To put into perspective how athletic these guys are, Julio Jones (not related to Jon) is 190.5cm and weighs between 99 and 100 kg. When he had his combine (where they measure athletic potential of players about to join the NFL) he ran a 40 meter dash in 4.34 seconds (30 km/h), had a standing vertical jump of 97 cm, and a broad jump of 342 cm. He did these tests with a broken foot…
6:37 That chase down tackle by D.K. Metcalf was clocked at a speed of just over 23 MPH. Remember that these guys are also wearing 10-20 pounds worth of pads and protective equipment, too. That's insane.
I think it's important to note that NFL players are pretty specialized. You only have a couple players on the team that handle all the kicking, and one guy handles the passing (unless he gets hurt, there's always a backup). Almost nobody plays on both offense and defense both. But they're all amazingly athletic.
@@sleemansilvercreek4796Yeah they have that shit to a literal science, don't get me wrong soccer players are a different breed. But footballers are like 200-350 pounds running 40 yards in 4 fucking seconds.
I will say to answer your question, these kind of plays usually do happen once or twice per game. That’s why we love it so much, and you are right these guys are really smart, you can be a super athlete but won’t be able to play in the NFL unless you are football smart.
What my son was told is that being good isn’t enough because every year there are roughly one thousand eligible players competing for forty to fifty positions. They also emphasized that the average NFL career is three years. Granted this depends on the position you play but for every kicker that lasts for ten or more years there is the guy who gets creamed in the first game and can’t play anymore.
That average career of 3 years is somewhat misleading. Yes the average NFL career is still very short but there are so many guys that get to play in one or two games that never really had a shot but made a team die to injury or suspensions that then get cut drags down the numbers. Still absolutely crazy hard to make it. I just don't like that statistic because it's somewhat deceptive.
Also to kind of answer his question, there are tons of great and exceptional players that you could make an entire video like this one about. Randy Moss, for instance, had hundreds of plays that were more athletic than many of these throughout his career. Or a whole video just a breaking down of one amazing play full of athleticism like the Beast Quake from Marshawn Lynch. Or scrambling quarterbacks like Steve Young, Michael Vick, or more recently, Patrick Mahomes. Exceptional players are all incredibly athletic and a joy to watch.
It's always fun watching people react to American Football. It started as Rugby Football and was eventually shortened to just Football. There was never any disrespect intended to Futbol. The name Soccer came from the British when the sport was introduced here. Because American Football was well established by then, we never did change.
Rugger football was shortened to rugby. Association football was shortened to soccer. Football American, was shortened to football. They were all played and created around the same time.
@@Dead_Goatyou’re wrong lol. Rugby football is what it was called and when Americans changed the game they shortened it to football, like this main comment said originally.
@@xXSprMgaAwsmFxyHtXxYou're both wrong. The official name for the sport is gridiron football. We call it football for the same reason English people call soccer football. It's just a shortened version of the full name. The American version of football isn't just rugby with a different name. It never was. It's an entirely separate sport that has a similar origin to rugby and soccer.
The thing is, American football is being played by what are probably Olympic-caliber track and field specialists, with a side of wrestling. The sheer physical wonder of the human body is on display in these matches. Every single man on the field is an absolute freak specimen. The other thing to keep in mind is the durability of these guys. They take the kind of punishment during games that would just about cripple a regular person to do once and do it for four months in a row. Even if you don't like the flow of the sport with all its breaks, it's a damned gladiatorial spectacle.
With the diving TDs the defensive players are angling the offensive players out of bounds. You dive forward because you are not out until you touch out of bounds, so if you can can get the tip of the ball to the goal line aka hit the orange pylon before the ground it's a touchdown(score).
Just to add a bit of additional information for European viewers - the orange things are called "pylons". The pylons are completely in bounds and form part of the goal line. There is an imaginary plane that extends from the front of the goal line all they way into the heavens. If any part of the football touches this imaginary plane, no matter how slightly, in theory, even 1/100th of a millimeter, it is a touch down. It is the front of the line that matters. So by diving, if the player can get any part of the ball past the plane before he is down or out of bounds, it scores.
Jon had two brothers in the NFL, but as far as I know, Julio and "Bones" aren't related. In fact, Jon is the smallest of the trio of Arthur, Chandler, and him. Jones is the fifth most common surname in the U.S., so there's a bunch of Jonses out there.
I saw what you were saying about the one handed catches; if you're not familiar with an NFL sized football, they are 28 cm long with a 53 cm circumference around the middle. The average male hand size is only 19 cm. Also, due to their aerodynamic shape, they can be thrown harder and faster than a regular ball. So, not only do players have a mechanical disadvantage while catching with one hand, they also have to read a fast moving ball and use great hand/eye coordination to slow it down enough to control and pull it in.
