Kyler Murray considered his lost pawn and strategized his next move.
But before Murray advanced his queen, Cleveland Browns receiver Amari Cooper extended a hand across the chessboard.
“You won,” Cooper told the Arizona Cardinals quarterback at a Dallas-area arena on June 22. “I blundered it.”
“For real?” Murray asked.
“Damn, how I did that? Wowwww,” Cooper said. “I blundered a queen.”
Just an average NFL offseason night, right?
It wouldn’t have been unusual, say, on a Sunday in October, for Murray to compete against Dallas Cowboys pass rusher Micah Parsons, nor for Cooper to match wits with Tennessee Titans cornerback Chidobe Awuzie.