The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but were lucky to do so, requiring some rule bending to escape what would have been a bad loss.
Head coach Marvin Lewis explained what happened near the end of the game when the Buccaneers completed a 21-yard pass in the final minute but did so with 12 men on the field. Lewis threw the challenge flag, which was illegal by NFL rules under the two-minute warning.
Lewis explained how it went to The MMQB.
"We are fortunate because we have a challenge person upstairs," Lewis told MMQB. "He told me about the 12 men. Then it was just a matter of getting it to the officials’ attention."
Lewis was alerted to the 12 men, and he tried to do anything he could to get the refs' attention.
"I just lost my mind," he said. All I needed to do was call timeout. I was trying to get Bill Leavy’s attention, and at the end I was worried they’d snap the ball, so I just threw the challenge flag."
That's the irony of the situation: Had Lewis just called a timeout, he would have been fine and the replay booth would have seen the three-WR, three-TE, one-back formation, which was a guy too many. But instead, Lewis was penalized a timeout for throwing the flag illegally, which was a circuitous route to achieving the same goal.
Either way, it ended up working.
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Eric Edholm is a writer for Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at edholm@yahoo-inc.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Eric_Edholm
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