Courtesy Toronto Star:

There is no quarterback controversy in Toronto.

Repeat: There is no quarterback controversy.

The Argonauts’ starting quarterback the last time they kept score, Michael Bishop, will play the first quarter of tonight’s CFL pre-season opener in Montreal.

Last year’s league MVP, Kerry Joseph, won’t make his Argo debut until the third quarter.

Head coach Rich Stubler says all that means is “absolutely nothing.”

“It’s more of a media thing than a team thing,” he said of talk about which quarterback will start.

“The team doesn’t care.”

What they care about, he said, is winning, and that may require two quarterbacks.

“I know this – it’s going to take both those guys to get us through the season, so I’m just ecstatic I have both of them,” he said. “Our main goal is to get to the Grey Cup, and I really believe it’s going to take two quarterbacks to get there, maybe three. In Toronto, it has taken six (before).”

That was a reference to last season, when the quarterback situation was a farce, with starting QBs rotating game by game in the early going.

Publicly, both Bishop and Joseph are saying all the right things.

“However they want to put us out there, we’ll go out there and get our work done,” said Joseph, who would appear to be the obvious starter based on salary alone since he’s making about double what Bishop takes home.

Joseph, who led the Saskatchewan Roughriders to last year’s Grey Cup, also says he feels no extra pressure considering he’s the team’s highest-paid player and biggest off-season addition.

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