{"id":240022,"date":"2025-10-25T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240022\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:33:19","slug":"montreal-alouettes-reverse-course-start-qb-mcleod-bethel-thompson-for-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240022\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Alouettes reverse course, start QB McLeod Bethel-Thompson for regular-season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MG_1773_1trim-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo courtesy:  Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MG_1773_1trim-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"McLeod Bethel-Thompson\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy:  Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the Montreal Alouettes were not entirely truthful regarding their quarterback plans for the regular-season finale.<\/p>\n<p>After stating that Davis Alexander would get the start all week, the team announced via social media an hour before kickoff on Saturday that it would instead be McLeod Bethel-Thompson taking the field in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, head coach Jason Maas<a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/10\/23\/he-isnt-a-five-year-vet-montreal-alouettes-to-play-qb-davis-alexander-in-finale-regardless-of-playoff-implications\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> was adamant that Alexander would play regardless of whether the game had playoff implications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said this before: he isn\u2019t a five-year vet in\u00a0terms of playing five straight seasons. He needs to play, and he needs to play a lot \u2014especially against an opponent we may face in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Hamilton Tiger-Cats beat the Ottawa Redblacks on Friday to clinch first place in the East Division and lock Montreal into second, it seems Maas had a change of heart.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander has only started seven games this season \u2014 his first as the Alouettes\u2019 franchise quarterback. The 27-year-old missed significant time with a hamstring injury on two separate stretches and has suffered minor injury scares in each of the past two games after taking hits to the head and elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The Gig Harbour, Wash., native remains undefeated in 11 career CFL starts. He has completed 158-of-218 passes for 2,024 yards, 10 touchdowns, and three interceptions this season, while rushing for 110 yards and a score.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel-Thompson has started seven games this season, going 3-4 at the helm. The 37-year-old has completed 138-of-209 passes for 1,564 yards, nine touchdowns, and eight interceptions, while rushing for 62 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Alouettes (10-7) will kick off against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-8) at 3:00 p.m. EDT from Princess Auto Stadium. <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/10\/19\/montreal-alouettes-beat-redblacks-again-force-hamilton-to-play-meaningful-game-six-other-thoughts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Alouettes are coming off back-to-back wins over the Ottawa Redblacks<\/a>, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2025\/10\/17\/winnipeg-blue-bombers-x-other-thoughts-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Blue Bombers got an ugly win over the depleted Saskatchewan Roughriders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast in Winnipeg calls for a high of 14 degrees with sunny conditions. The game will be broadcast on TSN, RDS, and CTV in Canada and CFL+ internationally. Radio listeners can tune in on TSN 690 in Montreal and 680 CJOB in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: Bob Butrym\/RFB Sport Photography It appears that the Montreal Alouettes were not entirely truthful regarding their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-240022","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\/240022","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=240022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}