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AJ McKenzie
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A kicker at 10?
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00:04Guys doing things that have never been done before are guys that you remember.
00:08I mean, records are meant to be broken.
00:09You want to put your name in a book.
00:11You know, Peyton just said, if I need something, I'm going to Marvin,
00:13and Marvin's going to get open, and he did.
00:20There are plenty of talented people in the world,
00:22but in pro football, individual achievement usually takes a backseat to team spirit.
00:28I think football is the ultimate team sport.
00:31It's all about what you can accomplish as an 11-man unit,
00:34and then three units working together.
00:36Forty men together can't lose.
00:39But still, there are seasons within a football season to transcend all that.
00:44He's got it.
00:45And a brand new single-season rushing record.
00:49What makes a great single-season performance?
00:51Some have left fans on the edge of their seats.
00:55No way!
00:56Others have been a product of sheer dominance.
00:59Look at that cookie stride.
01:02And still others have reached milestones no one ever imagined.
01:07Number 49, and Dan Marino can take a step back.
01:10Peyton Mannington.
01:11Is it selfish?
01:13I don't think so.
01:13I think that's what drives these guys, what drives athletes.
01:17You know, go do something that other people say you can't do.
01:19That's what the mentality is all about.
01:21And that's highlight reel material forever.
01:23So usually, if you play better, the team plays better.
01:28The team does better.
01:30In the ultimate team sport, they become memorable based on that individual accomplishment.
01:35With more than 80 NFL seasons to choose from, it took plenty of juice to make our list.
01:55The number 10 single-season performance of all time.
01:59Mark Mosley wins the MVP.
02:04When Mark kicked a field goal, it was going to go through.
02:07I mean, there was no doubt.
02:08I never bowl or miss.
02:10Ever.
02:11Our number 10 performance is Mark Mosley's, who in 1982 became the only kicker in NFL history
02:18to win the Most Valuable Player Award.
02:21I mean, that's like Haley's Comet stuff, but that just doesn't happen.
02:25Kick is up.
02:26It's good!
02:27But I was very fortunate that year to be on a team that really needed what I could do,
02:31and which was make field goals.
02:33Mark Mosley, without question, was the most valuable part of our football team.
02:38Nice and set.
02:39Snap.
02:39Hold.
02:40Kick is up.
02:41It's good!
02:41Every time we needed a clutch kick, Mark would get it done.
02:46In 1982, a player's strike shortened the NFL season to just nine.
02:51Magnified the importance of a rescoring attempt.
02:53That year, every week, I was having to do something spectacular to help keep us winning.
02:58He starts making kicks for us, and he keeps making kicks.
03:02He becomes a huge figure in the grand scheme of things.
03:04There were some games where mostly, I mean, by far was the difference.
03:10We had nine games, we won eight, and I think seven of those games I won with field goals.
03:14The whole season started with them going down the field late in the game against Philadelphia.
03:19He makes a kick at that end of the game to tie it.
03:21Mark Mosley's toe is sent it to overtime.
03:23He makes another one to win it.
03:25Snap.
03:26Hold is good.
03:26Kick is up.
03:27Long enough.
03:28It's good!
03:28And Mark Mosley's toe has won it in overtime.
03:31And he...
03:32I believe there were...
03:34One, two, three...
03:36Four.
03:37There were at least four games of their eight wins that were...
03:40He was the difference between them winning and losing.
03:45He just keeps nailing.
03:46They had a game against St. Louis that they won 12-7, and he kicked for all their points.
03:51That's a great kick by Mosley.
03:54Staying true to kicker stereotypes, our number 10 pick had his own set of idiosyncrasies.
04:01Now, he was eccentric in his own right.
04:03Kickers are different.
04:0413 socks.
04:06I would say he had at least five, six pairs of socks on.
04:09One of them was one of those big, thick, hunting pair of socks.
04:12Specially made shoe.
04:13All the opposing coaches used to swear he had a specially weighted shoe.
04:17I think we even had a shoe inspected one time prior to a game, just to make sure it was
04:21legal.
04:22And it was.
04:22You know, when someone does it as well as he was doing, you've got to find something illegal about it.
04:26You know?
04:26And we couldn't find anything.
04:28Critics may have questioned whether Mosley was on the level, but there's no denying he was the NFL's last straight
04:35shooter.
04:36He's a straightaway kicker, and it is good!
04:39Mark Mosley kicked well in all kinds of weather for us.
04:42I mean, that was one of the advantages of him being a straight-on kicker.
04:45He never had a problem with his plant foot.
04:48It seemed like so often you see sidewinders plant their plant foot, they slip, fall on their rear ends,
04:52ball gets four feet off the ground, hits the center of the back of the head.
04:55It's like a skating rink out there.
04:57In Mark's case, he had enough weight in that leg and shoe of his that all he had to do
05:01was get the pendulum swinging.
05:02Field goal by Mosley.
05:06I think I'll take that risk over a guy who makes 65% of his field goals, but he doesn't
05:16slip and fall,
05:17as opposed to 80% of his field goals, but he might slip and fall sometimes.
05:27Kicking the Redskins into the playoffs with what was then an NFL record, his 21st consecutive field goal.
05:35Nine seconds to go.
05:36A 42-yard attempt.
05:38Plenty long enough.
05:39He hit it like he hit all of them.
05:41It's good!
05:42Mark Mosley has broken the National Football League record!
05:46The one kick set an NFL record, won the game, and it also put us in the playoffs for the
05:51first time in six years.
05:52You're in the playoffs!
05:53I know!
05:54Isn't that exciting?
