Yeah. I thought that was a big play at Oregon where we were ruled out. Maybe State.
@bradstevens Just lurking a lot more these days. Just focused elsewhere in my life, less time on the boards.
The only other catch I can think of like this was Santonio Holmes in the SB for Pittsburgh. I still think this one was way better though! I know Reggie and Marvin made some similar ones, but not in these types of game situations.
@goat I've watched it at least 100 times by now. I think his right toe actually clips the ground inbounds, before lifting up and his left foot coming down. Watch his right foot as it comes forward, it clearly bends backward, and that could be him moving it to get it inbounds, but I think it catches on the turf and gets bent back a little and then lifts off as his left foot comes down. There's also a bit of turf that flies up, which also seems to indicate his right toe caught the ground. One of the clips I saw yesterday was from someone else in the booth saying just that to the announcer. I believe it was a not only great catch and TD in college, but would have also been a TD on Sunday. If his right toe did clip the ground that makes it a TD right then, and makes whether his left heal clipped the line irrelevant, I believe.
I was initially with you on the right toe tap, but I don't think it happened and I think the turf you see flying is coming off of the defender's cleats.
The only other catch I can think of like this was Santonio Holmes in the SB for Pittsburgh..
The Edelman catch vs. ATL, given the circumstances, is generally ranked 1-2 or 2-1 with Franco Harris's Immaculate reception in NFL catches. Down 8 in the Super Bowl, just before the 2 minute warning, ball tipped by a defender, then THREE defenders converged on him and the ball, and he scooped it off the leg of one of them.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Beckers was awesome. He had that sweet grab over a guy earlier too. But not sure we turned it into points. Maybe the FG.Oh, and let's not forget, if Cooper hadn't outdone it, we'd all be talking about that amazing catch by Becker a few plays before. Everyone just stepped up right when we needed it.
Everyone involved. Four receivers made grabs on that drive. Sack! 🙁 Then, Cooper, 1st down!, Williams, 1st down! Nowakowski, 29 yards, 1st! Becker, amazing 1st!, ... COOOOP! TD!
Have to coach these guys up though..., 10 play drive, 1:12 . Use a little more clock next time.
Man, teams never do something like that even with all 3 timeouts left.
One moment of terror in there, when the goal line 2nd down batted ball went up and hung in the air between several Penn State defenders, but the ball found the one clear spot to land. Our old luck that lands in their arms.
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Two passes in a row got batted and could have been picked. As they used to say on Laugh-In, oh the fickle finger of fate.
...Yeah but the first one didnt pop up into the air it dove. It was swiped but never a danger.Two passes in a row got batted and could have been picked. As they used to say on Laugh-In, oh the fickle finger of fate.
One of those we were lucky IMO that it did get batted, because it looked like he was throwing the slant maybe we were trying a pick, and it couldve been stopped short of the goal line by the db coming up behind their first guy. That would have been horrible... Spike on third, and only have 4th down left? Not a fan of a slant short of the goal line. It wouldve been 50-50 I think. Going by memory, I watched it on replay once or twice.
The only other catch I can think of like this was Santonio Holmes in the SB for Pittsburgh. I still think this one was way better though! I know Reggie and Marvin made some similar ones, but not in these types of game situations.
I think that Holmes’ (second) foot never touched. Never saw a replay or pic that showed it touching.
I've watched The Catch multiple times, and I've come to four conclusions:
1. It's humanly impossible. Hence...
2. Cooper is an alien.
3. Considering the circumstances, OCJ's catch is better than OBJ's. And it's not all that close.
4. Best throw of the college football season.
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched a replay of that catch, but didn’t realize until someone pointed it out on the Pat McAfee show that the Penn State player kicked Omar’s leg which kept his right foot from touching. I was always so focused on his feet I never looked at anything else. That explains why his right toe never touched and may have saved us from his right foot touching out of bounds before his left foot came down.
Yeah, I was wrong. I watched dozens of times and was 80% sure it barely tapped (as the 'first foot'). But, all those replays were from the near side...
I think that Holmes’ (second) foot never touched. Never saw a replay or pic that showed it touching.
Saw yesterday the far side replay on a bigger screen than I'd seen before and there is (almost) absolutely air under that right foot the entire time.
So now I've flipped to over 80% sure the right foot never tapped in bounds. He needed that left to be in, and did it.
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@jhoban19 In hindsight an error on the defender. He was trying to reach around Cooper and deflect the ball, and not use his hands to shove him out. If he did the latter, Cooper certainly would've landed out of bounds. Still amazing that with his momentum carrying him that way, he could still get his feet down.
Yeah, I was wrong. I watched dozens of times and was 80% sure it barely tapped (as the 'first foot'). But, all those replays were from the near side...
I think that Holmes’ (second) foot never touched. Never saw a replay or pic that showed it touching.
Saw yesterday the far side replay on a bigger screen than I'd seen before and there is (almost) absolutely air under that right foot the entire time.
So now I've flipped to over 80% sure the right foot never tapped in bounds. He needed that left to be in, and did it.
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When we are basing our best moment in life, measured in cock hairs, on something that really doesn't affect our physical lives..
It's easy to lose focus. Or something like that.
If men were any more stupid, we would have breed for the extinction of women. Proof yet again that WE are the best thing they have going for them.
Just another interesting video about Omar’s catch.
https://twitter.com/bigtennetwork/status/1996367573634420751?s=61