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00:00The best coaches in the NFL don't coach scared.
00:03I don't know if Lombardi does that.
00:05I don't know if Hallis does that.
00:07That is one of the gutsiest calls of all time.
00:15Out of the stands, he appears to be at least 10 feet off the ground.
00:20This is a don't try this.
00:21No, don't try this.
00:23It may take guts, but it also takes an absence of brains.
00:27And there's a fine line between gutsy and stupid.
00:33And sometimes the boldest moves don't work out.
00:40Put the ball on Brady's hands and try to end it.
00:43What a gutsy call by GoBelichick.
00:45You've got a bad team.
00:46You've got one good player.
00:48It's gut check time.
00:49Maxey is set on the stake if we run it.
00:52Back is Hostetler.
00:53He's throwing a pass.
00:54Right up in his puddle, Mike.
00:56Maybe the gutsy decisions are ones that are the right one to make.
01:00Even though you know you'll be criticized for having made them.
01:03Barry Stitzer makes the call.
01:05They give it to Smith.
01:06He doesn't make it.
01:07They give it to Smith.
01:08He makes Duff and the goal.
01:10I know where Dallas fans rank that on the all-time list of dumbest calls.
01:14Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
01:16I'm never going to say somebody else is stupid because Mike Ditka is not a stupid man.
01:21What a decision, huh?
01:22The wing is the reason.
01:23It's decision time.
01:26And we've got our list of the bravest, boldest, gutsiest calls of all time.
01:33These types of plays aren't called from the heart.
01:35That was my call.
01:36You ripped me.
01:37They're called from the gut.
01:39Parcel said, you're going to have balls to win this game.
01:42The number 10 gutsiest call of all time.
01:46Belichick's fourth and two.
01:48In the great movie Spinal Tap, one of the characters, Nigel Tufano, says it's that fine line between stupid and
01:54clever.
01:56Belichick was treading that fine line.
01:57And the Patriots are going to go for it on fourth down.
02:01I can't believe this.
02:03Fourth and two from your own 28.
02:05You have a lead on the road.
02:08Block 28 to play.
02:10He's going for the win right here.
02:12The call doesn't have to work to be gutsy.
02:14And our number 10 call was an example of when Fortune did not favor the Bulls.
02:19It is short of the first down.
02:21It is short.
02:22The Colts take over.
02:23Everyone stood there with their mouths open.
02:26With a short field, Peyton Manning quickly marched the Colts toward a game-winning touchdown.
02:33Lead.
02:34Touchdown.
02:39I'd love to see what the other nine gutsy calls are on this list for this to be number 10.
02:43Fourth down on their own 28.
02:45Yep.
02:46With a six-point lead.
02:48Yep.
02:48How do you have three Super Bowl rings?
02:51That's nuts.
02:52If you've won Super Bowls, if you've coached at that level, you get a pass, man.
02:58I love to call.
03:00You know, Coach's being aggressive, and I love that about him, and he gave us a chance to make the
03:04play.
03:04Bill doesn't wear those rings because he's a timid individual.
03:08I should never be stunned by Bill Palachuk.
03:10He's very willing to do things that are unorthodox.
03:13Field goal attempt for Adam Vinatieri.
03:15It's a fake.
03:15Pass to the left.
03:17Touchdown, Patriots.
03:18Doesn't think twice about it.
03:19That's the way to win.
03:20With New England, you kind of expect the unexpected.
03:24Are you kidding me?
03:25If Marty Morningwig goes, boys, we're going for it.
03:28Fourth and two.
03:29Let's go.
03:30He is crucified.
03:32I've never seen a coach make that decision on fourth out of two in his own end.
03:36He didn't want to put the ball in the hands of Peyton Manning, which tells his defense a lot, doesn't
03:41it?
03:41Think there'll be a few things to talk about after this game?
03:44I think it was the stupidest move in the history of football.
03:49It was a real gutsy call.
03:51Gutsy call and smart call.
03:54I did not think that at the time.
03:56That was one decision that ends up costing the Patriots a game.
04:00Manning could not be stopped at that point.
04:02He figured out the Patriot defense.
04:03There was nothing to suggest that the Patriots were about to rise up defensively.
04:07Our percentage chance of winning this game is better than punting the ball away to Peyton Manning.
04:11If we don't make it, hopefully we can keep him out of the end zone.
04:14If we can't keep him out of the end zone, hopefully we'll have enough time to come back and still
04:17win the game.
04:18Their clock management is normally very good.
04:21They make so many right decisions.
04:24Advanced statistical analysis says that to go for it on fourth and two in that situation was the right play.
04:31I was extremely unhappy it didn't succeed.
04:35By failing, it sort of validated every conservative impulse other coaches had.
04:40Now instead of a gutsy call, it's an idiotic call.
04:43And now teams are never going to do that.
