8:00 That's the Senior Bowl. It is somewhat similar to the Pro Bowl. The players have finished their college eligibility (hence the name) but who usually are not top prospects for the NFL draft. You get a lot of guys that didn't get a lot of playing time, maybe had some injuries, are from a small school so they haven't had good talent to compete against, or just need another game to try to impress. Usually top NFL prospects won't risk injury playing in this game or the East West Shrine game (which is similar.)
In the first clip, the defender did what he was taught to do. In those situations the defender is told to always bat it down because if you try to go for the catch, a lot of times they miss and give the other team a chance to catch it. It was just bad luck there lol
Definitely but that’s also why the offense will have a receiver just short of the intended pass in case there is a tip by the defense. Still a lucky play for the Jags regardless
What Mike is talking about at the 17:30 mark is called a prevent defense and that is exactly what all these teams do in this situation. You put 2 or 3 defensive backs by the goal line and have your corners play about 10 to 15 yards off the receivers the idea is you only have 1 play to score so you will give up anything short in front of you and just prevent a long play. Probably 99.7% of the time this works to stop a last second touchdown BUT there is that other .3% where a miracle happens and the ball some how finds its way into a receivers hands. That's why it is called a Hail Mary basically churck the ball as far as you can and start praying.
14:30 not only are the Browns and Bengals both from Ohio and with similar livery, but the Browns are named after Paul Brown, who was the Bengals' owner.
9:40 after a touchdown they can kick for an extra point for a total of 7 points or throw/run it in for a 2 point Conversion for a total of 8 points on the play
The Vikings game @6:40 I was at that game with my best friend we were just 15 at the time. The day started out fairly warm but by the second half it had gotten real cold. We debated leaving but we were die hard fans. So glad we stayed, what a great memory. I still have my ticket stub.
The Hail Mary is a prayer, hence where the football term comes from. To "Throw a Hail Mary" is a American phrase that means that you're going all in. You're risking everything for the chance to win or succeed
To clarify, after a touchdown is scored, the NFL rules allow for a team to kick a 1-point PAT (point after touchdown), or they can run another play and attempt to get into the End Zone again for a 2-point score (Two-Point Conversion). They do not get to score a second 6-point touchdown. If the Hail Mary score was enough to win the game outright, they would just end the game without attempting the PAT. If the other team had a 7 point advantage prior to the Hail Mary, the scoring team would have the option of kicking a PAT to tie the game (and go into Overtime) or attempt the two-point conversion to win the game outright. They would be allowed to run this play, even if there was no time left on the game clock.
If you load up the end zone in the seconds. They can just pass the ball in the middle and run with the ball since the play continues until deadball and doesn't end when the time runs out. It's much harder to stop a rusher at full steam. Second, you must leave defenders on the line of scrimmage because you still want to disrupt the passer and not only the receiver. If you don't disrupt them, they can just run forward and attempt a much shorter forward pass than they initially have. Third, the receiver and everybody else in support can still pass the ball after the one forward pass as long as they pass it laterally or behind, so they can pass it around like in rugby making the defense off balance until they find a gap.
To answer your 1 second left question, no you can't go for another 6 point touchdown, once you score your possession is over, but before you kick it off you're given a chance to make an extra point or two extra points, 1 point if you kick it, 2 points if from the 2 yard line you score a "2 point touchdown" you only have one try no matter what time is on the clock, even if zero seconds are on the clock, as the play isn't considered a part of regular time but an extra play.
In the case of extra points, those are considered untimed plays anyway. So yes, even with no time on the clock, they still get the opportunity to kick the extra point or could choose to go for a two point conversion.
I watched that while I was in OS"A" school, in the Navy. We lived in a barracks but there was an office and the CC had it on. We were all crowded around the door watching. For me, it is the definitive Hail Mary!
Defensive playrers are coached to try to knock the ball to the ground so it can't get tipped around. In the first clip where the player tried to knock it down, the player did what he was supposed to but it just didn't work out well. If you try to catch it and fail the ball tends to be catchable. In the second clip you actually see that happen. Players tried to catch it, kept the ball in the air and someone was able to catch it. The only flaw to the first clip was the player didn't have the right angle on trying to knock it to the ground. To Daz's point about a safety, it wouldn't apply. If a player intercepts the ball in his own end zone but does not bring it out past the goal line it's a "touchback" and the ball comes out to the 20 yard line with no points awarded. BUT if a player tries to bring an interceptionout of the end zone and then he is knocked back into the endzone after crossing the goal line, it is a safety. But 99% of the time, coaches will tell a player to just try to knock the ball to teh ground.
