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00:00Perfection, but what does it take to achieve the guys who
00:11You're going to get a great defense to play here and you're going to get by a tailback
00:16But the most memorable games in my mind are the ones where the quarterback shine
00:20Those are the guys who in the clutch seem to perform to perfection
00:30But what does it take to achieve perfection in the clutch?
00:35You're either incredibly prepared or incredibly physically talented
00:40It takes the ability to make your teammates believe that they can do the impossible and drive 89 yards in less than 89 seconds
00:48When all hell is breaking loose around you to be able to know where you are
00:52Where everybody else is and get the job done
01:00For a clutch quarterback the game is never over until the final whistle blows
01:06Here's the measure it's not
01:10Super Bowl championships, it's not total passing yards. It's not touchdown yards
01:15It's it's this you have a two-minute drill. You're down by four points
01:21Who do you want taking that snap from the center?
01:26The number 10 clutch quarterback of all time dan Marino solid choice
01:32We were never out of a ball game with Dan as our quarterback and I always felt that confidence and our players felt that confidence
01:39Danny had that fire in his eye and his heart each and every time he stepped in the hole no matter how much we were down
01:46How difficult the odds look that we you can get it done
01:49Steps out to the right side throws into the end zone
01:51And it is caught! It's a touchdown!
01:53When Jimmy Johnson became the coach of the Miami Dolphins is when we had a chance to see Dan Marino's true greatness
02:07When you are asked to win ballgames when a coach is so stubborn and bullheaded that we're gonna run the ball
02:14We're gonna run the ball. The problem is we're getting our ass kicked in the running game
02:17Then finally the coach says you know what we can't run the ball. Dan go win the game for us and he did it repeatedly
02:22And he did it repeatedly
02:24Left of the game before the blitz at him. Dan looks, throws into the end zone and is caught! It is a touchdown!
02:30Nothing's safe with Dan Marino on the other sideline
02:331994
02:36Opening day
02:37On fourth and five at the end of the game
02:40His team is down
02:42There's only seconds left
02:44Marino looks out to Irving Fryer
02:47And he goes wink wink
02:49Go long
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02:51Throws deep down field
02:52It is caught by Fryer
02:53Touchdown Dolphins
02:55Marino on fire
02:57Courageous call
03:00Any other person could have just game managed and gotten a field goal
03:07Not Marino
03:10Play out as being one of the finest clutch plays I've ever seen
03:15Marino always worked the clock
03:17But no time was more memorable than our next clutch play
03:21We were beating them the whole game and then finally on their last drive
03:24You know it was the old fake spike game
03:2630 seconds to go
03:27I believe Marino is saying I'm gonna spike it
03:29The Jets are, you know, they're sleepwalking
03:32They're clueless
03:33Marino takes the snap from center
03:35He's looking
03:36He throws
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04:26that he didn't win a Super Bowl. I just think that's unfair. The fact that he's
04:30number 10, you may have him as number 10. I got him as one of the greatest clutch
04:37quarterbacks ever in the NFL. Terry Bradshaw was a guy that was never going
04:44to get the credit because he had such a great team around him. Nothing's
04:47generated more controversy than Bradshaw's omission from our list. He was
04:52MVP in the Steelers' last two Super Bowl triumphs without blinking an eye. And it's
04:56a touchdown for Pittsburgh on the arm of Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw has this, and that's how
05:04many Super Bowls he lost. Four and oh. Sorry Terry, making a splash with Super
05:10Bowl wins won't get you in this top 10. Our criteria is sink or swim in the two
05:16minute drill. The number nine clutch quarterback of all time, Steve Young.
05:21My God. Remember when Steve Young's career ended, he was the number one rated
05:26quarterback in NFL history. Exactly. The great thing about Steve Young was his
05:31ability to perform in the clutch a lot more. And he was clutched with his arm and
05:38his legs. A lot of guys are clutched with one or the other. The people thought he
05:43did. They get the winning score. It's just the stuff of legend. That's gut. Steve Young was
05:49so athletic and so difficult to defend because he was multidimensional.
05:54Steve, take it to your shelf!
05:56Dives into the goal line! Touchdown 49ers!
05:59His comebacks were more frantic.
06:04Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
06:06He was kind of a crazy man out there.
06:07And those wild eyes and screaming at his teammates.
06:11Everybody's wandering around! Let's go!
06:13He's got lots of room. 35, 30.
06:15He's inbounds. He's in the 20, 15. One man to get by. He's in the 5.
06:21Terries him into the end zone. Touchdown 49ers!
06:24The thing I love about Steve Young is his story. Take a look at Aaron Rodgers and the things
06:29that he's going to have to deal with coming up. Filling in for Brett Favre. Filling in
06:33for Joe Montana.
06:34Comes into the middle! Down to the 15! Gets back up! Then he lost the ball!
06:39Joe Montana would be running in the first place!
06:41If it's not enough to follow in the legend's footsteps, for Steve Young, for a long time,
06:48the knock on him was that he can't win the big one.
06:51But in 1994, our number 9 quarterback did win the big one.
