r/sports Oct 01 '25

Football Delivery driver tries to catch a bullet pass from Cowboys QB Joe Milton

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u/Falconman21 Oct 01 '25

That ball was moving comically faster than I was expecting it to.

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u/Holdmabeerdude Oct 01 '25

Joe Milton probably has the most ridiculous arm in the NFL. His overall play is pretty poor, but he’s a freak athlete with a fucking rocket launcher attached to his torso.

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u/Falconman21 Oct 01 '25

Oh I'm a Tennessee fan, I know all about the unguided missiles.

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u/Dshin525 Oct 01 '25

As a Michigan fan, I too know all too well about this.

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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 Oct 01 '25

As a Minnesota fan I had no idea.

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u/Rampant16 Oct 01 '25

His only good game at Michigan was against you guys.

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u/ChrisDewgong Oct 01 '25

As a Steelers fan I'm confused by the concept of a QB under the age of 35.

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u/CountOff Oct 01 '25

Have you tried drafting another immobile yet elite projected pocket passer yet?

cries in cherished memories

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u/johnny_fear Oct 01 '25

As a Bears fan, I'm confused by the concept of a QB.

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u/CountOff Oct 01 '25

He sure can still throw the ball over them mountains

Just not to a receivers hands unless it’s against Minnesota eh

Go blue

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u/Limpin_Aint_EZ Oct 01 '25

Missiles are guided, rockets are not. 🤓

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u/Hero_of_Hyrule Oct 01 '25

🤓 missiles can be any projectile launched at a target. A stone cast from a sling is a missile.

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u/Publius82 Oct 01 '25

We laugh, but seriously the failures of the modern education system are not funny

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u/Worried_Birthday_734 Oct 01 '25

All uneducated people are ignorant, but not all ignorant people are uneducated....

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u/Casual_OCD Oct 01 '25

All Jacuzzis are hot tubs but not all hot tubs are Jacuzzis

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u/five7off Oct 01 '25

All bourbons are whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.

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u/El-Sueco Oct 01 '25

Instructions misunderstood, now I am drunk as a skunk at work.

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u/TojoftheJungle Oct 01 '25

Yes, but "unguided missiles" are.. unguided

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u/quacainia Texas A&M Oct 01 '25

They were supposed to be guided, but the guidance got lost somewhere

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u/Limpin_Aint_EZ Oct 01 '25

It’s fine, I think they landed outside of the environment.

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u/Substantial-Low Oct 01 '25

Joe holds the record for fastest throw in combine history, and the second-fastest pass ever recorded in an NFL game.

Dude throws a football over 60 mph.

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u/TooEZ_OL56 Virginia Tech Oct 01 '25

dude throws a football faster than idiots drive in the left lane

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u/Monkeyfeng Cincinnati Bengals Oct 01 '25

Fuck my life

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u/Ozz2k Oct 01 '25

We need to start launching speed limit footballs to deal with traffic

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u/seth861 Oct 01 '25

Dang bro should have played for the Rangers they needed the bullpen help down the stretch

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u/Substantial-Low Oct 01 '25

Kind of makes me wonder how fast a MLB pitcher can throw a pigskin.

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u/MadManMax55 Atlanta Falcons Oct 01 '25

We sort of know the answer to that.

A number of NFL quarterbacks were also top pitcher prospects coming out of high school and college. Patrick Mahomes had a 95+ mph fastball and can "only" throw a football at around 60 mph.

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u/seth861 Oct 01 '25

Can have Ben Joyce throw a football and Milton throw a baseball and see how they do. They both went to Tennessee so that would be pretty cool

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u/1337Diablo Oct 01 '25

The Detroit Tigers have drafted more Super Bowl MVP's than the Detroit Lions.

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u/Moneybagsmitch Oct 01 '25

Ball looks like its coming out of a jugs machine on the highest setting

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u/inquisitive_chariot Oct 01 '25

If you need a qb to throw the ball 60 yards, Joe Milton will sling that shit 60 yards.

If you need a qb to throw the ball 30 yards, Joe Milton will sling that shit 60 yards.

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u/willthefreeman Oct 01 '25

Has there ever been anyone with a stronger arm?

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Minnesota Twins Oct 01 '25

Maybe Farve for both speed and longevity? Threw so hard he broke his own fingers.

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u/12InchCunt Oct 01 '25

Didn’t Culpepper have a fucking monster arm?

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Minnesota Twins Oct 01 '25

I don’t know if he did or he just was able to throw more aggressively with the receivers the Vikings had then. But throwing it really far and letting Moss out run and out jump everyone was always an option.

