MONTREAL - Athletes often regurgitate the same line about blocking out outside noise come playoff time. Davis Alexander doesn’t shy away from it.

So when Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive lineman Willie Jefferson said this week that he planned to walk into Montreal, hand Alexander his first loss and “kick their door in” in Saturday’s CFL East Division semifinal — you can be sure the Alouettes quarterback heard it.

“I love it,” Alexander said Friday at Olympic Stadium. “It's only gonna make us more fired up.

“We see everything they say. We don’t really try to pay much attention to it, (but) I know when I go back home, I go and look for that type of stuff.”

Alexander then threw it back at Jefferson, mimicking the defensive lineman’s trademark “C’mon down to Winnipeg” taunt.

“Bring Willie

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