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If patience is a virtue don't you think Jermaine McElveen deserves to be CFL Allstar? In his Montreal debut, lanky #98 at defensive end for the Als registered 6 on the Richter scale against the Eskimos--3 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, plus 1 fumble recovery.

McElveen is a soft-spoken CFL rookie who had been sitting on the Als practise roster since LAST FALL! After signing as an undrafted free agent with the Tennessee Titans, McElveen was a 2007 NFL training camp cut. He wondered if opportunity would ever knock again. The Falcons and Dolphins showed limited interest but made no contract offers.

Enter Jim Popp. While under the stress of dual-role GM-Head Coach, Popp coaxed McElveen from his CFL "secret" neg-list to Montreal. McElveen just wanted to be part of a team though he knew nothing about the city, and very little about the CFL (a college connection Eddie Freeman had also come north out of University of Alabama-Birmingham).

Alouettes teammates like John Bowman, Anwar Stewart and Devone Claybrooks tell me McE should be nicknamed "Wild Stallion." But truth is he has never once complained, bucked or run wild about having to wait a full year to make his CFL and Montreal debut.

It was a performance Als fans will remember for a long time and that 40-4 win is the most lopsided victory over the hated Eskimos the club has come up with since being reborn in 1996.

Best Coach's decision of the week: Marc Trestman moved up Saturday's team meetings to 7:30AM so players could walk with Team Proudfoot in the Walk to Tackle A.L.S. on the day before the game. Alouettes young and old walked together with 1,000 supporters of Proudfoot and others coping with the family tragedy that is Lou Gehrig's Disease.

If Trestman is superstitious at all, the Als played so well they should have 7:30AM meetings the day before EVERY game!

Can't wait to see the Canadiens fan reaction in Halifax and Roberval (you can hear all the pre-season games on CJAD 800). Nova Scotia has a Sydney, and a town called Crosby, and of course a Sidney Crosby, but its affiliation with Montreal and a former junior star in Alex Tanguay will be amping up the love-in tonite at 6pm.