False Start OR Illegal Shift?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Sturno

To keep team B from relying on that inference, team A starts the first wingback in motion and, before completing that shift, has the other wingback also begin such a shift. The idea is to take away the possible keys to team B as to both the direction of the play and the timing of the snap, by having 0, 1, or 2 players in the backfield moving pre-snap.

We had a pretty good program here do that a few weeks ago. Must've been a new wrinkle for them because 2 times they tried it out of 3, they were flagged for not resetting for a full second after both were in motion at the same time.

That does happen. Sometimes with all the shifting, which sometimes extends beyond what I wrote above and has one or both of the HBs shift back to WB position, they don't leave themselves much time to snap the ball!