Robert Griffin III's headset malfunctioned on final drive; Santana Moss thinks it was intentional

Robert Griffin III's headset went out during his game-winning drive against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, and Santana Moss doesn't think it was an accident.

"Happens every time," Moss told Yahoo! Sports' Eric Adelson after the game. "No lie. I've been in the league 12 years, I've been in plenty of games, and the home team goes, 'Oh well.'" Adelson then described Moss mimicking the yanking of an imaginary plug out of a wall.

After the first completion of the seven-play drive that led to a game-winning field goal, Griffin looked toward the sideline and indicated he couldn't hear anything from the helmet speakers.

The lack of communication with offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan didn't affect RGIII's performance. He easily drove the Redskins into field goal range to set-up Billy Cundiff's winning kick.

Griffin said the audio error wasn't a big deal because he was prepared. He told reporters:

"The whole drive was a little complicated. In practice every week, we always practice me calling the plays in two-minute, acting as if the headset goes out. The funny thing was the headset did go out on that drive. That's why I was having to run back and forth to the sideline. I had to call a couple of my own plays, and we moved the chains and got in field-goal range. It was very neat how that practice situation, that practice scenario, actually played out in the game."

A little too neat for Moss' opinion, but still: Not only is RGIII winning games at the last second, he's doing it without a major piece of equipment. As long as putting hands to ears doesn't become the new Griffining, we're cool.

The folks at Larry Brown Sports have kept a record of mysterious late-game radio outages at NFL stadiums and it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to connect the dots. You can use Wi-Fi at 35,000 feet and speak on cell phones inside train tunnels, but speakers in football helmets magically stop working at big moments?