05:55We'll take it anyway we can get it.
05:56It's all because of this guy right here.
05:58He's the greatest kicker in football.
06:00Mosley ended his super season by helping the Redskins win Super Bowl XVII.
06:06I'm lucky enough to wear a world championship ring.
06:10To this day, I always say that he's a single reason that we're able to have flashed the hardware,
06:15because the guy kicked us out of a lot of jams, and, you know, you've got to love him for
06:19that.
06:21It's going to be physical!
06:22It's going to be tough!
06:23You're going to be tired!
06:25In 2001, Giants defensive end Michael Strahan set a new single season record with 22.5 sacks.
06:35It's a new record, Michael Strahan.
06:38As an individual, Strahan raised the bar in 2001,
06:42and while the 2000 Braavings and the 1985 Bears are considered among the best overall defenses,
06:48Look at the throw pressure, throws underneath, it's intercepted!
06:51Clay Lewis intercepts!
06:53they couldn't match a defensive delicacy from the South.
06:59No.
06:59Season performance of all time.
07:03Jerry Glanville's Gritz Blitz defense.
07:06Jerry Glanville and the Gritz Blitz, certifiably crazy.
07:13The modern-day record for least amount of points given up by a defensive team in one season
07:19is 129 points by the 1977 Atlanta Falcons.
07:23We walked out in the ball field, you know, with that lean and hungry look.
07:27Meet the Gritz Blitz, three of the toughest linebackers in football.
07:32The only thing these...
07:34Mind her, one of those was actually a kickoff return touchdown.
07:38So, one of those touchdowns was a kickoff return.
07:41So, they only gave up 122 points as a defensive unit.
07:46Guys love more than sacking a quarterback is a bowl of good grits.
07:49Hey, grits!
07:50All right.
07:51Quakers got that good country flavor, and you fix them in seconds.
07:55Mmm, great grits!
07:56How about some more?
07:57Give me those grits.
07:59Intercepted!
08:01Most people remember Jerry Glanville as the Falcons' head coach in the early 90s,
08:06but as a young assistant in 1977, his grits-blitz defense was the Falcons' meal ticket.
08:16The main thing to making grits is actually keeping them stirred as you're making them.
08:21And that's what you saw in our defense.
08:23It was just a swirl of human bodies just flying around, trying to get their hat on the ball carrier.
08:30After back-to-back four-win seasons in 1975 and 76,
08:35Lehman Bennett was hired as head coach, and his defensive coordinator pulled no punches.
08:41No touchdown.
08:42Field goal attempt.
08:43Come on, Charlie.
08:44Come on, Charlie.
08:45You're killing me.
08:46Oh, super play!
08:48Players like us who had been through those tumultuous years prior to that,
08:52it was really refreshing to see a coach that knew what he was doing.
08:56That helps the safety on the post corner.
08:58Everybody's paying attention.
08:59This is a toughie.
09:01Corner and safety, you've got to communicate.
09:03We were just doing some things none of us had ever seen before.
09:07Coach Glanville, if he could blitz 13 guys, he would have done it.
09:10I always hear people talk about Buddy Ryan and 8 in the Box and the great team.
09:16You know, I think if you look about 10 years ahead of that, what Jerry Glanville was doing in Atlanta,
09:21he was 8 and 9 in the Box all day long.
09:24Our number nine single-season performance allowed only 9.2 points per game,
09:29a mark that no defense, not even the 1985 Bears, has matched.
09:37However, the Falcons' offense wasn't as impressive and averaged less than 13 points a game.
09:44Every game was such a war for us.
09:46When you can't score points, we held two teams to under 100 yards and we lost.
09:50A 7-7 record denied.
09:52Glanville's grits, blitz, a playoff berth, and the respect.
09:57They gave up 62 points.
10:00I repeat, 62 points the first nine games, and they still only went 5-4 in those games.
10:10Oh, one of those touchdowns was a kickoff.
10:13So, they gave up 55 points as a defensive unit in the first nine games.
10:19And we're 5-4.
10:22Pitiful.
10:24Pitiful offense.
10:26...expected deserved.
10:28Only two members of the NFL's top defense were named All-Pro.
10:32Number 87, Claude Humphrey, and the NFC's interception leader, number 22, Roland Lawrence.
10:38We gave up 129 points, and the fun of it was, nobody knows who was on the team.
10:46People can't name those players.
10:48They can't name the individuals.
10:51What they accomplished is...
10:53Hey, there we...
10:56Claude Humphrey's the Hall of Famer.
10:59...greater than any defense that ever played.
11:01We just kind of live in our little world of obscurity.
11:04We had a scheme that was pretty radical.
11:06And we had a bunch of guys that bought in 100%.
11:10We had the best NFL defense on a 14-game season.
11:17The number eight single-season performance of all time, Devin Hester's 2007 season.
11:23This is an amusement ride.
11:25I mean, you never know what you're going to get from Devin Hester.
11:28In 2006, rookie Devin Hester tied an NFL record with five kick return touchdowns before adding
11:34another in Super Bowl XLI.
11:3625, to the outside, 30, to the close.
11:39Just down there!
11:41The way!
11:42He is a dangerous weapon.
11:43And he did it on kickoffs, also on punt returns.
11:46I told him, Mom, I told him to order some popcorn, it's going to be a shot tonight.
11:50There were certain people, when they had the football in their hands, it was magic.
11:54I'm in awe of the fact that he ran back six kickoff returns in his rookie year.
12:00That's like a guy getting five gold medals in the Olympics.
