Campbell's Passing Trick

[SkinsFreak]

Anyone else see this?

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/07/ ... ng-tricks/

[trey53]

I'd like to see that in a game!

[Gibbs' Hog]

Hadn't seen it - looks real enough. I doubt I could do it, but that's pretty nifty.

Now if only the NFL allowed the use of two balls during game time...

[gibbsfan]

hey jason i,m open from chocowinity throw it this way.....

yeah do that against dallas and they will never know what hit them,lol..

[Chris Luva Luva]

I'm sorry but if thats where he splits too balls in the air, it's fake.

[Fios]

I'm sorry but if thats where he splits too balls in the air, it's fake.

How do you know?

[Chris Luva Luva]

I'm sorry but if thats where he splits too balls in the air, it's fake.

How do you know?

My opinion tells me so. It's just a collection of shorts from various players advertising fantasy football or sumthin. I saw them on you tube. They got Braylon Edwards on there blind folded doing some matrix style catches using zen to track the balls.

Plus if it was real, they'd show the balls splitting in mid air.

[SkinsFreak]

I'm sorry but if thats where he splits too balls in the air, it's fake.

How do you know?

My opinion tells me so. It's just a collection of shorts from various players advertising fantasy football or sumthin. I saw them on you tube. They got Braylon Edwards on there blind folded doing some matrix style catches using zen to track the balls.

Plus if it was real, they'd show the balls splitting in mid air.

You can see the balls 'hit' in mid-air.

I take it you are at work and can't see the video, although you said you saw it on youtube.

He throws one ball on a high trajectory. He then throws another ball on a lower trajectory and hits the first ball. Both balls then fall to two receivers. You can clearly see both balls hit in mid-air and fall to the receivers.

It may be fake, I don't know, but it looks very real. I think Campbell could do that given several takes. If this is in fact trick photography, then they did a pretty good job at it.

[Chris Luva Luva]

[If this is in fact trick photography, then they did a pretty good job at it.

Dude, if that blew your mind... Don't go see Transformers.


Yeah I saw it at home, maybe I didn't have the screen maxed out.

Once you see the rest of players participating in this, you'll see that it's most likely fake.

[Irn-Bru]

I'd wager that it's fake, but it's too hard to tell nowadays with what they're able to to graphically.

[Gibbs' Hog]

It may be fake, I don't know, but it looks very real. I think Campbell could do that given several takes.

That's what I was thinking. It can't be that hard for a professional quarterback to toss one ball up, then throw another ball at the first one. Obviously, you'd have no idea how the two balls would react in mid-air, but after several attempts I could see them bouncing off each other in such a way that two receivers standing in the vicinity would be able to catch them.

Of course, it's kind of hard to see the balls actually 'hit' (I think it was slightly off-screen - suggesting trickery), but I still think it could be done - trick photography or not.

[Fios]

I think the Braylon Edwards video is not all that stunning, an NFL receiver relies so often on timing and placement anyway, it's not hard to believe he could do that after several reps.

[Chris Luva Luva]

I think the Braylon Edwards video is not all that stunning, an NFL receiver relies so often on timing and placement anyway, it's not hard to believe he could do that after several reps.

You can't be serious. Even the part where he's bent over backwards and catches the ball?

I forgot which video it was, I think it was Braylons but it seemed a bit choppy at points almost indicating that the video had been edited at some point.

[BnGhog]

Its Real Dangit!!!

Just believe it, this is Jason Campbell "The Worlds Greatest".

It is definitely possible though. If a QB can hit a moving target why would that be impossible. Sure the Ball is much smaller target. But thats why Im sure it took many trys.

Does anyone have the means to try this? See if you can do it at about 15 feet from your recievers. Id try it, but I don't have two footballs. Ill see if I can get one.

[Fios]

I think the Braylon Edwards video is not all that stunning, an NFL receiver relies so often on timing and placement anyway, it's not hard to believe he could do that after several reps.

You can't be serious. Even the part where he's bent over backwards and catches the ball?

