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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
That is my guess. I wasnt watching the playclock, but I assume they planned on taking it right down to 1 and hoping for the Pats to be stunned and jump offside. For whatever reason, the ball was snapped.
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Or "snap only if NE is in a certain formation", which, obviously, NE wasn't in that formation.
I remember the packers trying a fourth down pass out of a similar formation a number of years ago, that I think would have worked, except the pass was dropped (I think?)
I can't remember which team snapped the ball halfway across the field nearly sideways, directly to a wide receiver, a couple of years ago.
So many things are legal with formations and snapping, that you pretty much never see. CFL even more so with on side players on kicking plays.