12:03People don't realize how hard that's to do.
12:05Devin Hester takes it back 84 yards, baby!
12:11Hester's 2006 season would have made our list, but his 2007 season was even better with a record
12:17six regular season touchdown returns.
12:24It's astounding, amazing, and hardly believable, because I didn't think it could be done that
12:30way again.
12:30He returned two against Denver, like he did two against St. Louis the year before.
12:35Here goes Hester, midfield!
12:37There he goes!
12:38Devin Hester keeps making history!
12:41Touchdown!
12:42Touchdown Bears!
12:44Number two today!
12:46Devin Hester, you are ridiculous!
12:54It's almost impossible to calculate his impact on that team, because they needed that so much.
12:59Nobody took the Bears seriously, and then this kid Devin Hester comes along, and they didn't
13:04know what to do with him.
13:05They put him back there.
13:06The guy ends up running back kicks, and he changed the whole complexion of...
13:08He might be the most dangerous guy in football today.
13:12Hey, look at Steve Wilkos.
13:14Nobody took the Bears seriously, but they were an 11-5 division winning playoff team the year
13:21before.
13:25If somebody didn't take the Bears seriously before Devin Hester, they don't know much about
13:31football.
13:32But yeah, Devin Hester improved that team.
13:44Even when Hester wasn't scoring touchdowns in 2007, he tilted the field in favor of the
13:49Bears.
13:50And he screws up the punters.
13:52They might have kicked it out of bounds anyway!
13:54You have kickoff teams, punting teams, all talking to themselves.
13:57We cannot get the ball to Hester because there's a great chance that he could bust it.
14:01He changed his games, ladies and gentlemen.
14:06It's essentially 11-on-1.
14:08You need a couple blocks, get them through the first wave, and then you've got a problem
14:12on your hands because of one thing, speed.
14:14The Scott report is that he didn't have great speed.
14:17Well, you don't take six returns back for touchdowns without great speed.
14:20I'm sorry.
14:21That was just pure speed and acceleration.
14:26You just see this blur go by you.
14:28If you watch closely, the players from both teams get up off the bench.
14:32They crowd the sidelines.
14:34Oh, that's returnable.
14:34Everybody wants to take a peek.
14:36I mean, this is theater here.
14:38Hey, D, what do you think on that?
14:40You're going to break one?
14:41You're going to break one?
14:42Yeah.
14:47I mean, Devin Hester was not from this planet.
14:52His 2006 season was actually on the list before they updated it.
14:57Imagine having a season where you score five return touchdowns and think, wow, that's great.
15:03Like, there will never be another season like this.
15:08And then you do better the next year.
15:15He strikes again.
15:17Touchdown!
15:18The fact that you can do it once or twice in a year, that's pretty darn good.
15:24But six, that's pretty damn impressive.
15:27No chance.
15:28Goodbye.
15:29Touchdown.
15:30The Windy City Flyer.
15:32Devin Hester.
15:33Who drafts a guy to be a return specialist?
15:36And then he becomes not just a specialist, but the greatest specialist in the history of the game.
15:41The NFL's all-time leading kick returner is Brian Mitchell, who returned 13 kicks for touchdown.
15:47Coast to coast!
15:49An 89-yard kickoff return by Brian Mitchell!
15:53After his record-breaking 2007 season, Hester is just too shy of Mitchell's record.
15:59Brian Mitchell took over 1,000 returns to get that number.
16:04Devin has done it in less than 200 returns.
16:06And when they say he is the greatest return man of all time, I think that has a lot of
16:11merit, despite the fact he's only done it for two years.
16:15He's done some things that took me four years to do.
16:20One thing we know, he's a-
16:22I love Gale Sears, his game.
16:25Actually, Devin Hester had more return touchdowns in two years than he had in seven.
16:33Of course, if Gale Sears had not been injured, obviously, we know what he would have done.
16:40But Devin Hester already passed up a lot of guys with just two years.
16:47Great return guy.
16:49The question is, where does Devin Hester fit?
16:52Is he an offensive guy? Is he a defensive guy?
16:54In 2007, Hester not only set a record with six return touchdowns in the regular season,
16:59he was the Bears' most explosive offensive weapon.
17:03Down the right side! Hester on the show!
17:0510! 5! Touchdown!
17:07Brilliance on special teams and offense, but Hester at number eight on our list of greatest single season performances.
17:15He's a gift. He's a gift.
17:17In 1999, Rams running back Marshall Falk was the catalyst for the greatest show on turf,
17:23rolling up an NFL record 2,429 yards from scrimmage.
17:29Marshall Falk has surpassed Barry Sanders' record for total yards from scrimmage in a season.
17:34Falk gained over 1,000 yards rushing and receiving, and St. Louis won Super Bowl XXXIV.
17:41St. Louis, the gateway to the West, is now the gateway to the best!
17:46But Marshall couldn't beat Craig on our list.
17:50Touchdown Rams!
17:51The number seven single-season performance of all time, Roger Craig's thousand-thousand season in 1985.
18:01Oh, what a bananas-on spectacular run by Roger Craig!
18:05Guys doing things that have never been done before are guys that you remember.
18:08It's unheard of, and at the time, unprecedented.
18:11And Roger Craig, rushing for 1,000 and receiving for 1,000, set a new standard in the NFL.
18:17That's highlight reel material forever.
18:22As a kid watching football, there were running backs, there was Franco Harris, and then there was Lynn Swan.
18:27But the two never really met until Bill Walsh developed that offense, and he really revolutionized the running back position.
