Officiating at the End of Game

Patrick Mahomes explains fluke intentional grounding penalty
patrick mahomes said
“Yeah, we’ve been over that situation. That was on me. The penalty no matter if we except or decline it, the clock stops. So technically, me spiking the ball like that is almost an intentional grounding penalty. At the same time, the refs said they hadn’t seen that happen in 40 years. I just thought, decline the penalty, the clock was going to roll, so tried to spike it and save the time out. (Chiefs T Mitchell) Schwartz actually told me you can’t do that, but I just thought we could get away with it, and we didn’t. It made a difference for sure at that half.”