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Originally Posted by Counter-Tre

Maybe I missed something but I was confused on a particular sequence. It appeared that Hopkins was lined up to kick the 43 yd field goal and right as they're ready to go, Gruden calls timeout. They snap the ball anyway and Hopkins puts it right through the uprights. Then after the timeout, they attempt the same exact thing but of course this time Hopkins misses. Was it the Redskins that called the timeout and if so, why? It would be like icing your own kicker.

The timeout was called by Gruden because the play clock was expiring, and the ball was never going to snapped on time. Had he not called it we'd be looking at a longer FG because of the delay of game.