“I told Max, if you felt like there was grass out there, I just want you to lay it out there and let him go get it,” Head Coach Kevin O’Connell explained at his postgame press conference, noting “Jets” had the option to break inside or outside or take his route vertically based on what the Giants presented. “I thought it was a phenomenal throw to get it up and over the flat defender. It was kind of a unique inverted 2-deep coverage, so the corner’s got the half — we could dive all the way in on that if we had a white board — but what it was is Max making a big-time throw and giving Justin Jefferson a chance.
“After the year and the leadership [Justin has] shown, that play will probably not be remembered with some of the five sacks [by Minnesota’s defense today] or some of the plays that were made [elsewhere],” O’Connell continued. “But I thought that was as [much of a] game-[winning play] from a player today, and it was Justin Jefferson in a huge moment to make the play, and Max stepping in — how about that?”
O’Connell praised Brosmer for “functioning at a high level” and “running the show” in a windy setting. Jefferson liked Brosmer’s readiness and, from his vantage point, the backup threw a “perfect ball.”
Brosmer recounted it as a “him-or-nobody throw,” reinforcing the placement was beyond satisfactory.
“We don’t really work that play, that throw, too often in practice,” Jefferson said. “For him to throw that type of ball in that type of situation on third down, to continue the drive — very, very big — huge throw.”