18:33Bill Walsh started thinking about, I'm going to get a running back who's going to receive for 1,000 yards.
18:37What other coach was thinking that?
18:39In 1984, Craig had earned a Super Bowl ring playing fullback alongside Wendell Tyler.
18:45But in 1985, Tyler was slowed by injury, and Craig became the feature back.
18:52Roger just as...
18:55...receiving, but his running ability one-on-one in the open field is so outstanding that you find ways from
19:01that point to get him open.
19:03We know that this guy will have to cover Roger, which is scary for them.
19:06Yeah. Roger can take the ball deep or short and can run excellent pass patterns.
19:11He looked at a guy like Roger Craig. How many different ways can we get Roger Craig the ball?
19:14Can we hand it to him? Can we throw it to him? Can we screen to him?
19:18Not only can Roger run the ball well, he was an extremely accomplished receiver out of the backfield.
19:23And he pretty much reshaped the running back position in every guard.
19:26Looks over to the left side. Pucked by Craig on the way to the end zone.
19:29And Craig goes in for the score.
19:32Touchdown 49ers!
19:33He is the best back in the league right now.
19:35Walked into the end zone. Touchdown!
19:39Whenever you played the San Francisco 49ers, because of the backs that they had, because of Roger Craig,
19:44he made that particular team really, really effective.
19:47Roger Craig was incredibly crucial.
19:50I think Joe Montana had as much faith and belief in Roger Craig as he did John Taylor, Jerry Rice,
19:55all those guys.
19:55I can remember a lot of times where Montana would drop backseat, that he had really nowhere to go downfield,
20:00and wind up just throwing a screen to Craig, and then Craig would break on him.
20:03Since 1985, only Marshall Falk has gained 1,000 yards rushing and receiving in a single season.
20:09So why was Craig's performance more impressive?
20:12Boy, is he fast!
20:14Disqualify Marshall Falk automatically from playing in a dome and playing on AstroTurf.
20:18I think the impressive thing is he did it in San Francisco, on bad turf, on bad fields in December.
20:24And I don't want to take anything away from Marshall, but I mean, he's indoors, perfect condition, know exactly where
20:28every step is.
20:29He's slip and fall a lot outdoors on grass, and it takes a little bit more.
20:31So I'm not dogging Marshall Falk, but just more credit to Roger.
20:35He's into the end zone, cut down 49ers!
20:37You're like I'm in heaven right now!
20:39By the way, the 85 Niners played seven teams with a winning record, including some guys called the 85 Bears.
20:54Some defense called the 46 defense.
20:58Rams played one team with a winning record in 99.
21:02regular season, and they lost.
21:11The number six single season performance of all time, Gale Sayers rookie season.
21:18Give me 18 inches of daylight.
21:21That's all I need.
21:22In 1965, Gale Sayers burst into pro football by scoring an NFL record 22 touchdowns.
21:29He's the most electrifying player I've seen.
21:34I played four years with Gale, and I played four years with Walter Payton.
21:37I have a hard time saying who is better, Walter Payton or Gale Sayers.
21:42People will tell you today that Gale Sayers may be the greatest running back in the history of professional football.
21:48And I know we use it in a cliché form now where they say, you know, every time he touches
21:52the ball, he's a threat of scoring.
21:54I think they came up with that cliché when Gale Sayers came out as a rookie.
21:58He ran with the sense of a bat in a dark room.
22:02He just felt things that were around him and reacted to them with incredible speed.
22:06I could see everybody on the field.
22:08And so I knew where to run, where to cut.
22:10In the same way, I had a feel for where people were.
22:13At number six on our countdown, Sayers showed that he could not only destroy defenses with his legs,
22:19but with his hands as well, averaging over 17 yards of catch in 1965.
22:24Gale was probably the most versatile player at that time.
22:28He could return punts.
22:29He could return kicks.
22:32Now watch this.
22:33Just about 232 times and scored 22 touchdowns.
22:39And had 2200 on purpose yard.
22:42So he's getting 10 yards a touch.
22:47Touchdown every 10 touches.
22:54A windy city whippet rockets 97 yards to a touchdown and lead the Bears never really.
23:00Sayers, especially early, was a ridiculously effective return guy.
23:04Punt kicks, good ball.
23:05He went up into that hole and that punt return and the kickoff return was phenomenal.
23:09I remember the special teams coach, if we even had one, probably didn't.
23:12You know, said, you want to kick to him?
23:14Well, he didn't even think about not kicking to him.
23:16He's a rookie.
23:17We kick it to him.
23:18I think he catches on the one-yard line.
23:20He just bolted out of there.
23:23It was like he ran that 99 yards in about four seconds.
23:28And he did do it all as a rookie.
23:31There has probably never been a more explosive rookie running back ever.
23:37Sayers' greatest game of his rookie season and his career was a stunning six-touchdown performance against the 49ers.
23:45If you ever get a chance, watch that San Francisco game where he scored six.
23:49Watch that game.
23:50He was in mud up to here.
23:52The weather was so nasty that even the boys from Scotland Yard were shivering.
23:57But not even the monk and Meyer could slow down our number six performance.
24:02Everybody was playing on a muddy field except him.
24:04Okay, but he was a mudder.
24:05The only one I ever known.
24:07Nobody could tackle him.
24:08And the weather, the more slippery the field got.
24:12His feet must be that long and he ran flat-footed, man.
24:16And he's the perfect mudder.
24:18Sayers was one bad mudder.
24:20The only person who could keep him out of the end zone was Bears head coach George Hallis.
24:25He could have had seven.
24:26I think George Hallis held them out.
