Diante Lee

Because all he has to do is lay that ball out.

I just think, to your point, in the same conversation that we had with Lamar Jackson last year, you just can't because you are playing up against teams that are just talented enough to take that margin and win a game with it, even though they're playing flawed on the opposite side of the ball.

And for an MVP, I don't think it's beyond the pale to say, hey, man, can we protect the ball a little bit better than what we saw on Saturday?

I think that this is one of the specific plays that is confounded no matter how detailed they try to be with the rules, right?

Because there's just a confluence of events in a way that doesn't always come up when we're talking about possession, right?

Because in most scenarios, if Brandon Cooks is not being tackled by Jaquan McMillan as that ball is going down and the ball just ricochets out as he rolls on his back,

we say incomplete, right?

Because he doesn't survive contact on the ground.

And I try to apply that.

The only issue with that in this scenario is that now we're talking about issues of dual possession, right?

Which typically favor the offense.

And we do allow receivers to use a defender's body to help secure possession when we're talking about these dual possession instances.

But the fact that the ball bounced off the guy's shoulder plate

and then he tries to trap it the ball is never really secured in both hands i think there's just enough space where if if you're an official and your initial ruling is interception to stick with it i think if brandon cooks had plucked that out of the air and then in rolling over and wrestling with mcmillan mcmillan comes out with it you probably grant him dual possession there and say that hey offense wins

But I think this was probably the one instance where I would be okay with a defender rolling over the top of an offensive player coming out with the ball and you calling it a turnover.

But that's just like, again, about as tough a way to have a game decided.

You're not overturning that at all.

The funny thing for me is, like, even with the turnovers today, you can still make a very credible argument that he's still the best player that we saw in the playoffs so far.

Oh, yeah.

Like, I would say that he was probably the most valuable player that we've had in the postseason up to this point, right?