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00:00You know, the girl dances for you, and at the end of the night, you go home broke and frustrated.
00:05That's pretty much a quarterback tease.
00:14What exactly is this quarterback teases category?
00:17Well, Julie, that's a really good question, and one that we here at NFL Network set out to define
00:23by barnstorming our way across the country,
00:25posing that exact question to some of the nation's most disfewed columnists and talk show hosts.
00:32When you hear quarterback tease, how do you define that?
00:38A tease is a quarterback.
00:41A quarterback tease?
00:46It's a guy who shows flashes, but then never fully pans out. Simple as that.
00:51You know, it's a tough question, fellas, but let's get to the bottom of this.
00:55To me, a classic quarterback tease is a guy that early in his career shows you signs of baby being
01:01something really special
01:01and proves to be fool's gold.
01:04The tease has to be that this guy was actually good at one time, showed flashes, and then got really
01:09bad.
01:10And bad, this guy works.
01:12He does just enough that's good that gets you thinking,
01:17this guy can really be something special.
01:19And then he never becomes that something special.
01:23You think you're going to close the deal.
01:25You think that you are going to get this done.
01:27You think that this quarterback is going to take you to the promised land, and then nothing.
01:33Unbelievable.
01:34It just got worse.
01:36We should have a siren that goes off on our heads that alerts us when there's going to be a
01:42quarterback tease.
01:43My definition would be to have just a bunch of turkey club sandwiches in a glass refrigerator that I can't
01:54get to.
01:55That's a tease right there.
01:57Wait a minute.
01:58Did that make any sense?
02:00No.
02:04The number 10 quarterback tease, Mark Sanchez.
02:07Huh.
02:08How would you describe a quarterback tease?
02:11Mark Sanchez, quarterback tease.
02:13Ha.
02:14The third touchdown of the game for Mark Sanchez.
02:18He is an inaccurate quarterback.
02:20He is shaky.
02:21He is not concise in where he's throwing the ball.
02:25Here's a guy that leads the Jets to consecutive AMC title games.
02:28I mean, let's say, you know, this guy wins four road playoff games.
02:32Now the expectation level is, okay, this guy's a winner.
02:35And we all saw what happened.
02:37That's insane.
02:39Everybody's all excited because the Jets are now on the clock.
02:45Oh, boy.
02:46Mark Sanchez started teasing Jets fans on draft day in 2009.
02:51You know, he comes out as this USC quarterback, you know, and he's handsome, and he's charming.
02:58We wanted him so badly to be this Namath guy.
03:03This place is going bonkers because they know now they've got their quarterback for their future.
03:08He was a guy who was taken fifth in the draft.
03:11He probably should have been taken 45th.
03:14And if that had happened, we wouldn't be talking about Mark Sanchez.
03:20Really?
03:24Two years into his career, our number 10 tees appeared headed towards stardom.
03:32He made the two AFC championship games in his first two years.
03:35Like, that's amazing.
03:36Like, it's really, like, if he would have said, you know what?
03:39I don't want to play football.
03:40I'm done.
03:41He's a hero.
03:42We talk about him like a legend.
03:44And if you remember, when they won at New England in the postseason, he made plays.
03:50Back left corner of the end zone for Holmes.
03:52Got it.
03:53Touchdown!
03:55When they beat Peyton Manning in the Indianapolis Colts, he did drive them downfield for the game-winning kick.
04:01What a throw by Sanchez!
04:04For a guy who was as terrible as he was in the regular season, he actually had a pass rate
04:11of 94 in the playoffs.
04:13Nine touchdowns, three deceptions.
04:15He actually did very good.
04:21Mark Sanchez being a tease, absolutely.
04:24Ryan has a tattoo of Mark Sanchez on his arm.
04:27That's how convinced he was that Mark Sanchez was going to take him to the promised land.
04:32Hey, kid.
04:34Not fun.
04:35Lead him.
04:35Lead him.
04:36This whole idea that Mark Sanchez somehow led the Jets to two AFC championship games is an absolute fallacy.
04:46They had a great running game.
04:48Round and pound, baby.
04:50Round and pound, though.
04:52And they had a spectacular defense.
04:54It's the fireman.
