Sweet one-handed grab.
Between all the fights and the Luke Goedeke helmet-toss, there was a play that pretty much was either not noticed or was mostly ignored at the Bucs-Jets practice yesterday in New Jersey.
Emeka Egbuka had a sick catch in warmups.
OK, Joe’s not getting ahead of his skis. It was in warmups. In walk-throughs. For those that don’t know, walk-throughs are when players go slow motion to practice a play so they get it right. They’re maybe going 20 percent, if that.
(Which Joe will recount the best Antonio Brown story he ever heard, and it came from Lavonte David: If Brown was upset or mad or pouting, he didn’t believe in going through walk-throughs. So while everyone else was going maybe 20 percent speed, Brown was going all out, full blast, 110 percent. LOL He could have gotten someone hurt, including himself.)
Well, Mayfield tosses a pass to Egbuka in warm-ups, in walk-throughs, against air, and rather than using both hands to catch it, Egbuka just reaches out with one hand and plucks the ball out of mid-air. Palms the ball like some do with a basketball.
Egbuka was so nonchalant about this it’s crazy. Yet that catch showed what sort of serious ball-catching skills Egbuka has.
Yet Egbuka looked like he was bored. No big deal. Been there, done that. Routine day at the office.
The ball was clearly way over Egbuka’s head and it appeared when Egbuka grabbed it the ball was past him.
Egbuka looked like he was picking an orange off a tree.
On Twitter, that video by FOX Sports NFL columnist Ralph Vacchiano got a lot of run. Vacchiano even said when he posted that video he was out in the sun and never noticed what he had until later in the day when he got inside.
He retweeted the video just for the Egbuka catch.
Joe sure would love to see Egbuka pull that off in a game.
Yeah, it is just walk-throughs. Yeah, air defense. Still, nifty one-handed grab by Emeka Egbuka. https://t.co/ztug4evTje
— JoeBucsFan (@JoeBucsFan) August 11, 2026