The greatest catch you've ever seen?
doubledragon
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Jerry Jones commented recently that OBJ's one handed snag is the greatest catch he's ever seen. What's the best catch you've ever seen?
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Blaine Stambaugh....Corona National Little League. So,....Blaine was in left field. A fly ball came his way. Over his head. He didn't run back to catch it.......Instead, he threw his glove into the air......the ball went into the glove.....and then Blaine caught the glove when it came down!.....OUT!.....I was there. I saw it.......GREATEST CATCH I EVER SAW!!!!!
There's More Than One Way To Skin A Cat!.....
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https://youtu.be/uQxp-A5uvkA
You are misquoting Mr. Jones @doubledragon. He was on local sports radio being interviewed, and he was asked about OBJ as part of questioning regarding adding a new receiver. He said that OBJ had made the greatest catch he ever saw other than the Dez catch.
These three will always be contenders imo...
...but if I had to pick just one,its this one. 😉
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You're talking about this catch, it was a great catch, but I wouldn't say it was anywhere near the greatest catch I've ever seen.
Lynn Swann's Super Bowl catch was one of the best I've ever seen.
Max McGee's catch in Super Bowl I was one of the best ever. He reached behind with one hand while a defender was lunging at the ball, and pulled it back around for the catch.
This catch from Chris Hemdon was unbelievable.
This George Pickens catch was ridiculous.
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I'm not saying that either. I'm just saying that I heard that interview and Jerry Jones had to throw in something about Dez's catch.
I knew he made that comment about the Dez Bryant catch, but I didn't pay any attention to it because I figured he was just being Cowboys biased, he just had to include a Cowboys catch into the discussion.
This was a sick catch by Reggie Wayne, he turned what should have been an interception into a touchdown.
Larry Fitzgerald, this is one of the greatest catches I've ever seen, midair, spinning around, with one hand.
Deandre Hopkins.
This Martavis Bryant catch is just criminal.
Check out this catch by Chris Owusu, absolutely ridiculous, the ball pops up and he catches it after being dragged down.
Julio Jones is one of the best to ever do it.
I love guys that have excellent footwork, they can keep those feet inbounds, check out Julio Jones footwoork.
Calvin Johnson was another guy with beautiful footwork.
God I love the wide receiver position, it's such an art form. This stuff gets me excited!
Man, Julio Jones route running is beautiful, look at him break the defenders ankles.
I miss watching Calvin Johnson, I remember opposing teams were terrified of him, the constant double teaming.
A bad man, they were scared to death of him.
And look at how Calvin Johnson makes the adjustment on the ball, a thing of beauty.
Randall Cobb.
Brandon Marshall. Notice how the defender hooks left his arm.
The great Marvin Harrison.
Look at this sideline grab by Jordy Nelson, and the feet inbounds, you just can't defend that.
Ok, that's enough for today, I better be getting to bed. I'll try to find some over the shoulder catch gifs tomorrow, but I'm not promising anything. Goodnight everyone!
Tyreek Hill when he was with the Chiefs made a TD catch so good everybody except me apparentley thought the
ball hit the ground. They showed the replay and then I knew without a doubt it didn't touch the ground.I'm screaming
at the TV, 'REVIEW IT, REVIEW IT, and "THROW THE FLAG REID YOU DUMB&*#!
Tyreek even thought it hit the ground because during the process of catching it he lost sight of it.
When Reid calmly looked at his playbook with no emotion whatsoever and did not throw the flag,
that was as pissed as I had been in a long time. I'm thinking, if I saw in real time that the ball never hit the
ground, why in hell didn't the Chiefs replay crew, who should have been fired on the spot and kicked out of the stadium.
EDIT- I found a video of the catch but don't know how to post videos'. Still ticks me off.
It was third down and instead of getting a legit TD at the drop of a red flag, we moronically punt the ball away.
I know the catch you've talking about, I found the video on youtube but the NFL has a copyright on youtube videos and you have to go to their website to watch it. I took the liberty of making a gif of it, I wanted to make a gif of the entire thing, but they only allow you to have 10 seconds. It would've been a touchdown for sure, Tyreek Hill got up and tossed the ball to the ref, he never even realized he caught it, and of course the Chiefs punted the ball away.
Here is a better gif I made of the Tyreek Hill catch, you can see it up close, unbelievable play.
Doug Baldwin has some great hands, watch him pluck this ball out of the air.
Doug Baldwin once caught a ball using his butt.
Doug Baldwin once stole a touchdown catch from his own teammate.
Double D thanks for posting the Tyreek catch.
I remember seeing several of the catches you've posted but many
of them I've never seen. Some amazing catches for sure!
Thanks buddy, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🍻
I just want to add want this one by Lynn Swann, he had such great hands and footwork, look at him go up and snatch this ball over his shoulder and tightrope to stay in bounds, a thing of beauty.
I was thinking baseball. In that case, I’d go with Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series and I remember San Francisco Giant, Kevin Mitchell, casually grabbing an outfield fly with his bare hand on the left field foul line.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4u0MzrYPm4w
Most of the catches here are from the last 10 years or so. Incredible athleticism, but I wonder how many would have been made without the sticky gloves that receivers wear these days.
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You are correct about the gloves.
And anytime this topic is brought up, I like to take the liberty to interject something...Jerry Rice went very hard against Tom Brady calling him a cheater. Jerry Rice also used stickum.
It wasn't a hard catch, and it beat the runner by a mile and a half, but it was the catch that won the 1985 World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals over the Kansas City Royals, so it's the "greatest" in that sense.
To be honest, I don't think this would be the best catch in the NFL in any random week.
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I think that the footwork here is amazing. What stands out to me is the misplay by the DB. At least I see it as a misplay. He should have played Swann tighter and closer, forcing him to get out of bounds and unable to make the catch.
It was a beautiful catch, the way he leaped up grabbed the ball and then tightroped, the catch actually has a name, it's called "the kangaroo catch". It looked like the pass was going to fly out of bounds, but Swann leaped up and plucked it in. Here is what Swann said about it:
"I needed to make that first one. It didn't matter if it was a hook or a slant. After the concussion, I just needed a catch for the psychological boost. I needed it to get back on the horse, so to speak."
"Jack Ham was just telling me the other day that he and Andy Russell were right there on the sideline where I made the catch," Swann said. "They thought the ball was going out of bounds. Hammer said he thought he had a better chance of catching it than I did."
Why? He's literally running in a straight line, jumps up straight, and his feet come down basically where he was running. It's a wonderful catch, don't get me wrong, but we see guys contorting their bodies far more than this every single week to toe tap the sidelines.
Add to it that the catch itself is not that hard - just jump straight to catch a ball directly in an easy catch radius. The only difficulty is the DB flying by possibly being a distraction but Swann is looking back, so no distraction.
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to me, it also means what it means in the moment, if it were simply amazing athletics, I have seen DeAndre Hopkins make several catches that were mind boggling, but in terms of significance, 2 stand out:
The first one, 'The Catch' where legends were made that will last for generations:
"This play ended the old era of football and began a new one we’re still in. Bill Walsh, joe Montana, Dwight Clark. Y’all really changed the game"
"Bill Walsh - The true and ultimate offensive mind of all time 🔥🔥"
"That was a great game winning play but also, one of the most brilliant drives of all time. Dallas was playing zone earlier in the drive and the Niners ran the ball because the DB's were playing pass."
And on and on...................
The second, well, Skol!!!!
Serious drama, listen in:
Dude Keenum, dude Diggs. Wow! I dropped over dead when Keenum did that!
Who dat? Bwah!!!!!!
Wrong thread sorry, meant for Baker thread so deleted.