Von Miller snatched the ball out of Derek Carr’s hands for a strip-sack in the third quarter at Oakland. (Ezra Shaw, Getty Images)
Few, if any, have the strength, quickness and know-how to pull off last Sunday at Oakland.
In the third quarter, on a first-and-10 at Oakland’s 23-yard line, Miller came off the edge and snatched the ball out of the hands of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr, pulling Carr to the ground in one fell swoop.
The sack was his third of the season, but arguably his most impressive.
On Thursday, following the Broncos’ practice, Miller said it was a spurt-of-the-moment play that he decided within a split-second, not one he was expecting based on his film study.
“For me, I’m just trying to get a sack, but as I was running and I got closer and closer, he was still holding the ball,” Miller said. I was like, ‘I’ll just take the ball.’
“Coaches always say — I’ve thought about that stuff many times — and they say that it happens in your mind first, or whatever the saying is. I see myself doing all of that stuff all the time. He was just holding on for a split-second. He was getting ready to throw it, too, so it was just a pretty good play.
“I would try to do that every single time, but it was just that play that I knew. It was different that play.”
