Watch the Steelers' Left Guard, #73 to Determine Pass or Run

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(12-19-2016, 11:06 PM)BB2W Wrote: This is not true... What you are seeing is the Steelers silent snap count out of shotgun which is mostly used during away games because of crowd noise. Ben breaks the huddle and says set and everyone gets set besides Foster and a potential man in motion. Ideally, Foster looks back at Ben to make sure he's ready and Foster surveys the line of scrimmage to make sure everyone is set before getting set himself and within 2 seconds he hits Pouncey on the left thigh to snap the ball. There were many plays during the game yesterday where the same sequence was followed by a run play out of shotgun. It has been a constant procedure since at least Munchak joined the staff and may be related to Todd Haley.

You may think that would be an easy read of the snap for defenders on the left side of the defense but Foster always hits Pouncey's thigh without him snapping in some sort of a "silent hard count" to keep the rush off balance. This is why you may see the process repeated over and over not to mention audibles.

This doesn't happen on run plays.