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00:01Winkervat, number 10.
00:02No!
00:03Winkervat has to be the definitive undrafted success story in the NFL.
00:07In 1995, this future Jet Great was ignored by every NFL team.
00:13You just wonder how he slipped through the cracks.
00:16He is too small to be a football player in the eyes of anyone who looked at him.
00:19He is not particularly fast.
00:22His little feet just move incredibly quickly.
00:25Maybe he didn't run a 40 in the proper time or bench press enough weight.
00:29All the silly little drills that they make him do, all he can do is play football.
00:33What a catch by Wayne Gribet.
00:35He was a possessing guy.
00:36I mean, he wasn't going to stretch the field, but he was a guy who could make plays on third
00:40down, move the chain.
00:41That's the go-to guy on third down.
00:44He actually took the time to watch.
00:46That's amazing.
00:47You know what else he did?
00:50Never made a Pro Bowl.
00:52Get him off the list.
00:54You see that?
00:55Wow, he was good.
00:57Touchdown!
00:59Wayne Gribet, I think Hofstra, and then I think White.
01:03Wayne Gribet, showing some brave hands.
01:06Which means you go undrafted.
01:08A tough kid who can catch in a crowd.
01:11By the time our number 10 undrafted player graduated, he owned several Hofstra receiving
01:16records, including a five-touchdown game that tied the collegiate record held by Jerry Rice.
01:22Still, most teams were apprehensive.
01:25So who was the Bulls genius who took a chance?
01:29I did.
01:31We got into training camp.
01:33I keep seeing this kid diving, making great plays, and it was Wayne Gribet.
01:39I won't be happy, you know, leaving here.
01:42I don't want to leave here.
01:43I didn't get myself a round trip token for the Brits because I don't plan on going home.
01:47You want Ryan or you want the kid to run it?
01:49Let the kid run it.
01:50Okay.
01:51Get back in there.
01:52I got to give this kid some experience.
01:54He's a tough son.
01:55He's great.
01:56He can do a lot of things.
01:57We had a meeting.
01:58I says, I want to start this kid.
02:00And the guys are saying, I says, we're going to start him.
02:05I love Wayne.
02:06He's one of my all-time favorite Jets, without a doubt.
02:08He certainly belongs in the top 10.
02:10Corbett was an underdog.
02:11That is, a Jet fan, you could wrap your arms around.
02:13I think that's why Corbett was as loved as he was, because he was every man.
02:17New York's working-class hero achieved stardom when he became the first undrafted player to have his own cereal.
02:25I would imagine Corbett Crunch gets soggy and milked just like everything else.
02:29If you think about it, Corbett was a captain of the Jets at one point.
02:33So in a way, that was Captain Crunch.
02:37Something about Corbett, he wasn't very well-traveled.
02:41We're up in Garfield, like 10 miles from Jets Stadium, went to Hofstra and Long Island.
02:52That's all within 40 miles of each other.
03:01Only where's number nine.
03:02When he wins the Super Bowl, you can move him up to number one.
03:05I don't know if he really deserves to be on this list.
03:08There's the snap, the spot.
03:09Romo can't get the spot down!
03:12He has his flaws, he has his faults, but the guy who's not drafted, he's done real well.
03:17The playoff drought is over.
03:19This is not a month.
03:20The thing about Romo, people talk about he choked, he underachieved.
03:25He wasn't even supposed to play.
03:27He wasn't supposed to make it.
03:29Him being a good quarterback, a great quarterback in the league, is already an overachievement.
03:47Tony, way to go.
03:48Until he does something bigger than that, I don't even want to talk about him.
03:51Maybe I don't want a Super Bowl, but would you trade spots with him?
03:54Probably you would.
03:58Tony Romo is an amazing story because this is a guy who shouldn't be a starting quarterback
04:04in the NFL.
04:05Here's a guy from eastern Illinois.
04:07I thought guys like that, just by law, could not play in the NFL.
04:11The 414 yards passing would be Tony Romo's career high for a single game.
04:16In 2002, Romo was named the top player in Division I AA, but many felt his skills weren't a good
04:23fit for pro football.
04:25Tony Romo came from a small school.
04:27Granted, he was very good, but he's a shorter quarterback.
04:30He does not have a big arm, doesn't play the position with a lot of precision and discipline.
04:35They probably saw all those traits and didn't see him as a draftable player.