04:45And I think if Belichick is in the situation again, he won't do it.
04:48Really, the difference between a half yard there, everybody went and said,
04:51wow, what a gutsy move by the genius Bill Belichick.
04:54It's a game of inches, guys.
04:56You know, you come up, you're this short, you're this short, you're this short, you kneel on it for three
04:59plays and the game's over.
05:00If you tell me that half yard makes a difference between a brilliant call and an incredibly stupid call, I
05:05don't buy it.
05:06You know, if we gain seven more inches, then, you know, it's a great call.
05:10Exactly.
05:11Stay tuned to find out which trade was...
05:15The Earth or what?
05:16Gutsy's call of all time.
05:19The Earth or what?
05:20The Earth or what?
05:20I thought this would be all about on the field.
05:23This is what, a front office gutsy call?
05:25When Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson joined forces in 1989...
05:30You're under control.
05:31Keep those hands up.
05:32Look at me.
05:32They inherited a terrible team with one shining star.
05:37Herschel Walker, 1988, rushed for 1,500 yards.
05:40Touchdown, Dillon.
05:41Herschel Walker.
05:42He caught 50 passes.
05:43Herschel Walker catches that way.
05:45That's the only thing Jimmy Johnson had going for him.
05:53Five weeks into Johnson's first season, Dallas traded running back Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings.
06:00The conventional wisdom is that you tried to build around your best player.
06:04Well, guess what?
06:06Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones saw it differently.
06:08Jimmy Johnson's like, look, we're going to be bad.
06:10We might as well trade one player for as much as we can get.
06:14You got to give Jimmy Johnson credit for the foresight to do that.
06:18Was it gutsy?
06:20I don't know.
06:21Maybe it's just taking advantage of the moronic.
06:28One owner said it's a great train robbery.
06:33In what has become known as the trade, the Cowboys acquired eight draft picks and five players,
06:39and the Vikings got what they thought was the final piece of a Super Bowl team.
06:44Rarely three number ones.
06:47Three number twos, you know, for a running back who at that time, you know, had some mileage on them.
06:53The Vikings sacrificed everything for one guy.
06:56It was like a garage sale.
06:57Here, take all.
06:58Mileage here.
06:58Play three years.
07:00All our stuff.
07:01If you're Jimmy Johnson, why wouldn't you make that move?
07:04That was gutsy on the Vikings' perspective.
07:06That was a crazy thing for them to do, to mortgage their future for one guy.
07:10And I know the fans back in Minnesota just put their head and their hands on that one.
07:14When Mike Dick did this for Ricky Williams and when the Vikings did this for Herschel Walker, it's a huge
07:20gamble.
07:20You say it was gutsy.
07:22Do you have the category nutsy?
07:23Because I think that's what that was.
07:27I don't have a problem with that deal at all.
07:30You want to win?
07:31Sometimes you want to win right now.
07:33Touchdown, Herschel Walker.
07:34And you look at the greatness of Herschel Walker and the type of back he was.
07:38And Herschel Walker electrifies the Cowboys.
07:41Why not take a chance?
07:42If Herschel Walker comes to the Vikings and rushes for 1,700 yards, then it's a great move.
07:47As it turns out, it basically built the Cowboys' dynasty.
07:53Maybe people in Texas will tell you that was a great move, but I don't think anybody in Minnesota will
07:59tell you that required a lot of guts.
08:01Viking fans somewhat disappointed.
08:02He hasn't had more of an impact on the offense.
08:04In three seasons with the Vikings, Walker played in just one playoff game.
08:09A blowout.
08:11Yep.
08:12No playoff wins.
08:14They finished 500 when he was playing.
08:16A loss to the 49ers, in which he rushed for only 29 yards.
08:21We've got Herschel Walker and the Cowboys got Super Bowl rings.
08:25So, it's dumb.
08:28The number eight youngest goal of all time.
08:31Cowher's on sidekick in Super Bowl 30.
08:35I love Bill Cowher because he spits on people when he talks.
08:38I'm wearing our house.
08:39I'm wearing our house.
08:41Screaming and getting in your face.
08:43You can rush the quarterback.
08:44The spin would fly and you'd see guys, like, blinking when they were talking to him.
08:48You understand?
08:49Yeah.
08:49Rush the quarterback.
08:50Cowher has this image of just hard-nosed, ramming down their throats.
08:55That's the way to run.
08:56But you had Cordell Stewart doing the slash stuff with Cowher.
08:59Cordell back.
09:00Looking for the end zone.
09:01Touchdown.
09:01Pitcher.
09:02Hines Ward and Antoine Randall-El connecting on that gadget play in the Super Bowl.
09:09Cowher, he's got a bag of tricks down there.
09:12And maybe that's the trickiest thing of all.
09:14The fact that he puts up this whole tough guy, hard-nosed persona.
09:18Guess what we're talking about.