Great comment but I have issue with one part :) I played football and baseball and I assure you that a baseball can be thrown far faster and much further than a football can. Any MLB outfielder can put the ball on home plate from the wall (the average distance to the left or right wall in the MLB is ~330 feet. Center tends to be 400+). Now, they almost never do this because it's the slowest way to get the ball there, but it's not even an accomplishment to be able to do it When was the last time you saw a football thrown at over 100 MPH or over 110 yards? IN FAIRNESS, however...the kinetic energy of a baseball thrown at 100 MPH and a football thrown at ~60 MPH is nearly identical. Not surprising, both sets of athletes will have figured out how to put as much energy into their ball of choice and for humans that hits about 150 joules. The real scary one is soccer....clocking in at nearly double the energy with 275 joules. That's a lot of zoom.
Good stuff man. There definitely some better compilations out there that I’m sure would be a hit for you. Look for best jukes or best “OMG” plays. Always interesting seeing non Americans reacting to our ridiculous sport
What's funny to me is that whenever they show the best moments it's always the last 5 to 10 years. They started regularly televising seasons in the early 1950s. I just think it's funny
So do you have a bunch of film reels from 1969 and the equipment to convert to digital so that you can upload it? Like, what other footage would you expect someone to have access to?
The second one is because he was able to get the ball across the line to score, despite 3 defenders trying to prevent it. If a player gets the ball to 'break the plane' of the end zone white line, without being 'down' (having a knee touch the ground) he scores a touchdown. On that play, what was impressive was hia ablility to stretch out to get the ball across the line in that situation before being brought 'down' by the defenders or being pushed out of bounds.
2:24 what's impressive is he made the touchdown in that position. He just beat 3 defenders while doing a spinning dive all for the touchdown.. Thats wild.
The DK Metcalf chase down is more impressive in the uncut shot. You can see just how far behind he is at the start. And you can tell he was running with anger.
Here are a few more to watch: Beast Quake (and Beast Quake 2.0), Reggie Bush Fleur de Leap (was used for the Super Bowl ad that year), Alvin Kamara Rookie of the Year, and Devin Hester you are ridiculous.
07:00 - D.K. Metcalf nearly qualified for the Olympics (100-meter) - in his spare time. Came up short in the end (there's video of the event on YT). He's 6'4" (193cm) 235lb (106kg) The average height and weight for an Olympic sprinter is: 178cm/78kg and he's around 30lbs(14kg) heavier than Usain Bolt. There's been quite a few Olympic athletes in the NFL - mostly sprinters
If you're still at all interested in seeing more really cool plays, I suggest looking up the "Immaculate Interception", an incredibly famous play from the Super Bowl (which, if you do not know, is basically the final, biggest game to determine the season's champion team) where James Harrison a Linebacker (which, for reference is basically one of those guys you see who hit people hard to try to stop the ball, not one of the guys who catch the ball or run with it normally intercepts the ball. From there, he went on to get the longest play in Super Bowl history at the time, running the full 100 yards across the field without being taken down until the very end, but still getting a touchdown. It's an amazing athletic feat because you can see just how gassed he was to have done it, laying on the ground for multiple minutes and even being given an oxygen tank when taken off the field, to acheive the legendary play.
I saw a video a sportswriter did on all of the insane, one-handed catches that guys were suddenly making. It had almost everything to do with the gloves. He had a bunch of teenagers try to catch passes with one hand, and they nearly always failed. Then he had them wear modern gloves, and suddenly, they were like Spiderman. 😄
ill never understand why i never see that Jordy Nelson back shoulder catch where he somehow gets both feet down. that play made me fall in love with Rodgers/Jordy/Packers and the NFL in general
You don't see frontflips every game, but a lot of big name receivers pull this stuff all the time. If you're looking out for plays like those hops then you'll definitely see them pretty quick by keeping an eye on chiefs/dolphins games. Just about every game you see will have impressive dives and catches similar to the ones here though, it makes it very easy to forget just how massive all these players are. The "little guys" you see on the field are often still 190cm or so. With the structure of short strategic plays making up the bulk of the game they are always looking for any window to burst through and give it all their body can push out within a few seconds, as opposed to the long energy conservation in an uninterrupted game of soccer.
Plays like these make you realize that if these guys played soccer and not football (or generally, if it was the primary sport of the country), the US would be an absolute force to be reckoned with. Imagine someone like Tyreek Hill (the last clip), 5'10, 185, 40 inch vertical, and a 9.98 (wind-assisted) 100m, and incredible coordination, and incredibly quick feet and agility, learned and played soccer growing up instead of football. The best athletes in the US play either football or basketball for the most part, and that's saving the rest of the soccer world lol.
During his MLB debut 1989 campaign, Deion Sanders launched a home run⚾ on Sept. 5 against the Mariners. Five days later, in the first game of his NFL career, he returned a punt for a touchdown🏈, becoming the first player to hit a home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week.
The craziest thing to think about, these guys are 200 lbs - 300 lbs (90Kg+ - 130kg+) and are running very fast sprints, crazy verticals on their jumps and insane agility. Normal guys with these sizes would usually move very blocky and slow but NFL athletes are a different breed.
One of the reasons these hurdles are so impressive is that most of these guys are well over 200 lbs. Some of them, especially the running backs, are in the 240-250 lb range (around 110-112 kilo range). These are massive guys getting massive air in these hurdles.
I went to school with Jerome Simpson the WR for the Bengals that did the flip into the end zone. He actually was my next door neighbor for a few years.
