MONTREAL — Welcome to life as the Montreal Alouettes, where even a six-game winning streak can’t bury the team’s reputation as an underdog.
The Alouettes pay visit to the defending Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts in Saturday’s CFL East Division final.
Instead, the Alouettes finished second in the East with an 11-7 record and beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, a team that had loaded up last off-season, for a fourth time this year with a 27-12 win in last week’s East semifinal. "It's too late to buy stock in this team, and we don't want the flowers now just because we won a playoff game,” he said. “I play for these teammates, I play for my coaches, I play for my family, I don't play for the media to pick us to win games or to win the Grey Cup.”Fajardo lost his job as a starter late last season in Saskatchewan and wasn’t re-signed in free agency as the Roughriders finished at the bottom of the West with a 6-12 record.
Linebacker Tyrice Beverette, in his second year with the Alouettes, made the jump from special teams player with the Ticats to becoming an East Division all-star and one of the top players in Montreal’s strong defence.
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