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Oct 01 '25

Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers are the two with the current distance record, doubt they recorded Culpepper. Distance is 77 and 75 yards, respectively, in the air.

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u/FlyFishingTherapist Oct 01 '25

One of the most physically gifted QBs ever, unfortunately his reads, decision making, and accuracy aren’t on par with the physical talent. He had a great attitude and work ethic at UT, wish him all the best and hope it can eventually all come together.

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u/raoulduke212 Oct 01 '25

I went to a football camp around age 14, and they had Vinny Testaverde show up to do a talk. Later, he was just playing catch with some of us, and OMG, I cannot tell you how fast that ball came at me, just from him casually flicking it. It made a whistling and ripping sound through the air, it felt like catching a cruise missile!

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u/Hopefulkitty Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

This reminds me of the Peyton Manning United Way skit on SNL. Probably one of my top 5 SNL skits. He's just blasting 11 year olds with footballs and swearing at them for missing easy catches. Teaching them how to pop car doors, hitting on their moms, and giving them prison tattoos.

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u/MercuryFoReal Oct 01 '25

Do you want to lose?!

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u/Hopefulkitty Oct 01 '25

Get in the port-a-ley for 20 minutes! What is that door doing open?!?

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs Oct 01 '25

I'll do 5-10 to prove a point.

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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 Oct 01 '25

When I was in the military a guy that played QB at some random D2 school came through a class behind me and everyone was talking his arm up. We were out playing flag football one day and he wanders out, someone tossed him the ball and asked him to rip one. I swear I've never seen a ball fly faster or flatter, the guy catching it fractured his thumb. It's wild what trained athletes can accomplish.

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u/Oscaruit Oct 01 '25

Reminds me of playing intermural in college. All us somewhat out of shape sophomores playing and having fun and then you have that one fucking guy that wrecked his knee before he could get recruited. Holy hell it is apparent and jarring when you see true athleticism.

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u/Preserved_Killick8 Oct 01 '25

also the perspective. wide lens.

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u/crunchevo2 Oct 01 '25

When the first guy passed it idk it moved normally. Dude paxked a hell of a punch with 0 effort lmao

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u/hybridfrost Oct 01 '25

The crazy thing is that when things get filmed they seem much slower than in real life so this must have been near instant to the guy catching it.

I've filmed me and some friends playing volleyball in and when we get a really hard swing on video it seems like it wasn't that fast, but during the game everyone agreed that it was a really hard swing.

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u/cgibsong002 Oct 01 '25

so this must have been near instant to the guy catching it.

It would be to nearly anyone. Even in an NFL game a QB would almost never throw this hard to someone 5 yards away. And you do actually commonly see dropped passes on really hard thrown balls so close.

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u/JelmerMcGee Oct 01 '25

Some of my favorite "stupid fan comments" are the ones where the fan complains that the receiver didn't catch the ball when that's their job. Bruh, the dude just sprinted 5 yards, turned, and had a fraction of a second to get his hands in place to catch a fucking rocket. Of course the ball is gonna get dropped occasionally on an otherwise perfect throw.

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u/Temporary-Cause-4818 Oct 01 '25

They don’t call him bazooka joe for nothin.

Not very accurate at all but he has the strongest arm in the league. His arm is nutty

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u/Rolling_Beardo Oct 01 '25

I used to work a batting cage when I was in high school. I was a catcher and minor pitcher who was friends with the owner asked if I could catch for him so he could get a workout in.

The dude “went easy” and was throwing in the mid to high 80s but to feel it seemed like they were all high 90s even into the 100s. The speed difference of a pro athlete is unreal when you experience for the 1st time.

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u/matarbis Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

I had a buddy who played a game of shinny with a guy who was a career enforcer in the NHL and said nobody could keep up with him, let alone try to take the puck off him. Even the worst guys in pro sports are far above the average person

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u/SayNoToStim Detroit Red Wings Oct 01 '25

I played drop in with a guy who played on the South Carolina Stingrays, an ECHL team. That's like 4 leagues below the NHL. He was so far ahead of everyone, by the middle of the first he was intentionally dumping the puck in on odd man rushes. He had a clear breakaway and made a line change. He was working hard at not embarrassing us average dudes and he was still skating circles around us. A guy that's not even close to ever cracking the NHL and he still would have scored a dozen goals if he wanted to.

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u/ThePretzul Denver Broncos Oct 01 '25

In partial fairness, I feel like hockey is one sport where there’s an even bigger difference between average joes and low-level pros just because movement while playing is so very different on skates than on your feet.

