Davis Alexander threw for 420 yards and three touchdowns as Montreal ran Ottawa’s losing streak to seven straight.<\/p>\n
The Montreal Alouettes<\/a> jumped on the Ottawa Redblacks<\/a> early and never let go, building a 24-3 lead by halftime and cruising from there. Montreal improves to 7-1 and stays right behind Edmonton atop the West-East mash-up at the top of the standings, while Ottawa falls to 0-7 with no signs of turning the corner.<\/p>\n Box Score<\/p>\n See full player stats and game details<\/a><\/p>\n Game Highlights<\/p>\n Top PerformersMontreal Alouettes<\/p>\n Davis Alexander<\/a> (QB) \u2014 22\/30, 420 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT<\/p>\n Tyson Philpot<\/a> (WR) \u2014 9 rec, 184 yds<\/p>\n Tyler Snead<\/a> (WR) \u2014 8 rec, 174 yds, 1 TD<\/p>\n Travis Theis<\/a> (RB) \u2014 10 att, 62 yds, 1 TD<\/p>\n Cole Spieker<\/a> (WR) \u2014 2 rec, 17 yds, 2 TD<\/p>\n Ottawa RedblacksTeam Stats<\/p>\n Stat<\/p>\n Montreal Alouettes<\/p>\n Ottawa Redblacks<\/p>\n Total Yards<\/p>\n 509<\/p>\n 382<\/p>\n Passing<\/p>\n 22\/30, 420 yds, 3 TD<\/p>\n 37\/46, 346 yds, 0 TD<\/p>\n Rushing<\/p>\n 17 att, 89 yds, 1 TD<\/p>\n 13 att, 36 yds, 1 TD<\/p>\n Turnovers<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n Quick Hits<\/p>\n Alexander didn’t throw a single interception on 30 attempts while piling up 420 yards through the air \u2014 that’s efficient and explosive at the same time.<\/p>\n Maier actually out-attempted and out-completed Alexander (34\/41 vs 22\/30) but had nothing to show for it \u2014 zero touchdowns and a pick that summed up Ottawa’s frustrating night.<\/p>\n Philpot and Snead combined for 358 receiving yards on just 17 catches, giving Alouettes fantasy owners a monster stat line to point to this week.<\/p>\n What’s Next<\/p>\n Montreal Alouettes (7-1) \u2014 hosts Edmonton Elks<\/a> on August 8<\/p>\n Ottawa Redblacks (0-7) \u2014 travels to face Saskatchewan Roughriders on August 8<\/p>\n CFL Standings<\/a> | Full Schedule<\/a> | League Leaders<\/a><\/p>\n What’s your takeaway? Drop your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis Alexander threw for 420 yards and three touchdowns as Montreal ran Ottawa’s losing streak to seven straight.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-840665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840665","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=840665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}