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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
I'm literally reading the rules to you when I say:
YOU CANNOT FLAG A QUARTERBACK FOR INTENTIONAL GROUNDING IF HE IS NOT UNDER PRESSURE.
That's the very first stipulation of the penalty.
Defensive pressure.
No defensive pressure = no grounding.
Literally in the rules.
Literally the first sentence.
Literally ignored by fat ref.
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REID AND MAHOMES ****ED UP.
They shouldn't have spiked the ****ing ball - I HATE THE ****ING NFL AND HOW THEY INTERPRET RULES AND HOW THEY RIG SHIT ALL THE ****ING TIME.
AND GODDAMN IT CLAY, I'M TELLING YOU THEY INTERPRETED IT CORRECTLY. THIS TIME.
In order to SPIKE TO SAVE TIME...THERE HAS TO BE TIME RUNNING OFF THE CLOCK AT THE TIME OF THE SNAP.
There was ZERO time saved by the spike. In fact...we lost time and yardage and a FG attempt.
There was XX time when the play clock started.
PMII could have taken 24 seconds to look things over with no loss of gametime. That'd be why it was illegal - because he didn't HAVE to do it. Because the clock wasn't running.
You lovable lunkhead. Per item 3:
"player under center is permitted to stop the game clock
legally to save time"
What that means to me, and the NFL, is that even if he isn't under pressure, he didn't do it to stop the clock...because the clock was already stopped.
Which supersedes the 'lack of pressure', as the penalty occurs without regard to pressure - or lack thereof.
Which makes it intentional grounding.