06:55You won't have to hear any more talk about Steve Young getting to the Super Bowl.
07:00That's not the classic end-of-the-game comeback.
07:03But I think when you talk about quarterbacks and their place in the game,
07:07that kind of put the stab on Steve Young's comeback.
07:10Someone take the multi-up!
07:13Yes, sir!
07:16San Francisco will have one crack at it.
07:19If Young's got a big one left, this is the time.
07:21At that point, he had never beaten Brett Favre or the Packers, period.
07:27Favre had just put the Packers ahead.
07:29He slips. He looks like he's falling down.
07:32He keeps his balance.
07:34Throws to the end zone.
07:36Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
07:39He caught it! He caught it! He caught it!
07:4249ers win the game, and I think that really did a lot for Steve Young's ability to be considered a clutch performer.
07:47I think what it says about Steve Young is he had nowhere else to go with the ball.
07:51Seriously. He had to go straight up the middle. He had to throw it to T.O.
07:55Total force job, man. He just said, screw it. I'm going to force it in.
07:59The ball had to be perfect! It won!
08:021988. 49ers are playing the Vikings.
08:08Joe is hurt. Steve's at quarterback.
08:10Two minutes to play in the game. 49ers are down by four points, and he takes off on a run
08:14that is still the best run by a quarterback I have ever seen in pro football history.
08:19You'll never see a quarterback make a scramble like that, maybe ever again, because nobody's as crazy as Young.
08:37He was a tough guy.
08:39The Detroit game is exactly what I'm talking about with his physical toughness.
08:43Steve Young is hurt. All by is he ever.
08:46Again, I don't know if he can get up from this one.
08:48And there is a very memorable image of him crawling off the field.
08:53I thought he was going to die.
08:54Seriously, Steve Young is going to die in the Silver Dome right here,
08:57and we're going to have to just carry on with the game.
08:59He was tough.
08:59And what does he do? He comes running back into the huddle.
09:02You could see the teammates get lifted up by his toughness,
09:05and he led them to a comeback win in the fourth quarter.
09:08Here's the ball game. Young under pressure.
09:11Gets it away. Ball is caught. Into the end zone. Touchdown, Singleton.
09:14The number eight clutch quarterback of all time, Bart Starr.
09:22How cool would that be to have on your resume?
09:25I was the MVP of Super Bowl I and II.
09:29That's like basically saying, I landed on the moon.
09:32The 60s will be described as a decade in which the Packers were the one number one team.
09:41And Bart Starr was proudly the number one Packer.
09:46It was Starr who brought on the renaissance of Green Bay's attack.
09:50Time and again in crucial third down situations when success was vital to keep scoring drives in progress.
09:56With Starr, you think of success.
09:59With any of the other guys, you can picture failure.
10:02With Starr, you never think of failure.
10:04When I think of Bart Starr, I always think of the play-action pass on fourth and one,
10:07which you always seem to throw for a touchdown.
10:09Fourth down and eight.
10:11What a brilliant comeback by the world champion Packers.
10:14People think I hate quarterbacks, and I do.
10:17But there are quarterbacks I admire, too.
10:20Bart was a true trophy.
10:22Anybody can play when there's really nothing at stake, regardless of the game, regardless of the situation.
10:27But I really think the measure of the player is how well he plays under pressure when you have to win.
10:35Bart Starr was, you know, an average quarterback.
10:40No, he wasn't.
10:41It was Lombardi's Packers.
10:43It wasn't Bart Starr's Packers.
10:45When the Packers had the ball 80 yards to go, I feared the machine more than I feared him.
10:50Lombardi on the sidelines with his fedora, Horning and Taylor and Dower and Starr, they were all part of it.
10:55I think Starr doesn't.
10:59He's in the shadow of his coaches.
11:01But one of the great things about Starr is that that never bothered him.
11:04He was not about Bart Starr.
11:05He was about winning, which was what Lombardi taught.
11:09Get this.
11:09He had a 105 pass rate.
11:13And that was the highest of all time until Mahomes.
11:18Nine in one record.
11:21Five titles.
11:2315 touchdowns.
11:24Three interceptions in the playoffs.
11:25And he's not clutch.
11:29He should be higher.
11:32You're talking about clutch situations.
11:35The ice ball.
11:36In the 1967 NFL championship, Starr snuck through in the clutch.
11:40When you talk about comeback quarterbacks, they've got to have an awareness beyond the X's nose.
11:4516 seconds remaining.
11:47They are still inches away from that goal line.
11:49Vince couldn't possibly know what the footing was like right there.
11:53But Bart would.
11:54When Bart came to the sideline and said, I can take it in, Lombardi put his faith in him and he delivered.
11:59Starr begins the count.
12:01Takes the snap.
12:02He has a quarterback sneak in.
12:04He's into the touchdown.
12:05The Packers are not in rest.
12:08It was definitely a clutch play.
12:10But again, it was the Packers.
12:12More than anything, I think Starr was terrific.
12:14But I always felt it was part of that whole, it was Lombardi's Packers.
12:18I have a really hard time viewing a quarterback sneak as a quote-unquote clutch play in NFL history.