04:41He was invited to the combine as a thrower.
04:43He wasn't even brought in as a quarterback prospect.
04:45He was brought in the throat of the wide receivers.
04:47Our number nine undrafted player caught a break when a couple of eastern Illinois alums
04:52offered him a free agent contract.
04:55Sean Payton saw a lot of himself in Tony Romo, and therefore he was attracted to that
05:00style of quarterback.
05:01Payton sold him to Parcells, and the Cowboys signed him as a free agent.
05:05I offered him $20,000, and he actually went with Sean Payton for $10,000.
05:10When I saw Tony one day, I said, I can't even get you for $10,000 more.
05:15And he said, well, you had Berline as a backup.
05:17And he said, I knew I had a better chance to make Dallas' team than your team.
05:20So at least he saved my ego a little bit.
05:24Hmm.
05:26We might have something there, boys.
05:29By 2006, Romo was the number two quarterback on the Cowboys' depth chart.
05:34Drew Bledsoe at some point is going to pull the gun out and point it in the wrong direction
05:39and take it to himself.
05:40He underthrew it, and it's intercepted.
05:42I'm sure there are a lot of these fans saying they need to make a change.
05:46He got a chance and took advantage of it wildly.
05:49His ability to move around is the Romo magic.
05:52Come on, do you think the Cowboys had to work on that?
05:54Oh, merciful heavens, what a throw and catch that is.
05:58No!
05:59You gave me that?
06:00You left it, come on, let's...
06:02Go!
06:08Yes!
06:10When you think of the top ten undrafted players of all time, anybody come to mind immediately?
06:15Immediately, Rod Smith comes to mind.
06:18But Drew Pearson has to make the list then, too.
06:21He's a great example to show what it takes to get to the NFL and what it takes to stay
06:26in the NFL.
06:27Rod Smith starred as a wide receiver and part-time quarterback at Missouri Southern State.
06:32He graduated in 1994 with school records in receptions, yards, and touchdowns.
06:38That good's pass complete to Rod Smith for the Lions touchdown!
06:42I was All-American my junior year.
06:43Scouts would come through, and I got hurt my first senior year, and then they never came back.
06:49He's not very big.
06:50He's faster than people thought, but he didn't light up the stopwatch.
06:54I didn't go to the combine.
06:55I didn't go to any of the senior bowls.
06:57And these are things I was told I would get to do.
06:59I'm not really sure why he wasn't drafted.
07:01If you ever want to know it's not an exact science, you can look at that.
07:08Sometimes all you need is somebody to believe in you.
07:10Rod got Wade and Phillip to believe in him.
07:12It's time to get ready now.
07:13He spent his first year on the practice squad.
07:15I was excited, man.
07:16I was happy.
07:17I was happy I had a job.
07:18I did everything everybody else did except I didn't play on Sundays.
07:21And then Mike came in and gave an opportunity to play.
07:23But I was sure happy when I came to Denver as a head coach that he was on the practice
07:28team
07:28because it didn't take long to figure out he was going to be a stud in the National Football League.
07:32Rod's first NFL catch was a game-winner Hail Mary on Darryl Green.
07:37Here goes the pass.
07:38Rod Smith up.
07:39He got it.
07:40Rod goes to win.
07:42I got put in that position by default.
07:44Everybody else had gotten knocked out.
07:45Eddie Mack, he knocked out.
07:46Anthony Miller was out.
07:47Mike Pridgett was out.
07:48The weapons are slowly slipping away.
07:55What a catch!
07:57Rod Smith forced into the game with injuries with a miracle catch.
08:02I actually cut two first-round draft choices after my first year,
08:05knowing that we would go with Rod Smith.
08:07And you don't do that as a head coach in your second year
08:09unless you get a lot of confidence in somebody.
08:13Let's go, baby.
08:14Here we go.
08:15Big things today, baby.
08:16Big things today.
08:17Smith's first catch may have been special,
08:19but it's just as much as Neck's 848 that earned him a spot on our list.
08:27Rod Smith, Denver touchdown!
08:30Rod had the typical traits of someone who was undrafted who wanted to prove themselves.
08:35He's our all-time leading receiver in receptions, touchdowns, and yards,
08:39and also he's the all-time leader in all those categories among undrafted free agent receivers.
08:45Rod Smith needs one catch for 100.
