ESPN had impeccable timing, too. Right before Rodgers threw the Hail Mary it showed the first three he threw in his career. ESPN showed a montage of Aaron Rodgers' three career Hail Marys as ...

The average time before a Hail Mary throw over the past decade is 4.75 seconds per ESPN tracking, almost twice as long as a normal play. In his three most recent Hail Mary attempts, veteran ...

“I’m telling you, right now, this is not the Hail Mary time…This is where [the Bears] are going to be way back. I’m throwing an eight- to 12-yard out cut that should take three seconds max ...

When given time, he can absolutely send it, and over his career he has punished teams that give him time to chuck it downfield at the end of halves, completing three Hail Mary passes in his career ...

Football's most desperate play is no longer just a heave and a prayer. It's a much more complicated dance of precise scheme and technique.