12:26What?
12:27When you think about all the clutch plays he made to get them to the one-yard line,
12:33and then the intelligence and the courage to go over to the sidelines and tell Vince Lombardi,
12:38no, Vince, we're not running that play.
12:40Let's run this play.
12:41With 16 seconds to go and no timeouts left, 20 degrees below zero,
12:45to me, I don't think you can define clutch any better than that.
12:48We're going to play the biggest football game in the history of Western civilization.
12:52Plenty of quarterbacks have been clutch in the big game.
12:55Aim it, red hot.
12:56The New York Jets are the world champions.
12:59Aikman throws it right to the goal line.
13:01Backstown!
13:02Troy Aikman's the MVP.
13:04Warner back to throw.
13:06Touchdown Rams!
13:07But no one's won more championships than our next quarterback.
13:11The number seven clutch quarterback of all time, Otto Graham.
13:16Otto Graham is just the consummate winner.
13:21A guy who set the earliest standard for quarterbacking excellence.
13:26The Browns prove themselves a great clutch team.
13:28I mean, he played ten seasons and took his team to ten championship games.
13:32All he ever did was win championships.
13:35And how else do you judge a quarterback?
13:37Ten straight division championships, seven world titles.
13:41Look at the records during the course of those years.
13:44Ten and two.
13:46It wasn't like he was getting into the playoffs for the nine and seven record.
13:51You know, like some of us do these days.
13:53Exactly.
13:56Long before Bo Jackson, our number seven quarterback was a two-sport star.
14:02And he was just as clutch on the gridiron as he was on the hardwood.
14:06He played for the Rochester Royals in the NBA in 1946.
14:10And they won the title.
14:11And he played for the Browns the same year.
14:13Otto Graham was headed for one of the...
14:15The Rochester Royals are now known as the Sacramento Kings.
14:18And that's the only title they ever won.
14:20The most brilliant careers in professional football.
14:24And they won the title as well.
14:27When you say Otto Graham, people go, yeah, he was a great quarterback, but...
14:31But what?
14:32They can't remember seeing it.
14:33They didn't have TV.
14:35And what a day for Otto Graham.
14:37Four touchdowns and three conversions.
14:39You don't have a chance to publicize a guy than the way you do now.
14:44If he was playing now, Otto would be the man.
14:47He would be Tom Brady.
14:48Otto Graham, who usually has a football in his hand, is kept busy with the pen.
14:53He'd be doing Regis' show.
14:55Automatic Otto using the referee as a blocker in field.
14:58He'd be the guy.
15:01You look at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
15:03There's an artifact.
15:04It's an Otto Graham unitard.
15:06I defy any NFL quarterback to go out there and win a championship wearing a unitard.
15:12He would work well in Hank Stramm's philosophy.
15:15If you look good, you'll play good.
15:17Nobody wear white shoes.
15:19I think Otto was one of those guys that looked good when he played.
15:22The Yankees led 9-7 with only five minutes left.
15:25Then Graham and Lavelli got together on this touchdown pass.
15:29Maybe the unitard was a part of that.
15:30That shows a certain moxie that doesn't translate to today's game.
15:33So, Otto Graham, you go, guy.
15:36Winning translates in any era.
15:39And our number seven quarterback was automatic with the game on the line.
15:43The biggest game he ever played was probably the 1950 NFL championship game.
15:47If you talk about that as being a clutch performance, there couldn't have been a more pressured performance for Otto Graham.
15:52One point still separated the two teams as they came to the final minute and a half of the game.
15:57And the Browns have entered another championship.
16:00This one, a cherished conquest in the National Football League.
16:04In any era, in any time or place, that's clutch quarterbacking.
16:08And Otto Graham did it in that game and did it throughout his career.
16:14Snake Stabler.
16:16Kenny Stabler was not a quarterback.
16:19Kenny Stabler was one of the boys.
16:20And when you have one of the boys playing quarterback, that's a good feeling.
16:26Stabler back.
16:26He's got a pass.
16:27Looking one there.
16:28Comes back to the right.
16:29Oh!
16:29To the two.
16:30Stubman's catch-down, Raiders!
16:33You can put your money on him when the chips are down.
16:35Kenny's money.
16:37You talking about the gambler?
16:38You got a full house.
16:39He might put a four-of-a-kind on him.
16:41Stabler back to pass again for midfield.
16:43Throwing a deep bomb.
16:44Going to Branch against Libers.
16:46Libers knocks it down.
16:47Branch catches it.
16:48Catch-down!
16:49Snake would just say,
16:50Keep it close.
16:51Keep it close.
16:52And we keep it close.
16:53And then go.
16:54We win the game.
16:55The Oakley's continue to live by the skews of their collective team.
17:01Kenny Stabler.
17:03Nice quarterback.
17:04Very good player.
17:05Not top ten all time.
17:07Who do you want?
17:08Brady or Kenny Stabler?
17:10Touchdown!
17:10Oh, Brady!
17:11Who do you want?
17:12Peyton Manning or Kenny Stabler?
