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Originally Posted by Bob M.
REPLY: As the others have said, play sounds as if it's perfectly legal. The part about the sub's need to be in the huddle is absolutely ludicrous. If that was a rule, how could a no-huddle offense ever substitute?  |
Heh. NFL's rules were much vaguer and the Cincinnati Bengals offense used to combine no-huddle and quick huddle (the "attack huddle") with substitutions in ways that caused game officials and the league office to step in with on-the-spot and office rulings. They used to come over the ball and have their backfield "shift" in ways that included the bench. Around the same time, the Minn. Vikings defense discovered the advantages of huddling with 17 players. The temporary solution was for officials to simply prevent play until they were satisfied the other team had a chance to adjust their personnel in reaction.
Robert