The green bay play around 13:20 I went to school and played high school football with the receiver that caught the ball. #83 Jeff Janis. Can't believe he made a video like this only for me to see it on a RUclips channel I watch all the time. Small world
Lol, yeah. TBF, there is a remote chance of pulling off a double score. Kick the extra point, kick an onside kick and come up with it and successfully take it into the end zone, kick the extra point again (or successfully go for 2). But good freakin' luck pulling all that off, especially with the current onside kick rules and only 1 second on the clock. If a team was that good, they wouldn't have been in that spot in the first place.
It doesnt matter if time is at 0. They are allowed to finish their play in its entirety. The play isnt over until its completely dead. Also they can still kick the extra point or go for the 2 point conversion to finish even after time is up.
For the catching rule in the Packers game, you have to maintain control through the ground. So even if you hold it while you're falling, if it bounces away when you hit the ground, it's incomplete. He definitely caught it though.
In 1971, I believe, in a playoff game, Cowboys star quarterback Roger Staubach chucked a deep pass to Drew Pearson against the Vikings to win the game. Afterwards he was asked about the play and he just said that he closed his eyes, said a Hail Mary, and threw it up. That's how the play went from being called an "alley oop" to a "Hail Mary."
Re: _"Why don't the defensive players catch the ball instead of knocking it to the ground"_ It's because if defensive backs were good at catching a football, they'd be wide receivers on offense. For every time you see an offensive receiver catch a ball after a defensive player tried to knock it to the ground, you'll see 5 times as many instances where the defensive player tried to catch it and it either ricochets off his brick-like hands/chest/helmet, etc into the hands of a nearby offensive receiver, or the offensive receiver out-muscles or out-leaps the defensive player to do what they're paid to do: _Catch the Ball_
In the first clip, he's batting it down because 99.99% of the time that's going to end the play. Most defensive backs have shit hands or else they'd be playing receiver, so if they try to catch it, there's a chance they'll tip the ball into the air where it might be caught by an offensive player.
How is the Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary throw against Cardinals in the video, but not the throw against the Lions? I mean it’s even in the thumbnail for the video. Makes no sense
Some teams if they have a really good tall wide receiver, they will put them in on defense to play deep safety because they're better at tracking the ball in the air during these hail mary plays.
Missing some great ones. Hail Mary from Roger Staubach to Drew Pearson vs Vikings 1975. Immaculate Reception by Franco Harris against Raiders in 1972. Doug Flutie end of game toss in 1984 to beat the Miami Hurricanes.
Defenders are less likely to make an interception and will actually knock the ball up in the air where it can be caught be a receiver. If there was a video called - Hail Mary fails, you would see a lot of the balls being knocked down by defenders. The very next play the defender knocks a ball back up for the receiver to catch. The it happened in the third play. Then again in the Bills v. Patriots game.
There’s no Hail Mary as good as the one called the Bluegrass Miracle..a play in college football, thrown by the Louisiana State University Tigers to beat Kentucky with no time left as the ball left the quarterbacks hands. It was truly magical! Here’s a video of the guys talking about it ten years after they made the play! ruclips.net/video/VIJOq9SOeek/видео.html
Whenever 0a QB successfully makes a Hail Mary pass, it was a "genius play" and it took such courage and "Nerves of Steel" to throw the ball, but if the exact same throw Doesn't end with a touchdown, it's because it was a "reckless play", and "the QB should have known better." The truth is that after the ball leaves the QB's hands, it's all up to the skill of the receivers, and also lots of luck.
One cannot score another touchdown instead of kicking an extra point. Attempting that (getting it in the end zone again) is called a two point conversion.
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Hail Mary compilation videos are always weird cuz you know they are going to catch it. Generally these moments happens after you've already given up at your house, about to take a quick break before the next set of games come on, team lines up for one more impossible pass and very rarely you get a td off of it and go crazy.