08:49Rod just thought of the go-to guy whenever, you know, John needed help.
08:53That's who he was looking for.
08:54John lost one down the left side by Rod Smith!
08:57Touchdown!
08:58Yeah!
08:59Hey!
09:00I'm passing the bell!
09:01Way to go!
09:02I've heard this from a few people, and I don't know how true it is.
09:04They say, once I catch the ball, I've never seen anybody turn up field as fast as you.
09:08They bring six.
09:09L.A. ducks it.
09:10And here goes Rod Smith.
09:1130!
09:1220!
09:13You can forget it!
09:14Touchdown!
09:17Better job of avoiding hits than others, and he was smart about it.
09:22It's tough to get a chance if you're undrafted.
09:25Rod Smith did and made the most of it.
09:27I think he's headed for the Hall of Fame.
09:30Touchdown, Denver!
09:31To NFL scouts out there, you guys actually get paid for this, right?
09:34He's six foot, he's 200 pounds, great hands, great work ethic.
09:38How did you miss this guy again?
09:41I think he's borderline Hall of Fame.
09:47Antonio Gates went undrafted because he was a college basketball player.
09:54He was a very good basketball player.
09:56He was one of the best players in the Mid-American Conference.
09:58Kent State.
09:59It's a big second quarter for Gates.
10:01Played in the Elite Eight.
10:04Mr. March Madness.
10:05Antonio Gates is mad at it!
10:08He comes into the NFL, and he's a Pro Bowl player right off the start.
10:12Not bad for a guy that wasn't drafted, huh?
10:14That's just incredible.
10:16Antonio Gates definitely deserves to be in the top ten.
10:21Our number seven undrafted player was recruited by Michigan State to play both football and basketball.
10:28But when Spartans coach Nick Saban wanted him to only play football, Gates transferred to Kent State.
10:34He just told me about, you know, natural abilities that I had in football.
10:44So our number seven undrafted player called on his high school football experience and gave the NFL a shot.
10:52Believe it or not, he hardly had anyone show up to his workout.
10:55It was the first time he'd had a football helmet on in five years.
10:58How in the world did the Chargers know this guy would be this good?
11:01If we had any idea that, you know, he was going to be as good as he was, we would
11:04have drafted him probably in the first round rather than, you know, having him signed as a free agent.
11:09Antonio Gates is in there yet again!
11:11Now he's arguably one of the best tight ends in the last 25 years.
11:14I don't understand it.
11:15I mean, that tells you how scouting is.
11:17Not very good.
11:17It's just amazing that they basically overlooked him, I'm sure, because he played basketball and people just didn't think of
11:23him in that way.
11:24But somebody should have known.
11:29Traits that made Antonio Gates the most valuable player in the MAAC conference at Kent State allowed him to be
11:36an excellent tight end.
11:38Oh, the big hoopster from Kent State climbing high for the rebound!
11:42Watch, everybody you talk to will say, he plays football like a basketball player.
11:46That's like a big guy in the low post getting a rebound.
11:50Basketball.
11:50Basketball.
11:51Basketball.
11:51Basketball.
11:52Basketball.
11:53Basketball.
11:53Basketball skills.
11:54Imagine how good Antonio Gates would have been if he played basketball at something other than a MAAC score.
12:00Touchdown, San Diego!
12:01He has that explosion that I've never seen a guy that size.
12:06The body control, obviously the soft hands.
12:08Gates will grow up like just a great job.
12:10He's a kid.
12:11One-on-one.
12:12And he really only runs about four or five routes.
12:14That's it.
12:15But nobody seems to be able to catch him.
12:18Is there anybody on this planet that could cover Antonio Gates?
12:22Since entering the league in 2003, Gates has been unstoppable.
12:26Our number seven undrafted player has two 1,000-yard seasons, has averaged eight touchdowns per year,
12:32and has been selected to the Pro Bowl six times.
12:36Antonio Gates has four of the top ten tight end seasons since 1993.
12:41Not bad for a guy that wasn't drafted, huh?
12:43With all of these guys, all the other scouts missed, yeah, why doesn't an NFL team just send guys to
12:47the NCAA tournament versus the Combine?
12:49They could do better.
12:52Number six undrafted player of all time, Warren Moon.
12:56Yep.
12:57He wasn't drafted.
12:58He was drafted, wasn't he?
13:00Warren Moon wasn't drafted?
13:02Nope.