Odell Beckham Jr is a sports savant. He's great at every sport he's ever played. Julio Jones is one of the most physically gifted players in league history. He's a Hall of Fame receiver and if he played defense, he'd be a HOF safety as well.
2:06 the rule is that it's the ball, not the body, that breaks the invisible plane at the goal line to score the touchdown. If that happens before any part of his body touches the ground, it is a legal touchdown, or TD.
I do remember teams in Frankfurt, London, Barcelona, etc. having teams as part of the World League of American Football back in the early 90's. Incase you didn't know the NFL will have two games soon in Berlin. One this Sunday and the other next Sunday. I couldn't you which teams playing when but anyway they'll be happening while I'm taking care of stuff that needs to get done before I can sit back and watch football for around seven hours. Oh yes, that reminds me! I need to put together my Fantasy Football teams before Saturday night (my time). Have yourself a wonderful time watching the NFL. Bye now. Peace. James✌
At 4:48 was Cam Newton who played and graduated from my Alma Mater, Auburn University and the very next play is Julio Jones who played at the University of Alabama (both in my home state of Alabama). #WarEagle #RollTide
The plays where someone catches a pass, breaks some tackles and dives in for a touchdown, those guys on defense are getting paid million(s) of US dollars to make that tackle. You will probably see 1-2 of those plays a weekend out of the thousands ran. You wanna see some crazy highlights at that position, wide reciever, look up some Randy Moss highlights.
I know an annoying hipster guy who went on a huge, dumb rant online about how NFL players are all "fat and lazy and not at all athletic.". I responded to his nonsense with that first clip of Jerome Simpson's flying summersault into the end zone. That shut him up pretty quickly.
This is why the NFL is so popular in the US. While these catches are amazing there are equally impressive plays on defense. I've tried to watch Rugby and European soccer but I just cant get into it.
You should see if there are still tickets available for the international showcase this Sunday in Frankfurt. The defending NFL champs (KC Chiefs) vs the Miami Dolphins. Should be an excellent display of the sport.
Jon Jones brother does play in the NFL as a DE "Defensive End" he was drafted by the Patriots. He's one of the DE's in the NFL, not which team he is on now though. His name is "Chandler Jones"
Definitely better and more moves to see!!!! try watching another one…actually just try Barry Sanders top 50 if you want to see great skilled running back
Several reasons American Football never got popular elsewhere: 1. It's an expensive sport. Soccer can be played so long as you have a ball and some room. Touch/Flag (American) Football can be played this way as well, but it's a poor facsimile of the real thing. Playing the real thing without equipment is going to get kids hurt. Meaning you can only really play the real thing in league. The US has the community infrastructure for those, but getting it up and running in Europe would be a real task. 2. It's an expensive sport at the professional level as well. I imagine it's difficult to foot the bill for a team each of both versions of football. Especially when one of them hasn't caught on yet. 3. It's a TV sport. As in it's perfectly constructed to be viewed at home while home viewing happens to also support it. You can fill in all the stop and start gameplay with commercials. The TV crew can mark the 1st down lines digitally. There's just a whole lot that TV does for the sport. TV has a different flow in different countries, so American Football being so tightly entwined with American TV likely makes that a challenge as well.
To add, the reason the sport isn't as big globally is because, quite frankly, most countries couldn't afford it. It's the reason these machine men are so athletic. They are fed and trained since they learned to run. We spend more on a single college's football program than an entire country could afford to spend on their national team. It's not being boastful. See, American's patriotism trickles down through all aspects of life. You want the team at you child's school to be a good one. If they are, it brings in alot more revenue and some of that gets used to improve the schools educational system with the lion's share used to improve the athletics department. Which brings in more money, which provides the school with better access to educational resources. And on and on lol. In short, most countries don't approve of the system and consider it wasteful, but it works well in America as a system because of its vast size and access to resources. It's the same way we are with spending more than the world combined on our military, but access to free Healthcare is far too expensive and frivolous to waste money on. Teeth are luxury bones.
You have to remember how gigantic these men are. It’s hard to tell because they are surrounded by the rest of massive players. If you can check out a clip of one of these guys next to an average size coach or referee or cameraman. It provides a point of reference. They are gigantic.
Julio Jones is not related to Jon Jones , however their is a NFL named Chandler Jones who played for the New England Patriots and the Arizona Cardinals, he is his brother , he was a great defender on the edge
I believe that US Football is not a world-wide game is that it requires a lifetime of physical training to be able to be at the NFL level. US players start as young as 8 or 9 in Pop Warner and continue through Middle School, High School, University. Plus USF is very equipment/location intensive. Soccer requires a ball and two nets. USF requires a ball, two goalposts, line markings, and very specific equipment so the players don't get killed (as they used to in the early days: 1860s - 1910s).
I would say this video shows good talent but these are newer, not NFL history if we won't some great highlights look up randy moss, Barry sanders, Marshawn lynch, to name a few this sport Has been around a long time. Great video
Jon Jones Brothers are Super Bowl Champion (Ravens) Arthur Jones and Super Bowl Champ (Patriots) and two time All Pro Chandler Jones (who recently had some mental issues and is no longer in NFL after legal trouble).