04:56That's what led them to two AFC championship games.
05:00Not Mark Sanchez.
05:05No matter how many more touchdowns he throws or games he wins, when you hear the name Mark Sanchez, two
05:12words come to mind.
05:14Butt fumble.
05:15Butt fumble.
05:15Butt fumble.
05:16First Ducks in New York at their own 31-yard line.
05:19Broken play.
05:20Mark Sanchez scrambles up the middle.
05:22Lost the football.
05:22It's picked up and running into the end zone with the loose ball to Steve Gregory.
05:28He went right to the back.
05:29A Brandon Moore fumbles the ball.
05:32You never live down to butt fumble.
05:34Are you kidding me?
05:35It kind of epitomizes what happened to his career with the Jets.
05:40You got a broken play.
05:41Then you run into the backside of your right court.
05:44This is the greatest volley in NFL history.
05:47Like, it's one thing to fumble the ball for a touchdown, but it's another thing completely to ram your head
05:54into another man's ass.
05:56And it was as if Brandon Moore had tackled him face on.
06:00It was awesome to see.
06:02It was awesome.
06:14The number nine quarterback of teams, Vince Ferragamo.
06:19I had a name that is totally unforgettable.
06:24Vince Ferragamo.
06:27Sounds like he's out of a novella.
06:30He's a stud.
06:31You can't consider a stud a team.
06:34Yes, you can.
06:38Ferragamo fires up the next side.
06:40Touchdown!
06:41Ferragamo burst onto the L.A. scene in 1979 with a rifle arm.
06:46But that's only part of what got everyone's attention.
06:49That was a guy who looked like he was sent from central casting to play quarterback for the L.A.
06:55Rams.
06:55Good-looking guy.
06:56Vince belongs in movies.
06:57I belong in football.
06:58Vince, you're the hottest quarterback in the NFL.
07:00You're extremely good-looking, and all the fans love you.
07:05Kind of got pushed into the starting job.
07:07Pat Hayden got hurt.
07:09Ferragamo came in and played.
07:10And played really well.
07:12That's going deep off the right.
07:14Touchdown!
07:15Ferragamo went 6-1 as a starter, leading the Rams to the Super Bowl.
07:22The Rams heading back to California as NFC champions.
07:30Warren Beatty's new comedy, Heaven Can Wait, is chock-full of magical moments.
07:35Hello.
07:36Hello.
07:37It's funny because a couple of years earlier, a movie came out called Heaven Can Wait,
07:43starring Warren Beatty, who leads the Rams to the Super Bowl against the Steelers.
07:49And then Vince Ferragamo.
07:49Vince Ferragamo looks like Warren Beatty.
07:52I look at a Warren Beatty, you're like, oh my gosh, this is kismet.
07:56What's my opinion?
07:58Are you impressed by the way that they're...
08:00If you look back on Super Bowl, I mean, Vince played really well for three-quarters of a game,
08:05and the Rams were in a position...
08:07...the other day, did I?
08:09...the chosen...
08:22He took them to the Super Bowl dollars a year.
08:24I mean, he was making one-eighth the salary of Terry Bradshaw, who was his opponent in that Super Bowl.
08:30After throwing 30 touchdowns in 1980, Ferragamo opted for a bigger deal north of the border.
08:37He ended up signing in the Canadian football day, believe it or not, when I was up there with the
08:42Montreal Alouettes.
08:44So he chose to take the money and go up there.
08:46What are your memories of that season?
08:49We were up there, bud.
08:55Well, we have one of the emerging stars in the NFL.
08:59No, you don't.
09:00After a year in Canada, Ferragamo fizzled in his return to the NFL.
09:0739 touchdowns, 60 interceptions.
09:12Compared to 37 and 31, his first NFL run.
09:16So he took two more touchdowns, 29 more interceptions.
09:20The guy had the looks.
09:22He had the name.
09:24He just didn't have to match it all.
09:27Unfortunately, he just had that one year where he played at a top level.
09:32It's a classic example of a great tease.
09:34You're expecting more from him in the future, and it just never happened.
09:41Bobby Hoying.
09:42Yeah, Bobby Hoying?
09:44Who?
09:45Who did he tease?
