The Best Play In Football (Film Breakdown)

when you consider that when these plays aren't big plays, they are often sacks or interceptions or fumbles, it's easy to see why these plays are so monumental. goes far beyond the stat sheet. excellent vid

Great video! Super instructive.

Excellent video.

Great vid JP! Ced P from back n tha day

I’ve never seen an above view of a play like Josh makes here but it should be the case that the ball truly curves in the XY plane. If you look at the ball it still has the velocity vector of the quarterback running — the ball is traveling with Josh — plus the vector of the ball thrown if the QB were stationary. So on that first play you’re totally right because if Josh throws to where he normally would he’d miss right so I believe he actually has to throw left a bit to compensate for that drift. I could actually write out the equations for the ball flight here if I wanted to, making some basic assumptions, but I think I’ll pass today — pun intended. (You could just parameterize the X, Y, and Z values as a function of t and create a set of equations. I’m not sure how messy it would be. But the Z value wouldn’t matter much other than to the receiver and quarterback really.)

I think that a strong arm makes up for a lot of problems on these broken plays. It should be the case that usually, if a pass play goes off schedule, usually the receivers will end up further down the field than they normally would. And a QB usually has to throw on the run and/or off platform too. Josh has a ball speed running right of 62 MPH but a phenomenal speed of 59 when he runs left, where the average QB I think is 55 to the strong side. So Josh is over 12 percent higher than average if the numbers in my head are right. But when a QB has to throw under such bad conditions, if he has a strong arm, he can get the ball quicker to a spot which is probably crucial in this scenario to fit it in a tight window. Obviously Mahomes and Herbert are similar and Trevor isn’t far behind.

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Josh is the best at this?? Come one man… how soon we forget, and how easily we become bored. It’s Mahomes bro. I shouldn’t have to say this to someone who claims to know ball. When Josh does something like this they say he’s being ‘Mahomes-esque’