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Originally Posted by HLin NC
The hand to hand snap makes it almost instantaneous. From shotgun or pistol allows offense to attempt deception which goes around the rule exception for IFP.
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What kind of deception can they try while the loose ball is moving backwards from the snapper? It's not as if they can do anything with it until the passer has it in his hands, and at that point he can do the same thing just as fast whether he got a handed snap or a thrown one.
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Also in that formation, B can pressure and then WH would be put in position of deciding if grounded pass was an intentional spike to stop clock or avoid sack.
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That part makes sense.
But a more basic question is why team A should be allowed to delay the game by conserving time like this at all. But if that was the object of the rules makers, they could make it simpler by just telling the R "spike", and then you don't have to spot the ball again.