I forgot which video it was, I think it was Braylons but it seemed a bit choppy at points almost indicating that the video had been edited at some point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrk9I1jhJ9U

I'm quite serious, that's a question of timing and placement

[Mursilis]

That Edwards video came out before last season, and was part of a series posted on NFL.com promoting fantasy football. It also included Chris Simms dropping passes in some trash barrels from 50+ yards away (including one on the back of a golf cart in motion), and Neil Rackers bouncing kicks off the goal posts from 40+ yards out. Just thinking about it, they all have to be fake and/or edited footage following a huge number of takes. Does anyone really think even the best kicker has good enough aim to hit a goal post (probably less than six inches across) on anything close to a consistent basis? And regarding QBs dropping balls in trash cans from many yards out, I remember reading a story about something similar at Green Bay's training camp last year. It seems at the end of practice, a trash can was placed in the corner of the end zone, and the various QBs (including Farve) would try to drop balls in it for the crowds. I don't remember the number of attempts they each took, but it took days before any of them actually did it. To believe Chris Simms could do three in a row, including the last one while it was moving, is simply not plausible.

[Fios]

To believe Chris Simms could do three in a row, including the last one while it was moving, is simply not plausible.

It may not be likely but it most certainly is plausible. I'm not advancing the argument that these videos are all legitimate but I don't see the feats as impossible. LeBron James, in real life, recreated his PowerAde commercial where he sinks a three-quarter-court jump shot. We have no idea how many takes they went through with these shots.

[BnGhog]

Its possible. How many times have you seen a video of a guy at a basketball game given a chance to win cash by shooting from the opposite goal. How often does it happen not much, but it does happen. Then say you get a NBA star to do it for a commercial. You fly the guy in and have him do it over and over again untill he gets three in a row. Not Impossible. Just takes enough trys.

In Braylons video. Think about you have him stand in the same spot not blind folded. And script the shots from the football cannon, which Im sure is pretty accurate. Then do it over and over. After severl times with the ball shot a the same places, he can get it down and do it blind folded.

[Chris Luva Luva]

To believe Chris Simms could do three in a row, including the last one while it was moving, is simply not plausible.

It may not be likely but it most certainly is plausible. I'm not advancing the argument that these videos are all legitimate but I don't see the feats as impossible. LeBron James, in real life, recreated his PowerAde commercial where he sinks a three-quarter-court jump shot. We have no idea how many takes they went through with these shots.

I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that these players didn't do this. IF JC really did this don't you think there'd be all kinds of hoopla about it? Of course there would be. But there isn't any...why? Cus he didn't really do it.

Larry Micheal still wouldn't be able to stand up if Jason actually did this.

[Mursilis]

To believe Chris Simms could do three in a row, including the last one while it was moving, is simply not plausible.

It may not be likely but it most certainly is plausible. I'm not advancing the argument that these videos are all legitimate but I don't see the feats as impossible. LeBron James, in real life, recreated his PowerAde commercial where he sinks a three-quarter-court jump shot. We have no idea how many takes they went through with these shots.

That's why I added "in a row" as it's shown in the video. I don't doubt that he could hit those throws, given enough time to make multiple attempts, but "in a row" narrows the odds extremely enough that I think the word implausible fits.

[BnGhog]

Why is no one listening to me.

ITS REAL!




Trust me, I'm an expert.

[Chris Luva Luva]

Why is no one listening to me.

Simple, cus it's fake.

[BnGhog]

Uh.....REAL

[HardDawg]

Its real dude! Ever seen Tiger dribble a golf ball? Ever seen Ronaldinho crank a soccerball off the cross bar 3 times in a row! Just cus you can't....don't mean the best in the world can't! And thats what he is....He's one of the best raw talent QB's in the world! Has been since High School!

[Chris Luva Luva]

Its real dude! Ever seen Tiger dribble a golf ball? Ever seen Ronaldinho crank a soccerball off the cross bar 3 times in a row! Just cus you can't....don't mean the best in the world can't! And thats what he is....He's one of the best raw talent QB's in the world! Has been since High School!

It's still fake.