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This wasn’t a “whiff.” It was a perfectly reasonable fire call torched only by the holder’s decision-making. The ball was misplaced, the timing blown, and Koo correctly avoided swinging his leg through a likely low-trajectory shank into the line — the exact kind of chaos that leads to scoop-and-score disasters. In that situation, the expectation is simple: secure the ball, fall forward, steal a yard or two relative to a standard miss, and maybe — maybe — catch the defense napping for a miracle.
Instead Gillan seemed to think he was Kyler Murray auditioning for a broken-play scramble montage, drifting backwards like he had three receivers breaking open instead of eleven defenders screaming downhill.