its quite literally unbelievable… the whole journey is improbable… right down to small town farm kid that embraces Buffalo as a community, the fools gold with baker and Sam allowing him to fall…. The maneuvering with Denver (and I’m sure elway is beside himself for not snatching him up) …. Literally- the runner he is. That’s a complete surprise .. All of it.
that’s why the retrospective that you could always see this is where he’d be all along is utter nonsense and dismisses how Amazing and improbable this has been.