Philadelphia Eagles long snapper
Rick Lovatosaid the team did a fake walkthrough in Minneapolis one day ahead of Super Bowl LII in the event the
New England Patriots were spying on their practice.
"I believe our whole walkthrough was just a complete fake walkthrough," Lovato said on 620 WDAE in Tampa (h/t
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk). "We did it at the stadium. There were certain people walking around...I believe I overheard someone say a lot of the plays we were running weren’t even in the playbook for the Super Bowl."
As for why the Eagles were willing to sacrifice a practice day for such a potentially elaborate diversion?