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With the Chiefs leading 17-16 and five seconds left on Sunday, Titans kicker Ryan Succop lined up for a game-winning 53-yard field goal and didn’t like how his plant foot felt on the frozen turf. His kick came up short.

But Chiefs coach Andy Reid had done him a favor: Reid called timeout just before the snap in an effort to ice the kicker, which meant Succop got a second chance. During the timeout, Succop re-tied the shoe on his plant foot, and made the game-winning kick after the timeout.

“I kind of went over and tightened up my plant shoe a little bit,” Succop said after the game, “because I knew I was going to be going at it as hard as I could. So, on the second one, I kind of just had to throw technique out the window a little bit and really go after it and hit it as hard as I could.”

Chiefs coach Andy Reid acknowledged after the game that he regretted the timeout.

“Listen, it didn’t work,” Reid said. “I’ve got to do better on that. It backfired.”

Studies of icing the kicker have shown that NFL kickers are no more likely to miss after a timeout than they are when there’s no extra time to think about it. And some kickers say they like the extra preparation time they get when the opposing coach calls timeout. Succop taught Reid a valuable lesson. Perhaps other coaches should pay attention.