17:13That was a thing of beauty.
17:15That's not top ten clutch quarterbacks of all time.
17:18That's top ten quarterbacks of all time.
17:23That's not top ten clutch quarterbacks of all time.
17:27You go by clutchness.
17:30Man, bitch.
17:32He was clutch enough to beat your team in the sea of hands.
17:37And this is the same guy that was shilling for Dan Marino, who never won a Super Bowl.
17:41Ken Stabler won the Super Bowl.
17:47You look at the entirety of Ken Stabler's career and you're not that wowed by it.
17:52But you think of him as clutch because of the two or three plays that jump out at you.
17:57The personify clutchness.
17:59They call him Mr. Clutch.
18:00I mean, think of his wins.
18:02All of name games.
18:03The Holy Rollers.
18:05Stabler back.
18:06Here comes a rush.
18:06He sidesteps.
18:07And he pulls.
18:08Kenny is nice and cool.
18:09He rolls it down the field.
18:11Flip ball in his nose.
18:12A wild scramble.
18:13Two seconds on the clock.
18:15Casper grabbing the ball.
18:16Well, a clutch play like that was a Kenny Stabler to see a hand.
18:21Looking, looking.
18:22He's under the gun.
18:23He throws.
18:23See?
18:24He sees it.
18:24It is.
18:25They call him now.
18:26Goes to the post.
18:27He goes medium deep to Casper.
18:30Casper makes it over his shoulder.
18:31Catch.
18:32The immaculate deception.
18:34Stabler made a great play right before the immaculate reception.
18:3730, 25, 20, 15, 10.
18:41By sheer luck, luckiest play in NFL history, they lost.
18:48And that's his putt out of the air.
18:49The ball is close.
18:51He shouldn't be safe.
18:54Okay.
18:54In the huddle today, we got the snake at quarterback.
18:56Greatest nickname ever for a quarterback is he would just sit back and sit back and then strike
19:03like a snake.
19:03And Stabler was on the money.
19:05The name snake, I think, probably stood from more of the things he did off the field than
19:10on the field.
19:10This is a family show, so I can't.
19:14Football players are no different than anybody else.
19:16They have feelings.
19:16I don't think Stabler would have been as efficient a quarterback if you ask him to wear a coat
19:20and tie and check in every night at 10 o'clock.
19:25You have to find a way, no matter what the circumstances are, and just refuse to lose.
19:30Whatever that thing was, that focus, that concentration, that competitiveness, he could
19:37just step it up a notch when you need it.
19:39Stabler rolling to the left.
19:41He's going to go.
19:42Oh, he's in.
19:44Stout Elton.
19:45Kenny Stabler would tease you.
19:47Kenny Stabler would put his foot on your neck and just squeeze you.
19:50Brilliant work of art by the master of his position.
19:53Yasha Heifetz never played a violin with more dexterity than Kenny Stabler is playing the
19:59Minnesota Viking defense.
20:00Kenny Stabler would only score when he had the score.
20:03And the Raiders have pulled us out of the fire after a narrow, narrow,
20:07a snake.
20:08Number six, I think Snake glows higher because he was the snake.
20:13Think about it.
20:14I mean, who's one through five?
20:16That's what I want to know.
20:18And now, the number five clutch quarterback of all time, Johnny U.
20:23Not high.
20:24You can stop the ranking right here because there isn't anybody better than Johnny Unitas.
20:28Ladies and gentlemen, from the Duggan, I'm Constantine Unitas.
20:32It's outrageous that Johnny is number five.
20:34At five, Unitas is probably low.
20:37He's in trouble.
20:37He's going to have to run it now.
20:38This guy kills you.
20:41Every two minutes, roll right down the field.
20:43Unitas fires down the field.
20:45It is committed to the Duggan.
20:46It's great.
20:47It's great.
20:48It's great.
20:48It's great.
20:49You can't avoid not putting him in there.
20:53He's the father of the position.
20:56Johnny Unitas might have been the first great quarterback who struck down the field to pull
21:03games out late.
21:05Johnny Unitas gives the Chicago Bears a lesson in the art of forward passing.
21:09Unitas invented the timing passes, invented the two-minute offense, the rhythm, the three-step
21:15drop, the five-step drop.
21:16Again, all those things are still being done today, but nobody's doing them as well.
21:21Today's game is surrounded by gadgets and gizmos, but our number five quarterback was a one-man
21:31show.
21:31Unitas was calling his own plays.
21:33He was running his own game out there.
21:35All the responsibility was on him.
21:37Out left, split right.
21:38Zone pass, right.
21:39Time one.
21:40Ready?
21:40Exactly.
21:41Tom Brady doesn't call his own plays.
21:42Tom Brady has a green dot on his helmet.
21:44Johnny Unitas had no green dot on his helmet.
21:46The communications package was, he looked at Lenny Moore and said, break it off at six
21:52yards.
21:53Unitas goes back to throw.
21:55Fireball.
21:57Into the end.
21:57Got it.
21:58Complete.
21:59That's what makes him number one.
22:00If I do my job and I call the game right, if I put the ball towards the ball, we're going
22:05to win.
