Smylie Kaufman & Golden Tate on Matthew Stafford's Impact

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00:00All right, so you win a Super Bowl at Seattle Golden, and you go to the Lions, and that's

00:08where really I feel like your best statistics were, were in Detroit.

00:11And this was something I've always seen on the internet, and I just want you to kind

00:14of put this into perspective, is that Matthew Safford is maybe one of the most underrated

00:19quarterbacks of all time for what he is able to bring to that position.

00:24Can you just talk to that being a wide receiver and a guy that that caught balls for Matthew

00:28Safford?

00:29Yeah, without Matthew Stafford, I'm not sure I would have been known as the acting.

00:33I mean, he was phenomenal.

00:36And, you know, the good thing about being down a lot is that you knew you had to throw

00:41the ball a lot.

00:42Good.

00:43Now, obviously, bad thing.

00:44You didn't Yeah, when as much as we wanted to, but I knew that I was gonna be fed and

00:49Matthew Stafford's arm is just is so strong.

00:52Like he makes hard throws look easy.

00:56His arm strength is so strong that it doesn't look like he's trying to throw it hard.

01:00It's just kind of like, but there's like, it's right there on you.

01:05And anytime I came out my break, the ball was there.

01:08And so for receiver, it's so important for me to get the ball as soon as I'm coming out

01:14my break, because that's less time for the DB to be crashing down on me.

01:18And like, what made me so good is that when I come out my break, my brain would take a

01:23picture of like where the defense was and where I thought the defense is going to be

01:28once I caught it.

01:30And based on what their technique and stuff, so I get the ball early and I'd have a time

01:34to get the ball, make a quick move and then get up field and they'd only gained maybe

01:39a yard on me.

01:40And so that was so important for creating angles at the wide receiver position and getting

01:45yards at the catch and yards at the first touch that man, it Stafford made me the at

01:51king because he was so strong, so smart, his, where he placed the ball was incredible.

01:57There was times where I felt like I was completely covered.

02:00I'm like, mom, dad, I'm covered.

02:02And he would throw the ball like right here, where the DB couldn't get over the top.

02:06And I would just fingertip catch it, DB slides off and I run for 30 yards as a man.

02:11That's what made him next level.