There is finally some clarity about one of the more befuddling decisions during last year’s NFL playoffs.

With under two minutes to play and trailing by seven in the Vikings’ NFC Wild Card game against the Giants, Kirk Cousins opted to throw to tight end T.J. Hockenson on fourth down, bypassing superstar receiver Justin Jefferson in a critical moment that ultimately ended the Vikings’ season.

Why did Cousins overlook the Offensive Player of the Year and opt for a burly tight end who was way short of the first-down mark?

“When you throw it short of the sticks like that and he’s tackled, you know, you get a lot of grief for it,” Cousins said on the “Quarterback” series that recently debuted on Netflix.

“But Justin was doubled, and just instinctively it felt careless to just throw it to him with the game on the line like that.”

The Minnesota quarterback added that he had “two bad options”: he could have thrown to Hockenson or taken a sack as the Giants defensive line descended upon him.

On the Netflix series, the camera pans out to reveal that Jefferson did in fact appear to be double-teamed on the play.

After Giants safety Xavier McKinney wrapped up Hockenson, the Big Blue secured a 31-24 victory, eliminating the first-place Vikings, who finished the regular season 13-4.

Cousins, 34, led the Vikings’ eighth-ranked offense under center for the fifth consecutive season, earning Pro Bowl honors as he threw for 4,547 yards and 29 touchdowns.

A lot of those yards were thanks to Jefferson, a 23-year-old phenom who caught 128 passes for 1,809 yards, which led the league.

Minnesota made headlines this offseason after cutting star running back Dalvin Cook after the team signed him to a five-year, $63 million deal in 2020.

The Vikings will likely rely on Alexander Mattison, a 24-year-old backup to Cook, to lead the backfield this season.