Sunday’s home loss to the Cowboys featured a string of unfortunate and highly improbable events.
On special teams, the Commanders blocked a field goal and a punt in the same game. According to NFL stats, there have been 15 blocked FGs in 179 games this season, which equates to one blocked FG every 11.9 games or 0.084 blocked FGs per game. Blocked punts are even less common, with just 8 occurrences so far, or 0.045 per game. The probability of both happening in the same game is therefore 0.084*0.045 = 0.004, about equivalent to once every 267 games.