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<\/p>\n\u201cDavis has played with this injury for a few games, he played the majority of our training camp with it,\u201d said Montreal head coach Jason Maas. \u201cI know he knows how to deal with it but it remains to be seen how bad it is.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf he does not go, we\u2019ll still have the same expectation on our team, which is to go in and win.\u201d <\/p>\n
There\u2019s no doubt in Alexander\u2019s mind that he\u2019ll play. When he tweaked the hamstring in the fourth quarter against the Tiger-Cats, Maas instructed backup McLeod Bethel-Thompson to begin warming up only to have Alexander emphatically state he wasn\u2019t coming out of the game.<\/p>\n
Alexander is 11-0 during the regular season for Montreal: the best start ever to a CFL career. He has won both of his post-season starts.<\/p>\n
Montreal and Saskatchewan will meet Sunday for the third time in the Grey Cup. The Alouettes defeated the Riders in 2009 (28-27) and 2010 (21-18).<\/p>\n
Alexander didn\u2019t enjoy his best outing versus Hamilton, completing 19 of 26 passes for 210 yards with a TD and interception while rushing seven times for a team-high 64 yards. But he didn\u2019t scramble on Montreal\u2019s seven-play, 36-yard final drive, completing two of three passes for 28 yards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a really good question, I couldn\u2019t answer that for you,\u201d Alexander said when asked if he could\u2019ve run on the drive. \u201cI didn\u2019t play the cleanest game \u2026 but I don\u2019t have to be Superman for this team to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether people believe that or not, I hope now they do. This is a full unit, it\u2019s one heartbeat. We talk about this all the time \u2026 we\u2019re as resilient as it comes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maas said if Alexander\u2019s mobility is limited against Saskatchewan, Montreal will adjust accordingly on offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have that hindrance, then you have to trust the offence and the offence is built with answers,\u201d said Maas, a former CFL quarterback. \u201cWe\u2019d have to come up with a gameplan that plays to what he\u2019s able to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t care if the other team knows that or not, it would be based on us executing. I know he (Alexander) is fully capable of playing in that pocket and making good decisions and chopping the ball down to a bunch of guys that I believe can make plays on our offence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maas will make his second Grey Cup appearance as a head coach. He won twice as a player with Edmonton (2003, \u201905) and as an assistant with Toronto (2012).<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan\u2019s Corey Mace will make his Grey Cup debut as a head coach. He won a championship as a defensive lineman with Calgary (2014) and two as an assistant with the Stampeders (defensive line coach in 2018) and Toronto (defensive co-ordinator in 2022).<\/p>\n
If Alexander starts Sunday, he\u2019ll face Saskatchewan for the first time this season. The teams split their two regular-season meetings, each winning on the road as Bethel-Thompson got both starts for Montreal.<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan won the first meeting 34-6 in Montreal on Aug. 2 but the Alouettes claimed a 48-31 shootout victory in Regina on Sept. 13. Bethel-Thompson threw for 379 yards and three TDs with two going to Canadian Tyson Philpot, who had nine catches for 238 yards. <\/p>\n
Stevie Scott III rushed for 125 yards on 19 carries (6.6-yard average).<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan makes its first Grey Cup appearance since 2013 when it defeated Hamilton 45-23 in Regina. On Saturday, Trevor Harris\u2019s three-yard TD pass to Tommy Nield with 11 seconds remaining rallied the Riders past the B.C. Lions 24-21 in the West Division final.<\/p>\n
Harris finished 26 for 38 passing for 305 yards and two touchdowns. Running back A.J. Ouellette \u2013 who won a Grey Cup with Toronto in 2022 \u2013 ran 17 times for 113 yards.<\/p>\n
Harris, 39, is chasing a third Grey Cup championship after earning rings with Toronto (2012) and Ottawa (2016). Harris also started for the Redblacks in their 27-16 loss to Calgary in the \u201918 CFL title game.<\/p>\n
Alexander, 27, would make his first Grey Cup appearance. This is Montreal\u2019s second time in the game since 2023, when it downed Winnipeg 28-24.<\/p>\n
Montreal will chase its ninth Grey Cup championship overall. Saskatchewan comes in having won four titles.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n
Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDavis has played with this injury for a few games, he played the majority of our training camp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-274465","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\/274465","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=274465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}