00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, we have four-time Super Bowl champion Joe Montana, a legend.
00:06 How you doing Joe? I'm doing great, how about yourself? I'm doing good man, let's
00:10 let's get into this. Okay, so the Niners are back in the Super Bowl. Yep.
00:14 If Brock Purdy gets the job done, would he be the greatest story in NFL history right now?
00:19 Well, I mean obviously where you think, where you look and you see where he, you
00:24 know, where he came from. Yeah. And you know all the doubts that are there, but I
00:29 think one of the things that he proves and you can go all the way back like
00:33 Brady proves also is that the NFL still hasn't figured out the draft. Yeah.
00:40 I don't care what they say and the calm, you can go to the combine all you want,
00:44 but you just don't know who's gonna make that transition and he, you know, he's done
00:49 a great job. Yeah. Great job with it and he's got a big opportunity coming up on
00:54 Sunday and it'll be fun to watch. What do you think he's done so well taking over
00:59 you know under the helmet being the guy for that team leading that team? What do
01:03 you think he's done well? I think one of the things you you'll see is that the
01:07 quarterback that's playing well in a system, he's figured out the system, right?
01:11 And because they're all different. Yeah. When you look at some of those guys and
01:15 it's all deep stuff, right? Here there's a combination of those things. I mean he's
01:20 he understands how that offense works, he's figured it out quickly, and he
01:24 doesn't make the big mistake, right? He knows he doesn't have to pressure the
01:28 ball downfield. He's got the, he's got guys like Debo and McCaffrey who can, you
01:32 know, they're gonna find it and they're gonna make people miss and you can have
01:36 a big play without having to force it down the field. Right, right, right. Okay,
01:41 let's talk about the other team for a minute. Patrick Mahomes. Where do you see
01:46 him in the ranks of all the quarterbacks that's come and played? Well, he has his
01:51 own rank I think. Yeah. Because he's different. Okay, tell me why, tell me why.
01:55 There's only one of those and I mean the things that he does and week after week,
02:00 you know, sidearm, I'll turn around left-handed, whatever it takes, he gets it
02:07 done and finds a way accurately and you know they've changed a lot of receivers
02:12 on him and so he's still been able to play no matter what and but just
02:17 watching him is fun because you never know what's gonna happen.
02:21 For sure. So, Christian McCaffrey, would you say he's the best non-quarterback in
02:28 this game? We have two great quarterbacks, would you say he's the
02:31 best player on the field outside of those two guys? Well, I think so. I mean
02:35 if you look at the things that he does offensively, it's hard to compare
02:39 offense to defensive guys, right? Because the offensive guys have a little bit more
02:45 to do. If you're a defensive back, you know, you got to cover
02:49 somebody. Well, here, you know, he's got to catch the ball, he's
02:52 got to run, he's running with the ball, he's blocking, I mean he does a little bit
02:56 of everything and very slippery, right? Make you miss and still has the
03:03 speed to take it most of the way and another guy that's fun to watch, that was
03:08 big plus when they brought him in and took a lot of pressure off of Devo and I
03:13 think those two kind of, when they're on the field together, it makes it tough.
03:17 Yes, yes. Okay, so we obviously know you played in four, you won all four of the
03:21 ones that you played in. Was there any, like a certain special routine that you
03:26 went into before each game that you had to do each time or was it just like each
03:31 one was different? The first one I got stuck on the last bus and we were going
03:37 to the game and we got stopped, we got stopped because the vice president
03:42 decided to come to the game. So we're sitting there looking at our watches
03:46 going, hey we're supposed to be on the field here in about 20 minutes and I
03:51 never got on that bus again. So then I get up in the morning, go to a training
03:57 table and then I go straight to the stadium. I didn't care how long the game
04:00 was, we never had offensive meetings on the day of the game so I just slip out
04:05 of there and take a taxi to the stadium and then so I was there early.
04:10 Okay, so you're here on behalf of Pfizer, do you want to tell us about your partnership?
04:14 Yeah, no, we've been partnered up for a while now talking about
04:18 pneumococcal pneumonia and this serious lung disease and how vaccination can
04:23 help prevent it and trying to have people understand who's at risk and why
04:27 and how. Like for people like me over 65, how old's your dad?
04:33 Yeah, he's up there too.
04:35 Or have a high risk and so can younger people too, especially if you
04:41 have other symptoms like or things that are going on like asthma can be
04:48 another precursor to tell you, hey you got to watch out. And so vaccination, we're
04:53 just trying to get people to understand that if you want to know a lot more
04:56 about it, go to knownemonia.com and that's K-N-O-W, pneumonia.com and there's a
05:03 lot of great information on there.
05:05 Before we get you out of here, you've been on a lot of Sports Illustrated
05:09 covers. Do you have one that's most memorable to you?
05:13 There's two really. The one with me and with all the kids and my wife.
05:18 Okay.
05:19 And there's one where I'm looking up laughing and everybody says, what are you doing?
05:25 We were playing a stupid game, the quarterbacks, we played this game where
05:28 you would, the temporary goal posts that we had where they move around, the
05:33 hollow at the top. So we would take tape rolls and see who could get the
05:38 most in the top hole before practice started.
05:41 Cool. Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Montana, legend. Thank you so much for your time.
05:45 My pleasure.
05:46 (whooshing)
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