OTTAWA \u2014 Winners of four straight, the Montreal Alouettes head to the nation\u2019s capital to take on the Ottawa REDBLACKS on Friday Night Football.<\/p>\n
Montreal\u2019s most recent win came in the Week 8 finale when they downed Hamilton 31-18 at home.<\/p>\n
Ottawa was on a bye trying to get things right as they search for their first win.<\/p>\n
The Als won the only other meeting between the two this season, 37-35, back in Week 4.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s three keys to victory for each team ahead of Friday\u2019s 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff, which can be watched on TSN\/RDS in Canada, on CBSSN in the U.S., and on CFL+ internationally.<\/p>\n
RELATED MONTREAL ALOUETTS<\/p>\n 1. EXPOSE THE FRONT<\/p>\n Running back Travis Theis has put himself in the conversation with the league\u2019s best rushers, accumulating 373 yards over his last two games. He\u2019ll have the opportunity to build on his recent success facing an offensive front surrendering 123.2 yards per game on the ground.<\/p>\n 2. MAKE JAKE MAIER WORK<\/p>\n The last time these two teams met, Jake Maier<\/a> threw for 336 yards and three touchdowns. The Als\u2019 front, led by defensive lineman Mustafa Johnson<\/a> and linebacker Geoffrey Cantin-Arku, will make it their mission to keep him from having time to get through his reads.<\/p>\n 3. FLIP THE FIELD<\/p>\n The Canadian Football League is flush with strong returners, and the Als\u2019 Devonte Dedmon is one of them. Not that they necessarily need it, but if Dedmon can give Alexander, Theis and the rest of the offence good field position to start drives, it will only make it easier to put up points against a defence allowing 35.5 per game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n OTTAWA REDBLACKS<\/p>\n 1. GIVE THE OFFENCE A CHANCE<\/p>\n Montreal leads the CFL through eight weeks with 443 net offensive yards per game and has shown it can score in a variety of ways. It will be up to the REDBLACKS defence to keep them in the game, starting with defensive lineman Michael Wakefield<\/a> and extending out to safety Alonzo Addae. An extra week to prepare for arguably the league\u2019s most prolific offence should help.<\/p>\n 2. THE EMERGING AYDEN EBERHARDT<\/p>\n Ottawa\u2019s offence looked better in their 36-34 overtime loss to Winnipeg in Week 7 and receiver Ayden Eberhardt<\/a> has been a top target of late, pulling down 16 catches and 247 yards in his past two games. He\u2019ll look to solve a Montreal secondary that held him to 25 yards on five catches back in Week 4.<\/p>\n 3. BEAR DOWN<\/p>\n Ottawa held a 17-point fourth quarter lead in that loss to the Blue Bombers, serving as both a sign of what the team is capable of and how quickly games can turn. If they get a lead this time around, they\u2019ll lean on defensive leaders A.J. Allen<\/a> and C.J. Reavis<\/a> to lock it down.<\/p>\n NEED TO KNOW:<\/p>\n Davis Alexander<\/a> is a career 5-0 against Ottawa.
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\nIn their Week 4 matchup, Tyson Philpot<\/a> had 12 receptions for 198 yards. He is 161 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard campaign.
\nIn the teams\u2019 first meeting, Kalil Pimpleton<\/a> had 338 combined yards. He had 101 receiving yards in his last game.
\nKickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET, and can be watched on TSN\/RDS in Canada, on CBSSN in the U.S., and on CFL+ internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Winners of four straight, the Montreal Alouettes head to the nation\u2019s capital to take on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-836575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836575","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=836575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}