Byrdbrain said:That sort of makes some sense but to think that a BB coached team would fall for something like that means you haven't been paying attention. I mean the Pats use that type of substitution more than anyone, to think they wouldn't know what to do and how to act is dumb.
Then to snap the ball on top of it just adds another layer of stupid
It was a bet that the Pats would be unprepared and would panic. I get that many teams might, and that the Colts might have thought "what would we do here? Call a timeout/switch units"
However, the single team in the last 50 years LEAST likely to be unprepared and to panic happened to be the one they were actually playing, and to the degree they projected their own reaction onto the Pats it just kind of demonstrates how well prepared the Pats actually are. People chuckle about BB quizzing guys on things and stopping practice with scenarios, but this is where it pays off. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if during practice within the last week they had some crazy fake punt play and said to the D "what do you do? where do you go?" and drilled into them that when in doubt, go to a safe-man (or whatever they went into). I'd be surprised if they practiced defending that particular formation/play...but not at all surprised if they practiced how to respond to the concept of an unexpected formation and play from the punt team