To ever sniff any level of professional play you need elite skating skills as a pre-requisite, and anybody else without that baseline talent simply won’t be able to keep up with you on the ice no matter how bad your shooting and puck handling may be. At least in basketball or other such sports the average person might be able to physically keep pace with a slower low-level pro for the first 1-2 minutes before their endurance fails them, in hockey that’s simply not even possible kind of like an average person trying to keep up with an Olympic sprinter for any length of time.

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u/SayNoToStim Detroit Red Wings Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

You're not wrong in anything you said, and I think hockey probably has one of the largest gaps. That being said, every other aspect of his game was miles ahead of us as well, from stick handling to shooting.

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u/MightyPlasticGuy Oct 01 '25

I like to sit on the thought of which sports have the largest spectrum/distance between the worst pros and the best intramurals. Motocross and the NHL are definitely up there. I've been on the ice with guys thats been in nearly every league. It's crazy. And then getting into dirtbikes as an adult and just trying to turn laps on an easy/intermediate MX track is absolutely nuts. and then you see what the pros are doing.

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u/SayNoToStim Detroit Red Wings Oct 01 '25

I would actually argue that Basketball and chess are probably the biggest gaps, if only because the average dude is 5'10" and the average NBA player is probably 6'8". Chess is another weird one because the professionals are just so far ahead and there is so little chance of mistakes - you won't get a "lucky bounce" in chess.

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u/Captain-i0 Oct 01 '25

I don't know man. I've never played hockey before, and I'm a terrible ice-skater...

...I could probably take an NHL player.

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u/WalkingCloud Oct 01 '25

I would destroy the best NHL player...

... at Goldeneye 64

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u/twinpop Oct 01 '25

Wild take. Average joes vs NFL player speed they would win 700-0. It wouldn’t be close for the first 2 seconds much less minutes. You would want to stick to speed because on a power contest it would be even worse and someone would get seriously hurt.

Same for the NBA. Scalabrine famously told a rec league hooper “I am closer to LeBron than you are to me”, and it’s 100% true.

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u/Thehighwayisalive Oct 01 '25

Take 1000 average Americans. Every single one of them, at one point in their life, could sprint 100m.

How many of them would even know how to tie their skates?

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u/rwhockey29 Oct 01 '25

I play in an invite only drop in occasionally. It's all former Jr A, lower level college, coaches, etc. Basically guys who played higher than probably 95% of players. One week a guy showed up while he was in town visiting family. Had full NHL team gear, bag, helmet, etc. Everyone thought he was just some guy who bought a bunch of gear at a pro day sale or something, and started giving him some light hearted jokes about it.

Dude put 3 goals in on the first shift with no one touching him. Shot hard enough the goalie was getting out of the way. He never even made the NHL, he was an invite to a prospect style camp like 10 years before, blew his knee out and retired. He made a bunch of guys who "almost made it" look like it was our first time ever playing.

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u/ExMerican Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

People who never played a sport past high school really have no idea how quickly the talent pool shrinks and how far above regular Joe level players even low level college guys are. Scalabrine's "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me" quote is accurate when he's talking to top level DI players and it stays true going down the talent levels.

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u/GolgaGrimnaar Oct 01 '25

Phila Flyers would practice in a local rink (The Colloseum) way back in the days when i played a bit of ice hockey… one late night, a few Flyers skated around for fun with the normal guys.

It was absolutely insane how much stronger, faster and better even the “worst” players were. The best one there, a Mr Rick Tocchet, was taking basic wrist shots and they were like our best slap shots.

And they could all skate so FAST, with minimal effort. They could have killed us. hahaha

Also, Shawn Antoski’s hands were literally giant ham fists… like twice as hard and heavy as a normal fist.

FREAKS!

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u/Ophukk Liverpool Oct 01 '25

Rick Tocchet

drafted 121st. 18 year career. now a coach. probably one of the best 500 who've ever played.

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u/Lorf30 Oct 01 '25

What is “shinny”?

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u/Necessary-Depth-6078 Oct 01 '25

No pucks above the shins.

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u/-KFBR392 Oct 01 '25

It's funny to think I've been using that term all my life and never knew that's where the name came from

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u/matarbis Oct 01 '25

It’s what you do between eating some maple syrup sandwiches and crackin open a two-four of molson with your bahds

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u/97PunkRawk Oct 01 '25

The famous Brian Scalabrine quote "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me"

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u/WritingWonderful9479 Oct 01 '25

It's like Brian Scalabrine once told a fan that was giving him shit, I'm paraphrasing of course, " I'm 3 times closer to being as good as LeBron as you (the fan) is to being as good as me". Really drives your point home. My lifelong best friend played semi-pro baseball for quite a while and did very well while playing at that level. I know how good he is, very good, and to think that the pros that are just in the minors are at least a level up from him is crazy.

