3rd grade math? What the hell are you talking about? Like I said, they were saving the timeout in case they got in field goal range. Obviously, Mularkey thought so too. I'll go with him over you.
I agree with stojan...
MDH... "Umm, because if we had "needed" the TO to stop the clock when we were in FG range and had already used it after the sack it would have been obvious to us that they never would have gotten into FG range had they not called the TO after the sack... " Whatever dude.
And what would have happened had we completed a pass to put us in fg range, only not to have our timeout. Then people would be bitching that we used it then.
I don't see a problem with it.