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Originally Posted by RamWraith
Mike Holmgren:
"This type of play might happen once a year, once every two years, and
typically that wasn't enough to change rules. I don't think you want to change every rule that comes up kind of quirky like that."
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True, until teams start exploiting it. I wonder if he'll still think it's "quirky."
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Mike Holmgren:
"The example that (Linehan) used, to have two receivers run down there and one snap the ball like you're on the playground, you can't do it," Holmgren said. "The official's holding the ball. He's holding the ball. You're not going to grab the ball from the official ... and nothing can be done till he sets the ball down."
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Everyone knows you can't snap the ball until the officials set the ball down, but that "playground" play would still take a lot less time than waiting for a lumbering, tired offensive line to run down there.
And if the ball was caught down the middle of the field for say 20 or 30 yards -- which is easier to do against a prevent defense that's protecting the sidelines -- it would take three or four seconds for the official to set the ball down and have one receiver snap it to another receiver while the rest of the team stands still. That would result in an offensive illegal formation penalty
and defensive encroachment penalty... offsetting penalties... and it would stop the clock with no 10 second runoff.
Now, that's a play I wouldn't hesitate putting in my playbook after last weekend.