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?
The NFL hasn’t enforced false starts since Peyton Manning brought all the movement into fashion. I don’t think there was a single play in a ten years that Jeff Saturday didn’t move something other than the ball before the snap. It’s been absurd ever since.