Coaches always tell their players if the opposition throws a Hail Mary in the end zone, to always bat the ball right to the ground to kill the play and win the game. Many players instinctively try to catch the ball and it ends up bouncing off their hands and into the opposition's!!!
Any list of Hail Marys without the the very first hail Mary is a incomplete list. Staubach to Pearson against the Vikings the very first Hail Mary in NFL Roger Staubach coined the phrase " Hail Mary" so prior to that it was just a bomb
Defenders are Coached to try and bat the ball into the ground instead of trying to catch it in these situations. Catching it is obviously effective, but can be risky. If you try to catch it and fail, the ball will usually bounce slowly off your hands and remain fluttering in the air for a potentially easy catch by one of the 5 receivers there (like in clip #2). Since there's no competitive advantage to catching it in these situations, Coaches will teach players to try and swat the ball straight into the ground. Making for a much more consistent pass break up that's harder for a flukey catch. Of course in the first clip, it was extremely unfortunate that the defender hit it more laterally than down, and happened to be right into a receivers bread basket.
regarding the last bit at the end, it's 100% muscle memory. i used to play lacrosse and i sure as shit didn't know how to do any of that before practicing for an entire summer. just like asking someone to curl a football on their first go, no one has a chance if you ask them to catch, balance, and throw a ball with a lacrosse stick in their off-hand -- but that's par if you play.
How do they have a title like, "Greatest Hail Marys in Football History" and not include the pass from Roger Staubach to Drew Pearson to win a divisional playoff game against the Vikings in 1975? Roger Staubach coined the phrase "Hail Mary" (in regards to football). Yet they include some random play from a college game.
This is for Mike, there is a position called the safety who does have a few jobs. But they are usually position farthest back to help deal with plays that might catch them off guard.
Each and every Hail Mary video should start out with the first one and roger staubachs post game interview when we coined the phrase. Then they should show the rest of the Hail Marys
I feel like prime Aaron Rodgers was the best at this. It was always the same too. He drops back to pass waits a second then he is flushed out of the pocket, runs toward the sideline, plants his feet, and throws a deep ball to a receiver that NOONE is covering for some reason for a Touchdown. EDIT: I posted this before it got to the Rodgers one and it was almost exactly how I described it haha.
A hail Mary is literally just throwing it up for grabs and praying or "saying a hail mary" for someone to catch it. Also if defenders could catch the ball they would be receivers. They're taught to bat it down in situations like this.
The Bengals, AJ Green caught two of those passes, and the play with the 49ers with the receiver wide open is not called a Hail Mary. That's call the defense, messed up. The Seattle play was also not a Hail Mary
Buuuut, as close as he was to the goal line, if he caught it outside the endzone and got knocked backwards it would have been a safety and lost them the game anyway.
If a team scores with only a few seconds left in the game they will kick the ball to the other team. The receiving team will have to score on the kickoff because they will not have enough time to get the offense on the field. If you want to see the best finish of a college game look up Cal vs Standford.
Whoever made this video should be ashamed of themselves for leaving out the 2 best Hail Mary passes of all time, the miracle in Michigan with Kordell Stewart's pass to Michael Westbrook to upset Michigan in the big house with the legendary announcer Keith Jackson on the call, and of course Doug Fluties miracle in Miami.
How about any college hail Mary’s? I’ve never seen such a lazy put together compilation. Hu of us who live in the United States, think the NFL has ever had greater Hail Marys than the NFL? I’m just sorry that some idiot duped the Office Blokes into watching this shit…
Everytime i watch one of these best ever videos on RUclips, i think best ever that the editor can remember. Unfortunately as a Miami fan, yes the Doug Flutie Hail Mary is probably the best one of all time.
And even if he'd been tacked, it's just a touch-back, so the ball gets spotted on the 20 yard line. Not a safety like Daz wondered about. We'll give them the benefit of the doubt, since they don't know the nuances of the rules.
You are taught very young in football is to knock the ball down. Don't try to catch it. Just knock it down. You are taught this as a player from pee wee league, high school and college and pros to knock the ball down in that situation.
Unfortunately that’s the best play of Mike Thomas’s career. He didn’t pan out, but to say he was a bust wouldn’t be telling the whole story, as he was a 5th round pick. That’d be one good reason for Brian Thomas Jr to stay away from wearing #80. Same last name.
