Jeff Schwartz

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.

Sam Darnold did not play well to end the season, the two most important games of the season.

And you have this young quarterback who you drafted, who's cheaper, on a contract, and you loved him so much, you drafted him 11th overall, 10th, 11th, somewhere like that.

They made the right decision.

Now, they might hate how it ended up for Sam Darnold in the situation he's in now, but you can't go back backwards and say, well, now we know you would have kept him.