13:03Wow.
13:04It really is a joke that he wasn't drafted.
13:06He was pretty much screwed.
13:08To think that he was passed over back in the days when there were a lot of rounds in the
13:12draft, it's pretty amazing.
13:13Who were the guys that said he wasn't good enough to play in the NFL?
13:16We should line those people up and throw tomatoes at him.
13:18Can you imagine?
13:20Warren Moon might have gone out and sold insurance, or taught school, or started a business.
13:27All worthwhile careers.
13:28But this is a Hall of Fame quarterback that nobody wanted.
13:35Ignorance.
13:36Back then, you know, black quarterbacks didn't get a shot in the NFL.
13:39Prototypical size, cannon arm, threw for a million yards in college.
13:44The Huskies can also move the football in the air with senior quarterback Warren Moon.
13:48But his skin tone's a little bit too dark.
13:50He can't play quarterback for us.
13:52How absurd is this?
13:54Well, what I was told was that I didn't have the arm strength, that I was too short, and that
14:00I didn't come out of a pro-style offense.
14:03Warren Moon was a pro-style passer even at Hamilton High School.
14:07Certainly.
14:09He didn't have a big arm.
14:12What?
14:13Who said that?
14:15At the University of Washington, led them to the Rose Bowl.
14:18They're going to back off and rush for it as Moon fires the ball.
14:22Touchdown!
14:22Yes, sir!
14:23Warren Moon at Washington moved around a lot, threw the ball on the run.
14:28In 1978, that was not seen as necessary to play quarterback in the NFL.
14:33He had mobile, agile quarterbacks.
14:35He obviously can't think.
14:36By all rights, in the modern era, Warren Moon would have probably gone number one overall.
14:45And I respect the fact that Warren Moon said, yes, I am a quarterback.
14:49If you won't give me a shot, I'll go somewhere where I can get a shot.
14:52And he had to go up to Canada to prove himself.
14:55He went to Canada, was beyond prolific.
14:58Moon, he steps up and fires.
15:00Tom Scott, it's wide open.
15:02Touchdown!
15:03The number six undrafted player of all time shocked everyone when he led the Edmonton Eskimos to five straight break
15:10-up titles.
15:11You know, he might be able to play a little bit.
15:15He made the NFL sit up and take notice.
15:18I'm a quarterback.
15:19Give me a shot.
15:20In 1984, Moon signed as a free agent with the Houston Oilers.
15:25Houston actually paid in the biggest contract in history, 5.5 million.
15:30Not bad for a guy that was never drafted.
15:35Yeah, he had already proven himself.
15:38But he had to get it done in the NFL.
15:40And he did.
15:41From the very beginning, Moon was able to confirm that his reputation wasn't made up, dreamed up, or overblown.
15:47Over a 17-year career, our number six undrafted player proved he could do everything the experts said he couldn't.
15:55A classic leader.
15:57Hold up, hold up!
15:58Let's take one down, all right?
15:59Let's put one all together and let's take one down.
16:02Wow, could he throw the football.
16:04The way it comes through behind the ear.
16:08The spiral.
16:10I mean, it's the tightest spiral you can see.
16:12Warren Moon is putting on a clinic here today.
16:15There's a guy who threw for 35 miles.
16:18And Warren Moon has been so sharp on that deep pass today, it's almost scary.
16:23Warren Moon is one of the guys who goes way beyond statistics.
16:26Warren Moon erased the terminology black quarterback from the game.
16:31We're talking about the first black quarterback to get into the Hall of Fame.
16:34And I only played this game not for just myself, not for just my teammates.
16:39I had a responsibility to play the game for my people.
16:48How do you miss this?
16:50I mean, all this guy does is, you know, drill field goals in the toughest circumstances possible.
16:58You look back on it now and you say, well, are these guys all blind?
17:02How could I not see what he was?
17:03Before Vinatieri earned renown for his NFL heroics, he picked the legionally at San Francisco State,
17:10graduating in 1995 as the school's all-time leading scorer.
17:14But that wasn't enough to open an NFL on.
17:17A 51-yard field goal by Adam Vinatieri.
17:21Well, you know, in Adam's case, South Dakota's a long ways away.
17:26I moved to Virginia.
17:28Started working with a kicking coach down there.
17:31Was drafted by the Amsterdam Admirals.
17:33Line up for kicking.