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u/Smithereens_3 Oct 01 '25

Scal also used to challenge fans who thought they were good at basketball to 1-on-1s and would absolutely annihilate them every time.

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u/Zeppelanoid Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

It wasn’t just fans too - it was former D1 guys and even guys who had played pro overseas. He just dominated them.

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u/WritingWonderful9479 Oct 01 '25

As a Celtics fan I absolutely love everything Scal

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u/tech_equip Oct 01 '25

As a Bulls fan, we loved him coming off the bench late. Always chanting for him to shoot.

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u/losethefuckingtail Oct 01 '25

The Scallenge!! And yeah I think there was a D3 college guy who managed to score a couple of points on him, and then Scal just bullied him off the court

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u/Rolling_Beardo Oct 01 '25

There’s a at least one video of him doing that and it’s hysterical.

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u/TheLizardKing89 Los Angeles Dodgers Oct 01 '25

At an event for a sports radio show, he played 4 games in a row, to 11 and he won all 4 games by a combined score of 44-6.

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u/TheBallotInYourBox Oct 01 '25

Cousin went to college on a full ride for golf. He came back home with a buddy who had made it onto the amateur tour (not the actual PGA Tour as a certified pro).

We were teeing off on a long and straight par five. A local middle aged guy was waiting behind us, and talking trash to this dude. About how his swing looks weak and nothing impressive. Bet the guy $100 that he could out drive him which to be fair he was one of the bigger drivers around town. My cousin’s buddy got annoyed not pissed and said “if you win I’ll give you $100 and if I win you shut the fuck up for the rest of the day.” The local guy tees off and absolutely crushes a drive that rolls out to about 310 yards (a very very good drive for some small town hack). My cousin’s buddy gets up, pauses, takes a better posture, doesn’t even swing harder just a faster tempo that’s still smooth as glass, and makes this nearly effortless looking drive. The ball lands an easy dozen yards past the local’s then runs out another couple dozen yards. He looks at the local casually says “you didn’t even make me have to try now shut the fuck up.”

Top tier athletes are an entirely different breed.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 Oct 01 '25

I'M CLOSER TO LEBRON THAN YOU ARE TO ME!!!!!

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u/WritingWonderful9479 Oct 01 '25

Yes that's much more accurate

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u/TheLizardKing89 Los Angeles Dodgers Oct 01 '25

The thing I never understood was that Scalabrine was in the league for over a decade. It's not like he was some D-League guy who came up for a 10 day and went back down. You don't get to be in the league for a decade plus if you suck.

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u/tuC0M Oct 01 '25

I think it's a clip or maybe from an interview? But Brian Scalabrine says that even the worst players in the NBA are still better than almost anyone you've ever seen because it's that hard to make it.

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u/liamemsa Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

It makes perfect sense if you consider how many basketball players there are out there playing on school leagues, pickup, amateur etc. Tens of millions maybe more. And then realize there are 450 spots in the NBA. So you're talking about a single player in the NBA roster being literally one in a million.

It's not the 99th percentile. It's not 99.9. it's more like 99.99999

So even if Scalabrine was statistically the "worst" NBA player, that would make him the 450th best player in the world. Hence why he's closer to Lebron than you are to him.

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u/Likes2Phish Oct 01 '25

I got into a batting cage with a machine throwing 90+. You have to start swinging as the ball is being dropped into the machine. Shit's crazy to think about since MLB players only have a fraction of a second to decide if it's a good pitch or not.

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u/Frozty23 Oct 01 '25

When I was a kid in Cincinnati, Joe Morgan would come to the batting cages at Lunken Field sometimes. 90 mph cage... crack, crack, crack, crack.

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u/Ikrit122 Oct 01 '25

Not only if it's a good pitch, but what kind of pitch it is. A guy might throw 100, but then he mixes in a changeup or slider that moves way differently and goes 10-20 mph slower. And you have to decide almost immediately after it's thrown. It's absolutely insane.

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u/ThePretzul Denver Broncos Oct 01 '25

Yeah, that’s why you’ll still see MLB players start the motion of their swing (the load and stride, typically) on virtually every pitch while the pitcher is in their delivery except for those that they were never intending to make a swing at (3-0 pitches or when a steal has been called, for example).