22:05When Don Shula first took over that team in Baltimore.
22:09What the hell are we doing?
22:10We're getting killed.
22:11And they had a fourth and short, and Shula sent the field goal team out.
22:14And Unitas sent him back off the field, called a play, scored a touchdown.
22:18Johnny Unitas!
22:19Get up, beautiful!
22:20The place goes crazy, comes off the field, and Shula said to him, don't do that to me
22:24again.
22:25And Unitas said, no, you got that backwards.
22:29Don't do that to me again.
22:31Yeah, they said, no, you got that wrong.
22:33Don't do that to me again.
22:35When you're a coach and you got a player like that, the dumbest thing that you could do
22:38is to try to force something on him when you know that he's working hard in preparation
22:43to make the right calls in these situations.
22:47He seemed to be stoic, purposeful, calm, whether it was the first series in an August exhibition
22:55game.
22:55Shoots a soaring pass.
22:57It's taken on the fly by Lenny Moore, all the way to the goal.
23:00Or whether it was the last two minutes and his team was behind in the NFL championship game.
23:04Yankee Stadium jam-packed for the greatest playoff game.
23:10The Baltimore Colts for the national pro title.
23:13That game, we go to overtime, and all they need is a field goal.
23:16And what does Johnny do?
23:17He was going to take it down, score a touchdown that was going to win the game.
23:21Unitas gets to a league team.
23:23The Pops are the all-jumpion.
23:25Down the field, that to me is the definition of clutch quarterback.
23:29Sonny Ness.
23:30And professional football.
23:33Unitas said you only get nervous if you don't know what you're doing.
23:37I knew what I was doing.
23:39John, it was just two minutes.
23:40Thank you very much, Chuck.
23:44When Johnny Unitas was playing, games started at 2 o'clock.
23:48And they did that only in Baltimore because they wanted to make sure everybody in town
23:51had time to go to church.
23:52So to everybody who was a Johnny Unitas and a Colts fan,
23:55Sunday started with God, and it ended with God.
24:01If God has only one spot on the top ten list, that's number one.
24:05The number four clutch quarterback of all time, Roger Staubach.
24:12I think Montana and Unitas and Elway and those guys all deserve to be on this list.
24:19But it would start with Roger Staubach.
24:20I've got to think Staubach's got to be number one.
24:25They were called America's team, and he was Captain America.
24:31We also called him Captain Comeback, but the former naval officer ranks fourth on our list.
24:38Staubach is one of those Hemingway-esque heroes, you know, that show grace under pressure.
24:44Red right, power 49, near G.O.
24:46It's on two.
24:47It's on two.
24:48Ready?
24:48Break.
24:49If you grew up in the 70s, it seemed like every Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Cowboys were on TV.
24:57You've got to love the Cowboys.
24:58They're the most exciting team in the NFL.
25:01And every Sunday at about 5.45, the Cowboys were behind or tied in the fourth quarter.
25:07How can you live like this, doing this every year?
25:09It was almost as if the games were choreographed.
25:14Set up, clutch, Roger Staubach performance.
25:17Clock is running, and they come back again.
25:20Staubach throwing, caught.
25:21That's it.
25:22Touchdown!
25:24The Cowboys have come from behind.
25:27Yes, sir.
25:29The Hail Mary was remarkable.
25:31The game seems lost, and yet there is Staubach driving the Cowboys down the field.
25:37At the end of the day, you felt as though the better team didn't win.
25:41The weaker team won because the weaker team had Roger Staubach.
25:45Well, the Cowboys made a miracle.
25:47Roger.
25:48Takes the snap.
25:49Humps and watch.
25:50He's going long.
25:52Down the near sideline for Drew Pearson.
25:54Pearson makes the catch at the 5 touchdowns.
25:56That's it.
25:59The Hail Mary pass is one that people always talk about.
26:04For me, it's the December 79 game against Washington, which is the best football game I've ever seen.
26:1035-34 in Dallas.
26:14One of my favorite games.
26:16I was certain they were dead in that game.
26:19I was just certain.
26:20Nobody comes from down a couple of scores in the last two minutes.
26:23It just doesn't happen.
26:24Hold it right there.
26:26Roger Staubach.
26:27Watch out.
26:27Don't bring him back.
26:3142 seconds left in the game.
26:33Redskins lead by six.
26:35Staubach throwing in the end zone.
26:37Tony Hill.
26:38Touchdown.
26:39The Cowboys have come from behind unbelievably.
26:44He was the best clutch quarterback because of his ability to run.
26:48The guy was never beaten when he had the ball in his hands in the final minutes of the game.
26:53Captain comeback.
26:54He was the real deal.
26:56Peyton Manning belongs in the top ten.
26:58How about an honorable mention instead?
27:00That championship win against New England, that was a defining moment in his career.
27:07As for little brother Eli, he is the proud owner of two clutch four-quarter game winning Super Bowl drives.
27:17Make the plays that he did, I mean, that was a stunning accomplishment.
27:23This quarterback just made the biggest plays.
