I agree the play deserves far more recognition that it's received.....but to be clear, he jumped nearly 5 yards (14 feet). His takeoff foot was just inside the 5-yd line. Still, one heck of a play.
I meant that to come across as implied exaggeration lol. To be fair I did this because I was too lazy to look it up lol. Still a sick play though!
Yeah, jumping from the 10 would give him the world record, which is currently at about 29-1/2 feet. Agreed, though, that this play doesn't get a lot of recognition and it should. Jumping almost 5 yards (I'd say ~13 feet) is pretty impressive. The ball landed a few feet past the pylon.
And, the hand strength to hold onto a wet ball with one hand while diving 15 feet at full speed in a rain storm.
We'll have to agree to disagree. I thought it was anything but an average play.....could have been made by only a handful of special-talent type players.
What do you mean average?! At first glance I thought it was too until I saw from where he took off. That was NOT average and he did it in traffic.
Accelerates laterally toward the sideline, plants *inside* foot on wet surface to change direction and dives five yards?
Yeah, the game was long over by that point and they had taken to the small talk.
as opposed to Mike Patrick...who has no problem digressing to small talk in OT with everything on the line
Yep. Look at the time of the game. It's in the 2nd quarter, but the rain caused the game to get out of whack.
