When I saw it live, I was confused why we were sprinting on full speed to change personnel. Notre Dame ran off its full punt squad and the offense didn’t get set until 14 seconds left on the play clock.
Since they subbed and we are given adequate time to respond, couldn’t we have slow played it and caused Notre Dame to take a delay of game or call a TO? This wasn’t one or two guys we’d have to account for, it was a full personnel change.
I’m not a rules expert, but I’ve definitely seen late substitutions by the offense cause them to take a delay of game or waste a TO because the sub doesn’t afford the defense enough time to respond.
If you’d like to rewatch it, it occurs with 8:00 left in the 4th.
At the very least, we should have either called a TO or called their bluff that they’d actually snap it (I have no doubt they only wanted to draw us off and were never planning to snap it until Jalon jumped).
Since they subbed and we are given adequate time to respond, couldn’t we have slow played it and caused Notre Dame to take a delay of game or call a TO? This wasn’t one or two guys we’d have to account for, it was a full personnel change.
I’m not a rules expert, but I’ve definitely seen late substitutions by the offense cause them to take a delay of game or waste a TO because the sub doesn’t afford the defense enough time to respond.
If you’d like to rewatch it, it occurs with 8:00 left in the 4th.
At the very least, we should have either called a TO or called their bluff that they’d actually snap it (I have no doubt they only wanted to draw us off and were never planning to snap it until Jalon jumped).
