NFL’s First Half in Review: The most spectacular plays

We’re looking back on the first half of the 2014 NFL season and picking our superlatives at the midway point, with Shutdown Corner writers Eric Edholm, Jay Busbee and Frank Schwab weighing in.

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Here are each of our picks for the most spectacular play of the first half:

Eric Edholm: Bears tight end Martellus Bennett’s circus TD catch against New England
It had absolutely no meaning in a blowout game, but Bennett made one of the best 10 or 15 catches I think I ever have seen.

Jay Busbee: Steelers receiver Antonio Brown kicking Cleveland’s punter in the face
I don’t know if it counts as “spectacular,” but it was pretty damn funny.

Frank Schwab: Aaron Rodgers’ fake spike
Thought long and hard about Rob Gronkowski’s sick one-handed catch against the Broncos, but went in a different direction – because Rodgers’ heads-up thinking at the line won the Packers this game. Nobody on the Dolphins defense realized Rodgers was going to fake the spike to stop the clock, Rodgers hit Davante Adams for enough yardage to make the game-winning score to Andrew Quarless an easy pitch-and-catch play. This wasn’t athletically amazing like some other plays I could have picked, but it was a spectacular football play that probably meant the difference between the Packers winning and losing.

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Frank Schwab is the editor of Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter! Follow @YahooSchwab

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