17:34Nice easy throw.
17:35Vinatieri, 43-yard attempt.
17:38Got it!
17:39Vinatieri picked his way to a job at New England,
17:43where he developed a lasting reputation.
17:49He is the greatest pressure kicker I have ever, ever seen.
17:53Kick is up, and it is good!
17:57Adam Vinatieri puts the Patriots up!
17:59He didn't do it once, he didn't do it twice, he didn't do it three times,
18:03he just kept doing it every time he got there.
18:04And it is right between the sticks!
18:07The best play I've ever seen was the kick that he had in the snow.
18:11Back ball down, kick up on the way, and it is good!
18:16Vinatieri went two for two with Super Bowl titles hanging in the balance.
18:21The kick from 48 yards was absolutely positively right down the middle.
18:25Kick is on the way, and it is good!
18:28It's good! It's good!
18:30When he made the 48-yard kick to win the first of the Patriots' three Super Bowls,
18:34you know, you're on the edge of the seat.
18:36When he made the 41-yard, it was like a gimme-puss.
18:39Adam Vinatieri with the money on the table, bangs it through!
18:43I don't believe that Adam Vinatieri becoming an Indianapolis Colt
18:46is coincidental to the Colts winning a championship.
18:49He had a game against the Baltimore Ravens.
18:51They would have otherwise lost.
18:52He made every single point for that team.
18:55Five kicks!
18:59They would have been shut out!
19:01He made 14-15 that postseason.
19:05He made more field goals than the Colts' offense scored touchdowns.
19:12He carried them.
19:14Adam Vinatieri, five for five today.
19:17He not only delivered the Patriots in three Super Bowls, his kicks were the winning margin,
19:21but he saved them and earned them a Super Bowl.
19:23It's really four Super Bowls the guy's responsible for.
19:26I'm sure he's missed one in that situation.
19:27I can't remember which one.
19:28Nine seconds left.
19:30Patriots try to win it.
19:31Kick is up, and it is not good!
19:34He didn't make all of it.
19:35He made some of the most dramatic ones, but he also missed some very makeable kicks.
19:39Let's call it 29 yards.
19:41He gets ready.
19:42The snap, the ball is down, the kick is on its way.
19:45It's good!
19:45Come on!
19:46It's good!
19:51Yeah.
19:52All-time great clutch performer?
19:53No.
19:55No.
19:58You look at it and you say, I'm going to go to South Dakota and draft a kicker.
20:01Why would you draft one?
20:02You can always get one.
20:04To send the Jets to the AFC Championship game.
20:07It's no good!
20:08You'd have given up whatever it took to get Adam to be your kicker at that time.
20:12There are certain guys who feel kickers aren't football players.
20:15Kickers are not players.
20:17They're necessities.
20:18He was caught by the kicker.
20:20Adam Vinatieri runs Kershaw Walker down.
20:23His exploits earned him a spot on our list and may eventually earn Vinatieri a spot in
20:29an even more exclusive club.
20:31I'd say he's going to the Hall of Fame for all the clutch kicks he's made.
20:35I think that he will be the second kicker ever inducted.
20:37If he's not in the Hall of Fame, they should lock the doors of the Hall of Fame.
20:39When you look at what Vinatieri's done, what he's accomplished, Patriots win!
20:44How did somebody not take a chance on him coming out of college?
20:48At number four undrafted player of all time, Marion Motley.
20:54Marion Motley.
20:55Wow, he was undrafted?
20:56Number four?
20:57I didn't know that.
20:58Really?
20:58Of course he wasn't drafted.
21:00He was black in the 40s.
21:04There's no other way to play.
21:06Fullback Marion Motley wore both 76 and 36 for the Cleveland Browns in the 40s and 50s.
21:13And he did a real number on opposing defenses.
21:17One of the first great, really big backs.
21:21Huge, gigantic, almost inhuman.
21:24As big as he was.
21:25At 240 pounds, he was a force of nature who gave defenders the grim choice of being buried
21:32or blasted.
21:34I think of a transformer, robotic figure, just pounding his way through.
21:39And a guy like that was a tremendous weapon.
21:42Back then, you'd have defensive ends who'd weigh 200 pounds.
21:45You'd have linebackers who'd weigh 210.
21:47Safety men would be 180 pounds.
21:49How do you tackle him?
21:50He was the kid in the Sandlot game that was three times bigger than everyone else.
