I thought at the point in which he threw that interception that the D was dominating so much that punting was not a bad option. So I'm with you on that. You can't put your QB in that situation to throw a critical pick.
He sorta went all "Wait, it's gotta be your bull" with all the "he said" and "I said" stuff. No idea who he was supposedly taking to.
Like the prophet NoLimitMD used to say, you don't pull for teams against whom you are most likely to compete for recruits to win championships.