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Originally Posted by RadioBlue
I don't have the rulebook or casebook with me at the moment, but I believe the casebook (or maybe it's the rulebook) requires the QB to be in his cadence at the time the defense attempts to verbally disconcert the offense.
Around here, we get a lot of teams who yell "shift" and two down-DLmen will make a quick movement/shift. I've flagged the USC only to have coaches say something like, "You mean we can't shift??!?!"
What do you think? What if the defense yells "shift" and actually DOES shift?
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The offense gets the advantage here; the defense must avoid interfering with the offensive signals. If they yell "shift" or "hut" or anything else, and you feel it's interfering with A, then make them stop. It doesn't matter if they are calling legitimate signals or not or just making noise.