Brandin Cooks still talking about Broncos interception he thinks was a catch

The Denver Broncos beat the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs on Jan. 17.

Flash forward to July 9 and wide receiver Brandin Cooks is still talking about Ja’Quan McMillian’s interception that helped end Buffalo’s season.

Every Broncos fan remembers the play.

Tied 30-30 in overtime, Buffalo QB Josh Allen launched a football down the middle of the field that was briefly in the hands of Cooks before it was ripped away by McMillian for the pick. The miraculous interception saved Denver’s season, as the Bills would’ve been in field goal range to go to the AFC Title Game.

Instead, Bo Nix drove the Broncos down the field and Wil Lutz kicked a chip-shot to send Denver through to the next round. Nix breaking his ankle put a damper on the whole thing, but it’s the wildest victory the Broncos have had in a long time.

Via The Athletic’s Tim Graham, Cooks still isn’t over it. The free agent wide receiver talked at length about what happened.

This quote will annoy Broncos Country the most.

“I think the biggest thing I can say is that I still feel like it was a catch,” Cooks told Graham. “After it happened, seeing some of the so-called controversial calls that were called a catch, I just had to turn the playoffs off because I’m like, ‘Yo, what is going on?’”

The problem is Cooks is wrong. The officials on the field got the call right, according to the NFL. And it looks salty that Cooks can’t move on — he let McMillian take the football away before securing it fully.

“For a week straight, I was watching it over and over,” Cooks added to Graham. “But I knew, as a father, that I had to put it away. If I’d have kept watching, it would have put me in some type of mood that my wife and my kids didn’t deserve.”

Good for him for prioritizing family over football, but he’s also talking out of both sides of his mouth. He might “still” think it’s a catch, but that’s not really putting it away.

Cooks is a free agent and wants to be back with Buffalo.

If that’s the case, maybe the Bills and Broncos will meet in the playoffs for a third straight season — and a rubber match could help decide what feels like a rivalry brewing.