09:46Never heard of the guy.
09:47How much would he tease could he have been?
09:49I know that name.
09:50Why do I know Bobby Hoying?
09:52Yeah, I think you guys have kind of screwed up the definition of the tease.
09:55The tease has to be that this guy was actually good at one time.
09:58I mean, what are we, throwing the wild card in there just to try to get a reaction out of
10:02people?
10:02What did he have, one good game, a good drive or two?
10:05Isn't that perfect for Philadelphia?
10:07That the guy on the tease list isn't even that great?
10:10Yeah, he is.
10:12You have to understand the context of Bobby Hoying.
10:17Randall Cunningham was supposed to be the ultimate weapon in the NFL.
10:21And by 1995, he's no longer with the Eagles.
10:24The Eagles never get to a Super Bowl.
10:26Disappointment.
10:26The franchise and the region are desperate, desperate, for a top-flight young quarterback.
10:33And here comes Bobby Hoying.
10:37A third-round pick out of Ohio State, Hoying led up the Bengals in 1997.
10:43In a come-from-behind win, the boy Hoying threw for over 300 yards and four scores,
10:49wetting the whistle of a QB-thirsty fan base.
10:56He had one good game against the Bengals, and suddenly everyone's going, this is the next guy.
11:05Ladies and gentlemen, you have a quarterback.
11:09This is the delirium of the Eagles fans desperate for a quarterback.
11:16I remember when the air began to come out of the balloon.
11:19They had a home game against the Giants, and he came out on the field.
11:24There was a big roar.
11:24The crowd was really behind him.
11:26It was a big game.
11:26If the Eagles won that one, all of a sudden, they're in play.
11:29And early in that game, Hoying throws a pass, and Jesse Armstead intercepted it.
11:35And it was just a killer.
11:36And from that point on, Bobby's performance just imploded.
11:45Hoying is the starter the following year, and Kerr Plunk, he can't play.
11:52Here comes the safety blitz.
11:53Looks and Kerr is intercepted!
11:55They opened at home with Seattle.
11:58He never down again after his first year playing.
12:03No touchdowns, no interceptions, 11 turnovers, the rest of his career.
12:10Terrible.
12:16And just got buried, and got shut out.
12:20This guy who had shown a lot of poise and had a lot of promise the year before
12:24just seemed to regress with every practice.
12:27Bobby Hoying can no longer complete a pass downfield at all.
12:30The entire Eagles offense turns into a bunch of sacks and interceptions.
12:38The following year, Hoying was traded to Oakland, where the Raiders failed to resurrect his career.
12:44He went from being an up-and-coming young quarterback to being out of the league like a shot.
12:53Forget about the boogeyman.
12:55Just use Bobby Hoying, and you will scare the dickens out of children in Philadelphia.
12:59Ooh, Bobby Hoying, and then that's it.
13:01It was the tease of all teases.
13:04The comment that was Bobby Hoying flashed across the sky and was gone in record time.
13:10A pretty classic case for quarterback tease.
13:13Number seven quarterback tease, Andy Dalton.
13:18Andy Dalton is the ultimate quarterback tease.
13:25One week, he'll throw for a bunch of touchdowns and a bunch of yards.
13:30A 43-yard strike from the Red Rifle.
13:34Then the next week, it's the complete opposite.
13:37Fourth interception of the game for Andy Dalton, new career high.
13:40Andy Dalton?
13:41I mean, boy, you guys are pretty quick to jump the gun on this guy.
13:45I mean, let's run Andy Dalton out of town.
13:47He's been to the playoffs a couple of years.
13:49Cincinnati is playoff bounce.
13:51You guys are brutal.
13:52Andy Dalton, he could very well still turn out to be an elite quarterback.
13:55So I think it's a little too soon to put the T-word on.
13:59Yes, sir!
14:00Huh.
14:00That's what I'm talking about!
14:04He's a tease?
14:06Andy Dalton's a tease?
14:08For the life of me, I can't figure out why people kill that guy.
14:11I don't get it.
14:13And he throws it into the end.
14:14Oh, baby!
14:15Oh, and for a Bengals!
14:17Touchdown!
14:18Oh, baby!