Andy Dalton should be OB Dave's favorite NFL QB. Talented player, big numbers, and the biggest ginger in NFL history! Dave can even take Dalton's nickname, The Red Rifle. 🏈🤡🤡🤡🔫
Cleveland and Cincinnati are an interesting story, they are both in Ohio as you mentioned. The real rivalry and reason why they look so similar is because the a Browns were named after their head coach Paul Brown and after 20 something years the team was sold to Art Modell, Art Modell and Brown butted heads and eventually Modell fired Brown from the team that's named after him. Cincinnati was in the running to receive an expansion team and Paul Brown with a lawyer won the bid to get the new team, and to spite Modell, made them both as similar as possible to steal fans away from Cleveland, including the color scheme and initials CB by calling them the Bengals.
The Bears Unis are Throwbacks to the 1940s Monsters of the Midway teams. This week is Bears Packers week which is the oldest rivalry in the NFL. You guys should react to a video about the rivalry. It's basically what you guys would call a Derby I believe.
On the first play, batting it down is the right thing to do. Many times in the past defenders have tried to catch it and just tipped it up into the air for the offense to get an easy catch. The best idea is to spike it to the ground as fast as possible so that there is no chance of it getting tipped up and caught. This one was just bad luck.
I thought if this was really about the greatest Hail Mary plays of all time, we would see the Doug Flutie pass at Boston College. That was the play that got him into the NFL.
Visiting teams wear the white tops and are listed first on scoreboards (left or top). Helps identify teams when like Cleveland and Cincinnati who wear almost the same colors.
I hope they heard the announcer say in the second clip you swat the ball down not up in the air. I’m sure that would’ve answered half of their questions from the first clip.
4:05 last season? That game was 2010. This happens more often than you'd think.
8:00 That's the Senior Bowl. It is somewhat similar to the Pro Bowl. The players have finished their college eligibility (hence the name) but who usually are not top prospects for the NFL draft.
You get a lot of guys that didn't get a lot of playing time, maybe had some injuries, are from a small school so they haven't had good talent to compete against, or just need another game to try to impress. Usually top NFL prospects won't risk injury playing in this game or the East West Shrine game (which is similar.)
In the first clip, the defender did what he was taught to do. In those situations the defender is told to always bat it down because if you try to go for the catch, a lot of times they miss and give the other team a chance to catch it. It was just bad luck there lol
Definitely but that’s also why the offense will have a receiver just short of the intended pass in case there is a tip by the defense. Still a lucky play for the Jags regardless
The second clip is a good example of why you bat it down. If the defender had sure hands, he'd be a receiver instead.
@@peterhineinlegen4672 lol that reminds me of lee corso on the ncaa video games
Just catch it. Ur going into overtime anyway if Jacksonville doesn't come up with it
Bingo, also if you go for the catch and accidentally bounce it upwards you give the offense another chance to catch it. Just bad luck.
What Mike is talking about at the 17:30 mark is called a prevent defense and that is exactly what all these teams do in this situation. You put 2 or 3 defensive backs by the goal line and have your corners play about 10 to 15 yards off the receivers the idea is you only have 1 play to score so you will give up anything short in front of you and just prevent a long play. Probably 99.7% of the time this works to stop a last second touchdown BUT there is that other .3% where a miracle happens and the ball some how finds its way into a receivers hands. That's why it is called a Hail Mary basically churck the ball as far as you can and start praying.
At 9:04 Bears vs Bucs game
Mike the Bucs can only try for a 2 point conversion or a field goal for 1 point
14:30 not only are the Browns and Bengals both from Ohio and with similar livery, but the Browns are named after Paul Brown, who was the Bengals' owner.
9:40 after a touchdown they can kick for an extra point for a total of 7 points or throw/run it in for a 2 point Conversion for a total of 8 points on the play
The Vikings game @6:40 I was at that game with my best friend we were just 15 at the time. The day started out fairly warm but by the second half it had gotten real cold. We debated leaving but we were die hard fans. So glad we stayed, what a great memory. I still have my ticket stub.
