Jesus Christ
That literally didn't even make any sense!
From the comments:
In case there’s anybody watching this without hearing the explanation:
The idea was to pretend the offence was coming back onto the field, then to snap the ball while the opposing team was subbing on, thus ideally gaining a 5 yard penalty when they were caught with 12+ men in the field. Originally, if the play didn’t work out, they just wouldn’t snap the ball and would take the delay of game.
However, the starting snapper was injured in Q2, and poor Whalen (#17) wasn’t told that Anderson (#32) had decided to try to draw the opposing team offside if the original plan didn’t work out. Since he hadn’t been told the new plan, Whalen felt Anderson’s hands and snapped the ball, thus sacrificing Anderson to the merciless football gods.
The rest of the team was forming up off of one guy, and that one guy lined up in the wrong spot, which caused the entire team to be offside.
The fact that the Colts were trying to draw the Pats into a presnap penalty is SO FUCKING FUNNY I just can't.
When the ref calls the team out for being on the entire wrong side of the field I just lost it.
