Illegal Formation?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by bcl1127

Agree that at the youth levels, this is a stupid play, teach the game here. All the youth and MS coaches seem to think this is the NFL...

Huh? This is the sort of play that'd never work in the NFL, and is only suitable to children's football because it is a "stupid play". We'll take advantage of the other team's "stupidity" (inexperience, really) any time. Last night we were practicing this one and it even fooled me in that I lost track of where our TE was because I was counting OL positions from where our QB lined up. Of course it helps that confusion that in practice sessions our snapper has a fetish of carrying the ball with him into the huddle instead of leaving it at the spot!

Any opinions on other "stupid" plays like snapping the ball on "set" instead of "hut"? Or LBs saying, "Hey, I'm coming" whether they are or not? There's lots of stuff that works only with children, hardly any of whom are ever going to play in the NFL anyway, assuming the NFL still exists when they grow up.