Here's something you don't get to hear very much of when it comes to the NFL: a long-snapper making news. But that's exactly what happened on Thursday when Philadelphia Eagles long-snapper Rick Lovato went on 620 WME in Tampa Bay to reveal something that Philly reportedly did during their walk-through practice before Super Bowl LII against the New England Patriots.

According to an article written by Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, Lovato said that the Eagles ran a phony walk-through practice in Minneapolis prior to the Super Bowl just in case there was anything fishy going on with the Patriots potentially spying on them.

“I believe our whole walk-through was just a complete fake walk-through,” Lovato said. “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.”

This is, of course, us in reference to the 2007 Patriots videotaping controversy, widely known as “Spygate” to NFL fans around the world. As for why the Eagles didn't need to run their actual plays one day before the Super Bowl, Lovato said that the team had two weeks of time to prepare for the Patriots anyway.

“We already had our game plan set all week for the last two weeks,” Lovato said. “We had two weeks to prepare for that game. A measly walk-through the day before the game, we weren’t going to show anything to anyone, especially being at the stadium.”

After not being selected in the 2015 NFL Draft, Lovato made brief stints with the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Washington Redskins before he came to the Eagles during the 2016 season when the team's longtime long-snapper Jon Dorenbos broke his wrist. During the 2017 preseason, Lovato beat out Dorenbos for the starting job.