r/sports • u/JCameron181 Detroit Lions • 13h ago

Football QB Athan Kaliakmanis' Pass Gets Deflected, Picked, Deflected Again, & Caught for a 1st Down All in 1 Play!

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u/fhota1 13h ago

Stats keepers record for this play:

¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/LoganGyre 12h ago edited 11h ago

I don’t believe the interception will count and it will go as a tipped passed completed to the lineman for a 1st down which is likely his only reception so He’s got a pretty good average yards after catch right now.

Edit: as someone pointed out the tipped pass (recorded as pass defended in the nfl) will not go in the official stats because a reception happened so it’s not considered “defended” by nfl rules.

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u/GoPointers 12h ago

Pro Bowl tight end! Wait, the Pro Bowl is dead.

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u/GhostPepperDaddy 12h ago

Was it ever alive?

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u/DuncanYoudaho 4h ago

Zombie Pro Bowl!

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u/justadimestorepoet 5h ago

Didn't gain full control, so no pick. If he had, that would have been a fumble.

It's embarrassing enough the Colts let this play happen. Fumbling the pick would just be another layer of embarrassment permanently recorded in the stats, and trust me, the franchise doesn't need more embarrassment.

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u/klngarthur Boston Red Sox 11h ago

Seems to have gone in the books as just

A.Kaliakmanis pass short middle to B.Coleman to IND 48 for 13 yards

Don't think deflections are recorded if it becomes a reception, even if the "receiver" was ineligible without it.

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u/4-3defense 11h ago

The Mariota 2.0 play!!

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u/k_dubious 13h ago

If this happened in a video game I’d say the devs still needed to work out some bugs in the physics engine.

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u/r4ndoM_doGmagenshin 13h ago

“Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense”

—Mark Twain

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u/sgrams04 Columbus Blue Jackets 11h ago

-Michael Scott

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u/LoganGyre 11h ago

I still remember watching a nfl play where the receiver dove for the ball but the defender tipped it at the last second. The ball then hit the back of the receiver rolled across his shoulders and bounced up into the air. It was seen by the defender who tipped it as it went by and then managed to get under it. This bounce was a 1 in a billion chance and of course the receiver thought the play was dead. So the defender gets the ball gets up and runs right passed the confused receiver who understandably assumed the pass hit the ground after getting deflected. They made the ball a shape that can cause beautiful chaos.

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u/jonny24eh 7h ago

*past the receiver 

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u/docubed 4h ago

Bless your'e heart

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u/SexyPotato3 1h ago

Favre to Freeman, Packers vs Vikings in 2000?

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u/LoganGyre 29m ago

The one I’m thinking of is dolphins on defense and I can’t remember the offense, and it would have been 2012-2014

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u/delamerica93 12h ago

I've had stuff like this happen in oooold madden games lol like '06

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 11h ago

What makes you think this didn’t happen in a simulated game? We could be in one right now you’d never know!

Devs pls patch prod world, nerf the money hacks being used.

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u/dirtyjavis 13h ago

GO BIG FELLA!

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u/thegregtastic 13h ago

I love it when a big man gets the ball.

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u/neo_sporin 12h ago

‘Why’s that?’

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u/Burglarious 12h ago

Because you get a fat guy spike and then you get a fat guy dance

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u/IAmNotNathaniel 11h ago

I don't have a clue what other people or critics think.

But I unapologetically love this dumbass movie.

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u/n1nj4squirrel Mclaren F1 6h ago

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lives forever.

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u/360walkaway San Francisco 49ers 8h ago

I Will Survive

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u/eyeaim2missbehave 2h ago

Back when I had cable, if The Replacements was on TBS or TNT and I scrolled to it, I watched it every time. Fun, easy, feel good flick.

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u/Zorbick 11h ago

Musta been all the eggs.

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u/sasquatch606 11h ago

Nan desu ka!

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u/Inroundtents 11h ago

Gene, Gene, The Dancing Machine?

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u/Khamylyon 12h ago

Rumblin' Bumblin' Stumblin'

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u/cpencis 12h ago

My fantasy football team name…

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u/acertifiedkorean Pittsburgh Steelers 13h ago

Look at him RUMBLE!

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u/dsaysso 9h ago

a running back was born

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u/Jukecrim7 Florida 2h ago

Read this in mike daddino’s voice lol

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u/ShortRasp 13h ago

International games are always hilarious.

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u/PhAnToM444 Los Angeles Rams 13h ago

Mexico America is not sending its best…

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u/jawsh23 12h ago

Just how they drew it up

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u/06Wahoo Baltimore Orioles 12h ago

I love it when a plan comes together.