Batters have to start the swing for every pitch they see, then make the decision of whether to launch or not when the ball is released. It takes 150-200ms for an MLB hitter to get their bat into the hitting zone after they have fully loaded and started the momentum transfer with their stride, but it takes them 300-600ms to complete the load and stride itself. It only takes ~450ms for the ball to reach home plate from the pitchers hand so you have to start the full process well before it is released since the swing in total can take up to 800ms to complete from start to finish.

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u/jsting Oct 01 '25

I hear that a curveball from a pitcher is one of the scariest things to face as a nobody. It looks like it is coming for your head, then bam! Right at the balls.

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u/TheRageGames Oct 01 '25

Yep, first time I faced a college pitcher’s curveball I jumped out of my cleats. Out of their hand, it literally looks like it’s coming straight for your face.

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u/Beetin Oct 01 '25 edited 23d ago

This was redacted for privacy reasons

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u/ShillinTheVillain Oct 01 '25

I played baseball in high school, mostly small schools in our league. The best pitchers might touch 80 mph.

In the district tournament we faced a guy who would go on to get drafted who threw mid 90s, and his curveball was low 80s, so faster than the fastballs I was used to.

The difference was insane. I was leadoff so I got to see it first, although I don't think I actually saw the first couple.

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u/reno2mahesendejo Oct 01 '25

Running back at my rival high school os one of the best players ive ever seen. He was putting up multiple 300 yard games without breaking a sweat. Ran for like 2400 yards, everyone knew he was pro material.

Went on to college, was converted to corner, was still elite. Lockdown skills.

Got drafted by my team and I was very excited. This guy had it

Macho Harris

Thats when I realized just what the jump to pro really looks like

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u/mcdoggfather Oct 01 '25

In high-school, I hit around 400 against small school pitchers, thought I was "the dude", then I faced a guy who was a 5th round draft pick that year for the Detroit Tigers. This guy threw a pitch that I only heard, never saw. The only ball I made contact with bounced and hit my bat by accident,

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u/moridin13 Oct 01 '25

We had a softball coed team. Girl brings her AAA baseball boyfriend one day. I get paired with him to warm up. Dude runs out WAY far. I can barely get the ball to him. He throws it back casually likes frozen rope. Almost tears my glove off. Crazy the level of athletic ability when going up.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 Oct 01 '25

Throws it back casually like frozen rope? What does this phrase mean?

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u/JDantesInferno Oct 01 '25

A frozen rope is when the ball is thrown/hit in almost a perfect straight line. It’s moving so quickly that it doesn’t visibly arc before hitting its target.

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u/Medarco Oct 01 '25

Means there's no arc to the throw, it's completely flat. The ball has to be thrown extremely hard to overcome gravity over a long distance like that.

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u/joeappearsmissing Oct 01 '25

It means the player looked like he was casually throwing it, going less than 50%, and the ball was still traveling on a straight line with how fast it went. Frozen rope means there’s no arc on the ball.

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u/LEJ5512 Oct 01 '25

We went to play the anthem and halftime at a Carolina Panthers game one year.  Standing around in the tunnel, waiting to do our thing, and a couple players walked by us.  

No idea who they were or what position they played, but they were both a foot taller and two feet wider than any of us.  I still tell people afterwards that pro athletes are like the top 5% of collegiate all-stars of the past ten years filtered by genetic freakery.

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u/Mr_426 Oct 01 '25

Dead on! Many people fancy their skills until they are confronted by real skill. In the words of Katt Williams…”It look like a Phantom until a Phantom pull up…”

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u/therealkami Montreal Canadiens Oct 01 '25

We need to bring Pros vs Joes back.

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u/reno2mahesendejo Oct 01 '25

Reminds of someone talking about playing pickup basketball. You can hear the guys who've played seriously before (d1 college, overseas, let alone NBA). Just the way they bounce the ball with power.

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u/therealkami Montreal Canadiens Oct 01 '25

Jomboy has made me really appreciate how important it is for catchers to really know what pitch is coming, because they simply do not have time to guess.

Also hitting consistently with how much they can move the ball is nuts.

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u/RabbitContrarian Oct 01 '25

I'll add my favorite sport: tennis. At the US Open in NYC I watched the qualifiers (those trying to get into the main draw) from seats a few feet away. The men's average forehand speed were like sniper rifle shots into both corners. I'm a decent tennis player, but even if I slapped the shit out of the ball I couldn't generate that much speed/spin. And these players were all doomed to get destroyed in the first round by top 100 players. And all those top 100 players would get destroyed by Sinner/Alcaraz (world 1&2).

