Art of the Holder: When In Doubt, Laces Out | NFL Films Presents 

Holders and long snappers are the two most underrated positions in all of sports.

Seeing Pat McAfee talk in an official NFL video brings me great joy. What a treasure that man is to the commentary world. Excellent player too. Just ask the GOAT Vinatieri.

Joe judge as Giants head coach aged well

Holder of the year award HAS to be a thing.

they interviewed bill belichick for this video but had to cut out about 80 minutes of footage of him talking about this one subject.

This just goes to show that even if a position isn’t flashy they’re still incredibly important to the team’s success.

I don't know why but I love the uber specialized positions, kicker, punter, long snapper holder etc... Normally just one job and have to do it again and again perfect each time

Ball tilt is so huge as well. Most people don't know that and then they blame the kicker for missing a FG, particularly when it's windy when it would have been made if the holder tilted the ball correctly.

Listening to McAfee talk about the art of holding is fascinating

Professor Mcafee has class in session!! #forthebrand

Love the special teams coverage. Keep it up. I love it

This video was the best thing joe judge did as head coach of the giants

Holders r so underrated for what they do

Finkle is Einhorn! Einhorn is Finkle!

1:06 (Ex-)Giants Head Coach

Kyle Juszczyk is my favorite holder.

Joe Judge "Former" Giants head coach. RIP.

I wanna be able to see a holder be MVP of the game 🤣🤣🤣

Soccer style kicker, graduated from Collier High June 1976, Stetson University honors graduate class of 1980, holds 2 NCAA Division One records, one for most points in a season, one for distance, former nickname "The Mule", the first and only pro-athlete to come out of Collier County, and one HELL of a model American.

Lafleur’s reaction to Scott throwing the ball to Crosby at the beginning is hilarious 😂

Love how this came out shortly after the niners had their fullback hold

Not only is McAfee on here, NFL is actively promoting his show. Love to see it.

Send this to the Packers. Most of Crosby's misses has been because of his holder

Callin P. Harvin for holder of the year. Week 18 was clutch

I don't know why but this video made me so happy!

Judge is a good dude. Unfortunately he's not head coach material for the Giants

Tell that to Ray Finkle lol

Loving the Holder saga on NFL Films

Learned a lot about kicking from MMG, Deestroying, and Pat Mccaffe

FOR THE BRAND! Let's go!

I would just like to reinforce McAfee's statement that it is the long snapper's job to get the laces correct, and the holder corrects him if he's wrong. It wasn't Marino's fault!

Me watching this vid as the starting qb and holder for the varsity team 😂

The Minnesota punter made the holder of the year award. I remember because I was in High school when he came up with it and my kicker sent it to me (seeing that I was his holder obviously)

Ahhhh so THATS how JK Scott got cut 😂😂😂

lol this was a really fun/interesting segment. kudos nfl.

That’s the first time I’ve ever seen an extra point from when the goal post was at the front of the end zone. That’s pretty hilarious.

This was such an incredible video

When we practiced this in elementary school, the kicker would always kick your hand. That was back when you kicked with your toes.

"Your gun is digging into my hip"

beatiful

You made this sound so cool

The holder can be the most important player in some situations so investing in good holders is extremely important

Seeing Lafleur react to the ball being thrown to mason Crosby is hysterical

The laces out makes me think of Ace Ventura 😂

Wild that Carlos Waitman ended up being the thumbnail guy who held for 2 games

As soon as I saw the title, I knew Romo would show up

No one does it like NFL Films.

It's good to see NFL getting everything tidy. Every single goddam piece of this "blitz chess" can change a game.

i'll watch a game differently now. didn't know there was so much to it

Every time a kicker misses a field goal or point after, I call it a Finkle

I learned about "laces out" because of the Ace Ventura movie

No mention of Philadelphia Eagles backup QB Koy Detmer. His main job was not backup QB (though he did that well) but to hold the football for David Akers. The Eagles let him go, and after the Romo incident Akers (as his performance declined) was able to lobby the front office to get Detmer back. (and FG completions returned to being good again)

Look at Joe Judge 😂😂 bye bye

Finally the position I played in high school!

And we’re always so quick to blame our kickers when they miss without seeing the full picture

They got Joe Judge to talk in this

the holder for the 2022 Raven's deserves some credit

Two straight vids for special teams, it must be a good day.

Laces OUT, MARINO!

Laces out Dan!

Ol Pmac is the goat!

Tony romo best holder ever

I used to long snap and I never knew at that level the laces was snappers job. But I guess you do it the same every time so I could see them being able to do X number of rotations consistently.

Holder of the year sounds so dope

Laces out, Dan

Sanchez doing Sanchez things.

never knew the blair walsh miss was the holders fault

Joe Judge kicking things off with "I'ma tell you right now..." is as Joe Judge as it gets hahah

Watch one video about holders and now the algorithm wants me to become an expert.

It is going to be very interesting to see how Justin Tucker performs with a new holder this upcoming season after having the best holder of all time in Sam Koch retire. I would not be surprised at all if he has more uncharacteristic misses than usual.

I'm a hardcore Steelers fan and I had no clue who the holder in the thumbnail was. Its Corliss Waitman a punter who was on preseason/training camp rosters on for Pittsburgh in 2020-2021

Holder still has to do more than the entire soccer

Joe Judge needed to stay talking about special teams instead of head coaching

2:12 - Ice Bowl game footage?! 🤓👍

I am amazed that a mid budget comedy movie was right about something.

every position in football is important, even the holder

Poor romo lol

Finkel was right all along! Laces out!

LACES OUT DAN !

Wow.. it wasn’t even Blair Walsh’s fault lmao 🤣

Madden need to bring back specialist and o-linemen back to be a player. Those are players too!

Cries in Blake Walsh

Mcafee should be a science teacher😂😂

LACES OUT DAN

holders are people too

Corey Bojorquez and the holder is Jordan Love

I’m confused as to how the Long Snapper can control where the laces end up when the ball is spinning so much after he snaps it

Is this the full video? Joe Judge gets cut off at the end there. Seems like the video is missing the rest of the Holder of the Year award content and any kind of wrap up or conclusion

Jeez man. Joe Judge will not let this video age well at all.

For the brand

Imagine how many super bowls would have been in bad shape without a solid holder... crazy....

Whole video so we can see that laces is why Blair Walsh missed

My holder is Cam Cheeseman.

NEVER throw it to Mason.

The fact that the starting QB was the holder for so many years is wild. Seems like it makes more sense to get a guy that wouldnt have catastrophic damage if the kickers leg hit his hand

Id be afraid to either drop the snap or get my fingers kicked

Do more special teams episodes

That romo one still hurts... The life of a cowboys fan smh #nextyearisouryear 🙄 Also, as a kicker, I'm sure when they see the laces as they're about to kick the "laces out" thing has some psychological play to it.

Finkel was right all these years!

There's a lot to special teams that is rarely if ever discussed unless they've have a bad game but our QB focused NFL commentary takes away from players that have had major contributions to winning games.