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But what would you do if the coach hadn't told you about this play and just ran it. Say that the incoming player did nothing to indicate to the huddle who he is coming to replace. One player came in to give the team 11 players and one player left the huddle early. Is there really deception here? Probably. But how many times have you seen a team run a play with only 10 players? I've seen a few. I've even seen when that 11th player comes in on the next play that someone trys to leave thinking he'd been replaced. If they weren't yelling at the guy coming out to stay out there but he stops at the sideline then it would be a foul.
Sometime coaches think they are being tricky and ask us about plays like this so that we will know what is happening and be ready to rule properly on it but other times they just shoot themselves in the foot. Last year I had a coach say his QB would move away from the center trying to get the center to snap the ball in an attempt to get the defense to encroach. If he had never said that it was an attempt to use a shift or motion to cause the encroachment then I would have probably let it go but when he said what the intent of the play was then I had a problem with it. He never ran it so I didn't have to rule on it.
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