Trailing by 1, the Bucs drove down the field in the final minute and had a 1st and goal at the 9. They spiked the ball to stop the clock with 13 seconds left, preserving their last timeout.
Seems obvious that you would move the ball to where your kicker wants it and call the time out. They would do that. But first they would take an intentional delay of game penalty.
Yep.
That moves it to the 14. Winston's dive to the middle pushes it to the 16. Obviously, this is still a very makable kick. Extra points are snapped from the 15, so it's essentially that. But kickers miss more from this distance than they used to when they were snapped from the 2.
When you're in the middle of the field aiming at uprights, there's a cone of success. The closer you are, the wider that cone gets. That's your margin of error.
Bruce Arians, a very good football coach disagrees. He said "Yeah, that field goal's easier back five yards."
The kick didn't miss by much and his kicker could have used all the margin of error in the world.
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