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This may be the extreme picking of nits, and for that I apologize.
But the reasons given by the rulebook for starting the clock on the snap or on the RFP all deal with what happened to end the previous play, and not specifically on what stopped the clock. The difference is minute, and in many cases, the reason the previous play ended and the reason the clock stopped are the same. But there IS a difference, and it is that minute difference that is causing a few of our posters (even some of the more knowledgeable ones) to rule incorrectly in this case.
I'm not saying IGNORE (or if I did, I'm amending!) the previous play - I'm saying to FOCUS in the reason we start the clock on the RFP or the snap instead of the reason it stopped in the first place.
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