09:19He's just like Mike Martz when it comes down to.
09:25The Dallas Cowboys walking out onto the field.
09:28Our eighth gutziest call of all time came in the second half of Super Bowl 30.
09:33With Bill Cowher Steelers trailing the Cowboys.
09:37We needed something.
09:38We needed a spark.
09:39Let's go.
09:40A lot of football.
09:42A field goal made the score 20-10 with 11 minutes left in the game.
09:48I don't think people in that stadium that day felt that he's going to have the wherewithal,
09:53the guts to make that call.
09:56Surprise on side.
09:58Hey.
09:59Let's do it.
10:00It's on side.
10:00It was a call that no one expected.
10:02And that's the beauty of those calls.
10:05Kevin Williams and Brock Marion are the two deep.
10:08And the Steelers try an outside kick.
10:09And they get it.
10:10And a man running with a quick ball at the 50.
10:12Deion Finkers.
10:13It was a gutsy call.
10:14They get that ball.
10:15You know, short field.
10:16They march down the score.
10:17That game's over.
10:18Oh, that's a great call.
10:20If that wouldn't have worked, he would have hurt it for a long time in Pittsburgh.
10:24When you come into the Super Bowl, baby, you better come with a full arsenal.
10:27Let's go.
10:31I give Chinny Chin Chin, Bill Cowher a lot of credit with that call.
10:35Look at the terrible towel swirling.
10:37That was a gutsy call.
10:38And we got a dandy in Super Bowl 30.
10:42Yeah, I remember that.
10:43How could I not?
10:44That was a gutsy call on the outside, though, right?
10:46Great call.
10:47Huh?
10:48Great.
10:49The one he congratulated himself for about a thousand times on the sidelines.
10:53That was a call.
10:54That was a great call.
10:55I love it.
10:57He's got us into the game.
10:58And then Neil O'Donnell ruined it.
11:01It was vintage, Bill.
11:03It worked.
11:03It really did get the skimmers back in the game.
11:05So, yeah, it was gutsy.
11:08Cowher's call came in a loss, which is why it wasn't higher on our list.
11:13Sometimes it was.
11:14Sometimes it was.
11:17Up next, a s*** call that took a lot.
11:20The number seven gutsy's call of all time.
11:23The Colts, that's their starter.
11:27The Patriots, Colts, and Belichick making that call on fourth and two.
11:31Fourth down?
11:31I can't believe this.
11:32I thought that was going to be the most controversial call of the season.
11:37Then pulling Peyton Manning midway through the third quarter of what would have been a perfect
11:43regular season.
11:44Curtis Painter is the quarterback.
11:47Bill Polian made the decision along with Jim Caldwell.
11:49We've got to go for the Super Bowl.
11:51Not the perfect season.
11:52For the first time all season, someone other than Peyton Manning will take the snap.
11:58To see his facial expressions.
12:00You can see the look on Manning's face.
12:02He obviously did not agree with that decision.
12:05I'd be careful analyzing my facial expressions.
12:12Our seventh gutsy's call of all time kept the Jet season alive and dropped the Colts to 14-1.
12:22His cheers turned to boos.
12:26This crowd is unhappy.
12:30Remember the old Frankenstein movies where the villagers are running through the forest?
12:34They got the fire and the pitchforks.
12:35That was Colt Nation the Monday after that game.
12:38They were going after Bill Polian.
12:39They were going after Jim Caldwell.
12:40They were looking for Frankenstein.
12:44It's a gutsy call to rest your starters.
12:47Bill Polian knows the fan base is going to be irate.
12:50And he knows he might even upset some players.
12:52But the reason the Colts are the Colts is because they have a model and they follow it to a
12:57T.
12:57Now you might not agree with the model.
12:59That's not gutsy.
13:00It really robbed the fans.
13:02It probably was wrong.
13:03Most people disagree, but the point is they follow the plan.
13:06You still have to look at your objectives.
13:08It's not about going 16-0.
13:10It's about winning a Super Bowl.
13:12The first season has never been one of our goals.
13:17What makes us even gutsier, this model of resting starters had failed for the Colts the previous three times.
13:23In 2005, 2007, what was a great season has turned into mush.
13:31In 2008, those guys are one and done in the playoffs.
13:36The only year they didn't rest starters was 2006.
13:38They won the Super Bowl.
13:39World champions for the first time since 1971.
13:47If Peyton Manning went down week 15 or 16, we'd be killing him.
13:51On sports radio in Indianapolis, we'd be killing him.
13:54How many chances do you have to get greatness?
13:55As a player, you can't help but want that undefeated season.
14:00I mean, that's what players dream of, to be perfect.
14:02He just lost the first game in how many games?
14:05When you take that away from these guys, it makes film study a little bit less urgent, practice a little
14:11bit less important.
14:12It changes the component of what they were doing.
