I honestly don’t get the confusion.
If the ball popped out and landed on the ground, it would be called incomplete 10/10 times. Cooks never kept possession for even half a second when “surviving the ground”
Here’s my question on this play:
We have all these rules for what constitutes a catch: Must make a football move, must survive the ground, must take a third step, etc.
In this instance, if the Denver defender didn’t come up with the ball and it ended up the ground instead, it would have pretty clearly been ruled incomplete, not a fumble.
Right?
This may go down as the most controversial call of ALL TIME
Brandin Cooks has it, knee hits the ground
McMillan comes up with it afterward
… Broncos ball??
I guess I just don’t understand football anymore.