24:28They had another chance for him to score again.
24:30And I think they pulled them out.
24:31I would have to say in the history of football, it was the greatest single game display I've ever seen.
24:36A rookie coming in, very difficult.
24:39Very difficult for him, for number one, to get to football that many times.
24:42He scores 22 touchdowns as a rookie.
24:44And the thing that to me is more phenomenal about that accomplishment is how little he touched the ball.
24:49He only touched the ball 232 times that season.
24:53So he was averaging a touchdown about every 10 times he touched the ball.
24:58When Tomlinson scored his 32 touchdowns, he's touching the ball well over 400 times.
25:02Into the end zone, Charger fans are witnesses to history.
25:07Other guys who have broken the record over the years.
25:10Priest Holmes, Marshall Falk, Sean Alexander.
25:14All 350 to 400 touches in the season.
25:17This guy touched the ball 232 times.
25:19And he scored 22 touchdowns.
25:21Just amazing.
25:22He only played 14 games.
25:26Actually, he had a 14-game season.
25:29Yeah, he only played 14 games.
25:33The number five single-season performance of all time.
25:37Marvin Harrison's 143 catches in 2002.
25:44Throws to the end zone.
25:46Marvin, he's got it!
25:47What a great catch!
25:48It's the kind of thing where you know he's going to catch those passes.
25:51And you try to prevent him from catching those passes.
25:53And you still can't stop him.
25:54You know where the Colts are going to go with the football.
25:56They're going to throw it to Marvin Harrison.
25:57Sometimes you just can't stop it.
25:59And every week, he'd be out there catching more passes than any receiver in the league.
26:03And he did it over the course of an entire season.
26:06In 2002, Marvin Harrison cemented his place in NFL history with 143 catches.
26:1320 more than Herman Moore's previous record.
26:17Peyton makes his math.
26:18Looks, throws upfield.
26:19Marvin's got it to 40.
26:20That's his 124th catch this year.
26:23He's got more passes than any player in league history in a single season.
26:27If you do the math, I mean, it's like nine catches a game.
26:31I mean, you're talking about averaging, what, nine passes a game?
26:34That's incredible.
26:35Our number five single season performance included six double-digit reception games.
26:41Another NFL record.
26:43You never know what route he's going to run.
26:45From the moment he takes the first step off the line of scrimmage, he has you guessing what he's going
26:49to do.
26:50It is Marvin Harrison!
26:55Much of Harrison's success in 2002 can be attributed to his relationship with trigger man Peyton Manning.
27:03Sets, look, fire, touchdown, Marvin Harrison!
27:05When the Minnesota Vikings and Indianapolis Colts were playing a Monday night game a few years ago,
27:10Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson bought tickets to the Indianapolis-Minnesota game
27:14to watch Peyton and Marvin work, not like you would watch it on television,
27:19but watch them interact on the sidelines because they wanted to learn from the greatest combination in football.
27:25Peyton looks, Peyton looks, got Marvin, yes!
27:28Looking for Marvin in the end zone, touchdown!
27:30220 point on the face.
27:31He thought the run was coming.
27:34Harrison is the only player to have four consecutive 100 or more reception seasons,
27:40with 2002 being his brightest of the bunch.
27:44A big play, we're at touchdown, Marvin delivers.
27:46The ball a lot.
27:48I mean, yeah, when you have Peyton Manning, how hard is it?
27:52Not catching?
27:53I mean, I mean, is the guy who, like, uh, Jamie Morris on the list?
28:00He had the most carries in a season.
28:06To be able to catch 143 balls in one year, that's really eye-popping.
28:11I don't know if that record will ever be broken.
28:13Marvin Harrison!
28:15My goodness!
28:18The number four single-season performance of all time,
28:22Dick Night Train Lane's 14 interceptions in 1952.
28:27Night Train Lane's story is an amazing story.
28:30It's like something out of a fairy tale.
28:33Goes one year to a little junior college in Nebraska.
28:37Goes in the Army.
28:39Plays for an Army team at Fort Ord.
28:42It's a wide receiver.
28:43Scores 18 touchdowns in one season.
28:46He's discharged from the Army.
28:47Goes back to Los Angeles.
28:48He gets a job at an aircraft factory.
28:50And it's dirty, dreary, monotonous work.
28:54And he hates it.
28:56But every day, his bus takes him past the offices of the Los Angeles Rams.
29:00So one day, totally on a whim, he gets off the bus,
29:05walks in the office, and says, I want to try out.
29:10There were plenty of fads throughout the 1950s.
29:13But in 1952, rookie cornerback Dick Night...
29:1914 interceptions, 12-game season as a rookie.
29:23When they threw the ball like 15 times a game.
29:29It's just not a...
29:32This is not a...
29:34But...
29:36Night Train Lane was the real deal.
29:39He picked off 14 passes in one season.
29:43And that was a 12-game season.
29:45He was the first defensive back, really, I think,
29:48that baited quarterbacks and receivers into throwing the ball.
29:52Night Train had the ability to do the bait and switch.
29:55He would play off, and he was so quick,
29:57and had such great athletic skills.
29:59The opposing quarterback would look and say,
30:01oh, geez, the guy's uncovered.
30:02And at that moment, Night Train would break for the ball.
30:06And that's why he got so many interceptions in his rookie year.
30:09Night Train Lane had a very interesting way,
30:12almost a quite way of expressing himself.
30:15He came from Texas,
30:16and he spoke this very strange language
30:19that nobody could quite understand.
30:21I'd catch a man about it.
30:22When the Cleveland Browns, anytime they'd come,
30:24they were just a class.