14:15I think you give them a chance to do something that no one has ever done.
14:20The number six gutiest football of all time, Red Wright 88.
14:27Red Wright 88, no one has ever forgotten about that.
14:3149 seconds to play.
14:33Red Wright 88, I remember it very well.
14:36I think the score time was 14-12.
14:39The Browns were driving into the wind.
14:42The ball on the 13-yard line of the Raiders.
14:44Kick the field goal and go home, right?
14:47The only thing Sam Martigliano's got to do is kick the field goal.
14:51It's a lot right.
14:52It affects the 88.
14:54No.
14:55And Rattigliano and Sike decided to go for the touchdown.
14:59Cleveland may be a conservative city, but its coach is a gambler.
15:03Sike is going back to pass.
15:05Wants to take a shot into the end zone.
15:06He looks.
15:07He throws.
15:08And it's a great play.
15:10The three of the years.
15:11That's it.
15:11And the Cleveland Browns.
15:13Hold on.
15:14Put in the foul.
15:15What's new offense?
15:16Holy Toledo.
15:21Win it.
15:22I frankly was really startled that they would go for it all like that.
15:27Here's a guy that threw 30 touchdown passes.
15:30He was the MVP of the National Football League.
15:32Brian Sike came off the field and the first man to greet him was Sam Martigliano.
15:37I said, Brian, I love you.
15:39And that's all I said.
15:41The Raiders met the Browns in Cleveland last Sunday with a temperature a knee-knocking one
15:45degree above zero.
15:47Our sixth gutsiest call of all time came as a result of bad weather and a struggling
15:53kicker.
15:54We missed field goals.
15:55We missed an extra point.
15:56We had to have another option.
15:57And our players, particularly offensively, felt we needed to attack them.
16:04It's a lot of light.
16:06The effects, the idiot.
16:08I don't blame the play call.
16:10I mean, that's, you know, you're taking a chance.
16:12Cockroft, they're free.
16:13He's going to miss the field goal.
16:14A lot of people question.
16:16If you missed two field goals in his PAT, you're trusting a guy who can't make his
16:22kicks to make a kick.
16:24No.
16:25The decision, and one guy threw a brick through his television set.
16:29People still talk about that all the time.
16:31How Sam Martigliano's an idiot.
16:33Maybe it was crazy.
16:35It does seem crazy now if you were throwing the ball at that time because the conditions
16:38were awful.
16:39But if he succeeds, not only do the Browns win that game, I think if you're Brian Sike,
16:44he'd be like, our coach really believes in us.
16:46So that was probably the gutsiest call that I can remember.
16:49Play bunch of miracle cardiac kids and run out of miracles.
16:53If I had an opportunity to do it all over again, I would do it.
16:56Bad karma started right from that moment.
16:59Bad things stay with the Browns to this day.
17:15In the 1990 NFC Championship, the underdog Giants faced the two-time defending Super Bowl champion
17:2249ers.
17:23It was as if we'd already penciled in a three-peat.
17:26They were going to beat the Giants and they were going to win the Super Bowl, period.
17:29It was going to be their third in a row.
17:32In one of the hardest-hitting playoff games of all time, the decisive blow was our number
17:38five gutsy call.
17:39Clock is running.
17:40Under eight and a half minutes to go.
17:42The Giants on the short side, 13 to nine.
17:44Yeah, I've tried to block that game mostly out of my head.
17:46The most painful game in Niner history.
17:48The most.
17:49Puck team out there right now.
17:51It's fourth and two.
17:53Oh, it's going to be a fake.
17:55It's going to run across the 50.
17:5645-40, 35-30.
17:58Down to the 25-yard line.
18:00What a run by Gary Reasons.
18:02Boy, what a gutsy call.
18:03One of the gutsiest calls of all time.
18:05And really kind of, I thought that epitomized Bill Parcells during that era.
18:10Big balls, big stones to make that call.
18:15What I remember is we had it called the punt before.
18:19The reasons it made the call, he called it off at the last second.
18:21The next time we come out, the 49ers only have 10 men on the field.
18:30And the one guy that's not there just happens to be in the one place where when we call the
18:35fake, Reasons is going to run.
18:38How does that happen?
18:39Gary's eyes got big.
18:41He called the play right away.
18:42And he goes down and he makes a play that we don't win that game or go to the Super
18:46Bowl without it.
18:47And they had a hole that Bill Parcells could have run through.
18:50Turns it into a 30-yard run.
18:51Because Seiferts wasn't that good a coach, a great Hall of Fame coach or borderline would have won that game
19:01by putting that guy right there and forcing him to just punt.
19:08By Reasons.
19:14The Giants have a shot now.
19:17Gary Reasons' run set up a field goal that brought New York to within a point of San Francisco.
19:2313-12 with 5.47 to go.