21:55And you just gave him the ball and let him run.
21:57Almost like the Jerome Bettis of the 1940s.
22:00The bus.
22:01He was about 250.
22:04I mean, he was that big.
22:06He's rolling.
22:07The bus is hitting on all cylinders.
22:09I knock your brains out and then pick him up later.
22:15Marion Motley belongs on this list.
22:18If for no other reason, his place in history.
22:21Motley was not chosen in a 30-round draft for one reason.
22:25In 1946, pro football had no black players until Cleveland coach Paul Brown signed the Ohio native to a free
22:32agent contract.
22:34It probably would have drawn too much attention to do it through the draft.
22:37Basically, they broke what had been a color barrier in pro football.
22:41And this was a year before Jackie Robinson went to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
22:44When you think about Motley and you say,
22:46what does it take for a player to break that color line at that time in our nation's history,
22:52you've got to give him even more credit for his greatness.
22:55With a jet start, Motley was past the line in a flash.
22:59You can imagine what it was like for Marion Motley,
23:03knowing the other teams can take a shot at you,
23:06knowing that you're going to get hit on every play.
23:08They didn't call the unnecessary roughness penalties like they do today.
23:13He said that he never fought back, he never talked back.
23:16He said, I always got my revenge on the next play.
23:18He had so many great runs, so many touchdowns, he got his revenge.
23:24The thing about a lot of these players is, could they play today?
23:28Oh my, this is the type of player teams in this league dream about finding to put a running back.
23:35Marion Motley could have played in any era.
23:37The guy was 260 pounds and he had speed.
23:39Marion Motley had quite an afternoon busting through the tremendous Yankee line.
23:44Here's another one of those examples of players in the league that we forget,
23:48because so few people are now around.
23:52How great a player Marion Motley was.
23:55I'm glad that he's on this list and we haven't forgotten Marion Motley.
24:14Somebody must have really messed up.
24:16He might be the best interior pass rusher in the history of the National Football League.
24:25He's not even the greatest interior pass rusher in Vikings history.
24:33That's Alan Page.
24:36Talent for me.
24:37High motor, never took a playoff.
24:40I thought he was the greatest defensive tackle of this era.
24:46He did not make the combine.
24:48No one thought he could play.
24:50No way, man.
24:51No way.
24:52I went too hard.
24:53In 1990, John Randall signed with the Vikings as an undrafted free agent.
24:58Scout said the Texas A&I product was too small for the NFL.
25:03Hey, you up, hey.
25:04I hope you did not.
25:05I'm not short.
25:06I'm tall, man.
25:07You're tall as me.
25:08We saw a guy who played like he was 6'5 or 6'.
25:136'6, man.
25:14I'm 6'6.
25:173'20.
25:18Set your big ass down.
25:20Forget about what the stats he said.
25:22He was a very disruptive player.
25:24Craig is back to pass.
25:25Crushed it by Randall.
25:26Tipped up.
25:27Picked oil.
25:28Intercepted.
25:28And he was really, really quick and really difficult to block.
25:32And who would you guess would be in the middle of it?
25:34Johnny Randall.
25:35A double sack by Randall.
25:37Great play, John Randall.
25:39What he lacked in size, Randall made up for with sacks.
25:44Here's a guy that had 138, I believe, sacks as a defensive tackle.
25:49Not as a defensive end.
25:50Hey, that's not even Martin.
25:52History will never really give it its full due.
25:56And I was in the hallway for me for it.
25:58Sometimes those guys who are an inch short and 20 pounds light, they make up for it by
26:03having a gigantic chip on their shoulder.
26:06Pass the club.
26:08Randall, a second.
26:10Everyone needs like an enemy and, you know, a nemesis.
26:13Being undrafted was his.
26:15So he took it out on everybody.
26:16Put my 40th pipe on your...
26:18I think John Randall is the most underrated player to ever play a game of football.
26:23I can say that because I go against him twice a year.
26:26Here's Farr back at Randall Sachs!
26:29You talk to the guys who played against John Randall, and they thought he was more of a
26:33handful week in, week out, every Sunday than just about any defensive lineman in a game.
26:39Well, I tell you what, there's no way you're going to go into a game and say, okay, they
26:43ain't going to worry about John Randall.
26:44I'm glad that for whatever reason, I never had to play against him.
26:48His relentlessness, his passion.
