Gio

Yeah.

Yeah, and I remember at the time thinking that this is what Minnesota is going to do.

They're going to let Sam Darnold go because they believed in J.J.

McCarthy.

Every quarterback that Kevin O'Connell had his hands on, you know, turned into gold.

And the thought process was that, you know, J.J.

McCarthy would be that next guy.

And he would just, for them, not me, because I never liked the guy, but that's what they were thinking.

And they thought, like, you know, Sam was expendable and good for the Seahawks, seeing that it wasn't just...

the situation there in Minnesota, it was the player.

Uh, and they went out and got that player, put them in their system.

And, uh, now he's an NFC champion, took that team back to the Superbowl.

Yeah, exactly.

And everything felt like it was going the Broncos way.

Stidham looked really, really good up until that point.

You know, I know.

I initially thought that he had pushed it out and it was an incomplete pass, but then obviously looking back on it, you know, he ended up scoring a touchdown anyway, so it didn't end up hurting them.

But, yeah, looking back on it, obviously, you know, they end up calling it a fumble.

But he, I mean, I was really impressed with the way he was playing up until that point.

And then that play happens, and then you can tell that that just changed everything in his mind.