The Hail Mary is a prayer, hence where the football term comes from. To "Throw a Hail Mary" is a American phrase that means that you're going all in. You're risking everything for the chance to win or succeed
How could they leave out the Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary against the lions in 2015??????????? Unbelievable lol
To clarify, after a touchdown is scored, the NFL rules allow for a team to kick a 1-point PAT (point after touchdown), or they can run another play and attempt to get into the End Zone again for a 2-point score (Two-Point Conversion). They do not get to score a second 6-point touchdown. If the Hail Mary score was enough to win the game outright, they would just end the game without attempting the PAT. If the other team had a 7 point advantage prior to the Hail Mary, the scoring team would have the option of kicking a PAT to tie the game (and go into Overtime) or attempt the two-point conversion to win the game outright. They would be allowed to run this play, even if there was no time left on the game clock.
There’s like 5 Aaron Rodgers clips that could be here but aren’t. Including the thumbnail lmao
If you load up the end zone in the seconds. They can just pass the ball in the middle and run with the ball since the play continues until deadball and doesn't end when the time runs out. It's much harder to stop a rusher at full steam.
Second, you must leave defenders on the line of scrimmage because you still want to disrupt the passer and not only the receiver. If you don't disrupt them, they can just run forward and attempt a much shorter forward pass than they initially have.
Third, the receiver and everybody else in support can still pass the ball after the one forward pass as long as they pass it laterally or behind, so they can pass it around like in rugby making the defense off balance until they find a gap.
To answer your 1 second left question, no you can't go for another 6 point touchdown, once you score your possession is over, but before you kick it off you're given a chance to make an extra point or two extra points, 1 point if you kick it, 2 points if from the 2 yard line you score a "2 point touchdown" you only have one try no matter what time is on the clock, even if zero seconds are on the clock, as the play isn't considered a part of regular time but an extra play.
8:04 it was Jeff Driscoll and the announced said "Can he go Aaron Rodgers?" meaning can he imitate one of the greats with a miracle play
In the case of extra points, those are considered untimed plays anyway. So yes, even with no time on the clock, they still get the opportunity to kick the extra point or could choose to go for a two point conversion.
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but I can't imagine a "Greatest Hail Marys" list without Doug Flutie lifting Boston College over Miami in 1984.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. And you're not showing your age because some of these were from further back than that.
Agreed, I was in High school, in the Boston suburbs, that was the biggest news for weeks. They named a street Flutie Pass in Natick, Ma his hometown.
I watched that while I was in OS"A" school, in the Navy. We lived in a barracks but there was an office and the CC had it on. We were all crowded around the door watching. For me, it is the definitive Hail Mary!
Yea Doug was the poster guy for hail marries
4:05 not last year, 12 years ago mate LOL
Defensive playrers are coached to try to knock the ball to the ground so it can't get tipped around. In the first clip where the player tried to knock it down, the player did what he was supposed to but it just didn't work out well. If you try to catch it and fail the ball tends to be catchable. In the second clip you actually see that happen. Players tried to catch it, kept the ball in the air and someone was able to catch it. The only flaw to the first clip was the player didn't have the right angle on trying to knock it to the ground. To Daz's point about a safety, it wouldn't apply. If a player intercepts the ball in his own end zone but does not bring it out past the goal line it's a "touchback" and the ball comes out to the 20 yard line with no points awarded. BUT if a player tries to bring an interceptionout of the end zone and then he is knocked back into the endzone after crossing the goal line, it is a safety. But 99% of the time, coaches will tell a player to just try to knock the ball to teh ground.
The green bay play around 13:20 I went to school and played high school football with the receiver that caught the ball. #83 Jeff Janis. Can't believe he made a video like this only for me to see it on a RUclips channel I watch all the time. Small world
10:44 isn't a Hail Mary, that's just an open receiver who smoked his coverage.
That term is overused quite frankly.
Dave was in a band called The Foreskins: he played the skin flute and rusty trombone. 😂
Essentially the Hail Mary is used because you need to score points with no time left, but too far away to kick a field goal.
The Defense was in cover 2 at that Bears 49ers game...corner back releases the receiver to the safety coverage. The safety was late.
a hail mary is the equivalent of going route 1 in football (soccer)
9:50 Nooo, you just confused him, now he thinks you can go for 2 touchdowns back to back instead of the 1 pt kick or 2 pt throw/run option
Lol, yeah. TBF, there is a remote chance of pulling off a double score. Kick the extra point, kick an onside kick and come up with it and successfully take it into the end zone, kick the extra point again (or successfully go for 2). But good freakin' luck pulling all that off, especially with the current onside kick rules and only 1 second on the clock. If a team was that good, they wouldn't have been in that spot in the first place.
