Excuse my ignorance, but what’s up with this? I don’t recall seeing it before last weekend. Half a second before the snap, an offensive lineman rapidly points forward.
Two questions:
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Is there an exception under the false start rules that makes this OK?
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Why are they doing it? To try to make the defense jump?
This was actually answered in “no dumb questions” on New Heights this past episode. Jason Kelce explained it as identifying the Mike or WIL for blocking assignments, but there are many other ways it’s used too