27:26But what we're talking about here is a career's worth of work.
27:30So we're talking about the guy that Mannings beat.
27:33The number three clutch quarterback of all time, Tom Brady.
27:39Up until just recently, I felt that Joe Montana was the greatest quarterback that ever played the game.
27:45I now reserve that right for Tom Brady.
27:47My criteria is, have you won with different people around you?
27:53Have you won at different times in your career?
27:56Have you won in different ways?
27:58Tom Brady has just been phenomenal.
28:04He has been spectacular.
28:06Before he goes under center, he knows what he's going to do with it.
28:18And he knows if this guy's not there, he's going to go there.
28:21And if that guy's not there, he's going to go there.
28:23And if that guy's not there, he's going to throw it away.
28:24And the Patriots win it over time!
28:27Oh, baby!
28:29What a throw by Tom Brady!
28:32What a win!
28:34Tom Brady's had three great comebacks.
28:36One!
28:39Two!
28:43Three!
28:48I still remember his first Super Bowl when they upset the St. Louis Rams.
28:52His complete game performance was not spectacular.
28:56But the final drive performance, that's one of the great drives of all time.
29:00All right, folks.
29:01Bucking up your chin strap.
29:02Here we go.
29:03Here's this kid who basically just got handed this starting job.
29:06And he's out on that field like he's in his backyard.
29:09Now with no time out, with this field position, you have to just run the clock out.
29:14You have to play for overtime.
29:16Everybody's screaming at their TV set, sit on the ball, take the tie, go to overtime.
29:20Trying to get the ball into Adam Vinatieri's field goal ring.
29:24Drives them 51 yards, the winning field goal.
29:26Let's go!
29:27They did that because they knew what they had in Brady.
29:30A total flatliner, like Zeidl, Joe Montana.
29:34Some people will say, well, he hasn't had that signature moment.
29:36A lot of times it's been tied and he's dinked and dunked him down for a field goal.
29:41Those drives didn't have the same sizzle as Joe Montana's winning drives and the clutch.
29:47So what?
29:47I don't remember many games where he actually made the play to win the game.
29:52It was Adam Vinatieri most of the time.
29:54So what?
29:56If you win by one or you win by 100, what's the difference?
29:59You know, that's insane.
30:00Anybody would say that.
30:01That's nitpicking.
30:03That's...
30:04I'm sure that once they got close, the plan was get it set up for Vinatieri and we'll
30:10win the game and we'll walk out of here champions.
30:12Well, it would have been really reasonable for the Patriots only needing a field goal
30:15in Super Bowl 36 to just go ahead and get the touchdown so everybody felt better about
30:19it.
30:19Would that make sense to everyone?
30:21Hey, we need three, but let's get seven so Brady's legacy is better.
30:24We need touchdowns to get him the clutches.
30:26Come on!
30:27I think the Super Bowl loss makes us stop and reassess, but we were ready to kind of
30:36coronate him, I think, as the greatest of all time.
30:39Even while losing Super Bowl XLII, Brady showed why he's our number three clutch quarterback.
30:45He did what he had to do.
30:47He had the ball late in the fourth quarter and he found a way to get them moving.
30:52He got them a touchdown with two and a half minutes left.
30:54Well, what the Patriots need here is a patented Tom Brady drive.
30:59When desperately he had to step into a throw and throw it way downfield for Randy Moss and
31:04a double coverage, he almost completed it.
31:07And it is incomplete.
31:10That very easily could have been the Patriots tying the game and then we'd probably be hailing
31:15Tom Brady as easily the number one clutch player of all time.
31:21Brett Favre has plenty of clutch moments.
31:23The Packers win it 24 to 23.
31:27There goes the hill Mary towards the end zone.
31:29It is a touchdown.
31:30But he failed to crack our list.
31:33I think he has some pretty ticked off people in Wisconsin.
31:36Even Packer fans know for every great moment.
31:38Hey, let's go every drive.
31:40We got to think that way.
31:41Oh, baby!
31:42What a play!
31:42He's just really terrible.
31:43There's been one equally as bad.
31:46Steps up, looking to his right.
31:47And the pass intercepted by the time.
31:49I wouldn't put Brett up there with some of the top clutch quarterbacks.
31:52Part of being clutch is not making those critical mistakes.
31:55Favre's 37 fourth quarter comebacks are impressive.
31:58But one man has more.
32:00The number two clutch quarterback of all time.
32:03John Elway.
32:05I find it very hard to believe that somebody would be right ahead of John Elway.
32:10Especially since he has the record for fourth quarter comebacks.
32:18With an NFL record 47 fourth quarter comebacks, the question wasn't whether or not the Broncos would win.
32:25It was how John Elway would do it.
32:27The Broncos with one of their greatest come from behind wins.
32:31I think you have to put him at the top of the list.
32:35John Elway belongs at number one.
32:36John Elway is right at the very, very top.
32:40In addition to being maybe the greatest athlete to play the quarterback position.
32:44Touchdown Denver!
32:45John Elway had that late game magic.
32:48Here goes the pass.
32:49Bron Smith.
