Larry Catches Footballs

Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald has been one of the my favorite football players to watch. From Pitt to Arizona, he's been a blast. I dread the day that he's not catching footballs.

The fine folks at Pro Football Journal put together this pass-catching capsule of Larry Fitzgerald.



With Fitzgerald, the viewing of his play is always better than the numbers. When he was paired with Anquan Boldin, the Cardinals were a weekly tutorial on how to catch a football. It was truly beautiful to watch.

To hit the other side of spectrum:
Terrell Owens dropped 17 passes in 2006. He dropped 13 in 2000. In two years, of his 15-year career, Owens dropped more passes than Fitzgerald has dropped in his entire career. Owens dropped 130 passes in his career. When people question Terrell Owens' Pro Football Hall absence I think of the many footballs that he left on the ground as well as the footballs that barely stayed in his hands. His career highlight film is riddled with bobbles, double- and triple-catches. It's actually quite hilarious if you can get away from the tragedy of it all. Catching footballs is the one thing that every receiver has to do. For Owens, it was an every down challenge. For Fitzgerald, it's been beautiful to watch.