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WESTJET THANKSGIVING WEEKEND\u00bb Depth Charts: OTT<\/a> | MTL<\/a>
\u00bb Game Notes: REDBLACKS at Alouettes<\/a>
\u00bb\u00a0Tickets: Ottawa at Montreal<\/a>
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OTTAWA REDBLACKS<\/p>\n
1. WORK TO BE DONE<\/p>\n
Ottawa has been eliminated from playoff contention but has three games remaining on its schedule. Despite the unfortunate position, jobs are constantly being evaluated, so expect head coach Bob Dyce\u2019s team to come out ready to play against a division rival.<\/p>\n
2. EUGENE LEWIS<\/p>\n
Veteran receiver Eugene Lewis<\/a> is 47 yards from hauling in 1,000 for the fourth time in his career and the second straight season. He\u2019ll get his looks again this week and would certainly love to reach the mark against a team he spent his first five seasons with.<\/p>\n 3. DUSTIN CRUM TAKEOVER<\/p>\n With quarterback Dru Brown<\/a> being shut down for the remainder of the season, it\u2019s Dustin Crum<\/a>\u2019s pocket. Crum has been impressive when called upon, passing for 1,609 yards and rushing for an additional 393. He\u2019s only seen the Als briefly this season when he completed two passes for five yards during a 39-18 Week 2 loss.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n MONTREAL ALOUETTES<\/p>\n 1. STREAKIN\u2019 DAVIS ALEXANDER<\/p>\n Quarterback Davis Alexander has won all five of his starts this season and doesn\u2019t want to slow down now. One of his wins was back in Week 2 when he completed 23-of-32 passes for 344 yards against Ottawa. He\u2019s also thrown for over 300 yards three times.<\/p>\n 2. GET THE RUNNING GAME GOING<\/p>\n With the playoffs on the horizon, head coach Jason Maas would love to see more production out of a run game that ranked eighth in average yards with 89.3 through 18 weeks. Running back Stevie Scott III has shown flashes of game-breaking ability, but he will see an Ottawa front that has allowed the second-fewest yards on the ground of any team entering play this week.<\/p>\n 3. PASS DEFENCE<\/p>\n The trio of defensive backs Kabion Ento<\/a>, Wesley Sutton<\/a> and linebacker Tyrice Beverette, who have combined for 10 interceptions, will try to follow in the footsteps of Saskatchewan in shutting down the REDBLACKS pass game.<\/p>\n NEED TO KNOW:<\/p>\n Ottawa and Montreal will meet again in Week 20 to close out the season series.
\nThe Als are 3-5 at home, Ottawa is 2-5 on the road.
\nKickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. ET, and can be watched on TSN and RDS in Canada, CBSSN in the U.S., and on CFL+ internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 WestJet Thanksgiving Weekend closes with a Monday matinee between the Ottawa REDBLACKS and Montreal Alouettes at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-207958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}