Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Corey Mace (left) and Montreal Alouettes head coach Jason Maas (right) shake hands before speaking to the media at the Grey Cup head coaches' media conference in Winnipeg on Tuesday. Their teams face one another on Sunday.

Jason Maas and Corey Mace have their teams in the Grey Cup, but say they haven’t done it alone.

And the keys to CFL head coaching success for both are very similar.

“Players make a great head coach, that’s where you start,” Montreal’s Maas said Tuesday during the coaches news conference ahead of Sunday’s Grey Cup between the Alouettes and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. “Our players are the most important people in our building and to make them feel like that every single day is important.

“They have to come in to an environment that

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