26:51It's like a relentless fist of passion you can only get if you're a hungry, undrafted player.
26:55He was a volcanic NFL player.
26:59Oh my!
27:00Blow it up!
27:00Blow it up!
27:05Of all the players I've shot over 35 years of working for NFL films, John Randall is by
27:11far the most interesting.
27:13Ha ha!
27:13Ha ha!
27:15Ha ha!
27:15Ha ha!
27:16And I can't think of a close second.
27:18Knight Rider!
27:19Knight Rider!
27:20For all the talking he did...
27:22Victors are in the house!
27:26For all the trash talking...
27:28Regulators!
27:29Mount up!
27:30We're coming!
27:31For all the great NFL film he provided with his mouth...
27:35But I'm telling you, man, you should hang out.
27:37We should go fishing together.
27:39That guy could really play.
27:46He revolutionized the position.
27:47He was the first big physical corner.
27:50Offenses feared him.
27:51Look out, Daniel!
27:53Oh!
27:54Got it!
27:55Baddest man on the planet.
27:57Knight Train just says it all.
27:59The pass is good for...
28:00Bang!
28:03The play is diagnosed perfectly by Knight Train Lane.
28:06Knight Train had the ability to do the bait and switch.
28:09He would play off.
28:10The opposing quarterback would look and say, oh, jeez, the guy's uncovered.
28:13And at that moment, Knight Train would break for the ball.
28:17That's why he got so many interceptions.
28:19Donny United!
28:2068 of them still...
28:234th all-time.
28:25Only played 14 seasons.
28:28And most of those were 12-game seasons.
28:30The rest were 14-game seasons.
28:33Where they threw the ball 20 times a game.
28:40In my book, the greatest defensive back that ever played the game.
28:49Abandoned in a dumpster as a baby,
28:52our number two undrafted player overcame long odds,
28:55both in life and in his quest to be part of the NFL.
28:59He went to Scottsbluff Junior College in Nebraska.
29:04I mean, you don't draft guys out of the colleges.
29:07He was discharged from the Army.
29:08He goes back to Los Angeles and gets a job at an aircraft factory.
29:12And he hates it.
29:13He just got frustrated and said, you know, I think I can play football.
29:17Found the Rams' office, walked in and asked for a trial bringing his scrapbook.
29:20And showed him what he did.
29:21And they agreed to let him have a trial.
29:23In today's NFL, that's unthinkable.
29:26But in the NFL of 1952, somebody would give you a tryout.
29:30He tells them he's a receiver.
29:31However, the coach, Joe Steidahar, looks at Night Train, who's 6'2", 195 pounds,
29:36and says, you look more like a defensive player to me.
29:38Puts him on defense, which Train had really never played before.
29:42He got right up to 215.
29:45He might have grown an inch, too.
29:48In the practice field, Deacon Dan Tower, who was the Rams' number one running back,
29:52tries to go around the end.
29:57And Night Train comes up and levels him.
30:00And everything on the practice field stops.
30:02And Joe Steidahar says, that's my kind of football player.
30:06He won the job.
30:07And then in that season, in a 12-game regular season,
30:10he intercepts 14 passes to set an NFL record that still stands today.
30:16In 12 games.
30:19In 12 games.
30:20Lane is yet another of our undrafted players who was involved with a famous singer.
30:25Donna Washington was a great jazz and blues singer of the time.
30:29Night Train, I believe, was his third marriage, and I think it was her seventh.
30:32So it wasn't necessarily a marriage made in heaven.
30:35Will Chamberlain actually was the best man in their wedding.
30:39Nowadays, everybody talks about Tony Romo and whoever he's dating.
30:42But Night Train, Lane, and Diana were definitely a pretty famous couple.
30:47I remember those years when he was married to Diana Washington.
30:50Tell you what, our team parties, they charge a lot of money to get into them today.
30:56After our number two undrafted player retired, he worked for comedian Red Foxx,
31:01and then the Detroit Police Athletic League mentoring disadvantaged children,
31:05never forgetting his humble beginnings.
31:09Night Train, Lane, is an amazing story.
31:11It's like something out of a fairy tale.
31:13And now, the purple and unrafted player of all time.
31:17Kurt Warner.
31:18Number one.
31:19The greatest grocery bagger in NFL history.