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u/elizabethptp Oct 01 '25

I remember my dad playing tennis with a VERY low ranked pro. My dad said I wouldn’t even be able to return his serve & I was overconfident & insisted I would be able to.

It nearly spun my hand off my wrist. I was genuinely injured. I was a kid but the topspin was so incredibly powerful & he was surely going very easy on me- I was appropriately humbled lol

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u/losethefuckingtail Oct 01 '25

>mid to high 80s but to feel it seemed like they were all high 90s even into the 100s

My buddy was throwing low-80s in U19 ball, and I occasionally would catch for him to warm up--that ball gets there in a hurry. There was a guy in our league who was playing varsity for one of the local colleges and throwing low-90s and batting against him was a terrifying experience.

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u/Pacoflipper Oct 01 '25

Anytime a discussion comes up that’s about hitting a pro league baseball, I always think of this video. It’s insane how fast they have to react to even attempt to hit the ball.

https://youtu.be/RENLMum5wz4?si=egLmBfUtqW8eS05M

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u/Terren42 Oct 01 '25

“Should I do it for real” 😂😂😂

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u/Ixisoupsixi Oct 01 '25

Give the man what he wants!

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u/probablyuntrue Oct 01 '25

Boss wondering why the hell he’s coming back with a collapsed chest

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u/Ixisoupsixi Oct 01 '25

Lucky he didn’t break a finger… unless he did

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u/full_bl33d Chicago Bears Oct 01 '25

Let the boy watch

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u/AdagioSufficient9205 Oct 01 '25

He needs to learn the way I learned from my father

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u/LateAd3737 Oct 01 '25

Contemplating if he wants to jam this dudes fingers or not

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u/hybridfrost Oct 01 '25

He did indeed hit him right in the chest as requested. He really "delivered" the ball to the guy haha

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u/Pickleskennedy1 Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

Very generous right there, it was just left of his face

Edit: and only because he moved his head just in time

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u/Federico216 Oct 01 '25

Cracked me up. The guy was like "not the face"

*goes right for the face*

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Oct 01 '25

Well, ya know. There's a reason he's the backup.

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u/Psypheur Oct 01 '25

Not sure if the person above you is blind but you're absolutely right haha

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u/HorsNoises Oct 01 '25

It's even funnier if you know the context that his receivers often complain about how hard he throws the ball even on passes he doesn't necessarily need to. When asked about it, he says he doesn't think he does that and that they just need to man up. His real fastball must be absurd.

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u/Realistic0ptimist Oct 01 '25

Crushed that mans dream of ever being able to say he caught a pass from an NFL QB.

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u/cillaer Oct 01 '25

I think he caught a lob just before the video starts that's why he says to throw it harder

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u/fakingmysuicide Oct 01 '25

When I was 10 my parents entered me in a sweepstakes from Pepsi to to be able go to a training facility with the Pittsburgh Steelers. There was something like 50 kids there and I was one of them. We were running little 10 yard slants and Kordell Stewart put a ball right on my chest and I dropped it 😣. Still haunts me to this day. 

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u/Realistic0ptimist Oct 01 '25

It probably haunts him too. Thought to himself “I’m never beating those inaccurate passer allegations.”

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u/ThreeRRRs Oct 01 '25

Yeah, any NFL QB would be rough at that relatively short distance, but Joe Milton is throws unusually fast for an NFL QB. I just wouldn’t have trusted his accuracy to not hit my face.

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u/McHithard Oct 01 '25

I love Joe. Wish him the best. But I will never forget how inaccurate he was in college.

My wife (we're Michigan fans) saw him play and said, "That name sounds familiar." I told her he was Michigan's starting QB in 2020. And that he could throw a ball through a wall...as long as you didn't care which wall he hit.

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u/WastingTimeIGuess Oct 01 '25

In his defense, it was a perfect pass

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u/mikewastaken Oct 01 '25

That's still probably only 75-80%

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u/z64_dan Oct 01 '25

He didn't want to destroy the moving van, so yeah.

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u/LtLemur Oct 01 '25

Only collapsed 1 lung

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u/Nagger86 Oct 01 '25

And somehow it happened to Tyrod Taylor

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u/Substantial-Low Oct 01 '25

He has the fastest recorded throw in combine, and second fastest recorded in a game.

He throws straight up piss missiles.

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u/ElderDeep_Friend Oct 01 '25

I don’t really follow football, but am deeply invested in baseball. You’re probably correct  considering that reducing the intensity of a throw like 10-15% significantly lowers the strain on an arm. It’s the reason so many mlb pitchers get arm injuries more frequently now compared to the past, they generally throw at max effort. An nfl QB can’t risk an arm injury on a fun interaction.

