The Los Angeles Chargers and Atlanta Falcons are notorious for finding wildly creative ways to lose games.
Both teams made their best efforts to cough up a win with the game's outcome in the balance in the final minute of regulation. Theafter a wild sequence featuring two fumbles that set up kicker Cameron Dicker for his second game-winning field goal of the season — for his second team.
The Chargers were set up for a considerably less chaotic win while facing third-and-4 with 46 seconds remaining. With the game tied at 17-17 and the Falcons out of timeouts, the Chargers simply needed to maintain control of the ball to run down the clock and set up a game-winning field-goal attempt. They did not maintain control of the ball. Austin Ekeler picked up two yards on a run from the Atlanta 22-yard line but fumbled the ball just before his knee hit the turf. Falcons defensive end Ta'Quon Graham scooped up the loose ball then rumbled 19 yards in an effort to set Atlanta up for its own potential game-winner. His play met the same fate as Ekeler's — only his fumble wasn't forced.Is...
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