19:26On the 49ers' next possession, Roger Craig fumbled.
19:30Loses the ball.
19:31Giants at him.
19:32And the Giants drove down for the winning field goal.
19:37Spot.
19:38Kick is away.
19:39He's got the distance.
19:40It is good.
19:41Good.
19:42It's over for a free pick.
19:43If Bill Parcells doesn't call the fake punt, and if they don't get the succeeding field goal,
19:49then by the time they get the ball back for the last field goal, it wins the game.
19:52Maybe there is no time.
19:53Like Gussie called by Bill Parcells on fourth down.
19:56It was the key for the Giants.
19:57He had the whatever to call this fake punt, and before you knew it, they were on their way to
20:02the Super Bowl.
20:03Spot.
20:04In the air.
20:04It's got the distance right here.
20:06Oh, God.
20:09You've got to have stones to get somewhere in life, and he did it.
20:13He did it.
20:14I hate to say it, but all hail Bill Parcells.
20:16Here we go, guys.
20:20That's number four.
20:21He's got the seed struggle of all time.
20:23Bill Parcells makes a punt.
20:25Again.
20:27Super Bowl programs.
20:28The only thing gutsier than a fake punt that gets you to the Super Bowl is a fake punt in
20:35the Super Bowl.
20:36No one ever took a bigger risk than I took in the Super Bowl in 86.
20:39Score was 10 to 9.
20:41We were losing in the first series of the third quarter.
20:43We had the ball in our own side of the territory on fourth and one, and we ran a fake
20:47punt for first down.
20:48Trick play.
20:49Trick play.
20:50You know, that's as big as they get.
20:52The Giants on fourth and inches.
20:54Rutledge keeps the ball and dives ahead.
20:56I don't know if he got there.
20:57The ball depends on the spot.
20:59And the Giants keep the drive alive.
21:01The fact that he had the confidence to do that in a Super Bowl is amazing.
21:06Bill Parcells and the sideline goes to the bag of tricks.
21:09That is gutsy.
21:10When you think about the situation, they were down 10-9.
21:13A Super Bowl that a lot of people thought that they were supposed to win.
21:16So many expectations for the entire city of New York on the back of him and his team.
21:22And he comes up with his gadget, and it works.
21:24It's why he's a Hall of Fame coach.
21:28We'd run the same fake against the same team earlier in the year, and it had worked.
21:33The Giants on fourth and inches.
21:35Denver doesn't have defensive backs on the field.
21:39We ran out.
21:40They recognized it right away.
21:42Knew where it was going.
21:43So Rutledge, who came in two different times, looks to the side to Bill.
21:49And I see Bill over there like this.
21:54And Rutledge looks back again as if to say, Bill, they all know what's going on.
21:58And Bill had that look on his face like, yeah, I know.
22:01Go ahead and run it.
22:02Quinn Estatio Parcells.
22:03You know where it's going.
22:05I'll tell you where it's going.
22:06There's nothing you can do to stop it.
22:09We get it.
22:10Go down, score, run off 20, 30 points, and never look back.
22:13The Giants scored 30 second-half points following our number four gutsy call.
22:20Turned into a blowout.
22:21It basically ignited the team in the second half and gave them their first Super Bowl championship.
22:31I think Bill Parcells, as much as people remember, run the ball, play defense.
22:36They forget he wasn't a coward.
22:38It was fourth and one at midfield.
22:40There are a lot of coaches who would have said, let's plan it.
22:42I've got a tremendous defense.
22:43So many coaches coach scared.
22:45They coach to play the percentages.
22:48That wasn't Bill Parcells.
22:49You decided to gamble at that moment in this game.
22:52Tell me about it.
22:52This is for the world championship.
22:54And, you know, it's not for faint-hearted people.
22:56So you've got to take the shot.
22:58You look back, everybody thinks he's a smash-mouth guy.
23:00I think that is the biggest misconception by far of his coaching style.
23:04He always used to preach to me, be daring.
23:07Well, I think history tells us there's not many coaches that have been more daring than Bill Parcells.
23:12Coming up, a gutsy personnel decision.
23:16The number three gutziest call of all time.
23:19The Ravens say goodbye to Trent Dilfer.
23:22This is the ultimate.
23:24I'm actually going to be deleting my channel.
23:30Ultimate gutsy call.
23:32I don't think gutsy is the right word to get rid of Trent Dilfer.
23:34I think you can come up with some other words.
23:36It's misguided.
23:37Ill-founded.
23:38One of the most dubious decisions of all time.
23:40I don't want to say any really bad words.
23:42Maybe change the category to, like, the stupidest things coaches and GMs have done.
23:47No quarterback had ever lost his job after winning a Super Bowl.
23:50Boy, we just look lethargic.
23:53During the 2000 season, a stretch of four straight games without a touchdown led Brian Billick to bench Ravens starter
24:00Penny Banks.
