The fumble was knocked out of his hand by an OL.
One of the interceptions was tipped by a DL
On another interception his arm was hit by a DL.
Doesn't the OL have some responsibility for these turnovers.
Warner had a bad day, but the mistakes were not his fault. He didn't lose this game the OL did.
I'll give you one, but you have to give me one in return.
After CAREFUL review of the tape, I have seen VERY clearly two things:
On another interception his arm was hit by a DL.
I concede that ball was thrown off by Little by a slight elbow tap...and little as it may seem (no pun intended) hitting a throwing elbow can really screw up a pass. However, it did come out a perfect spiral, so the tap had to have been very slight...but yes, it is there. Barely, but yep, there. It makes that INT far less atrocious, but still a bad pass into double coverage. But yep, I can't give him that INT solely on himself.
The fumble was knocked out of his hand by an OL.
THE FUMBLE on replay in slow motion was clearly...crystal clearly all on Warner. Watch in slow motion as the ball is snapped into his hand...Brown's hand is down low, coming up...the ball hits Warner's hands as he receives the snap with the forward point at about a 170 degree angle (not perfect) but then the forward tip of the ball hits Steps ass as Kurt pulls it back and it rotates clockwise to about a 90 degree angle and the ball slides out of the bottom of his hands and is popping out of the top of his hands (due to the upward momentum of the bottom of the ball's tip hitting Step's ass and pushing high). During this time, Brown's hand is coming up from the left hand side, from a down position. The replay isn't even clear that Brown actually contacts the ball, but it is clear that the ball is moving up out of Kurt's hand before it is humanly possible for Brown's hand to even make contact.
The ball was fumbled basically, and perfectly, off of Step's ass...Kurt didn't get the snap and it squirted out up high...Brown had nothing to do with the fumble.
It is extremely clear on replay, and I'm sad to say I've watched this frame by frame more than 50 times TRYING to see anything but Kurt being at fault here.
In fact, at freeze frame when the ball is already out of Kurt's hands, the freeze frame shows Brown's hand under the ball before it makes contact. Now, Brown may have helped the forward momentum of the fumble after the fact, but even the physics of the ball moving and the placement of Brown's hand don't really suggest that. After all that review, it seems that Brown is simply guilty of slapping Step on the butt....if he had actually HIT that ball as it came out of the vertical position of the ball it would have been spinning in some other direction...but it did not.
I'd like others with tape to slow it down and verify my findings, but I'd guess solely based on the slo mo replay slowed down frame by frame, and the physics of the ball and contact with it, that Brown actually didn't even make any contact with it.
Regardless, it is clear that Kurt never had a grasp on it and it was squirting out immediately as the ball's bottom forward tip dragged along Step's useless ass.