Julio Jones is just a freak man. There was a stretch of 5 or so years where he was absolutely unstoppable, doing highlights every single game. Shame he's fallen off so hard
Makes me sad as a Bama fan 😢. The injuries got to him, unfortunately. We went to the same high school. I was lucky to get to witness ESPN visit our high school when he was the #1 recruit in the country
They should have included Beast quake, Doug Baldwin’s horizontal catch against 49ers, Doug’s one handed catch against Vikings, and Jermaine Kearse’s catch near the sidelines during SB 49. Those are better than some of these on this list.
Well, Americans invented ESPN Sports Center to highlight plays like these and a lot of professional athletes derive a large portion of their income from things like endorsements and shoe sales so you get things like the unnecessary goal line flips to get on Sports Center along with the truly remarkable plays. There are a whole lot more really great plays that just aren't flashy or don't result in a score as opposed to hours of guys running around kicking the ball to each other resulting in a 0-0 tie.
If you want to see what happens in a normal game watch the highlights from Texas vs Alabama game. That'll make a good video and you'll see what a normal game is like
The football has to break the plane of the end zone and be inside the orange pylon and your feet cannot touch outside of the boundary. That is why he went airborne holding the ball towards the goal line and his feet are up in the air so they can't touch out of bounds by accident.
I saw a game on tv between the Cowboys and I forget. But the Cowboys made and awesome long run and the runner was so far ahead he started slowing down and decided to strut across the line and he held the ball behind his back as he did so and someone caught up to him and took the unprotected ball out of his hand. lol. Im sure its on you tube. It was a while back so some details may be foggy but you will know it when you see it. When you see it check the helmet to confirm.
Happened twice to the same guy vs the same team in a two year span, against my Buffalo Bills, in one of those two games the Cowboys got the last laugh as it was the Super Bowl and the Bills lost
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Chandler Jones is the brother of Jon Jones, which he play Defense end (defense) Julio Jones is not related to Jon
To put into perspective how athletic these guys are, Julio Jones (not related to Jon) is 190.5cm and weighs between 99 and 100 kg. When he had his combine (where they measure athletic potential of players about to join the NFL) he ran a 40 meter dash in 4.34 seconds (30 km/h), had a standing vertical jump of 97 cm, and a broad jump of 342 cm. He did these tests with a broken foot…
jon is the brother of Chandler Jones though. although his career might now be out the window
40 yard dash, so about 36.6 meters.
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His other older brother Arthur played in the NFL as well. He’s the biggest one of them all too
Mike Evans catch against the falcons no included is a joke.
No Moss
6:37 That chase down tackle by D.K. Metcalf was clocked at a speed of just over 23 MPH. Remember that these guys are also wearing 10-20 pounds worth of pads and protective equipment, too. That's insane.
And Metcalk is a hugeeeee man
10-20 pounds isn't much to them
As an Ole Miss grad it was crazy to watch him play live. Guy is just built different.
because the rest of their body is so much more. just goes to show even more@@pnut3844able
Dude looked like his little brother running from him after doing some stupid shit
I think it's important to note that NFL players are pretty specialized. You only have a couple players on the team that handle all the kicking, and one guy handles the passing (unless he gets hurt, there's always a backup). Almost nobody plays on both offense and defense both. But they're all amazingly athletic.
It hurts the ego of other sports fan but nfl player are by far the most athletic and well rounded athlete.
@@sleemansilvercreek4796Yeah they have that shit to a literal science, don't get me wrong soccer players are a different breed. But footballers are like 200-350 pounds running 40 yards in 4 fucking seconds.
I will say to answer your question, these kind of plays usually do happen once or twice per game. That’s why we love it so much, and you are right these guys are really smart, you can be a super athlete but won’t be able to play in the NFL unless you are football smart.
What my son was told is that being good isn’t enough because every year there are roughly one thousand eligible players competing for forty to fifty positions. They also emphasized that the average NFL career is three years. Granted this depends on the position you play but for every kicker that lasts for ten or more years there is the guy who gets creamed in the first game and can’t play anymore.
That average career of 3 years is somewhat misleading. Yes the average NFL career is still very short but there are so many guys that get to play in one or two games that never really had a shot but made a team die to injury or suspensions that then get cut drags down the numbers.
Still absolutely crazy hard to make it. I just don't like that statistic because it's somewhat deceptive.
Also to kind of answer his question, there are tons of great and exceptional players that you could make an entire video like this one about. Randy Moss, for instance, had hundreds of plays that were more athletic than many of these throughout his career. Or a whole video just a breaking down of one amazing play full of athleticism like the Beast Quake from Marshawn Lynch. Or scrambling quarterbacks like Steve Young, Michael Vick, or more recently, Patrick Mahomes. Exceptional players are all incredibly athletic and a joy to watch.
Britain actually called your football soccer.
It's always fun watching people react to American Football. It started as Rugby Football and was eventually shortened to just Football. There was never any disrespect intended to Futbol. The name Soccer came from the British when the sport was introduced here. Because American Football was well established by then, we never did change.
