Drones are clearly a useful gizmo for a lot of industries — and it appears as if the trade of being a professional quarterback might need some use for drones too.
That was showcased within the NFL’s Professional Bowl Abilities Showdown which aired over the previous weekend. The Precision Passing occasion integrated, sure, a drone.
Throughout the Precision Passing occasion, every of the convention’s three quarterbacks battled it out in a one-minute accuracy competitors, trying to build up factors by hitting as many targets as attainable. The quarterback with the best particular person rating amongst all contributors was the winner, incomes three factors for his convention. There have been a complete of 10 targets, some static and others shifting (and every price a special quantity, starting from one to 5 factors).
One of many hardest targets was one hanging off of a drone that flew backwards and forwards on one aspect of the sector.
You may take a look at a 10-minute clip of the entire NFL Professional Bowl Abilities Showdown Precision Passing occasion right here, and should you begin at across the 6:10 mark, you’ll be able to even see the drone-touting goal get hit. And no, the drone doesn’t come tumbling down.
Watch the artistic methods a quarterback makes use of a drone by way of the NFL Professional Bowl Abilities Showdown right here (relying in your area, you’ll have to click on out to the YouTube hyperlink to observe this video, because the NFL has sure sharing rights):
It’s all form of comical, and reveals that the artistic use circumstances for drones are fairly limitless — even should you’re a professional NFL quarterback. A contraption to construct a shifting goal may very well be sophisticated and costly, however contemplating you may get a strong DJI drone for lower than $400 (thanks, new DJI Mavic 2 SE!), a shifting goal doesn’t must be.
This isn’t really the primary time that drones have been used within the NFL’s Professional Bowl Abilities Showdown. In 2017, the NFL added an exercise known as the WR Drone Drop, the place a drone flies excessive into the air and drops a soccer for a receiver to catch.
Talking of the NFL, don’t overlook that this weekend is Tremendous Bowl Sunday. It’s set for Sunday, February 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. And as is the case yearly, the realm is a “No Drone Zone” for many of the weekend. The Non permanent Flight Restriction (TFR) across the space is fairly vast, so principally don’t plan on flying a drone round Phoenix this coming weekend.