30:25They'd always had the stripes down there.
30:26And I said, man...
30:27I'm not even sure that he understood a lot of what
30:30he was saying.
30:33The Cleveland Browns,
30:34they came into the stadium,
30:36they were just a class.
30:38They always had the striped down leg.
30:40And I said, man...
30:42It's not that hard to decipher.
30:46For 14 seasons,
30:48our number four pick
30:49showed an aggressive playing style
30:51with the Rams,
30:52Cardinals,
30:53and Lions,
30:53and became one of the most feared players
30:56in the game.
30:58He was a devastating hitter.
31:00The pass is good to McElhenney,
31:01but bang!
31:02He was one of the few players
31:03that hurt you
31:04every time he tackled you.
31:06But bang!
31:13I mean,
31:14the guy would grab you by the neck.
31:15He would bring you down
31:16any way he could
31:16by the face mask.
31:17And he was the reason
31:18that they made
31:20the outlaw of the face mask.
31:21There were two years
31:22in Night Train's career.
31:23He didn't make a tackle
31:24below the jawline.
31:25Some people call it a clothesline.
31:27It became known
31:28as the Night Train necktie.
31:30It was just that.
31:31I mean,
31:31he would hit guys
31:32with his arm
31:32under the chin
31:33and lay them out.
31:35Did it all the time.
31:36You can understand
31:36what it was.
31:37He had this forearm
31:38that would come up
31:38from behind
31:39and pull you down
31:40right around your neck.
31:42If the rules of today
31:43were in effect
31:44when Night Train Lane played,
31:46he would have been fined
31:47more than he earned.
31:49Because if you don't hit him right,
31:50you break your elbow,
31:52your arm or something,
31:53you know.
31:54So you've got to really
31:54get it right in front of you
31:56and hit him with that forearm
31:57or rip him up.
31:59His methods
31:59may have been harsh,
32:00but over 50 years later,
32:02Dick Night Train Lane's
32:03record of 14 interceptions
32:05in one season
32:06still stands.
32:07And probably
32:0850 years later,
32:09you could honestly say
32:10there's nobody
32:11that's done it better.
32:12And we're halfway
32:13to that 50 years.
32:18We're halfway to 50 years
32:21after 50 years.
32:23We're 75 years later.
32:26Nobody's gonna break that record.
32:40By the way,
32:41had he faced
32:42as many pass attempts,
32:46now,
32:47as they did then,
32:49you got 25 interceptions.
32:54They called me the freak, man.
32:56There have been plenty
32:57of outstanding
32:58single-season performances
32:59by wide receivers.
33:01In 1998,
33:02Randy Moss
33:03caught 17 touchdowns
33:04as a rookie.
33:06Touchdown!
33:07In the wide-open AF
33:10one passes in 1964.
33:13He caught it!
33:14And despite only playing
33:1612 games in 1987
33:17due to a player's strike,
33:20San Francisco's
33:21Jerry Rice
33:22set an NFL record
33:23with 22 touchdown receptions.
33:26What a catch
33:29he made on that
33:30for the touchdown!
33:32Rice may be
33:33the greatest wide receiver
33:34of all time,
33:36but the greatest...
33:37Sorry,
33:3822 touchdown receptions
33:39in 12 games
33:40didn't make the list?
33:41Really?
33:43Single season
33:44by a wide receiver
33:45took place
33:46more than two decades
33:47before Rice was born.
33:49Touchdown 49ers!
33:52The number three
33:53single season
33:54performance of all time.
33:56Don Hudson's
33:571942 season.
34:00Here's Don Hudson,
34:02once the pride of Alabama,
34:03one of the fastest men
34:04in pro football.
34:05In 1942,
34:08Packers wide receiver
34:09Don Hudson
34:09caught 74 passes
34:12and 17 touchdowns
34:13in just 11 games.
34:15It's hard to imagine
34:16anybody ever having
34:17another season
34:18like that again.
34:19Don Hudson may be
34:20the most dominant player
34:22at a single position
34:23they would have played
34:23in the NFL.
34:26The numbers he put up
34:27that year
34:28were so far and above
34:29anything that anybody
34:30ever put up before.
34:32Hold it!
34:33Look out, fellas!
34:34Look at that cookie stride!
34:36Our number three
34:37single season performance
34:38of all time
34:39is arguably
34:39the most dominant season
34:40in sports
34:41since Babe Ruth
34:43hit 54 home runs
34:44in 1919.
34:46And Hudson
34:47streaks down the field
34:48to receive it.
34:49Here it comes!
34:50Look out, fellas!
34:52And he's playing
34:53in an era
34:54where there was no
34:55defensive pass interference
34:56rule.
34:56I mean,
34:57he got mugged.
34:58he said
34:59for every pass
35:00that I catch
35:01in a game
35:01I catch
35:02a thousand
35:03in practice
35:04in practice
35:04holding
35:05what looks to be
35:07like ten footballs
35:08all from
35:08a practice
35:09session
35:10that he had
35:10that had the quarterback
35:11constantly throwing him
35:12passes.
35:13The numbers
35:14are mind-boggling.
35:16Hudson more than
35:17doubled his
35:18closest competition
35:19in receiving yards.
35:20He more than
35:22doubled his
35:22closest competition
35:24in touchdowns.
35:25and he almost
35:26tripled his
35:27closest competition
35:29in catches.
35:30Guy catches
35:3174 passes
35:33and anybody else
35:34in the league
35:34caught more than 30.
35:35Most teams
35:36didn't throw
35:37that many passes
35:37in a season.