24:02You've got to let Trent try to do something here.
24:04Okay, we got you, Tony.
24:05Trent Dilfer took over, and Baltimore went 7-1 en route to Super Bowl XXXV.
24:11He was there to manage the game, not make mistakes.
24:15They had the best defense in the NFL, and they just had to score enough points.
24:19And he did that.
24:20Exactly.
24:21We can get to about 10 to 13 points.
24:23We can win football games.
24:25The defense did carry him, but he made plays when he had to.
24:29He's got a blocker.
24:30Cooked all the way.
24:31And he was a tremendous leader.
24:32Trent was not an out-here, over-here guy.
24:35He was one of the guys.
24:37They loved this guy.
24:38He was a football player.
24:39He was beloved in that locker room.
24:42Without him.
24:42Give me a kiss.
24:44Unbelievable.
24:44We don't win the Super Bowl.
24:46He did what he needed to do in that football game.
24:48He loved him to Super Bowl XXXV.
24:50The touchdown pass to Brandon Stoker, who was a great throw.
24:53Remember for Stoker?
24:54He's got it.
24:55Can't run.
24:56Touchdown.
24:59When I was on the sideline that day shooting sound, we had Brian Billick wired.
25:04And what I was hearing that day from Billick's wire, Trent Dilfer was driving Brian Billick
25:09crazy.
25:10Go, mighty.
25:12Trent.
25:12Damn it, Trent.
25:14Step up and throw, son.
25:16Trent took a bunch of unnecessary sacks.
25:19Trent.
25:20F*** almighty.
25:21Just throw the damn thing away.
25:24And from what I remember, he missed a bunch of wide-open receivers as well.
25:28God almighty, Trent.
25:29How can we miss that?
25:30The ball just a little bit overthrown.
25:32Oh, God, man.
25:33We're not going to get many opportunities like that.
25:35He's got Johnson open, and it's off his hands incomplete.
25:39Oh, God, if he just hits them.
25:42God, Trent.
25:43In the Super Bowl, he throws a pick that is returned for a touchdown.
25:48Watch the backer.
25:49Watch the backer.
25:50Takes a straight drop back.
25:51Under pressure.
25:52Let's it.
25:52Go.
25:53Intercept it.
25:53And Brian Billick is going nuts on him.
25:55How do we intercept the screen?
25:59He might have just been done for the game.
26:02But they called us for a penalty and brought it back.
26:05That's defensive holding.
26:07Yeah, against that.
26:08God almighty.
26:10Wrecked.
26:11Second half, Trent spent most of his time on the sideline
26:14watching the best defense in football win the Super Bowl for him.
26:17Picked off.
26:17Chris McAllister has it.
26:19Oh, yeah.
26:19You add it all up, you can understand why Brian Billick thought, maybe I've got to make a change of
26:25quarterback.
26:30I don't know how you don't bring back a quarterback that just helped you win a Super Bowl, especially when
26:37you consider that they ditched him for Elvis Gerback.
26:41Well, there ain't no dollar, right?
26:43I'm a Michigan guy.
26:44Elvis Gerback?
26:45Are you kidding me?
26:46The minute Elvis entered the building, some Ravens would tell you proudly that they thought they had no chance at
26:51repeating.
26:52The first comment he made when he got to Baltimore, he said that he was there to make our football
26:56team better.
26:58So I don't think he knew we won the Super Bowl the year before.
27:01How's Elvis working out?
27:03I think he's really an outstanding quarterback.
27:05I think he's going to bring us a whole new dimension.
27:08It was a classic case of we've got our ring, we've been validated by success, now we have a carte
27:14blanche to do what we want.
27:15Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
27:18Who threw that?
27:19It was Gerback.
27:20Come on, Elvis.
27:22In 2001, the Ravens failed to repeat.
27:26Both Gerback's completion percentage and quarterback rating were worse than Dilfer's had been the previous season.
27:33What a disappointment for the Ravens.
27:35Turned out to be a huge mistake.
27:41Trent Dilfer.
27:432000.
27:432000s, he threw 226 passes, got 12 touchdowns. Gerbach threw 467 the next year, and got 15.
27:54That means you take Trent Dilfer, you add 241 passes, and only 3 more touchdowns.
28:01That's one of every 80 attempts.
28:07Really?
28:37Ready to go.
28:41Coaches do dumb things sometimes.
28:43I don't think it was dumb.
28:44I think that you have to get better to win again.
28:47He looked and he said, you know what?
28:50We're not going to get better at running back, we have Jamal Lewis.
28:53We're not going to get better on defense, because that defense was arguably the greatest defense ever in a single
28:58season.
28:58We're talking about a defense that, in the final 11 games, nine times held opponents to ten points or fewer.
29:04Can you bank on that two years in a row?
