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Originally posted by mcrowder
I guess this was more of a general practice question than a rules question. I'm more wondering if once the thought appears in your head to stop the play - does a last minute change stop you from stopping the play - and if so, which kinds of last minute changes.
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Once you decide to stop the play anything happening after that doesn't matter. You see mentally, you have already blown the whistle (play over). Now you just have to let everybody else know the play is over by blowing the whistle that they can hear. Promptly killing the play with the whistle is critical because if the ball does come out and the whistle hasn't been blown, the gaining team is not going to be too understanding about your "mental" whistle.