35:38He caught
35:39that many balls.
35:40He gained
35:401,211 yards
35:41and anybody else
35:42gained as many
35:43as 600.
35:44He was a guy
35:44who all through
35:45his career
35:46but particularly
35:46that season
35:47opened people's
35:48eyes up
35:49as to the
35:49possibilities
35:50of the passing
35:51game
35:51and the impact
35:52a single receiver
35:53can have
35:54on the team's
35:55ability to win
35:55championships.
35:57Like Ruth
35:58who dominated
35:59as a pitcher
36:00and a hitter
36:01Hudson was an all
36:08purpose dynamo
36:09making an impact
36:10as a defender
36:11and a place kicker.
36:13The guy played
36:14very, very well
36:14as a defensive
36:15bat.
36:15He played both ways.
36:16Our number three
36:17single season
36:18performance
36:19included seven
36:20of Hudson's
36:2130 career
36:21interceptions.
36:24And when he's
36:25tackled
36:25the grunts
36:26can be heard
36:27in the next
36:27county.
36:28A key component
36:29of Hudson's
36:301942 season
36:31was his connection
36:32with quarterback
36:33Arnie Perber.
36:35Perber,
36:36halfback,
36:36you've just had
36:37an idea
36:37of his passing
36:38talent.
36:39Perber gets
36:39ready to hurl it
36:40and Hudson
36:41streaks down
36:41the field
36:42to receive it.
36:43Hudson and
36:43Herbert
36:44were the
36:44absolute
36:45perfect combination.
36:46Hudson probably
36:47had as much
36:47speed as anybody
36:48in the league
36:48when he first
36:49came into it.
36:49So you had
36:50a guy who
36:50could throw
36:51the ball
36:5165 yards
36:52in the air.
36:53I mean,
36:53the first time
36:54Herbert completed
36:54the pass
36:55to Hudson,
36:56which was in
36:56a game against
36:57the Bears
36:57in 1934,
36:58Hudson's rookie
36:59season,
36:59was for an
37:0083-yard touchdown.
37:01The famous
37:02Herbert-Hudson
37:02combination
37:03is one of
37:04football's
37:04greatest threats.
37:05In an era
37:06where the run
37:07dominated the game,
37:08Don Hudson's
37:091942 season
37:10set the standard
37:11for the wide
37:12receiver position.
37:13I think Don
37:14Hudson's legacy
37:14is that he will
37:15always and should
37:16always remain
37:17the receiver
37:17to compare
37:18other receivers
37:19to.
37:19As great as
37:20Jerry Rice is
37:21and as great
37:21as some of
37:22the other
37:22young and
37:23upcoming receivers
37:23are,
37:24you'll always
37:25have to go
37:25back to Don
37:26Hudson because
37:27when he did
37:27what he did,
37:28no one else
37:29was even close.
37:30He was just
37:30a tremendous,
37:31tremendous threat.
37:32You have to rank
37:33it among the
37:34great receiving
37:35seasons of all
37:36time.
37:38I don't think
37:39he should be
37:40the standard
37:40anymore.
37:42Ever since
37:43Beattie Feathers'
37:44first rush for
37:45over 1,000 yards
37:46in 1934,
37:48a running
37:48back's goal
37:49has been to
37:50go higher
37:50and farther.
37:52The new frontier
37:53these days is
37:54rushing for over
37:552,000 yards
37:57and while O.J.
37:58Simpson,
37:58Barry Sanders,
37:59Terrell Davis,
38:00and Jamal Lewis
38:01have all reached
38:02that milestone,
38:07there is one
38:08player who ran
38:10even farther.
38:13the number 2
38:15single season
38:15performance of
38:16all time.
38:17Eric Dickerson
38:18breaks O.J.'s
38:20rushing record.
38:22Too hard.
38:23Really should
38:24have been O.J.
38:27At running
38:28back,
38:29number 29,
38:30Eric Dickerson.
38:33Pitches off to
38:34Dickerson.
38:34Oh!
38:38If there was ever
38:40poetry in motion,
38:42it was Eric Dickerson
38:43running the football.
38:44He just outran people
38:46just pure speed.
38:48And when he hit a hole,
38:51he was downfield
38:5220,
38:5225 yards
38:53faster than anybody
38:54you've ever seen
38:54before.
38:55He ran like a big
38:56Clydesdale,
38:57just an eloquent,
38:59loquacious,
39:00I mean,
39:00any of those fancy words
39:01you could think up
39:02to describe beauty.
39:04That was Eric Dickerson
39:05running the football.
39:06It looked like
39:07somebody pouring
39:08syrup from a bottle.
39:10It was smooth
39:10and it was sweet.
39:11That's a nice piece
39:13of running,
39:13showing you.
39:14Look at this
39:14and take that.
39:17In 1984,
39:18Rams running back
39:19Eric Dickerson
39:20was unstoppable
39:21and shattered
39:22the single season
39:23rushing record
39:24with 2,105 yards.
39:27It'd be like
39:28grabbing Jell-O.
39:29No matter where
39:30you squeezed him,
39:31he was coming out
39:31somewhere.
39:32I guess probably
39:32his signature run
39:33was a run he had
39:34against the Jets
39:35where he goes up
39:35the middle
39:36and breaks
39:37into the clear.
39:37You see two
39:38defensive backs
39:39have a clear angle
39:41on him
39:41and he just
39:42shifts into another
39:43gear and just
39:44pulls away from them
39:45and goes 85 yards
39:47for a touchdown.
