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Originally Posted by rabblerouser
But there's ostensibly no reason to, if the clock is stopped...you just call a play and run the play.
The only reason to spike the ball is if the clock is running...
Right?
So...therefore, the ONLY time a spike would be valid would be when it's permitted to stop a running clock.
The clock was stopped after the penalty.
Mahomes may have actually committed intentional grounding, it's just that the refs AND the announcers didn't quite know how to explain WHY...
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But he didn't. We are seeing it thrown around that the ball can only be spiked if the game.clock is running, but that is literally not in the rule book. Not to mention, as soon as the ball is snapped the clock is running
Agree that there was no reason to spike the ball, but that doesn't make it illegal