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u/Cador0223 13h ago

Thats some Globetrotters level football.

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u/DASreddituser 13h ago

shouldn't be an int, the guy didnt maintain possession

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u/uvaboy23 13h ago

Ball didn’t hit the ground. Deflections off one person are still considered live balls

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u/leebird 12h ago

I think the statement is saying that the play shouldn't be reflected as an interception with a subsequent fumble as the title implies but a deflected pass caught by the lineman.

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u/uvaboy23 12h ago

Oh I see now. Yeah no that’s not an interception

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u/neo_sporin 12h ago

I think other guy meant, it shouldn’t be scored as an interception + turnover as he never maintained control.

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u/buster_rhino 12h ago

If that’s the case, then isn’t the OL an ineligible receiver?

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u/UBKUBK 12h ago

Everyone is eligible after a defender or eligible receiver on offence touches the ball.

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u/LilFunyunz 12h ago

No ball was tipped, I believe that means it's a free for all lol no pass interference calls after a tipped pass either

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u/HiFi8o8 12h ago

As soon as the defense touched it, there's no ineligibility and the OL could catch it.

Just like in The Replacements. When the great QB Keanu chucked it off the defenders helmet and the Sumo dude caught the deflection.

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u/JoeGotSole 13h ago

‘Exactly how I drew it up’

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u/49ersBraves 12h ago

Why don't they do this on every play? Seems effective

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u/Fafnir13 2h ago

I would enjoy watching Wallball.  All linebackers, all the time.  

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u/Grimm2020 13h ago

Now those are some YAC yards!

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u/b_m_hart 12h ago

Some yards after catch yards?

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u/Grimm2020 11h ago

don't even ask me about RBI's /s

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u/Azipcoder 12h ago

Defensive players cannot catch.

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u/Realmofthehappygod 12h ago

I mean. If they could they'd probably be on offense.

/s?

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u/pheret87 12h ago

That's why receivers who can't catch switch to playing DB.

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u/Drak_is_Right 11h ago

Two players going for the tip collided. One got their hands on it a bit early.

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u/SneakyPanduh 12h ago

“THE BIG MAN RUMBLIN! BUMBLIN! STUMBLIN!”

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u/JohnBrine 9h ago

Why not just give this mountain of a man the ball 3-5 times a game just to keep the defense on its feet.

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u/scramblebambles 12h ago

This is the kinda play I wish Madden were around for. He loved seeing a big guy get the ball.

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u/FlowerAlternative630 12h ago

Love seeing a lineman get the 1st down

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u/LouB0O 13h ago

PURE ART!!

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u/Cantstopwontstop222 12h ago

Exactly how they drew it up

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u/AshnodsCoupon 11h ago

Tag yourself I'm the lineman who just walloped his own teammate

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u/ekemp 9h ago

Just like they drew it up.

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u/Code_Magenta 2h ago

This is the type of play that happened in like the 1940s that made all the experts and coaches decide "Passing is too risky and unpredictable and we just got lucky. Let's play it safe and run it every down of every game."

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u/BobbyTheDude 1h ago

If this happened in Madden, I'd delete the game and never touch it again

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u/ZappyChemicals 12h ago

Is this the new double doink?

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u/Druu- 12h ago

That’s heads up football baby!

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u/Willow1883 10h ago

Third string QBs deserve some luck

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u/Call-Me-Mr-Speed 10h ago

That’s what Athan meant. Exactly what the play called for. I love it when a plan comes together.

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u/ImfromtheFuture2056 10h ago

Sandlot reference 🔥

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u/Umutuku 9h ago

If football can have extra timeouts for commercials then football can have extra timeouts for celebrate big man got ball.

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u/Viperion_NZ 9h ago

Surely that does not count as an interception

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u/michaelhuman 7h ago

this is one of the funniest things i've seen in sports lmaooooo

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u/Historical-Reach-969 7h ago

That's some shit out of a high school disney football feelgood movie.

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u/Klink_Dink 6h ago

How is Nathan in the NFL?

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u/FFSBoise 3h ago

I mean, who’s going to bring down a 300# left OT who has the speed to pull and block on the right before the RB. Those on the O-line are amazing to watch.

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u/potatwo 13h ago

Someone add the clown music

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u/neo_sporin 12h ago

Clown or Benny Hill?

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u/Marciano_il_Mario 6h ago

The European mind cannot comprehend why a big man catching the ball is a big deal