Let’s cut toe the chase and just watch this Odell Beckham Jr. touchdown catch before we start talking about. It’s too good to bury.

And there’s this picture, which is just as brilliant as the catch and that angle. Beckham is somehow not just living up to the hype, nor exceeding it, he’s creating even better hype every time he steps onto a football field. He’s the most exciting NFL player since Randy Moss.

Okay, now that we’ve seen those miracles, let’s start at the beginning.

We spend so much time talking about the hands of Odell Beckham that we often ignore what gets him in position to make his circus catches — his feet. But those were on full display on Monday Night Football when the second-year wideout caught an off-balance Eli Manning throw close to the end zone’s sideline. At full speed and on the first few replays, it looked as if the call on the field — no catch — was correct.

It was one of those plays where, if the ref and the office in New York would be competent (not a sure thing, by any means), the call on the field, no matter what it was, would stand because there wasn’t enough evidence to say Beckham did or didn’t get those feet in. Even in that brilliant Getty Images picture above, you’d still call Beckham out.

Obviously you’ve seen the angle featured atop the post (which we’ll get to in a jiffy), so you know Beckham’s feet were in. But if you hadn’t seen that, this angle wasn’t any more conclusive than the one immediately above it. That left foot may be on the blue, it may be on the white. It’s hard to tell.

Enter Plyon Cam. The innovation, created this year by both ESPN and CBS, was set to answer the question that arises far too may times during a football season: Did a ball cross the plane of the end zone or did someone stay in bounds en route to scoring a touchdown.

Score one for the Cam which, after its creation, led to this now hilarious anonymous quote from Pro Football Talk:

An industry source predicts that the shots from the pylon cameras will be “worthless” in most cases, pegging the chances of a pylon camera providing a conclusive view of a play at one in 100,000.

Now, there is one issue with the Plyon Cam. Since it’s only used on MNF and in big CBS games, other teams don’t get the advantage it brings. Granted, it’s still a level playing field for both teams, but had the Giants and Dolphins been playing on a Sunday afternoon, that call doesn’t get overturned. A little unfair? Perhaps. Worth it because it gives us angles like the Beckham catch? Absolutely.

Maybe it’s a chicken and egg sort of thing: Is Pylon Cam great because it captured yet another amazing catch by Odell Beckham or is Odell Beckham even greater because Pylon Cam captured yet another of his amazing catches?

Hmm. Something to ponder as you watch that replay over and over and over.