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Zaruba added, laughing, “I don’t feel so confused all the time.”

If he doesn’t end up ever making the Eagles or any other NFL team, Zaruba knows the Saskatchewan Roughriders own his CFL rights, and that club did reach out to him once he switched to football from rugby.

“But, obviously, I let them know that this chance – in the NFL with the Eagles – was what I am going for. My goal here, immediately, is to make this team. I love it here. I love the organization. The staff here are great, the players are great, and it has a really great culture. I’m a huge advocate of culture on a team, and I really want to buy into this program and make it here.

“In terms of the CFL and anything else, I never like to close any doors. I’m never going to say no to anything. But right now this is obviously my goal. We’ll go from there.”

If he makes it, Zaruba will have proved that at least one classic line spoken by Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction, to the aging boxer played by Bruce Willis, does not apply to him:

“If you were gonna make it, you would have made it before now.”

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OBJ? Bah! Zaruba’s one-handed circus grab more impressive

PHILADELPHIA — As one-handed catches go, Odell Beckham Jr. of the New York Giants has nothing on Adam Zaruba.

Zaruba, the former Canadian sevens rugby starter who’s trying again this summer to make the Philadelphia Eagles as a tight end, once famously snared a rugby ball with one hand, then scored.

Beckham, the star wide receiver with the Giants, makes spectacular one-handed grabs look routine in warmups, and occasionally makes them in games.

But single-handed stabs are a lot easier to pull off in the NFL than in rugby.

First, nearly all NFL pass-catchers – including Beckham – wear specially designed gloves. They’re far stickier than you’d ever understand, unless you’ve caught North American footballs yourself while wearing them.

Secondly, in rugby you play bare-handed.

Thirdly, rugby balls are so much larger, wieldy and rounder than their pointy NFL counterparts.

All of which make Adam Zaruba’s famous one-handed snare of a kicked ball two years ago for Canada, in an international rugby sevens game against Wales, so impressive.

It was in a 2015-16 HSBC World Rugby Seven Series game in Paris when the 6-foot-5, 265-pound winger from North Vancouver raced down the left wing to intercept the ball on a centerfield kickoff. He perfectly timed his leap over a Wales winger, caught the ball with the palm of his bare left hand, then continued sprinting, unmolested, down the field and across the Wales line for an easy Canadian try.

“Is that not the play of the week here? That was unbelievable ball control here … an unbelievable piece of playing there by Zaruba!” a TV announcer on a live Australian broadcast commented, as posted on YouTube under the title, “Adam Zaruba’s one hand insane catch against Wales …”