14:19He's taken the Bengals to three straight playoff seasons.
14:24Nobody's ever done that at the quarterback position.
14:27Each and every year, his numbers get better.
14:30What a day for Andy Dalton.
14:32A career-high five touchdown passes.
14:35He's not an elite quarterback, but he's far from...
14:40...Matisse.
14:45Despite his gaudy stat...
14:56Despite his gaudy stats and appearances,
15:00hasn't done let him on this list.
15:03The real...
15:04He's maybe the worst playoff quarterback of the last 60 years?
15:1550 years?
15:17One touchdown, eight turnovers, no wins, 11 points per game.
15:23Terrible.
15:27Crux.
15:28And even like these were world-beating teams.
15:30They lost the next round.
15:33Tease that and all is relates to the playoffs.
15:36The NFL's longest run without a playoff win continues.
15:41He's got to be number one on the list.
15:43On Wild Card Sunday, he becomes a shell of himself.
15:47Dalton fires toward the left.
15:49Oh, no!
15:51The guy is killer in the regular season.
15:54He's breaking every Bengal touchdown record ever.
15:57He wins 12 games.
15:58He's totally dominant.
16:00And then he goes into the playoffs and gets absolutely eaten alive.
16:03He's the ultimate tease.
16:05Four turnovers on the day.
16:07Andy Dalton personally responsible for three of them.
16:09When you designate a quarterback as your franchise guy and you win regular season games with him and then bottom
16:19out in the playoffs, then, yeah, that's a tease.
16:22That's absolutely a tease.
16:24Number six, quarterback tease.
16:27Andy Tebow.
16:29Quarterback tease.
16:30Well, I know where you're going.
16:32I know why you guys have this category.
16:33You want to get another show to get Tebow's face on the network.
16:38Quarterback draws.
16:39Tebow's going to be into the end zone.
16:40Because a guy who wins the Heisman Trophy, he isn't a great pro quarterback, does not make him a tease.
16:46And by the way, he did win a playoff game.
16:50Denver moves on.
16:52The Steelers go home.
16:54He was a tease.
16:55I mean, he took the Broncos to the playoffs.
16:58He had that whole, like, fist-pumping, Tebow-ing.
17:03Everyone thought that Tim Tebow, with that big heart, that drive, that will,
17:09and nothing.
17:12Incredible.
17:13I'm not going to lie.
17:14At some point in his career, when he started to win, I started to believe that, you know what, this
17:18Tim Tebow kid, he's for real.
17:19I find myself feeling very comfortable with him as the quarterback in this situation.
17:24So I kind of became a Tim Tebow believer.
17:27Let's believe the whole day, all right, man?
17:29It's what we do.
17:30I don't know if it's fair to call Tim Tebow a tease.
17:33We have never seen a quarterback really look like that.
17:38Tim Tebow looks pretty darn good.
17:40He was a quarterback who's bigger than a linebacker.
17:44He ran like a fullback.
17:46He was very hard to stop.
17:48Tebow breaks the tackle.
17:49Tebow's inside the five.
17:50Tebow for the goal line.
17:52Touchdown.
17:54I don't know if there will ever be anything like Tebow mania.
17:59Tebow's tease factor hit its peak when Tebow mania swept the nation.
18:05This is for all my Denver people.
18:07Have you heard about this new social media phenomenon called Tebowing?
18:11What's your reaction to Tebowing craze that's lighting up Twitter right now?
18:14I think it's, you know, it's pretty cool.
18:16Tebow goes down, hits that, hits that poles on you.
18:19Yeah?
18:20You can chill up your spine.
18:22Tebow time!
18:23Woo!
18:27Tim Tebow teased on the game's biggest stage.
18:31I covered one of the most magical football games I have ever covered.
18:36When he beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Denver in overtime.
18:41Touchdown, Tim Tebow!
18:44When it came down to it, he had a 300-yard game.
18:48He outplayed Ben Roethlisberger, and he hit Demarius Thomas in sudden death overtime.
18:55And I don't think that he got enough credit for.
19:00Just two months after his playoff win, the Broncos signed Peyton Manning, and Tebow was shipped to the Jets.
19:07I just want to thank the Broncos for my time in Denver, and just that I'm looking forward to my
19:13time as a Jet.
