the best defences in the Canadian Football League, so if Andrus is being cagey, it's hardly going to cause the Riders to shake in their cleats.
Andrus hasn't made use of Joseph's skills, but is not alone in that department: Joseph has been miscast in Toronto.
He is an athletic quarterback whose best seasons have come in a system that takes advantage of his mobility.
For most of his time in Toronto, during which he has played for three head coaches who collectively to this point have a record of 7-24, he has never been employed to the best of his ability. Instead of moving the pocket and creating rollouts, quarterback draws and option plays that allow him to use his feet, he has been forced to play within the tackles and effectively forced to throw. That has never been his strength. He looks incredibly mechanical and awkward standing in the pocket, making his reads.
It could be said that Joseph has passed his prime; that his poor play in Toronto is a result of having taken too much physical punishment because of his rugged play.
Far from true; in the right system Kerry Joseph could have succeeded.
The factual evidence comes from his stats in 2007 when he threw for 4,002 yards and ran for 737 more. His head coach that year happened to be Kent Austin, his quarterback coach in Ottawa in 2003, in which he had one of his best seasons in the CFL. Austin guided Damon Allen to two of his best seasons in his 23 years in the CFL, highlighted by being named the Most Valuable Player in the 2004 Grey Cup game and winning the Most Outstanding Player in 2005 for the first - and only - time in his brilliant career.
Less than a year later the Argos fired Austin because the team stumbled in an offence that was expected to find a way to employ running back Ricky Willliams, who signed with the Argos that year while suspended from the National Football League. Williams struggled through injuries and performance and Austin became the scapegoat.
All Austin has done since is win a Grey Cup as a head coach and become a highly-successful offensive co-ordinator with Ole Miss.
Do you begin to see the pattern?
This isn't about Joseph. It's about a system that has failed to showcase what he does best under a co-ordinator not savvy enough to understand it.
Is this any different than what the Argos did with Tracy Ham in the run-and-shoot offence in 1993? He bombed, but became effective playing in Baltimore and Montreal when placed in a system tailored to his talents.
In the final five games of last season, Joseph completed 103 of 166 passes for 1,530 yards. He had 11 touchdowns and only three interceptions. Overall, he totaled 4,174 yards and had three 17 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. He had failed badly and benched for two games until the Argos decided how to properly employ him,
Andrus had the film evidence from last season to see how to best use Joseph, but figured he could do better with his system.
In fact, he's done worse.
Joseph took the fall early in the season for poor play - although subpar pass protection didn't help him - and his replacement, Cody Pickett, has been a bust.
The Argos are hanging mathematically to a shot at the playoffs; although realistically they are finished and in danger of posting a worse record than last year's 4-14 mark.
It won't be surprising if neither Joseph nor Pickett remain with the team next season.
The irony is, the Argos don't even bother dressing a third-string quarterback - for reasons which have never been fully explained.
Instead, the team employed a potential third-string quarterback, Reggie McNeal, as a receiver early in the season, but couldn't use him as a quarterback because by rule quarterbacks in the CFL aren't allowed to play another position except in the wildcat formation. It wouldn't be surprising if at some point before the season is over McNeal is converted back to quarterback and receives some playing time.
