DrewDawg said:
Since Harbaugh keeps moving the goalposts, I'd be pretty impressed if anyone understood exactly what he said and why he said it.
That said, explain what is more complicated. Perhaps I'm not expressing myself correctly, because reading your other posts, I think we agree. Harbaugh wants to match up to formations and eligible receivers. He said exactly that: "they don’t give you the chance to make the proper substitutions"
By the time the huddle breaks and Vereen talks to ref why could Harbaugh not have made proper subs since this clearly wasn't a hurry up situation?
As was linked a couple times already, Harbaugh said:
We wanted an opportunity to be able to identify who the eligible players were," Harbaugh explained, "because what they were doing was they would announce the eligible player and Tom (Brady) would take it to the line right away and snap the ball before (we) even figured out who was lined up where. And that was the deception part of it. It was clearly deception.
"The officials told me after that they would give us the opportunity to do that, which they probably should have done during that series but they really didn't understand what was happening. I had to go take the penalty to get their attention so they can understand what was going on."
There's a question about substitutions, and a question about being able to identify and match up with who is eligible and ineligible. Both matter, not just the first. Since the rule on the first is pretty clear (which I agree with you about), and his words after the game and yesterday both focus on the ability to match up, I believe (and others have said same) it is his real complaint.
To each their own I suppose.