19:14Tim Tebow was a tease for fate.
19:19Tim Tebow was a tease for the media, but the guy he wasn't a tease to was John Elway.
19:27I think Tim Tebow did far more with his NFL abilities than most anyone else has in the NFL.
19:36Frankly, he didn't have the arm to be an NFL quarterback.
19:39Tebow time's over, baby.
19:41So all he could basically be was a tease.
19:44How hard is it to replace them?
19:50And now, the number five quarterback teams, Richard Todd.
19:56Certainly a lot of Jets on this list.
19:58Sanchez, Tim Tebow, Richard Todd.
20:03Because they're the Jets. Because they're the Jets.
20:05Because I am convinced it has been a curse since Joe Namath.
20:10Richard Todd, the Mark Sanchez of the 1970s.
20:13Oh, my goodness gracious.
20:15I still have the magnet in Todd We Trust.
20:17He really never had a glory era to speak of.
20:21With Broadway Joe's best days behind him, New York looked for his replacement in the 1976 draft.
20:27New York Jets, first round selection.
20:32Richard Todd, quarterback, Alabama.
20:36Big, giant, huge shoes to fill.
20:40And when you're trying to replace a legend in Joe Namath, and you come from the same school, this city
20:47can eat you up.
20:48I'm learning. I can read things better.
20:50And, you know, when you're young, you have to do that.
20:53You have to play to learn.
20:54Richard was never really Namath.
20:56He didn't have the tools of the young Namath.
20:58He didn't have the skills.
21:00I got scars on my body from Richard Todd.
21:02Nobody found the open linebacker better.
21:05What a silly decision.
21:07Todd had to fight off opposing defenders, as well as backup Matt Robinson and his fearsome Fu Manchu.
21:15Because Todd wasn't all he was supposed to be out of Alabama, opened the door for a guy like Matt
21:21Robinson, who was just a guy to really affect Todd's stature in New York.
21:27Because, you know, Todd was feeling that heat, feeling that pressure, as quarterbacks tend to do in New York.
21:32Finally, Todd winds up getting the job at 1981.
21:38He seems to find himself.
21:40The Jets go 10-5 in one.
21:42Todd has a very good year.
21:44Throws 25 touchdown passes.
21:46Jets make the playoffs for the first time in 12 years.
21:48You know, hey, maybe they got something here.
21:51What a pass.
21:52What a play.
22:05Next year, what does Todd do?
22:07He goes out, wins a playoff game on the road against the defending AFC champions of Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati.
22:14Then he goes into L.A., beats the Raiders before 100,000 people.
22:18And I'm saying to myself, as they get ready to play in the AFC title game,
22:21Hey, maybe we got something here now with Richard Todd.
22:26You talk to people in New York and talk to them about Richard Todd,
22:29they'll always talk about that championship game in Miami.
22:32The game was played in abominable conditions.
22:35Don Shuler conveniently says, well, let's not cover the field because it never rains in Florida.
22:39So they play in this mud bowl in Miami.
22:42Todd has a miserable game.
22:44And A.J. Dewey, who I think maybe had three career interceptions,
22:49had three interceptions against Richard Todd in that range.
22:55Intercepted, and that's time to be a preceptor.
22:59A.J. Dewey.
23:00A.J. Dewey is still running.
23:03Pick to go to the Super Bowl the following year,
23:06the Jets crash-landed finishing 7-9 as Todd threw 26 interceptions.
23:11I wouldn't call Richard Todd a tease because it took him six years to really have a good season.
23:17And Todd we trust, he belongs on the list.
23:19I'd maybe knock him up a couple notches.
23:23The number four quarterback tease, Jeff George.
23:27Oh.
23:28My number one quarterback tease ever is Jeff George.
23:36I would probably put him at number one because so much was expected of him when he came out.
23:41You know what's the ultimate tease thing in here is his cover of Sports Illustrated.
23:45He's got a wispy mustache and a mullet.
23:47And he's wearing a turtleneck.
23:49I don't know if this thing's going to pan out for us.
23:52Ha!
23:53He ended up being the first pick in the draft based on throwing the ball in a workout
23:58because he could throw the ball through a wall.