It doesnt matter if time is at 0. They are allowed to finish their play in its entirety. The play isnt over until its completely dead. Also they can still kick the extra point or go for the 2 point conversion to finish even after time is up.
Aaron Rogers is known for his last minute HAIL Mary's to win the game so he called it an Aaron Rogers.
For the catching rule in the Packers game, you have to maintain control through the ground. So even if you hold it while you're falling, if it bounces away when you hit the ground, it's incomplete. He definitely caught it though.
In 1971, I believe, in a playoff game, Cowboys star quarterback Roger Staubach chucked a deep pass to Drew Pearson against the Vikings to win the game. Afterwards he was asked about the play and he just said that he closed his eyes, said a Hail Mary, and threw it up. That's how the play went from being called an "alley oop" to a "Hail Mary."
It's a hail Mary, you throw it the ball and say a prayer.
Fun fact Paul Brown founded both the Bengals and the Browns that’s why the colors are very similar
I understood Mike's Gary Neville reference.
Could you explain it? I mean, I know who Gary Neville is, but what in particular was Mike's reference about?
I love how highlight videos these days “the best of all time” are actually “the ones I’m aware of from the last 10 yrs” seems legit
Re: _"Why don't the defensive players catch the ball instead of knocking it to the ground"_
It's because if defensive backs were good at catching a football, they'd be wide receivers on offense. For every time you see an offensive receiver catch a ball after a defensive player tried to knock it to the ground, you'll see 5 times as many instances where the defensive player tried to catch it and it either ricochets off his brick-like hands/chest/helmet, etc into the hands of a nearby offensive receiver, or the offensive receiver out-muscles or out-leaps the defensive player to do what they're paid to do: _Catch the Ball_
Oddly enough there already is a band named The 4-skins and they're from England.
They said Aaron Rodgers because he’s thrown gamewinning Hail Marys multiple times. He’s the king of the Hail Mary
In the first clip, he's batting it down because 99.99% of the time that's going to end the play. Most defensive backs have shit hands or else they'd be playing receiver, so if they try to catch it, there's a chance they'll tip the ball into the air where it might be caught by an offensive player.
The first wasn't from too recently bc I forgot David Garrard existed
How is the Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary throw against Cardinals in the video, but not the throw against the Lions? I mean it’s even in the thumbnail for the video. Makes no sense
Some teams if they have a really good tall wide receiver, they will put them in on defense to play deep safety because they're better at tracking the ball in the air during these hail mary plays.
Missing some great ones. Hail Mary from Roger Staubach to Drew Pearson vs Vikings 1975. Immaculate Reception by Franco Harris against Raiders in 1972. Doug Flutie end of game toss in 1984 to beat the Miami Hurricanes.
The Pushoff by Pearson
Defenders are less likely to make an interception and will actually knock the ball up in the air where it can be caught be a receiver. If there was a video called - Hail Mary fails, you would see a lot of the balls being knocked down by defenders. The very next play the defender knocks a ball back up for the receiver to catch. The it happened in the third play. Then again in the Bills v. Patriots game.
There’s no Hail Mary as good as the one called the Bluegrass Miracle..a play in college football, thrown by the Louisiana State University Tigers to beat Kentucky with no time left as the ball left the quarterbacks hands. It was truly magical! Here’s a video of the guys talking about it ten years after they made the play!
ruclips.net/video/VIJOq9SOeek/видео.html
Whenever 0a QB successfully makes a Hail Mary pass, it was a "genius play" and it took such courage and "Nerves of Steel" to throw the ball, but if the exact same throw Doesn't end with a touchdown, it's because it was a "reckless play", and "the QB should have known better." The truth is that after the ball leaves the QB's hands, it's all up to the skill of the receivers, and also lots of luck.
The SF 49's one is in no way a hail Mary. It's a forward pass with tons of time to go in OT on 1st down.
Nah that first clip was over a decade ago. The camera quality is just really good
One cannot score another touchdown instead of kicking an extra point. Attempting that (getting it in the end zone again) is called a two point conversion.