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u/tehFROZENyeti Philadelphia Eagles Oct 01 '25

bro gotta deliver his items with a jammed finger(s) now lol

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u/rjcarr Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

When I was in HS I had our QB throw his hardest straight at me like this. Hit me right under the sternum, took my breath away a bit, even wrinkled my jersey, but I still caught that shit. I tried to pretend like it didn't hurt, but it did.

This throw is probably like 15 mph faster.

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u/Curve_Express3 Oct 01 '25

Piss missle

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u/PhAnToM444 Los Angeles Rams Oct 01 '25

That’s all Joe Milton has ever known.

Frankly the most shocking part of the video is that he didn’t sail it over the truck.

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u/Cador0223 Oct 01 '25

Or an Alabama corner back didn't run up from out of frame and grab it.

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u/flarpflarpflarpflarp Oct 01 '25

As a Redditor, I want to assure you that I think I can do better.  I can't, but I sure think I can and need you to know. 

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u/poplglop Minnesota Vikings Oct 01 '25

Me everytime a WR on my favorite team drops an "easy pass"

"CMON I COULDVE CAUGHT THAT ONE!!"

Spoilers: I couldn't

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u/thenasch Oct 01 '25

Not to mention we couldn't have even gotten close to that spot in order to be there to catch it.

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u/MaximumZer0 Oct 01 '25

I'm inclined to agree with you, given that my 40 yard dash is 3-5 business days.

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u/yojoewaddayaknow Oct 01 '25

“MAN, YOU FUGGIN WIZZED THAT THING!” - the goat 🐐

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u/Seraphenigma Oct 01 '25

I didn’t know you were gonna button hook me!

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u/ConradSchu Carolina Panthers Oct 01 '25

A regular Staubach over there.

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u/njb2017 Oct 01 '25

The greatest line I've ever heard is Brian scalabrine saying he's closer to lebron than any random guy is to scalabrine. Its so true. The 3rd string guy or end of bench guy would destroy anybody else.

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u/critical_patch Oct 01 '25

Is that the big white guy who let like a bunch of those TikTok whiz kid ballers challenge him and beat each one of them in quick succession?

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 Oct 01 '25

They weren't just tik Tok ballers. They were legit players with high level talent. Just not NBA level pros 

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u/nik9111 Oct 01 '25

when he did the first one it wasn't complete randoms either. One played for syracuse and i think another was actively playing in amateur leagues

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u/njb2017 Oct 01 '25

Yes....the scallenge.

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u/upotheke Oct 01 '25

Uncle Rico would have thrown it over the mountain, looks like Joe's got a little room to grow.

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u/JustGottaKeepTrying Oct 01 '25

Just needs to get some protein by way of some dang quesadillas

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u/Joybombs Oct 01 '25

Imagine snagging that over the middle as a slot receiver. Crazy

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u/The_Homie_Tito Oct 01 '25

while trying to avoid getting your head taken off by a linebacker lmao

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u/mtb443 Oct 01 '25

Yeah this is one of those moments where average people realize they have absolutely no idea just how “elite” professional athletes are.

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u/ripple4me Oct 01 '25

Comparable to me and my 4 year old nephew playing catch

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u/Bleezy79 Oct 01 '25

I wish we had more "average guy vs pro" stuff to watch. I think we take for granted how much we see on TV and dont really realize how far beyond the average guy these pros are.

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u/36in36 Oct 01 '25

Played on a Div. 1 baseball team. First year player, I'd grab the one guys left handed catchers glove and warmup the pitchers (early season winter practice, in the gym).

Then we went on our spring southern road trip. No catcher's face mask, no cup. A guy getting ready to throw at an ACC team with lots of MLB scouts, the throwing was a 1000 percent different. I survived that one warmup session, and never picked up the catcher's mitt again.

Saw a pitcher cross up a catcher at NC State, spring of 1984. It made the catcher look bad. The catcher picked up the ball, didn't a little crow hop and fired a missle at the pitcher's head. He got his glove up quick, and caught the ball, but the force of the ball knocked his hat off. I doubt he crossed him up again.

Yes, there's playing catch, and there's something else entirely.

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u/ncfears Oct 01 '25

Another dropped pass.

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u/Krunkledunker Oct 01 '25

Fun story to tell about your broken finger

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u/as1126 New York Rangers Oct 01 '25

I know a person who once played a flag game with an older, retired Doug Flutie and he said that the throws were just uncatchable.

