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Fridays game this situation arose and I am interested in hearing if I missed something.
Play is blown dead and Team A huddles for the next play. Player A12 enters the field and stands just inside the numbers (inside 9 yard mark) off the line of scrimmage and looks over to bench area for play call. QB gets signals from bench and calls play. As A breaks the huddle, player A11 continues to his sideline and leaves the field of play. Team A comes to the line of scrimmage and A12 now establishes himself on the line of scrimmage.
At first I was temted to call this as illegal substitution, but player A12 never talked with anyone, did not go into the huddle and was never really in a team formation of any kind. AM I missing something here, or is this a clever way to break the huddle with 12 players on the field??
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