24:01As good an arm as I've ever seen.
24:03He's going to throw deep.
24:05What a play by Jeff George.
24:07Well, when you watched him throw, you stood there in awe of what this young man could do with the
24:11football.
24:12Players like Tim Brown would say the ball, it almost materializes in your hands.
24:17It's like he teleports the ball.
24:19For years and years, everybody thought that this was a guy that could be a franchise quarterback.
24:27He was a very confident guy.
24:32Extremely confident.
24:33To a point where I think he was too confident.
24:35When he says it's going to be really sweet and Jeff George is going to lead the team to the
24:39Super Bowl.
24:39He was late to his first team practice.
24:42Talking in the third person before you've even been drafted.
24:47Not, not, not a red flag at all.
24:51You on top of everything.
24:52You know everything?
24:53Yeah.
24:54All right.
24:54He wasn't a guy that was going to work on fundamentals and mechanics.
24:59They got him in trouble throwing picks.
25:00Bro, the center.
25:01Get us up the right game.
25:02Go to the pen.
25:03Go to the pen.
25:04Jeff George made the famous statement that leadership isn't that important.
25:09What?
25:09Oh, really?
25:10He just didn't have that ability to rally the group.
25:14It wasn't his personality.
25:15Just a not emotional guy.
25:17He just didn't have that ability in the huddle to just bring the team down the field and go win
25:21the game.
25:24Come on, George.
25:26We need a scorer.
25:28Come on.
25:28Down field.
25:29Come on.
25:31Extremely talented, but yet wanted to do things his way.
25:34I'll never forget sitting in a meeting, sitting with Jeff saying, tell me about the offense.
25:40And he said, first and second down, basically, you know, I'll do what the coaches want.
25:45Third down, I'll just look for Tim Brown.
25:46Jeff George, on top of being a huge, huge disappointment and not a good quarterback, was also somebody that nobody
25:55liked.
25:55Looking at the sideline and pointing.
25:57Well, I don't think Jeff is going to win that one.
26:00His teammates didn't dig him.
26:02His family and friends probably didn't dig him.
26:04I'm not sure Jeff George liked Jeff George.
26:07He had, I think, a problem with authority.
26:11He really got into it with a lot of different coaches.
26:14He's got fun.
26:16Yep.
26:19For you not to get along with June Jones, you've got to be pretty much, you know, a butthole.
26:25Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
26:29Suiting up with seven different teams during his 14-year career, George's immense potential netted very little production.
26:37His career winning percentage was 37%.
26:40For a guy that played a long time for a lot of different teams and had a lot of physical
26:43talent, that's the definition of a guy that's a tease.
26:46He went 1-15 in his second year.
26:48He won one playoff game in 12 years.
26:52How bad is that?
26:53I would say Jeff George might be the single most talented quarterback that never achieved a damn thing in the
27:00league.
27:01Still to come, which former rookie of the year is it?
27:07Number three quarterback tease, Vince Young.
27:10One of the great quarterback teases is obviously Vince Young.
27:14Young 15, young 10, young 5, touchdown!
27:18Vince Young was big and fast, and he could just wing the ball.
27:23He could throw the ball like 80 yards, and he just seemed to have everything that you would need.
27:28That guy is an absolute phenom.
27:31He should have been a tremendous quarterback, but Vince Young had too many negative things going on on the outside,
27:37and he didn't do enough of the positive things to learn the game and become a great quarterback.
27:46Oh, dream team.
27:48With the nightmarish way Vince Young's career ended...
27:52This has been some season.
27:54This has been one ugly season.
27:56It's hard to remember that our number three tease was once a coveted prospect.
28:01I think everybody was thrilled about the potential for Vince Young because of that national championship game.
28:07He was just a man among boys.
28:09When he ran into the end zone, it was like everybody else was, you know, sprinting in slow motion behind
28:13him.
28:14You can have the perfect defense ball, but you're not going to beat him.
28:19In the face of the ball.
28:22If you saw Vince Young play in that Rose Bowl game, I don't know how you didn't think he was
28:26going to be a great NFL player.
28:33People mania?
28:34It was Vince Young running off a long string of games when he came in as a rookie.
