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From the Palm Beach Post.com:
Give Manning all the blame he deserves, but Dungy and his staff were clearly less prepared than Belichick.
The Colts coaches failed Sunday in little ways and big ones. A little one: All week, the Colts practiced a trick play in which Manning would pretend to run to his wide receivers as if waving off a misunderstood audible. Then the ball would be snapped directly to running back Edgerrin James. James' run for 11 yards was waved off for a penalty, a false start on Manning.
"You know, I pride myself in knowing the rules," Dungy said. "That' a rule I didn't know, that the quarterback, what they say is once you go under the center, if you move away you have to be set for a second. I guess it's a fairly obscure rule, but it is in there somewhere, I guess."
And from the rule book:
S.N. 4 ANY EXTENSION OF HANDS BY A PLAYER UNDER CENTER AS IF TO RECEIVE THE SNAP IS A FALSE START UNLESS, WHILE UNDER CENTER, HE RECEIVES THE SNAP. THIS INCLUDES ANY PLAYER UNDER OR BEHIND THE CENTER PLACING HIS HANDS ON HIS KNEES OR ON THE BODY OF THE CENTER. IT IS LEGAL FOR A PLAYER UNDER CENTER WHO HAS EXTENDED HIS HANDS TO LEGALLY GO IN MOTION. IF THE ACTION DRAWS AN IMMEDIATE REACTION FROM OPPONENT(S), WHO IS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY, IT IS A FALSE START. IF A QUARTERBACK GOES IN MOTION, HE MUST COME TO A COMPLETE STOP PRIOR TO THE BALL BEING SNAPPED.
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