32:50Oh, he got it!
32:52Oh, it goes with!
32:53Week in and week out.
32:54Time has run out.
32:56It came down to John Elway.
32:57He'd been making a play in the fourth quarter.
32:58Had 47 comebacks.
33:01Why is it that all you guys ask about is the drive?
33:06His drive against the Cleveland Browns is legendary.
33:09For us to be backed up on our own two-yard line.
33:11The Broncos are 98 yards away from where they need to go.
33:14In that stadium, in that environment.
33:17Elway in the end zone and throwing it, it's complete.
33:19I think it was vintage.
33:21I think it was as good as you'll see.
33:23I don't think there's any question.
33:24The pass for Sewell.
33:25Got it and keeps it!
33:26Another first down for the Broncos.
33:28If they needed nine yards, they got ten.
33:30Stretch out the chain.
33:32Denver has the first down.
33:33If they needed 12 to get a first down, they got 13.
33:36Come on, Johnny!
33:37The way he played that drive.
33:39The look, the throw, touchdown!
33:41Is the very definition of clutch quarterbacking.
33:4498 and a half yard drive.
33:48You can debate on so many things.
33:50Who's the greatest?
33:51Who did this the best?
33:52John's ability to improvise and to find a way to win is the greatest I've ever seen.
33:58The way!
33:58Here comes the blitz!
33:59He steps away from it and lets the pass go long!
34:02He's going for a touchdown!
34:04We've seen it so often where Elway's running one way and he scrambles and gets away from
34:09somebody.
34:09Look for a play now.
34:10Throws around.
34:11Still has the ball.
34:12He throws the ball across the field, across his body like you're not supposed to do.
34:16The only Elway can pull that off.
34:18He was a Michael Jordan in some ways.
34:20He's given the ball and get out of his way.
34:21Elway scrambles away and he'll run.
34:23He did what he did but then you wonder well why'd they get behind.
34:32Early in his career, our number two quarterbacks licensed the thrill expired every time he reached the Super Bowl.
34:41You have to question John's decision to throw that.
34:44In the three Super Bowls that he lost, he did not play well.
34:49He was the guy that couldn't win the big one.
34:52And now all of a sudden, he's the second most clutch quarterback.
34:55I'm not certain I follow that.
34:57Matt Millen is...
34:58Yeah, by the way, the only reason he was in those Super Bowls, one, because he's John Elway,
35:04but two, the quarterbacks for the other team was Bernie Kosar, Vinny Testaverde, and Cordell Stewart.
35:14Those are some of the worst guys to get that far in the playoffs.
35:19He's not doing any of that in the NFC.
35:22That's why he lost to the NFC so many times.
35:29Telling him to keep his head up.
35:30Next to Dan Marino, he played with maybe the least talented group of players year in and year out of anybody on this list.
35:38They had the number one defense going into the game you're showing.
35:41They had the number one defense in 89.
35:44I don't think there's anybody that could have ever bought us in the three Super Bowls with the cast that we had than John Elway.
35:52When Elway finally did win a Super Bowl, he got the running back he needed.
35:58But it was Elway who ran the hardest.
36:03Backers jumping around.
36:04They rush four.
36:05Plenty of time for John now.
36:06Squeezes, steps up in the pocket.
36:08Elway, you run.
36:08Come on, John.
36:09Come on.
36:09Come on.
36:10That helicopter spin.
36:11He just hit the five-yard line.
36:14Kind of epitomized the will and the determination of John Elway.
36:18You want to tell me the 37-year-old man doesn't want to win this game?
36:21That sacrifice.
36:22Oh, man.
36:23It was unspoken, and yet it could not have been more eloquent.
36:26Denver's going to win it.
36:28Oh, baby, they're going to win this thing.
36:30Are you kidding me?
36:31Probably the greatest or one of the greatest two quarterbacks in the clutch.
36:36This guy will go down as the greatest come-from-behind player in National Football League history.
36:42And now, the number one clutch quarterback of all time, Joe Montana.
36:47If I had to have one quarterback to run my football team, I have one drive, it's Joe Montana.
36:55In situations when every other quarterback would get frenetic.
37:01Joe Cool, Joseph Clifford, Montana, Jr.
37:05He would get calmer.
37:09Here's Montana throwing for the end zone.
37:12Right late.
37:13He's got it.
37:14Montana was in a zone for about six years.
37:18Touchdown 49ers.
37:19What a play by Montana.
37:22That was the mark.
37:37Joe Montana deserves to be number one.
37:40And he proved it not only in professional football.
37:44The San Francisco 49ers, who have trailed 35-7 at one.
37:48I don't think anybody can go into the stadium against us and feel safe with a victory.
37:53But also at Notre Dame.
37:54That's number three, Joe Montana.
37:58The drive in the Cotton Bowl against Houston in an ice storm.
38:01They're impossibly dead in the water.
38:03He's sick with a 103-degree fever.
38:05He has the chills.
38:07His body temperature is below normal.
38:09It's kind of like the start of the flu.
38:11Everybody thought they were dead and buried.
38:12Except Joe Montana.