28:41And unbelievable as lived by the rookie quarterback Vince Young.
28:47They had a comeback against the Giants that was one of the greatest comebacks I've ever seen in my life.
28:53It's another music scene miracle.
28:5524 unanswered points here on the fourth.
28:59His rookie year against the Texans, 39-yard touchdown run in overtime.
29:05I, as the announcer said, stop the Vince Saturday.
29:08And at the time, there was a thought that the Texans made a colossal error.
29:16Vince Young ready to ball out?
29:18Y'all might see the show today.
29:19Get ready for it.
29:20I thought Vince Young was going to be the new prototype for NFL quarterbacks.
29:26And that's actually not untrue.
29:28Because now we have a lot of guys like RG3, like Colin Kaepernick.
29:32Big, strong guys that are dual threats.
29:34So, I think in a lot of ways, he kind of did break the mold.
29:37The young man makes the biggest plays that you've ever seen in the most critical times.
29:44He makes the Pro Bowl as a rookie.
29:46And you think, okay, he may not be the most polished passer, but he has a big arm.
29:49And at that size and that speed, this could be something special.
29:53He has really struggled here for not shocking.
29:56Despite his tease-worthy 31-19 career record as a starter,
30:01Vince Young never really could recapture the success of his rookie year.
30:08This kid, he was so great in college, and he comes to the Pro,
30:11and there's so much promise behind him.
30:14And it just didn't translate.
30:17I think it's unfortunate that Vince Young's Pro career didn't turn out like he thought it should have.
30:20Up next, which former Michigan Wolverine clawed his way onto our list?
30:27It's unbelievable how some guys...
30:33The number two quarterback team is Elvis Gerbach.
30:38Yeah, that's trashy.
30:39Big, tall guy, right?
30:40I mean, straight out of central casting.
30:43Goes to Michigan.
30:44He's got a big, strong arm.
30:52I remember the guy retired at 31, too young.
30:55He was 40 and 30 in his career.
30:57He won.
30:58I mean, the guy won.
30:58I don't know why he went away.
31:00I never thought he was as bad as everybody else did.
31:02Damn, that ball was strong.
31:04He was terrible.
31:06He couldn't get out of the Super Bowl hand with Trent Doe for the previous year.
31:11Terrible.
31:15Great reception.
31:20The first entry on Elvis Gerbach's lengthy tease resume dates back to his time with the 49ers.
31:29I had a chance to watch Elvis Gerbach relatively closely when he was quarterbacking the 49ers,
31:34and there was a buzz.
31:35There was actually a little bit of an Elvis Gerbach buzz around that time.
31:39Touchdown, 49ers!
31:41I think Gerbach's greatest moment occurred on the road in Dallas.
31:45Woo!
31:46I'm going to live that again!
31:48We're talking about a heavily, heavily favored Dallas Cowboy team at home,
31:53and Gerbach found Jerry Rice on a slant early in that first quarter,
31:57and Jerry Rice scored a touchdown, set the tone for the game.
32:00They can't catch him!
32:01Touchdown, 49ers!
32:03Niners won that game.
32:05Huge upset, and Elvis Gerbach led the way.
32:07That was his greatest moment as a quarterback, as a 49er anyway.
32:13We were sort of hoping against hope, right, that he would be the guy,
32:16and I think, sadly, our better instincts were proved correct.
32:22Gerbach's greatest 49ers moment was quickly followed by his worst.
32:26In 1996, Dallas Cowboys at Candlestick Park.
32:30Elvis Gerbach goes a critical interception late in the second half.
32:34Across the 49ers the game, losing to the Cowboys at Candlestick is just so painful.
32:38The mayor of San Francisco called Elvis Gerbach an embarrassment to humankind.
32:42Tough one.
32:47The next stop on the Gerbach Tease Tour was Kansas City,
32:51where he had the most tease-worthy season of his career.
32:56Touchdown, Kansas City!
33:02Not my last two years in the league,
33:04and he ended up having his two best seasons of his career when I was in Kansas City.
33:08He really played well.
33:10Touchdown!
33:10So I really don't know why things didn't pan out for him when he went to Baltimore.
33:19Gerbach's final tease came at the expense of the Baltimore Ravens.