Rugger football was shortened to rugby. Association football was shortened to soccer. Football American, was shortened to football. They were all played and created around the same time.
@@Dead_Goatyou’re wrong lol. Rugby football is what it was called and when Americans changed the game they shortened it to football, like this main comment said originally.
@@xXSprMgaAwsmFxyHtXxYou're both wrong. The official name for the sport is gridiron football. We call it football for the same reason English people call soccer football. It's just a shortened version of the full name. The American version of football isn't just rugby with a different name. It never was. It's an entirely separate sport that has a similar origin to rugby and soccer.
the DK Metcalf one is nuts because he's arguably the biggest NFL WR. But he's crazy quick too.
He ran in the US Olympic trials for the 100m dash and tied 7th in his heat with a 10.33
No Mike Evans against the Rams
Straight up looked like getting run down by a terminator. Super scary.
@@psymar ran in the golden games, which is a random pro meet not the trials. He did 10.37 and came 8th in the qualifying heat
DK Metcalf is 6'4'' 235. Cam Newton is 6'6' 245. Julio Jones is 6'3'' 220. Just to give you an idea of how big and physically imposing these guys are.
The thing is, American football is being played by what are probably Olympic-caliber track and field specialists, with a side of wrestling. The sheer physical wonder of the human body is on display in these matches. Every single man on the field is an absolute freak specimen. The other thing to keep in mind is the durability of these guys. They take the kind of punishment during games that would just about cripple a regular person to do once and do it for four months in a row. Even if you don't like the flow of the sport with all its breaks, it's a damned gladiatorial spectacle.
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With the diving TDs the defensive players are angling the offensive players out of bounds. You dive forward because you are not out until you touch out of bounds, so if you can can get the tip of the ball to the goal line aka hit the orange pylon before the ground it's a touchdown(score).
Just to add a bit of additional information for European viewers - the orange things are called "pylons". The pylons are completely in bounds and form part of the goal line. There is an imaginary plane that extends from the front of the goal line all they way into the heavens. If any part of the football touches this imaginary plane, no matter how slightly, in theory, even 1/100th of a millimeter, it is a touch down. It is the front of the line that matters. So by diving, if the player can get any part of the ball past the plane before he is down or out of bounds, it scores.
Jon had two brothers in the NFL, but as far as I know, Julio and "Bones" aren't related. In fact, Jon is the smallest of the trio of Arthur, Chandler, and him. Jones is the fifth most common surname in the U.S., so there's a bunch of Jonses out there.
Also, DK Metcalf, the guy who ran the guy down, is a freak of nature. Speed, strength, everything about him is insane.
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I saw what you were saying about the one handed catches; if you're not familiar with an NFL sized football, they are 28 cm long with a 53 cm circumference around the middle. The average male hand size is only 19 cm. Also, due to their aerodynamic shape, they can be thrown harder and faster than a regular ball. So, not only do players have a mechanical disadvantage while catching with one hand, they also have to read a fast moving ball and use great hand/eye coordination to slow it down enough to control and pull it in.
Great comment but I have issue with one part :)
I played football and baseball and I assure you that a baseball can be thrown far faster and much further than a football can. Any MLB outfielder can put the ball on home plate from the wall (the average distance to the left or right wall in the MLB is ~330 feet. Center tends to be 400+). Now, they almost never do this because it's the slowest way to get the ball there, but it's not even an accomplishment to be able to do it
When was the last time you saw a football thrown at over 100 MPH or over 110 yards?
IN FAIRNESS, however...the kinetic energy of a baseball thrown at 100 MPH and a football thrown at ~60 MPH is nearly identical. Not surprising, both sets of athletes will have figured out how to put as much energy into their ball of choice and for humans that hits about 150 joules.
The real scary one is soccer....clocking in at nearly double the energy with 275 joules. That's a lot of zoom.
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Yeah for how good of a player he was over in Carolina, he's definitely gonna get his money's worth in SF.
Good stuff man. There definitely some better compilations out there that I’m sure would be a hit for you. Look for best jukes or best “OMG” plays. Always interesting seeing non Americans reacting to our ridiculous sport
What's funny to me is that whenever they show the best moments it's always the last 5 to 10 years. They started regularly televising seasons in the early 1950s. I just think it's funny
So do you have a bunch of film reels from 1969 and the equipment to convert to digital so that you can upload it? Like, what other footage would you expect someone to have access to?
These kinds of plays happen quite a bit. That's what makes this sport so exciting to watch. Top notch athletes.
The second one is because he was able to get the ball across the line to score, despite 3 defenders trying to prevent it. If a player gets the ball to 'break the plane' of the end zone white line, without being 'down' (having a knee touch the ground) he scores a touchdown. On that play, what was impressive was hia ablility to stretch out to get the ball across the line in that situation before being brought 'down' by the defenders or being pushed out of bounds.
6:20 Metcalf is way faster than he "should" be for his size. He's 6'4"/1.93m tall and weighs 235lbs/107kg.
2:24 what's impressive is he made the touchdown in that position. He just beat 3 defenders while doing a spinning dive all for the touchdown.. Thats wild.
