January 12, 2015

New England Football Tricks Reportedly Legal in Playoff Win Over Ravens





[From article]
"Yeah, a substitution type of trick,” Harbaugh said. “Normally, you get an opportunity to, [the officials will] give you a chance to make the proper substitutions and things like that. It’s not something that anybody’s ever done before. So maybe the league will look at that type of thing and I’m sure that they’ll make some adjustments and things like that.”
Harbaugh continued: “We wanted an opportunity to be able to ID who the eligible players were, because what they were doing was they would announce the ineligible player and then Tom would take them to the line right away and snap the ball before we had a chance to even figure out who was lined up where. And that was the deception part of it, and it was clearly deception.”
[. . .]
A league official told ESPN.com that the plays and formations ran by the Patriots were legal.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/01/10/harbaugh-says-belichicks-formations-clearly-deception-brady-says-figure-it-out/

Patriots
Harbaugh Says Belichick’s Formations ‘Clearly Deception'; Brady Says ‘Figure It Out’
By Michael Hurley
CBS Boston
January 10, 2015 9:58 PM

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