31:24Obviously, when Kurt Warner puts his body of work together at the end of it,
31:27you look at it and you go,
31:28what were you people thinking?
31:29How could you miss on this?
31:30But he went to Northern Iowa.
31:32Warner received Conference Player of the Year honors in his one year as a starter,
31:37but received nothing more from the NFL than a free agent invitation to Packers camp in 1994.
31:44Anybody you talk to who was with the Packers when he first got there,
31:48he wasn't good enough.
31:50He goes off to make $6 an hour at the Hy-Vee grocery store.
31:55I mean, what's a quarterback who can't stock a shelf?
31:57Warner got his first taste of professional football in the Arena League.
32:02Led by first-team all-arated quarterback Kurt Warner,
32:04the Iowa club ride, the 10-game winning streak.
32:06Our number one undrafted player parlayed his Arena career into a job in NFL Europe.
32:12But success in Amsterdam didn't particularly excite people in the U.S.
32:17He wasn't big and strong as Elway.
32:19He didn't have the arm that Marino had.
32:21He didn't have the speed that I had.
32:24So he can't be good enough, right?
32:26But he can play.
32:27Close the end zone.
32:28Touchdown, Rams!
32:30He doesn't look too bad.
32:31Quarterback?
32:32No, he doesn't look too bad.
32:32He goes from Scout Team Player of the Year in 1998 to the NFL Player of the Year in 1999.
32:40You've done quite a job, man.
32:42I appreciate it.
32:43No, quite a job.
32:44Great for that chance.
32:44Well, hey, you got it and you've done the most with it.
32:48Next thing you know, at the end of the season,
32:50Kurt Warner is holding up the Super Bowl MVP award.
32:53Touchdown, Rams!
32:55Congratulations on being the MVP in the Super Bowl, Kurt Warner.
32:58He has that year, the single greatest year that a quarterback has ever had.
33:03It was the finest in the history of the National Football League.
33:09But it takes more than one good season to earn the top spot on our list.
33:13One of the most amazing things about Kurt Warner is he got to the top of the mountain,
33:17he fell off the cliff, and he didn't give up.
33:20People have written him off over and over.
33:23Never more so than during Warner's one frustrating season with the Giants.
33:28I don't know what he was thinking.
33:30He had to know we were going to bless him.
33:32I'm so stupid.
33:33I remember one of the New York guys saying,
33:35well, you know, he can't make the throws.
33:38Deep over the middle, looking for Shockey.
33:40The pass is deflected.
33:41Intercepted by Azuma.
33:43So he ends up in Arizona.
33:44Everybody thought he was done.
33:45Doing what he was able to do in Arizona,
33:47being able to lift that franchise up out of where it was,
33:50was nothing short of amazing.
33:51Fitz is there.
33:52He cornered the 10.
33:53He got the hard.
33:54He may as well have taken Slippery Rock College to the Super Bowl
33:57because they weren't going to get there either.
33:59When nobody else believed in us,
34:00when nobody else believed in me,
34:03you guys did.
34:04And we're going to the Super Bowl.
34:08You're all so quarterbacks, quarterbacks, quarterbacks.
34:11I would have John Randall ahead of Kurt Warner.
34:13There was no donut hole in the middle of John Randall's career.
34:17So should the valleys of Warner's career
34:19have caused him to drop on our list?
34:22It's like he's really only had half a career
34:24and the other half he's kind of either been a bum
34:27or a backup or injured.
34:29He had the lost years
34:30where he couldn't even take a snap
34:32without the ball landed on the ground.
34:34Warner again fumbles the snap.
34:35It's loose.
34:36Anybody who worked at the grocery store
34:38and went on to be a two-time MVP.
34:41Touchdown.
34:42We ain't done yet.
34:43We ain't done yet.
34:44And Super Bowls with two different teams.
34:47We're back from Northern Ireland.
34:49Number 13, square corner.
34:52That has to be number one.
34:53When you come out of nowhere university
34:55and play in nowhere arena bowl
34:58and play in nowhere Europe
34:59and you're stocking shelves in a grocery store,
35:03yeah, I think on story alone,
35:05that one deserves to be at the top of the list.
35:10Hey, before we rag on Kurt Warner,
35:13name me multiple-time EVPs
35:15who's played in three Super Bowls.
35:18Brady, Montana, Manning, Mahomes.
35:23Kurt Warner.
35:25That's the list.
35:26That's the list.
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