{"id":936308,"date":"2026-10-17T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936308\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:24:09","slug":"alouettes-notebook-tyson-philpot-davis-alexander-blossom-into-cfls-dynamic-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936308\/","title":{"rendered":"Alouettes&#8217; notebook: Tyson Philpot, Davis Alexander blossom into CFL&#8217;s dynamic duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before they became the CFL\u2019s leading pass-and-catch combination with the Alouettes, Tyson Philpot and Davis Alexander were strangers competing on opposite sides, seeking national bragging rights while pursuing their dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t uncommon for receiver Philpot, while attending high school in Delta, B.C., to make the 280-km trip down to Gig Harbor, Wash., the home of quarterback Alexander, for seven-on-seven football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI knew who he was. I think he knew of me \u2014 but maybe not because of U.S. ignorance,\u201d Philpot, 26, quipped recently during an interview with The Gazette. \u201cWe were on the same field \u2026 knowing of each other and appreciating how good each other were.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before they became the CFL\u2019s leading pass-and-catch combination with the Alouettes, Tyson Philpot and Davis Alexander were strangers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-936308","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\/936308","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=936308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}