I suggest you go re-watch that game.
He threw two shoulda-been picks that ended up as Amari touchdowns, including the game winner.
The 80-yard TD was a horrible throw that a real NFL corner would have picked. Idiot corner ran himself out if bounds. The game winner was straight to the defensive back, who just bobbled it to Amari.
Don't confuse lucky with good.
Wow, your ability to break down those plays is shockingly poor.
“Straight to the defensive back”? Are you serious?
The defensive back would have had to run through Amari Cooper like he was Casper the ghost in order to make that true.
Sure there was some luck involved and it was an amazing play by cooper.
But straight to the defensive back? Get your eyes checked. The reason the corner couldn’t pick off the ball was because Amari was in the way. It’s an NFL receiver shielding a defender from the ball with his body. Not that uncommon of an occurrence.
It was a high risk throw and one he probably shouldn’t have thrown. But “should have been intercepted and straight to the defender”. Nonsense.
And as for the 80 yard touchdown.
1. At no point in time wasn’t it close to being intercepted.
2. I guess in your world the QB gets no credit for recognizing matchups on the field and determining correctly that Amari was being covered by a corner who had no chance of staying with him on that route. So from your myopic perspective you see it as a terrible pass that should have been picked if Patrick Peterson was covering Amari. But fail to see that it was a scrub covering him, which both Dak and Amari recognized and took advantage of.
3. It was such a horrible throw that Cooper barely had to break stride and still caught the ball with enough momentum that he easily outran the defenders after the catch. It was also such a horrible throw that the safety that was supposed to be helping over the top, never even came close to the ball and had zero chance at it.
But yeah an absolutely terrible pass that should have been picked off.