The DK Metcalf chase down is more impressive in the uncut shot. You can see just how far behind he is at the start. And you can tell he was running with anger.
Here are a few more to watch: Beast Quake (and Beast Quake 2.0), Reggie Bush Fleur de Leap (was used for the Super Bowl ad that year), Alvin Kamara Rookie of the Year, and Devin Hester you are ridiculous.
Best NFL highlight clip video ever night train
07:00 - D.K. Metcalf nearly qualified for the Olympics (100-meter) - in his spare time. Came up short in the end (there's video of the event on YT).
He's 6'4" (193cm) 235lb (106kg)
The average height and weight for an Olympic sprinter is: 178cm/78kg and he's around 30lbs(14kg) heavier than Usain Bolt.
There's been quite a few Olympic athletes in the NFL - mostly sprinters
Who cares. MIKE Evans is better. Compare stats. It even close
Mike Evans has never had less than 1000 yards in a season. Working on a dozen with 5 different qbs
Mike Evans so much better
Not Mike Evans close
BLAH BLAH. MIKE EVANS DUDE. SO MUCH BETTER
Amazing!
If you're still at all interested in seeing more really cool plays, I suggest looking up the "Immaculate Interception", an incredibly famous play from the Super Bowl (which, if you do not know, is basically the final, biggest game to determine the season's champion team) where James Harrison a Linebacker (which, for reference is basically one of those guys you see who hit people hard to try to stop the ball, not one of the guys who catch the ball or run with it normally intercepts the ball.
From there, he went on to get the longest play in Super Bowl history at the time, running the full 100 yards across the field without being taken down until the very end, but still getting a touchdown. It's an amazing athletic feat because you can see just how gassed he was to have done it, laying on the ground for multiple minutes and even being given an oxygen tank when taken off the field, to acheive the legendary play.
I agree, unnecessarily front flipping into the end zone is quite cheesy.
The DK Metcalf chase back is more impressive when you realize he's 193cm and 108kg. He's not a small guy at all.
I saw a video a sportswriter did on all of the insane, one-handed catches that guys were suddenly making. It had almost everything to do with the gloves. He had a bunch of teenagers try to catch passes with one hand, and they nearly always failed. Then he had them wear modern gloves, and suddenly, they were like Spiderman. 😄
4:57 Nah jon jones' brother is chandler jones
The player with #1 that flipped over the defender into the end zone, Cam newton... a huge guy. 120 kilos and right around 200 cm tall
ill never understand why i never see that Jordy Nelson back shoulder catch where he somehow gets both feet down. that play made me fall in love with Rodgers/Jordy/Packers and the NFL in general
You don't see frontflips every game, but a lot of big name receivers pull this stuff all the time. If you're looking out for plays like those hops then you'll definitely see them pretty quick by keeping an eye on chiefs/dolphins games. Just about every game you see will have impressive dives and catches similar to the ones here though, it makes it very easy to forget just how massive all these players are. The "little guys" you see on the field are often still 190cm or so. With the structure of short strategic plays making up the bulk of the game they are always looking for any window to burst through and give it all their body can push out within a few seconds, as opposed to the long energy conservation in an uninterrupted game of soccer.
Plays like these make you realize that if these guys played soccer and not football (or generally, if it was the primary sport of the country), the US would be an absolute force to be reckoned with. Imagine someone like Tyreek Hill (the last clip), 5'10, 185, 40 inch vertical, and a 9.98 (wind-assisted) 100m, and incredible coordination, and incredibly quick feet and agility, learned and played soccer growing up instead of football. The best athletes in the US play either football or basketball for the most part, and that's saving the rest of the soccer world lol.
During his MLB debut 1989 campaign, Deion Sanders launched a home run⚾ on Sept. 5 against the Mariners. Five days later, in the first game of his NFL career, he returned a punt for a touchdown🏈, becoming the first player to hit a home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week.
@@danjoroddor5538It was definitely showtime that week
Another underrated athletic stat is all of the linemens 40 yard dashes (36.5m) they finish in under 6 seconds. And they are all pushing 300lbs.
The craziest thing to think about, these guys are 200 lbs - 300 lbs (90Kg+ - 130kg+) and are running very fast sprints, crazy verticals on their jumps and insane agility. Normal guys with these sizes would usually move very blocky and slow but NFL athletes are a different breed.
One of the reasons these hurdles are so impressive is that most of these guys are well over 200 lbs. Some of them, especially the running backs, are in the 240-250 lb range (around 110-112 kilo range). These are massive guys getting massive air in these hurdles.
Jon jones’ brother is chandler jones and he use to be a linebacker on the raiders defense he freaky strong
Any player doing some acrobatic front flip across the goal line when he’s got an open field just doesn’t care about his team.
Pretty often. Every game you can find some insane athletic performance usually.
I went to school with Jerome Simpson the WR for the Bengals that did the flip into the end zone. He actually was my next door neighbor for a few years.
the guy in the last clip is tyreek hill. you can watch a video of just him, its worth it. his nickname is cheetah.
