:als_red: 2025 Eastern Final: MTL @ HAM (08 Novembre / November)

First day of injury reports! Injury Report | Week 23 - Montreal Alouettes

DNP: Dallaire, Gibbon, and (worryingly) Lestage

Limited: Evans, M. Johnson (woo hoo!), Hutter

Full: C. Johnson, Theis, Oladejo

Gut feeling is that Dallaire and Gibbon are both done for the year.

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A little more injury news. Looks positive for Evans and Johnson.

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Didier just said at RDS that Maas said that Lestage will play, nothing to worry

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Evans looks closer to returning than Moose – he basically did almost a full practice, whereas Moose was mostly working with the sports therapists and trainers on his own.

Fingers crossed! It would be great to have even one of them back in the lineup. Both returning would be phenomenal.

What’s nice, at least today, is that neither Scott nor Uguak showed up on the injury report.

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https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/11/04/les-alouettes-ont-appris-de-leurs-erreurs

Un article du 4/11 de Mylène Richard dans le Journal de Montréal, les Alouettes ont appris de leurs erreurs.

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Un article du 4/11 de Kristina Costabile dans CFL.ca,
sur trois points à vérifier dans la finale de l’Est.

  • The Kid vs The Vet, part 2.
  • Who will win the turnover battle?
  • Balance is the name of the game.

Go Alouettes….. une partie à la fois
Quelle attaque des Alouettes avec D. Alexander et les 11 autres joueurs pour les jeux au sol et par la passe.

One area I’d like to see DA improve in (he rated himself a B- last game LMAO – dude is as unreal a competitor as any player I’ve ever seen) is finding his backside read, which most of the time is SSIII. There were 2-3 times in the ESF where he could have and should have looked to his running back on the checkdown – there was space and Stevie could have made something happen. And in those cases, the play fell incomplete, with Davis trying to force the ball into traffic (once to Mack, and once to, I think, Rambo?).

Some of that is the dog in him – looking to make explosive plays. But as teams get film on him, they are going to do their level best to take away the explosives, which means he has to learn some patience and play the ball control game. And it is frustrating for a defence to blanket coverage but then see the RB pick up 10-15 yards on a checkdown pass in the flat.

As funny as it is to say, if DA can put that checkdown game together and rein in the octane when necessary, our offence could be even better.

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Article du 5/11 de E. Leblanc dans RDS, le pouvoir de l’amitié.

L. Brodeur-Jourdain y mentionne « quand on devient un monstre à deux têtes avec le jeu aérien et les courses, la défense doit prendre les bonnes décisions.
Ce sera important pour nous d’avoir du succès avec la course pour avoir le maximum d’options offensives pendant la rencontre ».

Stevie Scott 111 6´2 231 livres 25 ans, 40 verges 4.63
«Derrick Henry de la CFL ». Dixit D. Alexander.
Université Indiana 2018-2020
FBS 32 parties dont 30 comme débutant 562 courses pour 2,543 verges moyenne 4,52, 30 touchés.
55 passes pour 383 verges moyenne 6.96 , 2 touchés.

Essais NFL 2021: Saints et Broncos, 2022 Broncos, 2023 Cardinals
USFL 2022-2023 Michigan
CFL 2024 Alouettes, équipe d’entraînement. signé le 1/02/2024.
CFL 2025 10 parties jouées dont 5 comme débutant 86 courses pour 418 verges, moyenne 4.86, 1 touché.
15/18 (83,3%) 116 verges, moyenne 7.7 verges

Avec le TRIO offensif: D. Alexander + S. Scott 111 + les receveurs et la puissance de la ligne offensive, les Alouettes ont tous les éléments pour une attaque balancée et surtout efficace.

À J. Maas & A. Calvillo de démontrer de nouveau leur gestion 2.0 d’une attaque balancée.

Go Alouettes…une partie à la fois.

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So Hamilton was great on D at taking the ball away, but bad defending the run. I really want to see us continue to pound the rock. It helps the pass, it tires their defence and it most importantly it will keep Hamilton’s dangerous offence off the field. That would a really what happened in the third quarter last weekend, we let the BB’s O back in the field.

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Second injury report up.

Changes from day 1:

Evans from LTD to DNP

Mack LTD (leg)

Hutter from LTD to DNP

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Suite au commentaire de notre collègue disciplineandpunish, voici le rapport des blessures au 5/11.

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Texte du 5/11 de J. Dunk, B.L.M. est très motivé pour la finale de l’Est 2025 vs Alouettes.

En 2023, lors de la demi-finale de l’Est vs Montréal, il n’a été pas le qa partant dans une défaite de 27-12…c’était M. Schiltz, il a joué seulement au 4ieme quart. 1 en 4 et 1 interception.

La petite histoire de B.L.M. et les Tiger-Cats vs les Alouettes, en éliminatoires, prochain chapitre le 8/11…

Je prédis une victoire des Tiger-Cats contre les Alouettes; j’espère me tromper comme samedi dernier alors que je prédisais une victoire des Blue Bombers contre les Alouettes.

Richard

Deux clubs solides, je prévois une victoire des Alouettes par un placement.
27 - 24

Les Tiger-Cats n’ont pas affronté cette année, l’attaque actuelle des Alouettes.

  • 27/06 victoire de Hamilton: 37-15
    M.B.T qa - 42 jeux de passes pour 203 verges et 10 courses pour 38 verges, 5 pertes pour 15 verges, attaque totale 57 jeux pour 226 verges

  • 6/09 victoire de Hamilton: 26-9
    J. Morgan qa - 28 passes pour 126 verges, 20 courses pour 108 verges, 2 pertes pour 34 verges, Attaque totale 50 jeux pour 220 Verges,

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Hamilton can and will study film on DA, but until they actually play against him is another story. Generally, the ALS seem to play better on the road. Having said, I would like to see the 2023 Defense show up on Saturday.

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The 2023 defence will need to show up and stay for 60 minutes the rest of the way.

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Moose being healthy enough to play would definitely help. Without him, I’m not sure we can generate enough consistent pressure on Hamilton. Their O-line is top tier, way better than Winnipeg’s O-line.

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We may have another potential shootout. If we can’t contain BLM, may as well outscore them! :slight_smile:

As much as I love our team, and DA, I do not think we can win a shootout with Hamilton. Our best chance is to grind out a low-scoring game, but that requires our D to turn in the performance of the season against a future Hall of Famer, a top O-line, and a murderers’ row of receivers.

I hope I’m wrong. But my feeling is that DA’s undefeated streak comes to an end this week.