St. Louis' bad snap on an extra-point attempt brings media scrutiny to players often ignored.

Three Amigos — long snapper Brad St. Louis, holder Kyle Larson and kicker Shayne Graham — are usually money on extra points.

But this time, they weren't in concert, and the cacophony contributed to the Cincinnati Bengals' 24-23 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday.

Carson Palmer's 10-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Houshmandzadeh with 0:41 to go pulled the Bengals within a point. But St. Louis' snap was wide and wobbly, and sailed right through Larson's outstretched hands.

"It's unfortunate," St. Louis said. "I feel like I let the team down. The weather didn't affect me on the other snaps. If I could redo it, I would. But I can't. It's just unfortunate."

St. Louis, Larson and Graham took turns getting grilled by the media. Neither buckled nor pointed the finger of blame.

"We've done it a thousand times," Larson said. "We work really hard on it in practice. We just didn't execute this time."

Graham had no chance to kick the ball because the snap was poor, and Larson couldn't catch it and place it.

"I'm sure we'd all love to take the blame for it," Graham said. "But we would never want to point our finger at anyone because we trust each other. We depend on one another for everything we do — the whole operation.

"I know they're going to catch the ball and hold it. I never expect anything bad to happen. It didn't work for us. It hurts. It's hard to swallow. But we're pros. We come back the next week and make up for it. We sleep on it a lot of nights, but we have to do our best to come back from it."

Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said he considered going for the two-point conversion.

"I thought about it," he said. "But it really doesn't matter now, does it? We just didn't get the ball down and weren't able to kick it."

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