If you liked that last play you would probably enjoy some Devin Hester highlights, he was my favorite player as a kid (for good reason)
Odell Beckham Jr is a sports savant. He's great at every sport he's ever played. Julio Jones is one of the most physically gifted players in league history. He's a Hall of Fame receiver and if he played defense, he'd be a HOF safety as well.
Watch Devin Hester career highlights if you thought that kick return was on another level.
2:06 the rule is that it's the ball, not the body, that breaks the invisible plane at the goal line to score the touchdown. If that happens before any part of his body touches the ground, it is a legal touchdown, or TD.
Devin Hester kick returns for a touchdown video
The absence of Josh Norman's interception against the Saints is a great sleight.
Hello there Andre. By any chance do you get NFL games broadcast where you live in Europe?
oh yes! NFL have a decent following in Portugal /Europe.
I do remember teams in Frankfurt, London, Barcelona, etc. having teams as part of the World League of American Football back in the early 90's. Incase you didn't know the NFL will have two games soon in Berlin. One this Sunday and the other next Sunday. I couldn't you which teams playing when but anyway they'll be happening while I'm taking care of stuff that needs to get done before I can sit back and watch football for around seven hours. Oh yes, that reminds me! I need to put together my Fantasy Football teams before Saturday night (my time). Have yourself a wonderful time watching the NFL. Bye now. Peace. James✌
I'm glad you approve fellow NFL fan. Have yourself a fun Sunday.
At 4:48 was Cam Newton who played and graduated from my Alma Mater, Auburn University and the very next play is Julio Jones who played at the University of Alabama (both in my home state of Alabama). #WarEagle #RollTide
The plays where someone catches a pass, breaks some tackles and dives in for a touchdown, those guys on defense are getting paid million(s) of US dollars to make that tackle. You will probably see 1-2 of those plays a weekend out of the thousands ran. You wanna see some crazy highlights at that position, wide reciever, look up some Randy Moss highlights.
Julio jones is not jons brother BUT Jon’s brothers do/did play in the NFL. His name is chandler and Arthur
I know an annoying hipster guy who went on a huge, dumb rant online about how NFL players are all "fat and lazy and not at all athletic.". I responded to his nonsense with that first clip of Jerome Simpson's flying summersault into the end zone. That shut him up pretty quickly.
Cam Newton is a quarterback which isn't usually a very acrobatic position, so the flipping touchdown by him is that much more impressive.
This is why the NFL is so popular in the US.
While these catches are amazing there are equally impressive plays on defense.
I've tried to watch Rugby and European soccer but I just cant get into it.
These guys are BIG. To do flips and other gymnastics moves requires lots of strength, plus agility.
I feel that not having gronk's nearly behind the back catch as a 260+ pound dude was the biggest miss of this list.
You should see if there are still tickets available for the international showcase this Sunday in Frankfurt. The defending NFL champs (KC Chiefs) vs the Miami Dolphins. Should be an excellent display of the sport.
Tyreek Hill from 11:53 plays for the dolphins now, and he's going against the team he was playing for in this clip.
Barry Sanders has all the top 10 most athletic plays in NFL history, also Deion Sanders at 11 WTF?
Jon Jones brother does play in the NFL as a DE "Defensive End" he was drafted by the Patriots. He's one of the DE's in the NFL, not which team he is on now though. His name is "Chandler Jones"
He was a Raider but he got cut
Definitely better and more moves to see!!!! try watching another one…actually just try Barry Sanders top 50 if you want to see great skilled running back
If there’s a College Football version of this video, it BETTER include Jordan Westerkamp’s behind-the-back catch!
I know im biased here living in the USA, but i honesty feel like these guys might be the greatest athletes on the planet
im not sure if you have yet, but check out some Barry Sanders highlights (theyre a bit older) or some Michael Vick high lights.
Several reasons American Football never got popular elsewhere:
1. It's an expensive sport. Soccer can be played so long as you have a ball and some room. Touch/Flag (American) Football can be played this way as well, but it's a poor facsimile of the real thing. Playing the real thing without equipment is going to get kids hurt. Meaning you can only really play the real thing in league. The US has the community infrastructure for those, but getting it up and running in Europe would be a real task.
2. It's an expensive sport at the professional level as well. I imagine it's difficult to foot the bill for a team each of both versions of football. Especially when one of them hasn't caught on yet.
3. It's a TV sport. As in it's perfectly constructed to be viewed at home while home viewing happens to also support it. You can fill in all the stop and start gameplay with commercials. The TV crew can mark the 1st down lines digitally. There's just a whole lot that TV does for the sport. TV has a different flow in different countries, so American Football being so tightly entwined with American TV likely makes that a challenge as well.
Whoever compiled this highlight reel is really into flips. Video should be titled, "Most Gymnastic Plays in NFL History".
To add, the reason the sport isn't as big globally is because, quite frankly, most countries couldn't afford it. It's the reason these machine men are so athletic. They are fed and trained since they learned to run. We spend more on a single college's football program than an entire country could afford to spend on their national team. It's not being boastful. See, American's patriotism trickles down through all aspects of life. You want the team at you child's school to be a good one. If they are, it brings in alot more revenue and some of that gets used to improve the schools educational system with the lion's share used to improve the athletics department. Which brings in more money, which provides the school with better access to educational resources. And on and on lol. In short, most countries don't approve of the system and consider it wasteful, but it works well in America as a system because of its vast size and access to resources.
