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While his words were said emotionally, in the heat of the moment following one of the Alouettes’ worst defeats in franchise history, John Bowman doesn’t regret accusing some of his teammates of no longer caring.

“Everybody heard what I said. Everybody knows how I play. I want everybody to put the same things I do into a game. At the moment, I was heated from the ass-whupping we got,” Bowman said Thursday, following the team’s first full practice of the week.

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“Did I feel that way at the time? Yes. And looking at the film, do I still feel that way? Yes. I’m not going to apologize to anybody. I said it because I meant it.”

It wasn’t so much the Als suffered their seventh consecutive loss last Friday at Calgary, it was the manner in which they were totally dominated in the Stampeders’ 59-11 pasting that frustrated Bowman, who continues to attempt to lead by example at age 35 and now in his 12th Canadian Football League season, all with Montreal.