Amazing Football Trick-Shots !!

[Richard L]

This is Johnny McEntee, who will be competing for the starting quarterback job at UConn this year.



I'm sure we have all watched some of those Pro Football QB competions on TV, but I have never seen anyone as accurate as thiss guy. I don't know how many takes it took, or how many misses he had? But for most of us, it would take a lifetime of recording to sucessfully make all those shots!



Enjoy



...Rich

 

[EddieS'04]

:supercool:



Very good. I do wonder how much was edited out.

 

[Kevin Lang]

Very impressive. Now he just has to showcase his skills hitting rapidly moving objects (most all targets of his are stationary in that video), like the guys in the NFL do, an example being Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens breaking competition-legal launched clay pigeons with a football in lieu of a shotgun.



The William Tell thing was pretty cool, his friend there is pretty trusting!

 

[Richard L]

KL,

He did hit three passes to moving receivers while blindfolded, and hit a football in mid-air kicked by a guy on the other end of the field...and he hit a dinner plate thrown into the air from about 10 yards.



Even the stationary targets were not all that easy, especially the shots through the baskeball hoops while sitting in the stands.



The hardest part that he did not demonstrate is hitting a moving target while he is being chased by a fast 260 lbs lineman...:grin:



...Richard

 

[Ray McIntireJr]

There is a QB at a local private college, Monmouth College in Monmouth, IL, and he has a youtube video like this. I don't care what people say they are pretty darn good at throwing that football. I can't do the stuf they can, can anyone else?

 

[Kevin Lang]

He did hit three passes to moving receivers while blindfolded

I don't think that counts. As I saw it (no audio), he threw to where the receivers should be if they have executed the play properly.

he hit a dinner plate thrown into the air from about 10 yards.

I saw. I accounted for that in my statement. While impressive, a dinner plate leisurely thrown with the whole diameter facing the QB, with an idea trajectory, doesn't compare to the skeet shooting with a football that the NFLers do.

Even the stationary targets were not all that easy, especially the shots through the baskeball hoops while sitting in the stands.

I'm not saying they were. Though on that, while they were impressive shots, I don't see the purpose of throwing the football from a much higher elevation than the target. That doesn't seem like it would really be a skill needed on the football field, where everyone is level & there's no bird's-eye view for the QB as he throws.



Similarly, the soccer-like footwork with kicking the football up and through the goalposts doesn't seem too useful, but it was impressive and hilarious.

The hardest part that he did not demonstrate is hitting a moving target while he is being chased by a fast 260 lbs lineman..

Maybe he's also a good running QB? Maybe he won't have to worry about that, as even though he's clearly skilled, he'll get put on a team that focuses almost exclusively on running plays. (cough *Ravens* cough) :sad:

:grin:

 

[Richard L]

KL,

I don't think that counts. As I saw it (no audio), he threw to where the receivers should be if they have executed the play properly.

There are Pro-Quarterbacks that cannot accurately hit receivers when they have both eyes open. And I don't know if many could hit moving targets that accurately while blindfolded. I don't understand what you are implying because there was no audio? I assume you are implying that the receiver could have been giving him a verbal signal as to his location?



You failed to make any comments about him hitting a kicked football in mid air...and the audio was on for that one, but not sure what difference that makes since he was not blindfolded and the football was not emmitting any sonar signal..:bwahaha:



It sure sounds like more of your wanting to rag on me because I posted it. It sounds like you object to anyone who obviously has more experience or skill than you, and so you prefer to argue or cast doubt on the accomplishments of others.



Please spare us all you comments about the accuracy of this quarterback until you can post your own video of you duplicating these trickshots...with or without the audio!



...Rich

 

[Kevin Palmer]

He is talented...



Likely to see him in the future I would bet...

 

[Kevin Lang]

QB is definitely skilled, lest it be said that I ever said otherwise. Still don't see how these "trickshots" directly apply to the playing field, but it seems that my pondering of that point has been once again perverted.



With all this talk about criticism, and how it has been deemed unwarranted (and claimed to exist in this thread), I wonder if perhaps the URL of this video has been forgotten?



www.videobash.com



:bwahaha:

 

[Richard L]

Please exuse me while I ignore KL's worthless opinion.

:throwup:



...Rich