Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Don't mess up Zebrie Sanders' snap count

Respect for the snap count is drilled into offensive lineman; they spend hours of practice training themselves to not flinch on hard counts or yield to eager defensive linemen who jump too soon.  Florida State right tackle Zebrie Sanders may have taken those lessons a bit too literally.  On a play early in the third quarter of their game against Florida this weekend, Seminoles' center Ryan McMahon apparently snapped the ball a little early, so his four fellow linemen were slow to get moving.

But Sanders  never got moving at all. 

Instead he stood perfectly still, poised in his two-point stance even as FSU quarterback E.J. Manuel desperately scrambled from a horde of unblocked Gators (and somehow managed to gain a few yards on the play).  But while video of college football's most bizarre play of the season circulates on the Internet, no one from FSU has come forward with an explanation of what exactly Sanders thought he was doing.  Was he painting a stoic portrait of self-discipline?  Was he protesting the center's mistake?  Did he fall asleep?  Is he paralyzed?

I have no idea, but it is easily one of the strangest things I've ever seen.  I really think someone should go out to the Swamp to make sure the kid got home okay.

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