Joe Namath changed the NFL, Won 3rd Superbowl..NYJ.
Nickname Hollywood Joe....Short Documentarys on RUclips...Time Capsule back to the NFL beginnings...
Joe was a Rebell...
Bro this vid sucked, they left out at least one other Aaron Rodgers hail Mary against the Lions that's probably THE most iconic hail Mary ever.
Hail Mary compilation videos are always weird cuz you know they are going to catch it. Generally these moments happens after you've already given up at your house, about to take a quick break before the next set of games come on, team lines up for one more impossible pass and very rarely you get a td off of it and go crazy.
Coaches always tell their players if the opposition throws a Hail Mary in the end zone, to always bat the ball right to the ground to kill the play and win the game. Many players instinctively try to catch the ball and it ends up bouncing off their hands and into the opposition's!!!
If you have a touchdown you can run it into the end zone again for extra points, but it only gets you 2 points.
A "Hail Mary" is, basically, a desperation play.
Any list of Hail Marys without the the very first hail Mary is a incomplete list. Staubach to Pearson against the Vikings the very first Hail Mary in NFL
Roger Staubach coined the phrase " Hail Mary" so prior to that it was just a bomb
The San Fran Chicago game wasn't even a hail mary. It was a long pass caught at the 26 yard line and ran in for a TD for an overtime win. lol
tyrod taylor had a great pass vs the saints. check it out.
Defenders are Coached to try and bat the ball into the ground instead of trying to catch it in these situations. Catching it is obviously effective, but can be risky. If you try to catch it and fail, the ball will usually bounce slowly off your hands and remain fluttering in the air for a potentially easy catch by one of the 5 receivers there (like in clip #2).
Since there's no competitive advantage to catching it in these situations, Coaches will teach players to try and swat the ball straight into the ground. Making for a much more consistent pass break up that's harder for a flukey catch.
Of course in the first clip, it was extremely unfortunate that the defender hit it more laterally than down, and happened to be right into a receivers bread basket.
regarding the last bit at the end, it's 100% muscle memory. i used to play lacrosse and i sure as shit didn't know how to do any of that before practicing for an entire summer. just like asking someone to curl a football on their first go, no one has a chance if you ask them to catch, balance, and throw a ball with a lacrosse stick in their off-hand -- but that's par if you play.
Hail Mary
full of grace
let this ball
find some space.
How do they have a title like, "Greatest Hail Marys in Football History" and not include the pass from Roger Staubach to Drew Pearson to win a divisional playoff game against the Vikings in 1975? Roger Staubach coined the phrase "Hail Mary" (in regards to football). Yet they include some random play from a college game.
This is for Mike, there is a position called the safety who does have a few jobs. But they are usually position farthest back to help deal with plays that might catch them off guard.
The Chicago missing 'C' ...these are 1 off uniforms/helmets just for the day, called 'throwbacks'...Old time unifirms from long ago...
Each and every Hail Mary video should start out with the first one and roger staubachs post game interview when we coined the phrase. Then they should show the rest of the Hail Marys
I agree. Although I was a 9 year old Vikings fan, and that play ruined my whole Winter.
I feel like prime Aaron Rodgers was the best at this. It was always the same too. He drops back to pass waits a second then he is flushed out of the pocket, runs toward the sideline, plants his feet, and throws a deep ball to a receiver that NOONE is covering for some reason for a Touchdown.
EDIT: I posted this before it got to the Rodgers one and it was almost exactly how I described it haha.
It's a Hail Mary, because you're throwing up a prayer.
A hail Mary is literally just throwing it up for grabs and praying or "saying a hail mary" for someone to catch it. Also if defenders could catch the ball they would be receivers. They're taught to bat it down in situations like this.
The Bengals, AJ Green caught two of those passes, and the play with the 49ers with the receiver wide open is not called a Hail Mary. That's call the defense, messed up. The Seattle play was also not a Hail Mary
Love when the old school announcers get excited, that's what made it fun.
The first one was not a mistake. They are told to just bat the ball down. It just was a fluke that it was caught.
I'm not sure how they don't put Roger staubach in here.
5:00 if he caught it and kneeled the game would have gone into overtime since regulation play would have ended.
