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Joe Gibbs Loses The Game With Back-To-Back Timeouts

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It was an emotional game the Redskins played that Sunday. It was the first game following the death of Sean Taylor, the team’s 24-year-old franchise defensive back, Holding a 16-14 lead late in the game, the Buffalo Bills got into long field-goal range. Ryan Lindell lined up for the 51-yarder when Washington head coach Joe Gibbs “iced” him and called a timeout. One timeout wasn’t enough for Gibbs, though, who called the second one as Lindell lined up again. Had Gibbs known the rulebook better, he would have known back-to-back timeouts is an automatic unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. The Bills gained 15 yards on the play and Lindell hit an easy 36-yard field goal to win the game 17-16…

Sometimes the distance of a field goal doesn’t even matter…