I didn’t watch the game but did see the game ending play. I made my 11 year old football player (son) watch the play and detail all the things the would be tackler did wrong.
For a pro football player, that was like a fisherman falling out of his boat and missing the water.
Biggest mistake was not having his arms out. Even a glancing hit with a forearm on an airborne extended receiver would have sent him to the ground, in-bounds and game over.