Buuuut, as close as he was to the goal line, if he caught it outside the endzone and got knocked backwards it would have been a safety and lost them the game anyway.
The first clip he should have batted it backwards
aj green got me into football when i was younger, his highlights were crazy and i saw the game when he caught it against the browns
This video missed the most iconic ones
The first clip is over a decade old lol
If a team scores with only a few seconds left in the game they will kick the ball to the other team. The receiving team will have to score on the kickoff because they will not have enough time to get the offense on the field. If you want to see the best finish of a college game look up Cal vs Standford.
The Texans vs Jaguars hail mary happened in 2010 not that recent lol.
That was a nice ad but I think it would have been better if Mike had been beatboxing
Whoever made this video should be ashamed of themselves for leaving out the 2 best Hail Mary passes of all time, the miracle in Michigan with Kordell Stewart's pass to Michael Westbrook to upset Michigan in the big house with the legendary announcer Keith Jackson on the call, and of course Doug Fluties miracle in Miami.
Rodgers to Rodgers
How about any college hail Mary’s? I’ve never seen such a lazy put together compilation. Hu of us who live in the United States, think the NFL has ever had greater Hail Marys than the NFL? I’m just sorry that some idiot duped the Office Blokes into watching this shit…
Everytime i watch one of these best ever videos on RUclips, i think best ever that the editor can remember. Unfortunately as a Miami fan, yes the Doug Flutie Hail Mary is probably the best one of all time.
No Flutie?
Dave is right, the guy should've caught that ball. But, they are all coached to just bat it down, to avoid what actually happened in that first clip.
And even if he'd been tacked, it's just a touch-back, so the ball gets spotted on the 20 yard line. Not a safety like Daz wondered about. We'll give them the benefit of the doubt, since they don't know the nuances of the rules.
How can you make a list without the one that it was named for?
This is just a few that worked. You could put together a video with 50 times as many clips where it failed.
You are taught very young in football is to knock the ball down. Don't try to catch it. Just knock it down. You are taught this as a player from pee wee league, high school and college and pros to knock the ball down in that situation.
Unfortunately that’s the best play of Mike Thomas’s career. He didn’t pan out, but to say he was a bust wouldn’t be telling the whole story, as he was a 5th round pick.
That’d be one good reason for Brian Thomas Jr to stay away from wearing #80. Same last name.
Andy Dalton should be OB Dave's favorite NFL QB. Talented player, big numbers, and the biggest ginger in NFL history! Dave can even take Dalton's nickname, The Red Rifle. 🏈🤡🤡🤡🔫
Cleveland and Cincinnati are an interesting story, they are both in Ohio as you mentioned. The real rivalry and reason why they look so similar is because the a Browns were named after their head coach Paul Brown and after 20 something years the team was sold to Art Modell, Art Modell and Brown butted heads and eventually Modell fired Brown from the team that's named after him. Cincinnati was in the running to receive an expansion team and Paul Brown with a lawyer won the bid to get the new team, and to spite Modell, made them both as similar as possible to steal fans away from Cleveland, including the color scheme and initials CB by calling them the Bengals.
The Bears Unis are Throwbacks to the 1940s Monsters of the Midway teams. This week is Bears Packers week which is the oldest rivalry in the NFL. You guys should react to a video about the rivalry. It's basically what you guys would call a Derby I believe.
On the first play, batting it down is the right thing to do. Many times in the past defenders have tried to catch it and just tipped it up into the air for the offense to get an easy catch. The best idea is to spike it to the ground as fast as possible so that there is no chance of it getting tipped up and caught. This one was just bad luck.
Is this football or handball🤣
I thought if this was really about the greatest Hail Mary plays of all time, we would see the Doug Flutie pass at Boston College. That was the play that got him into the NFL.
No Motown miracle?
North vs South 😂
so all of these clips and nothing with Roger Staubach, who literally coined the phrase LOL
WHATTT NO HAIL MURRAY????
Where was Flutie !!!!!
Visiting teams wear the white tops and are listed first on scoreboards (left or top). Helps identify teams when like Cleveland and Cincinnati who wear almost the same colors.
Randall Cuningham was one of the most talented qbs ever.
I hope they heard the announcer say in the second clip you swat the ball down not up in the air. I’m sure that would’ve answered half of their questions from the first clip.