Toronto Argonauts Announce Staff Hires In Former Boatmen Players Demetrious Maxie, Dominic Picard
The Toronto Argonauts Football Club announced Monday they have hired former Argo players Demetrious Maxie as defensive line coach and Dominic Picard as running backs coach.
Toronto has yet to announce who their defensive coordinator will be this coming season. However, Demetrious Maxie is on board with the Boatmen to assume coaching duties on the defensive line, taking over for the former defensive play-caller and now Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Corey Mace.
Along with Corey Mace heading to Saskatchewan were the reported departures of defensive backs assistant Joshua Bell and running backs coach William Harrison. The Argos have replaced the latter with Dominic Picard.
Demetrious Maxie is back in Double Blue after winning two Grey Cups with the Argos during his five years with the team. The two-time CFL All-Star played 67 regular season and eight playoff games for the Argos between 1996-1999 and 2002, hoisting the Grey Cup in ’96 and ’97. All in all, Maxie would play 14 CFL seasons and 167 games with Toronto, Edmonton, Baltimore, Montreal, Saskatchewan and Calgary, winning his first championship with Baltimore in ’95.
D-Max, as he is affectionately known, started his coaching career in 2010 at his alma mater, The University of Texas El Paso, as a defensive line and linebackers coach. The Louisiana native coached defensive lines in high school and college between 2012 and 2015 before coming back to the CFL with Edmonton as linebackers coach from 2016-2017 and defensive line coach from 2018-2023.
Maxie reunites with recent Argos acquisition, star pass rusher Jake Ceresna.
Dominic Picard returns to Toronto, but this time as the team’s running backs coach. The former third-round draft pick of the Blue Bombers in 2006 spent three seasons in Winnipeg before playing 54 regular season games and two playoff games in Toronto from 2009 to 2011. Picard finished his career with stints in Saskatchewan, the Bombers and Montreal from 2012-2016.
The offensive lineman played 151 CFL games over his 10-year career, winning a Grey Cup with the Riders in 2013 and earning division All-Star honors with Toronto in 2011. He was named his team’s top offensive lineman three times over his career and top Canadian once.
Following his playing career, the Quebec native began coaching at his high school alma mater in 2016, where he was the head coach, offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. The Laval alum most recently spent time coaching USPORTS at the University of Sherbrooke as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in 2023.
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