Maybe you've heard a game-day announcer fawn over the way Peyton Manning sold a play-action fake or marvel at how Matt Ryan tricked the entire defense into thinking -- incorrectly -- the Falcons were going to run the ball.
It turns out they were watching the wrong thing. The quarterback and running back dynamic might seem like the lead actors when it comes to play-action fakes, but it's the surrounding cast that truly makes the deception work.
"I would say the majority of it is done by the offensive line," quarterback Brian Hoyer said last week. "When the offensive line comes off like it's a run, you can see times where we watch the film and the linebackers are reacting to them.