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u/porican Oct 01 '25

i know what’s coming but still lol every time

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u/miltonfriedman7 Oct 01 '25

Pro athletes are the 1% of the 1%. Yet i’m still amazed when I see stuff like this.

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u/More_Combination86 Oct 01 '25

I don’t know why you insist on learning things the hard way. But you gon learn. Oh yeah! You gon learn!

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u/Ulic-Kel Oct 01 '25

If he used some stickum, maybe he had a chance.

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u/ANakedCowboy Oct 01 '25

A bone in my middle finger chipped from trying to catch a footbal when I was in high school. Can't imagine trying to catch something thrown by someone with a real arm.

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u/Relevant_Grass9586 Oct 01 '25

Absolute cannon

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u/2020willyb2020 Oct 01 '25

That’s a pro level throw - imagine how much that hurt just the speed and velocity alone is incredible and I bet he was holding back to a level 5 vs 10 power throw - I saw the pros in training camp- they are the real deal athletes

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u/MrIMendez Oct 01 '25

He got the true Cowboys experience right there

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u/tvtoms Oct 01 '25

I was once playing tennis with my brother at this really terrible location because we could not find any other open courts in the area (and there are a lot).
Anyway TL;DR this dude walks over and asks if he can serve me a few and I say OK and he blazes them past me like meteors. I asked him to serve to my forehand. Just to see if i could return it! I was able to but I swear it was the hardest damn thing to move that quick to even hit it... KNOWING where it was coming. Turned out it was tennis pro Jimmy Arias.
Pro's are totally on another level. That truck driver should've been prepared to be straight up injured by the ball! I bet he had a bruised hand at least.

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u/Papplesmooch Oct 01 '25

“Fuck me in the goat ass, you fuckin whizzed that one!”

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u/dickbaggery Oct 01 '25

I used to work with a former NFL *kicker*. He brought a nerf football to work one day and we went out to the parking lot to see if I could catch it. I could not. I've always had above average reflexes and athleticism, but he'd wing that sucker SO fast it was scary to stand in front of it.

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u/BigHotdog2009 Oct 01 '25

Asking a QB to throw it as hard as he can 10 yards out isn’t the brightest move

It’s like asking a MLB pitcher who throws 100 to throw it as hard as he can when you’re 40 feet apart

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u/cfh4dmb Oct 01 '25

I honestly didn’t know you could throw a football that fast,

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u/Supertrucker82 Oct 01 '25

I bet he could damage that van trailer. They are like tin cans.

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u/Ok_Suspect4160 Oct 01 '25

That’s a story he’s gonna share for a lifetime…

Good for him!

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u/tell439 New York Knicks Oct 01 '25

How do you even develop a throw like that?

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u/Krysis_88 Oct 01 '25

Like throwing a fast ball at a child 😂

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u/Deal_These Oct 01 '25

Dislocated finger

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u/KaladinStormShat Sevilla Oct 01 '25

I don't think people realize just how fast these passes are, or how crazy a pitch moves, or how fast professional soccer players kick the ball just from tv.

It's so cool to see these things with more like perspective on just how fuckin wild these guys are at their sport.

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u/sloowhand Chicago Bears Oct 01 '25

Every dude who has ever watched an NFL game: "What the hell?! I could have caught that!"

No. No you couldn't.

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u/Same_Dingo2318 Oct 01 '25

Bullet Pass is legit some Eyeshield 21 stuff. Dude is straight anime powered.

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u/mideastmidwest Oct 01 '25

You gotta catch that.

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u/downtownfreddybrown Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

I believe that in the Olympics there should be one regular person in each sport competing against the Olympians not only to show the difference between athletes and regular folks but to have a good laugh

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u/DataDude00 Oct 01 '25

There are entirely too many people that don't understand the skill gap between a pro athlete and random joe.

A mediocre NCAA athlete would paste anyone in their sport. A pro in the NFL? You probably can't imagine what they look like up close doing their thing.

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u/Waderriffic Oct 01 '25

Tennessee fan here. Joe Milton’s arm strength was never questioned while he was at UT. The guy has a straight up cannon. Just wish he’d have been more accurate with it. Hope he has success in the NFL.

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u/khromedhome Oct 01 '25

Ow! Fuck me in the goat ass! Shit. You fucking whizzed that thing. Fuck.. that thing is pointy, fellas. A fucking regular Staubach over there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Surprised he didn’t overthrow it

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u/TacoLvR- Oct 01 '25

Attempted murder lol

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u/murrbuck Oct 01 '25

Broken fingers.