The Alouettes kicked too many field goals this season and didn’t score enough touchdowns.

But despite their inability to find the end zone at times, the one thing they never did was turn the ball over when they were in the red zone — until fewer than three minutes remained in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Grey Cup game against Saskatchewan with Montreal trailing by eight points.

Faced with second and two at the Roughriders’ three-yard line, head coach Jason Maas inserted short-yardage quarterback Shea Patterson into the game. The normally reliable Patterson, who scored on a one-yard run in the first quarter, fumbled after being hit by Tevaughn Campbell . The ball was recovered in the end zone by Marcus Sayles.

That was as close as the Als would come to potentially tying the game in

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