Jeff Schwartz

Is that a backwards pass?

No.

Okay.

So are we saying the defender did not hit the ball?

So the defender hit his hand, not the ball, then?

Yeah.

Okay, because if he hit the ball, it's an incomplete pass, not a backwards pass.

It's a deflected pass.

Right.

Okay, I agree that it went backwards.

My thing is that...

It's not often ruled that.

Like, if you have a quarterback that's going to throw the ball, their hand gets hit as they throw the ball, and the ball goes backwards.

They're going to call that a deflected pass incomplete.

The same thing happened here if they called it a backwards pass.

It's sort of inconsistent how they rule these, which is the way that a lot of these go.

Oh, man.

Okay.

So if your favorite team had drafted a quarterback in the first round who didn't play because he was hurt, and then you saw a guy who had a one-year deal play as bad as he did in Week 17 and in the playoffs, you would have been like, get this guy out of here.

And in the moment, they made the right decision.