30some Years of Watching Football and I Cannot Believe I Saw This Happen

Yes I was watching the Patriots/Colts game last night.  

What on the surface of this great earth of ours would ever make someone believe that a play like this would ever work?

What is this alignment?  Let us take a moment and dissect all the oddities of this situation.  
  
1). This is supposedly a "fake punt" situation?  Do they really think the Patriots are going to believe they are punting? (more on that later)

2). That is not the center who is hiking the ball...it's a wide receiver.

3). That is not even a QB taking the snap - or the punter...it's a safety.  

Now let's just take in the overall look of this set-up shall we?  

Over on the one side you've got most of the Colts lined up in punt formation.  Why?  Even if the Patriots were idiotic enough to believe the Colts were going to punt...THERE IS NO BALL THERE!!!  And the acting center sure as heck isn't going to be snapping it diagonally to the punter. I don't know what the intelligence level of the players are but I'm pretty sure they are not stupid enough to believe a phantom football could be punted. 

But let's just ignore everyone over on that side...just pretend the players for both teams aren't there.

Let's look at the 5 players huddled around the ball and mathematically sort this out...the fake "QB/Punter" is virtually useless for anything other than trying to advance the ball once it's snapped. That leaves one player to block THREE defenders.   

This ball should have never been snapped...I make $0 a year playing football and I know that.  

Oy.