29:06The Ravens say no, you can't. We're going to need more offense at some point.
29:10Is Dilfer the guy?
29:11What did Trent Dilfer do after he left Baltimore?
29:13He didn't take anyone else to the playoffs. He didn't win a lot of football games.
29:16I don't think that if you had Trent Dilfer for the next five years, you'd win a couple more Super
29:20Bowls. I don't believe that at all.
29:22You could argue this is the gutsy's call of all time.
29:24I would call it just an out and out wrong call.
29:27Whether you agree or not with the decision, you have to respect that they decided to go in a direction,
29:32they went full speed in that direction.
29:34Obviously, it doesn't work out for them, but those kind of calls are what makes franchises great.
29:38On one level, you can say it was gutsy, but on another level, I would just say, you can't do
29:43that.
29:43Up next, a trick play for the A.
29:46Sean Payton goes surprise onside in Super Bowl XLII.
29:51The onside kick in here? We've got to recover the onside kick, boys.
29:55I think at the time, Sean Payton was thinking, listen, if we pull this off, people are going to talk
30:01about me for the rest of my life as a genius.
30:04Onside kick, let's do it.
30:06So the Saints will kick it away, beginning the second half.
30:10Here's the kickoff, and it's an onside kick, and the Colts had it, lost it, and the Saints, I think,
30:15had it.
30:16It was gutsy, because they recovered it.
30:19If you don't recover it, it's stupid and arrogant.
30:23Nothing that works can ever be considered stupid.
30:25Sean Payton did the right thing. It helped them win the game.
30:28The kick went right to the guy to recover the kick, and he blew the recovery.
30:33The bounce off of him is Hank Baskett.
30:36And that gave Sean Payton a chance to have his team recover and make the call look good.
30:40If you're banking on the Colts making a mistake, who do you want to bank on?
30:43Peyton Manning or Hank Baskett?
30:49I'll tell you something about this call that you don't know.
30:51At the start of the second half, the Saints had their choice whether to kick from their right to their
30:58left.
30:58Sean just basically didn't care. He goes, you know, left to right.
31:02But then he realizes if it's going to be near a sideline, I want it near our sideline.
31:06Let's go this way. I want to go this way. I want to go this way.
31:10Here's the kickoff, and it's an onside kick.
31:12Because I want every official hearing.
31:15Saints ball. New Orleans ball.
31:17We got it.
31:19White ball. White ball.
31:20White ball. White ball. White ball. White ball.
31:24I don't want their guys getting in the scrum.
31:27Hey, we got the goal.
31:29And still no indication.
31:30You look at the replay, though.
31:32And you look at how many Saints are pulling Colts out of the pile.
31:36You get out of here. You get out of here. You get out of here.
31:40That might have been the longest scrum in Super Bowl history.
31:46I still don't know who would cover the fumble.
31:48We think Chris Reese is the man who will recover it.
31:52The Peyton onside kick was really gutsy, but if you look at the numbers, it's not that crazy.
31:58I'm going surprise onside right.
32:00Surprise onside kicks since 1996 have been successful 70% of the time.
32:06What a surprise!
32:08That recovery rate is so good that it's actually a really good gamble.
32:13The chances of success go up when the element of surprise goes up.
32:17An onside kick shocked everybody.
32:19Hey, y'all surprised up on that one.
32:21What in the world could be more surprising than doing it coming out to the second half of the Super
32:26Bowl?
32:26That's the element of surprise at its best.
32:32Gutsiest of all time, top three, top four of all time.
32:35That's tough because if the onside kick fails, there's still a whole half of football to be played.
32:40It's not a make or break play.
32:42I'm not even sure if it goes in the top ten.
32:44I think the fact that you were willing to do it in the Super Bowl is praiseworthy because it's the
32:50Super Bowl.
32:51You are taking a chance with everything on the line.
32:54The fact that they recovered that onside kick and then went in to score, I think that's a 14 point
33:01swing.
33:01And they won by 14 points in that Super Bowl.
33:04Bill Parcells is on the list and Sean Payton's a Bill Parcells disciple.
33:07And Sean Payton's telling us that Bill Parcells told him you gotta have big ones to go win a Super
33:12Bowl.
33:12He absolutely deserves it.
33:14Payton making that call, that's what defines champions.
33:16In life, on a football field, if you want the brass ring, you gotta be gutsy sometimes.
33:21And Payton was in that situation.
33:23That is the ultimate gutsy call, so I'd love to know what's number one.
33:26Then stay tuned, Mr. Total Access.
33:29The number one just is from all time.
33:32Mitch Lombardi sneaks his way to icon status.
33:35When you look at Lombardi's defining moment as a head coach, it has to be the call he made at
33:42the end of the ice ball.
33:43Third down, inches to go.
33:4517 to 14.
33:46Cowboys out in front.
33:48Starr begins the count.
