You may have wondered why Falcons head coach Dan Quinn didn’t use a timeout at any point during the Panthers’ last drive. What a colossal coaching mistake — except Quinn didn’t actually have a timeout to use.
Falcons fans thought the team had another timeout because FOX forgot to change the display
Wondering why Dan Quinn didn’t call a timeout on the Panthers’ last possession? He didn’t have one.
Jeanna Kelley has been covering the Falcons for The Falcoholic since 2011 and the NFL for SB Nation since 2015.
The FOX broadcast showed that both the Falcons and Panthers had one timeout remaining. If the Falcons had a timeout, they could have forced a Carolina field goal and would have trailed by six. They would have had time to try to get into the end zone again for a win.
FOX was wrong. And people were mad online about it.
Quinn used the team’s last time out with 1:37 left to play. FOX finally removed the timeout from its display with 13 seconds left in the game.
The Falcons dropped to 4-4 with the 20-17 loss to the Panthers. Dan Quinn surely wishes he would have had a timeout left on that last Panthers possession.
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