38:14Two seconds left to play.
38:16Brings the team back from a three-touchdown deficit and wins the game.
38:19Montana going.
38:20And he just got it.
38:21Unbelievable finish.
38:23He wasn't a great player in our game just by passing through Tanner.
38:26He's great and showed up since he's probably first put on a male supporter.
38:30Obviously, the breakthrough point for Joe Montana was that NFC Championship game against the Cowboys.
38:3758 seconds remaining.
38:39The outcome of a Super Bowl bird hangs in the balance.
38:42Beating Dallas was like a young knight that goes off in the forest and has to slay the dragon to become a man.
38:47Montana rolling out the right.
38:49Looking toward the end zone.
38:50Throwing under pressure.
38:51Throws his pass.
38:52Go on, Clark.
38:53Clark got a touchdown.
38:54The Cowboys were America's team at the height of America's team, you know?
38:58Not like now.
38:59It's a touchdown for the 49ers!
39:02Joe was so cool.
39:04And he's so young.
39:05And he still keeps his composure.
39:07He's got two tall Jones breathing down his neck.
39:09And then just kind of lobs that one up there.
39:11And we know the rest.
39:12Half of that play.
39:13It's hard to argue against Montana as being Joe Cool, Mr. Clutch.
39:18Joe Montana's number one?
39:20No.
39:20He was surrounded by such greatness.
39:23Joe Montana had a great defense.
39:25Joe Montana had great running backs.
39:27Touchdown, Roger Craig!
39:28Great wide receivers.
39:30Jerry Rice!
39:31Touchdown!
39:32He won his third season before Cray or Rice got there.
39:38Tom Brady, who for much of his career has been surrounded by Troy Brown and Jabbar Gaffney.
39:42So when you give Brady the tools, he throws 50 touchdown passes and goes 18 and up.
39:47Touchdown, Tom Brady!
39:49He makes a great point.
39:53That's why Brady's number one now, but this was 2008.
39:57Hey, Lemos!
40:02Montana's going to throw.
40:03Rolls out.
40:04In trouble.
40:05Slips.
40:06Falls.
40:06Lobs it to Craig.
40:07Touchdown, 49ers!
40:10Smooth.
40:11Smooth.
40:11Even after being traded to Kansas City, Montana was still the ultimate clutch quarterback.
40:16Back to pass for Montana.
40:18Looks right.
40:18Touches a pass.
40:19Into the end zone.
40:20Touchdown!
40:21And now!
40:22I don't believe it!
40:23Touchdown!
40:23In the playoffs, he carved us like it was Thanksgiving.
40:28We were winning the game.
40:29Looks right.
40:29No one there.
40:30Looks left.
40:30Throws in the end zone.
40:31Touchdown!
40:31A fourth quarter comeback, they win.
40:35While he didn't win a Super Bowl in Kansas City, there's no question that he made that a better team just by walking in the locker room.
40:42Touchdown, Montana Magic!
40:44Kansas City takes the lead with eight seconds left.
40:50To me, Montana's number one because we saw him do it so often it became almost routine.
40:573.20 left to go.
40:58The Bengals take a 16-13 lead.
41:00I don't know if anybody could calm his team and perform at the high precision level that Montana could ever.
41:07Montana trying to drive him a length of the field here with the game and the balance.
41:11Who in the world looks at his teammates backed up against his own goal line and says,
41:17Look at that, guys.
41:17There's John Candy.
41:18And it was just that that kind of made everyone relax.
41:21Joe back to throw.
41:22Steps up.
41:23Throws.
41:23Out here for right.
41:24He has it.
41:25That's the stamp of Joe Montana.
41:27I'm cool.
41:28You guys are going to be cool.
41:29Follow me.
41:30We're going to get this done.
41:31Montana throws over the middle.
41:32A five-hit.
41:33They're moving the ball down the field and they're behind in the game.
41:36And yet, I never thought they were going to lose.
41:39They've got three timeouts.
41:40This is deja vu.
41:41Back to throw, Montana.
41:43Steps up.
41:44Throw.
41:44Throws.
41:45Throws.
41:46Throws.
41:47Throws.
41:47Throws.
41:48Throws.
41:48Throws.
41:48Throws.
41:49Throws.
41:49Throws.
41:50Throws.
41:51Joe Kuhn may be number one, but like everyone on our list, he proved that clutch quarterbacks
41:56are born, not made.
41:58Can you learn to be Michelangelo?
42:00Can you learn to sing like Pavarotti?
42:02No.
42:03No, you cannot.
42:04It's a gift.
42:05It's the flame inside that makes him go.
42:08But what people are really fired up about is what's wrong with this list.
42:12John Elway belongs at number one.
42:14Starbucks, gotta be number one.
42:16Montana is number two.
42:17He may be equal to Johnny Unitas.
42:19We're not going to say he's better than Johnny Unitas.
42:22I didn't see Unitas bring his team from behind.
42:24Number six, I think Snake belongs higher.
42:27I would put Otto Graham higher on the list.
42:28What about Brian Seip?
42:32Can we kick it off the show?
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