33:50Takes the snap.
33:51He's at the corner right.
33:52He's at the corner right.
33:52He's at the corner right.
33:53He's at the corner right.
33:54By far the gutsiest call of all time.
33:57No question it's number one.
33:58It's a good pick for number one because the game itself is so famous.
34:01It's a championship game.
34:03You've got one play left to win or lose the championship.
34:07And it was under frigid conditions.
34:09I think it's also the coach, Vince Lombardi.
34:12Lee cemented Lombardi's reputation.
34:14It's simplified Packer football.
34:16And just the way he coached.
34:21It was a huge gamble.
34:22If Starr doesn't get in the end zone, the game is over.
34:26And with the footing down there, it was certainly no sure thing.
34:28They're down in a part of the field where in the previous two downs, the running back has slipped.
34:33The Packers call time again.
34:35That's all the timeouts.
34:36The Green Bay Packers have.
34:37They took the last time out as Starr goes over to talk to Lombardi.
34:4117 to 14.
34:42Cowboys out in front.
34:43It's third down.
34:45There's 16 seconds left in the game.
34:47You had two options really.
34:49One of them is to just kick the field goal then and play for overtime.
34:52Even under the conditions, they were going to be able to kick what was pretty much an extra point.
34:57Or you have an extra down here.
35:00You could have called some kind of a rollout pass.
35:03The book says you have to roll out.
35:06Try and throw the pass and if it's not there, you just throw it out of bounds.
35:08So that they can at least attempt the field goal on fourth down.
35:11The play that they called was 31 Wedge.
35:15It was meant to be a handoff to Chuck Mursin, but Bart Starr told Lombardi during the timeout,
35:21and it's all ice.
35:22Let's call 31 Wedge.
35:23Let's block it the same way we normally block it, but it's going to be a quarterback sneak.
35:27Lombardi said, okay, let's go with it.
35:29So everybody on the team thinks it's going to be a handoff to Mursin, but it wasn't at all.
35:33The only ones who knew were Lombardi at start.
35:36I'm not an NFL historian, but when it's f***ing cold, why hand it off to somebody else?
35:47Just take it and get in there.
35:49The Green Bay Packers are going to be world champions!
35:52I guarantee if we come down to that situation at the end of any of these upcoming Super Bowls,
35:56I'm sure 100% of the coaches, they're going to play for overtime.
35:59They're not going to go for the touchdown to win the game.
36:01And that's just something you don't very much see in a world where coaches are so scared
36:05about being second-guessed.
36:10I mean, to play devil's advocate, they had three all-pro offensive linemen who ended up
36:20in the Hall of Fame.
36:22How good see can it be to run a one-yard sneak with three Hall of Fame linemen?
36:33Time out!
36:35What the hell's going on out here?
36:38Sorry, St. Vince, but some of the crowd think Sean Payton's onside kick is gutsier than your
36:44quarterback sneak.
36:45We got it!
36:46We got it!
36:47Sean Payton's call coming out of halftime was huge.
36:54Payton's call in this day and age, with the media scrutiny, everything is second-guessed.
36:59He ran the risk of immediately being labeled a GOAT.
37:02The onside kick that Sean Payton went for at the beginning of the second half.
37:05Yeah, it's a gutsy move and you really don't see it very often in Super Bowls, but that's
37:10the beginning of the second half.
37:11Hey!
37:12What about that now?
37:13I don't want your advice here!
37:15The gutsy call is made when the clock is ticking down.
37:18This is silly here.
37:21The ice bowl, where it's do or die.
37:23We got a yard to go and you make it, you win.
37:26If you don't, you lose.
37:36If it fails, is it junky or just stupid?
37:39It's stupid.
37:40Because then you've got that Chinese fire drill when they scramble the kick team and you
37:44just look so dumb.
37:45So that pendulum could have swung all the way to, wow, just look away.
37:50If that's the game that in a lot of people's minds defines the Lombardi era, it takes on
37:56a whole different feel if you lose.
37:59If the Green Bay Packers are stopped on the one yard line and time runs out on a failed
38:05running play, at the end of the 1967 NFL championship, the Packers are still a great
38:09team.
38:10But Vince Lombardi is not the legend he is today.
38:14Maybe the Super Bowl trophy is not even named after him if that play doesn't work out.
38:18After the game, Lombardi was asked why he made the call.
38:21He said, these types of plays aren't called from the heart, they're called from the gut.
38:25And that's what makes it a gutsy play.
38:27I still think to this day it is an extremely, extremely gutsy call.
38:31That's the all time gutsiest call ever.
38:37That's a great call.
38:38And the Green Bay Packers are going to be world champions.
38:42Everything about that was gutsy.
38:43It stayed gutsy because it worked.
38:48The Diamonds about it was a great Collaboration movie.
38:49The Green Bay Packers are pretty funny.
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