Cam and Sanchez are gearing up to show off their skills and compete for the championship; Lu Ke and Romo started a talk show laughing and yelling, showing their hosting skills for the first time; Ryan and Dalton tried hard to pretend to be invisible, like monks in meditation.
In just one interview, Coleman has successfully hyped up the atmosphere at the scene.
Originally, people thought that the three rookie players Cam, Lu Ke and Dalton might show off, and they were the biggest highlight of today's individual skills competition. Unexpectedly, Cam and Sanchez took the lead in starting to compete. The smell of gunpowder began to spread quietly. But no matter what, today's game seems to have a lot to watch.
Leaving the quarterback group, Coleman led the camera lens and continued to move toward the wide receiver group.
The audience in front of the TV gradually began to taste the fun. This year's NFL Pro Bowl does feel a bit like the NBA All-Star Weekend. I wonder what the actual effect of the subsequent skills competition will be.
After the interview session, the first thing to shine was the quarterback passing target contest.
There is a whole row of circular archery targets on the court, which are made with reference to the archery targets used in the official archery competitions of the Olympic Games. On the wide circular board, circles of bullseyes are depicted, with five points in the center, and outwards in sequence. Decreasingly, from five points to two points, the outermost blank part is zero points, not one point.
The same arrow targets are lined up, but the distance from the kickoff line is different. There are eight arrow targets from left to right. The shortest is six yards, the longest is thirty yards, from short pass Everything from long passes to long passes.
After the game starts, there is a sixty-second countdown. The quarterback starts passing the ball from the left and moves all the way to the right end according to his own rhythm. If there is still time left, then he returns again and repeats the target shooting, but does not repeat the scoring. , but select the highest score on each target surface.
In other words, the total score is forty points.
If two players have the same score, an extra game will be played.
This is the first attempt at an individual skills competition. All competition rules and competition methods are still in the exploratory stage. Only through practice can the effect be tested.
After drawing lots, the order of playing was Ryan, Sanchez, Dalton, Romo, Cam, and Lu Ke.
Romo looked over and saw the No. 6 pick in Lu Ke's hand, and chuckled, "I have begun to wonder if the alliance has done something secretly and deliberately placed you two at the end. What's going on? Is it a good thing? Or is it a good thing?" From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at Cam, who was showing off his No. 5 pick. His gloating expression was really helpless.
During the conversation, Ryan was already the first to take the stage.
Ryan turned his head and nodded to the referee, indicating that he was ready. Then a whistle was heard, and the focus of the entire stadium fell on Ryan's shoulders.
Standing in front of the first archery target, Ryan picked up the football placed on the platform behind him, aimed with the end covered with blue powder, and then quickly took action and fired a bullet pass. He only heard "bang". "With a muffled sound, the football accurately landed within the four-point area.
The first pass seemed sophisticated and precise.
Immediately afterwards, Ryan moved quickly laterally and came to the second stand. He grabbed the rugby again and took a quick shot. However, the moment the rugby was out of control of his fingertips, Ryan had already noticed the huge deviation in the pass. This was a shot. It was a fifteen-yard pass, but the placement of the pass was far off, and it only touched the outermost two-point area.
There is no buffering time, and no room for adjustment, because the sixty-second countdown moves very fast.
Ryan could only continue to move laterally, but this time the pass was even more outrageous. Facing a 23-yard pass, the football missed the target far, far away, like a rainbow, high over the target. , leaped towards the audience stands behind, and the entire sight was completely out of control.
storm.
Not only Ryan, but other quarterbacks also noticed the gusts of wind in Aloha Stadium. The strong wind roared from right to left and from bottom to top. The entire passing movement and flight trajectory were affected. Seriously affected, with a slight lack of power control, the parabola of rugby suddenly becomes wild and unsteady.
Ryan, who was the first to appear, really suffered a disadvantage, but now that work has started and there is no arrow to turn back, he can only bite the bullet and continue the game.
Matt Ryan has a well-known nickname, "Matt-Ice."
Rumor has it that the origins of this title date back to Ryan's high school days. At that time, although he did not have much experience and was young and immature on the court, he always seemed confident and calm during the discussion before kick-off, and seemed not to be affected by the situation on the court at all, so that his high school friends felt that , Ryan's veins were filled with ice, so the nickname "Iceman" spread like wildfire.
The same is true at this time.
Despite encountering unexpected natural factors, Ryan quickly calmed down, slowed down his shooting speed, and adjusted his movement rhythm. In the next five archery targets, the crosshairs improved significantly.
