For trickery to work in the NFL, a certain number of planets have to align, and when Jim Zorn and Danny Smith looked out at FedEx Field in the middle of the second quarter Sunday, there they were, all in a row. The Washington Redskins, desperate for a win, trailed the Denver Broncos by seven points. They faced fourth and 20 from the Denver 35-yard line. This was the time: Pull out the fake field goal, the play the special teams unit coached by Smith had practiced, as he said, "for weeks."
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