It's the same way we are with spending more than the world combined on our military, but access to free Healthcare is far too expensive and frivolous to waste money on. Teeth are luxury bones.
You have to remember how gigantic these men are. It’s hard to tell because they are surrounded by the rest of massive players. If you can check out a clip of one of these guys next to an average size coach or referee or cameraman. It provides a point of reference. They are gigantic.
Those moves are not common, but these men do some other crazy athletic moves in almost every NFL game.
Julio Jones is not related to Jon Jones , however their is a NFL named Chandler Jones who played for the New England Patriots and the Arizona Cardinals, he is his brother , he was a great defender on the edge
I believe that US Football is not a world-wide game is that it requires a lifetime of physical training to be able to be at the NFL level. US players start as young as 8 or 9 in Pop Warner and continue through Middle School, High School, University. Plus USF is very equipment/location intensive. Soccer requires a ball and two nets. USF requires a ball, two goalposts, line markings, and very specific equipment so the players don't get killed (as they used to in the early days: 1860s - 1910s).
The fact Reggie Bush's fleur de leap isn't in here is criminal
7:36 , with videos like this maybe one day 😁 imagine american football league in europe, kinda similar to how MLS in USA, sounds awesome
there once was a man called the Acrobat Lynn Swann , him and Ahmad Rashad ........
Jon Jones does have a brother in the NFL named Chandler Jones. A very good D end
I would say this video shows good talent but these are newer, not NFL history if we won't some great highlights look up randy moss, Barry sanders, Marshawn lynch, to name a few this sport Has been around a long time. Great video
Jon Jones Brothers are Super Bowl Champion (Ravens) Arthur Jones and Super Bowl Champ (Patriots) and two time All Pro Chandler Jones (who recently had some mental issues and is no longer in NFL after legal trouble).
Surprised beastquake wasn't in the video
Julio Jones is just a freak man. There was a stretch of 5 or so years where he was absolutely unstoppable, doing highlights every single game. Shame he's fallen off so hard
Makes me sad as a Bama fan 😢. The injuries got to him, unfortunately. We went to the same high school. I was lucky to get to witness ESPN visit our high school when he was the #1 recruit in the country
Cam is the quarterback they don’t normally do all those runs
They should have included Beast quake, Doug Baldwin’s horizontal catch against 49ers, Doug’s one handed catch against Vikings, and Jermaine Kearse’s catch near the sidelines during SB 49. Those are better than some of these on this list.
As a Niners fan, that would be wayyy too many Seahawks in one video. The DK rundown was incredible and sufficient :)
History is evidently 2 years old.
The last guy, Tyreek HIll went first in my fantasy league this year. He's a monster.
Well, Americans invented ESPN Sports Center to highlight plays like these and a lot of professional athletes derive a large portion of their income from things like endorsements and shoe sales so you get things like the unnecessary goal line flips to get on Sports Center along with the truly remarkable plays.
There are a whole lot more really great plays that just aren't flashy or don't result in a score as opposed to hours of guys running around kicking the ball to each other resulting in a 0-0 tie.
These amazing plays are pretty normal. I like soccer, but it’s hard to not get bored with soccer after watching American football.
6:31 not only is he crazy fast but he weighs 236/107
I was going to be really upset if Tyreek Hill wasn’t featured. Perfect ending!
If you want to see what happens in a normal game watch the highlights from Texas vs Alabama game. That'll make a good video and you'll see what a normal game is like
The football has to break the plane of the end zone and be inside the orange pylon and your feet cannot touch outside of the boundary. That is why he went airborne holding the ball towards the goal line and his feet are up in the air so they can't touch out of bounds by accident.
I agree. It’s more impressive when it isn’t showboating.
@ the immaculate reception
Look up Beast Quake. Beat run I have ever seen.
I saw a game on tv between the Cowboys and I forget. But the Cowboys made and awesome long run and the runner was so far ahead he started slowing down and decided to strut across the line and he held the ball behind his back as he did so and someone caught up to him and took the unprotected ball out of his hand. lol. Im sure its on you tube. It was a while back so some details may be foggy but you will know it when you see it. When you see it check the helmet to confirm.
Happened twice to the same guy vs the same team in a two year span, against my Buffalo Bills, in one of those two games the Cowboys got the last laugh as it was the Super Bowl and the Bills lost
Football is a bit strange. It's the only sport I know of where the same players don't play offense and defense.
Unless you see th3se players at a game,you cannot apptreciate how big,and strong ,and tough,and.fast,they really are.Even some of the linemen are faster than you think.Imagine over 300 pounds coming at you!❤❤❤❤
Where is Barry Sanders, Bo Jackson , Water Payton, Randy Moss???? BEASTMODE!!!! Micheal Vick? Come on man! Deon Sanders????
They better have the Jerome Simpson front flip…..as I’m typing it’s the first play lol
I'm so disappointed that Derrick Henry's 99 yard TD run was not included.