One three-pointer, two two-pointers, two misses, all time ran out, Ryan did not have time to make a second attempt, and the final score was fixed at thirteen points.
After finishing the game, Ryan put his hands on his waist, stood there and shook his head slightly. Even though he was focusing on participating in the entertainment activities, the strong wind conditions on the scene still greatly compromised his performance. It was really helpless and he jogged back to the waiting area. .
Then, Ryan saw Romo and Lu Ke who came forward, with their hands folded on their chests, bright smiles on their faces, and winking. Their expressions of gloating about misfortune greatly increased their joy. Involuntarily, Ryan also moved. shoulders and chuckled.
It was a friendly joke.
Immediately, Lu Ke and Romo raised their right hands high one after another, waiting for high-fives to celebrate.
Seeing this, Ryan shook his head helplessly, but still stepped forward and high-fived Lu Ke. Then, when he was about to high-five Romo, he saw Romo suddenly retracted his right hand, puffed up his chest, and made He made a starting gesture of hitting his chest, which immediately startled Ryan. His eyes quietly drifted away, pretending not to see it, and silently walked to the back.
Romo assumed a posture with his chest raised and stood there, as lonely as snow.
After a small episode, the other players who were watching the game behind them began to boo, and the scene was extremely lively.
However, the atmosphere among the other quarterbacks seemed out of place.
Dalton still high-fived Ryan and expressed congratulations; but Sanchez and Cam watched indifferently, and the visible smell of gunpowder was filling the air——
Sanchez concentrated all his attention on preparing for his next appearance, seemingly not noticing the movement next to him; Cam and Ryan were mortal enemies in the same district, a Carolina Panther and an Atlanta Falcon.
If placed in other moments of the Pro Bowl, even if they are rivals in the same district, they will not show it deliberately. After all, this is not a real competition. However, today's individual skills competition involves personal honor, and it is a personal honor that Cam is determined to win, so the bayonet will see red. Obviously, Cam had no intention of letting him go.
Fortunately, there is no obvious boundary between the quarterback's waiting area and the gathering area of other players. The bustling group of people looks extremely lively when you look at it. This kind of thing is not particularly captured in the live broadcast screen. It feels tight, but the audience at the scene has a panoramic view and a clear view, and everyone is thinking about it when their eyes are exchanged.
The game continued and Sanchez came on the stage.
Considering his position in the team, Sanchez is the most eager and serious among the players today. Unlike Cam's battle of emotions, for him, this is likely to be a turning point in the entire offseason. , an opportunity to prove himself, he will never let it go easily.
But haste leads to waste.
It was too urgent and too tight, which seriously affected Sanchez's route judgment in the windy weather. Four consecutive passes seriously missed the target. The audience at the scene began to boo, just like a reality show. It was like a variety show, creating a program effect, and even booed and laughed.
In the actual game, Sanchez was not good at handling problems in critical situations, and now he was even more confused and lost his rhythm. As a result, subsequent passes became messy in the wind, and the fifth pass was fortunately hit. He hit the four-point area of the bullseye, and then missed the target twice in a row.
In the process of frequently missing the target, Sanchez saved a lot of passing time and quickly completed the turnaround. He passed four more balls than Ryan, but with little effect. The final score was fixed at eight points. Let alone win the championship, now He has even become a strong candidate for the bottom spot. Before his competitors could exert any force, Sanchez had already cut off his own retreat, cutting off all possibilities of hope.
Of course, in the Pro Bowl and skills competition, no one cares about winning or losing. Even if you are at the bottom, it will not be embarrassing. But Sanchez still stood there extremely frustrated, holding his head in annoyance, full of anger and nowhere to put it.
The continuous evil wind is deeply affecting the progress of the game, and the excitement of the individual skills competition is greatly reduced. Dalton and Romo who subsequently appeared also performed poorly.
Dalton had eleven points and Romo had ten.
The current leader is actually Ryan, who was the first to appear. This is really beyond everyone's expectations.
Romo, who traveled lightly and enjoyed it, returned to the waiting area with brisk steps, sprinted in small steps, and had a chest bump with Lu Ke to celebrate. He was not annoyed at all because of his poor performance, and his beaming expression showed A gesture of enjoyment, which also successfully triggered bursts of cheers from other players and spectators.
Romo looked at Ryan who was not far away with a smile on his face, pointed at Lu Ke, and seemed to say: Did you see it? This is a standard celebration.
Ryan's head was full of black lines and he slowly looked away, saying that he didn't know this guy.