33:24In 2000, of course, the Ravens had won the Super Bowl.
33:28And the Ravens are the champions of the world!
33:30At the end of that season, Brian Billick felt like we need to make a change at quarterback.
33:36How's Elvis working out?
33:38I think he's going to be an outstanding quarterback.
33:41I think he's going to bring us a whole new dimension.
33:44Elvis is supposed to be an upgrade at one of the weaker positions on the Super Bowl winning team,
33:50a quarterback, and it just didn't work out.
33:53Elvis back to throw, and it is intercepted!
33:56You know, as far as being a tease, Baltimore was definitely teased by Elvis Gerbach.
34:01Gerbach! No way should he have thrown that ball!
34:05If Elvis Gerbach couldn't hold down a position that Trent Dilfer did, definite tease.
34:13Still to come, the number one...
34:19And now, the number one quarterback tease, Scott Mitchell.
34:24You know what? The definition of a quarterback tease should be Scott Mitchell.
34:30He's one of the great teases of all time.
34:33What was Mitchell then?
34:35He was fat.
34:38What a big man he is. 6'6", 230-pounder, Scott Mitchell.
34:43DeMarco Farr once called him a water buffalo.
34:46What more do you need to say?
34:47Something about the big left-handed, big arm, and a guy that would be tough to bring down.
34:51And it just never happened for Scott.
34:57There could be something critically wrong with Dan Marino.
35:01Scott Mitchell's big break came with a tear of Dan Marino's Achilles tendon in 1993.
35:10Well, in any event, Scott Mitchell is in the game.
35:13They put Scott Mitchell in, and he played lights out.
35:19There are a few glimpses when he's in Miami where you're like, this guy's got something.
35:33He looked like a lefty Dan Marino, the way he threw his wife who was in the pocket and all
35:37that stuff.
35:38He played so well. There are some people, including some people in the media, that were writing and speculating that
35:43maybe he's won the job.
35:45And if Marino comes back from the Achilles injury, maybe it's time to move Dan and let Mitchell play.
35:54You know, he had a nice four or five-game run and got that big contract.
35:58He got a three-year, $11 million contract with the Lions.
36:01It was a lot of money back in those days.
36:03You were taking a chance because, you know, you only really had one good year.
36:07I could have gone to a lot of places, and I chose to come here because I got Mitchell.
36:12Because I got him.
36:12He folded it up with a year.
36:16One year.
36:24He has a good regular season.
36:26He has a couple of good regular seasons.
36:28Mitchell was a machine in 1995, throwing for over 4,000 yards and 32 touchdowns as the Lions roared to
36:37the playoffs.
36:38Mitchell looking left all the way, fires open, touchdown!
36:41He gets into a playoff game against the Eagles and throws four interceptions.
36:47And the Eagles score 58 points on him.
36:55I remember I went out to dinner with a bunch of the Detroit Lions the night before.
37:01And privately, they had their sincere doubts about how we would play the next day.
37:05And I've never seen so many high fastballs in my life.
37:08I mean, he was not ready for prime time.
37:11Once Scott Mitchell did that in Philadelphia, you know, he would never truly amount to being a legitimate starting quarterback.
37:20Tom Moore should be anointed for sainthood for getting that guy to throw for 4,000 yards.
37:25Mitchell, near side, Mitchell!
37:28He just fell apart quick.
37:29He threw a lot of floaters up there.
37:33I don't think he had the personality traits to handle the money, handle the fame, and then handle the pressure
37:39that came along with it.
37:40It's a sad, cautionary tale that we've seen way too much in the NFL.
37:45When you have a backup quarterback, looks good, flashes, gets a big, fat dollar contract with another team, and then
37:52plummets.
37:53Well, I don't think Edmode worked too well, did it?
37:58Yeah, when I think of quarterback teases, to me, he's the first one that comes to mind.
38:03Scott Mitchell's mom has watched...
38:07thought he could even play.
38:08You guys nailed the number one.
38:10The Scott Mitchell has to be the ultimate tease.
38:13Amazing.
38:19Yep, my...
38:22Just spent part of my birthday watching a left-handed quarterback get ripped to shreds, so thanks for that.
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