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Your therapist will tell you communication is the key to life.

Your football coach will tell you it’s the key to cutting through defences like a knife.

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Quietly, the CFL took steps to improve the communication between play-caller and quarterback this off-season, kiboshing the radio cut-off that used to kick in with 10 seconds remaining on the play clock.

This season, quarterbacks can walk to the line of scrimmage with a voice in their ear to help identify coverages, blitzers, open receivers, and whatever else you can think of all the way through the snap of the football.

The headset is live even mid-play, which allows an offensive co-ordinator, if he so chooses, to yell in a quarterback’s ear where to go with the football while the action is going on.

Interesting, to say the least.

One league source even likened the new system to working the toggles from the couch during a game of Madden.

Calgary Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson, also the offensive architect calling the plays, claims that hasn’t happened on his sideline, but did admit the option is available.