The Redskins' unusual game of telephone

[MTK]

More than 40 years after its invention, the telestrator is a common tool used by television football analysts who dissect complex and hard-to-understand plays. While it helps make sense of X's and O's, broadcasters assigned to Washington Redskins games in recent weeks have relied on the telestrator to explain the team's complicated play-calling system -- not its actual plays.

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