PHILADELPHIA — When Nick Foles lined up in the shotgun formation on the 1-yard line, then approached his offensive linemen and stopped behind the right tackle, New England was fooled. A thousand miles away, a fellow quarterback was not.
“Nick’s about to catch a touchdown,” Sam Ehlinger called out to his mother before the ball was snapped as they watched the Super Bowl on television.
Ehlinger recently completed his freshman season as quarterback at the University of Texas. Like Foles, he attended Westlake High School, a prep football powerhouse in Austin, Tex. And, unlike the Patriots, Ehlinger could see the trickery unfolding.