39:48Down to the 10,
39:495,
39:50touchdown,
39:51Eric Dickerson.
39:52I mean,
39:52he got to 10,000 yards
39:54faster than any back
39:55in history.
39:56Wow,
39:57he is awesome.
39:59The word we like
40:00to use is
40:00invincible.
40:01I'd like to get
40:02him a cape
40:02and make him
40:03think he's Superman.
40:04Dickerson used
40:05his superpowers
40:06to set an NFL
40:07record.
40:08I mean,
40:08people talk about
40:11running style.
40:13Eric Dickerson
40:14didn't look like
40:15he was running
40:16that hard,
40:18but nobody
40:19ever seemed
40:19to catch him.
40:22by rushing for more
40:23than 100 yards
40:24in 12 games.
40:26Yeah,
40:27our running game
40:27is very basic.
40:28We don't try to fool
40:29anybody.
40:29Our main scheme
40:30is just to attack
40:31and destroy it.
40:32I mean,
40:32that's what John said.
40:33We want to destroy
40:33the defense,
40:34and that's what we try
40:35to do.
40:35Head coach
40:36John Robinson
40:37made Dickerson
40:38the heart
40:38of the offense,
40:39and he ran
40:40for more yards
40:41than the Rams
40:42quarterback,
40:43Jeff Kemp,
40:43through four.
40:45Kemp looking now,
40:46steps up,
40:47fires to the end zone,
40:47pick up.
40:48Anything sideways,
40:49try to find something
40:50and hit it.
40:50That was the backside
40:51end that got you on that.
40:52I think you had something there.
40:54When you were game planning
40:55for the Rams in those days,
40:56you really didn't have
40:57to think about much of us
40:58other than Eric Dickerson.
40:59All you had to think about
41:00was trying to control him,
41:01and teams still couldn't do it.
41:03Touchdown,
41:04Eric Dickerson!
41:05Hey, man,
41:06I'm going to tell you something.
41:06They call that play?
41:07I think it's going to be
41:08a touchdown.
41:10Besides finding the end zone,
41:11our number two
41:12single-season performer
41:13was also chasing a milestone
41:15that only one other player
41:16had accomplished.
41:182,000 yards was thought
41:19to be otherworldly,
41:21that no one would get there.
41:22And then when O.J. did it,
41:23he figured,
41:23well, unless they make
41:25a 20-game season,
41:25we're probably not going
41:26to see anybody else get there,
41:27but Dickerson did.
41:29He's got it!
41:30And a brand-new
41:31single-season rushing record
41:33for the outstanding star
41:35from Southern Methodist.
41:38Dickerson broke O.J.'s record
41:40in the process
41:40and his 2,105 yards
41:43in a single season
41:44has yet to be conquered.
41:47Dane!
41:48He's down to the 10!
41:49Alive!
41:50Touchdown!
41:51And the Rams win it!
41:52The game was just easy for Eric.
41:53Big hole!
41:5430-25!
41:55He's gone!
41:56Touchdown, Rams!
41:57Eric Dickerson
41:59right up the middle!
42:01And now,
42:02the number one
42:03single-season performance
42:04of all time,
42:06Peyton Manning's
42:062013 season.
42:10Our time!
42:11Our moments!
42:12Our memory!
42:13Here we go!
42:14Drew Brees set an NFL
42:16single-season passing record
42:17with 5,476 yards
42:20in 2011.
42:21History in the Superdome
42:24in New Orleans!
42:25Peyton Manning's
42:2649 touchdowns
42:27broke a Dan Marino record
42:29that stood for nearly
42:3020 years in 2004.
42:32The record they thought
42:33would never be broken
42:34has been broken.
42:38That record stood
42:39for three years
42:40when a man named Brady
42:42threw 50 touchdowns
42:44in 2007.
42:54Then Peyton did both.
42:56He didn't have Moss.
42:57He didn't play in the dome.
42:59He didn't even have
43:01age on his side.
43:02He was 37.
43:05An NFL record!
43:07But records were meant
43:08to be broken
43:09and in 2013,
43:11Peyton reclaimed
43:12his crown.
43:13You're going to win!
43:15Eighth touchdowns!
43:16Spirit drive going!
43:18Spirit drive going!
43:20For Peyton Manning,
43:21his 48th touchdown pass
43:23and he is now tied
43:24with Dan Marino
43:25on that list.
43:27Touchdown pass
43:28number 49.
43:29He is one behind
43:30Tom Brady
43:31and that is
43:32Peyton Manning's
43:3350th touchdown pass
43:36of the season.
43:37Six-man pressure.
43:38Peyton throws
43:39one more applause.
43:39Got Julius Thomas there.
43:40Thomas with the touchdown!
43:42And there's the record!
43:44Move over Tom Brady.
43:46That chair belongs
43:47to Peyton Manning
43:48this year.
43:50Shotgun snap.
43:50Pass to the Maris Thomas.
43:51Thomas steps
43:52into the end zone.
43:53Touchdown Denver!
43:55And Peyton Manning
43:56has just passed
43:58Drew Brees
43:58for the single season
44:00NFL record.
44:01The most passing yards
44:02ever in NFL history.
44:045,477 yards.
44:07It's amazing.
44:08Three of his final
44:09four games,
44:10he threw for
44:11400 yards
44:12and three touchdowns.
44:13That was his final
44:14month of the season.
44:15It wasn't even close
44:16to his best game
44:17of the year.
44:17He opened up
44:18the season
44:19with 400 yards
44:21and seven touchdowns
44:23and no interceptions
44:23against the defending
44:25Super Bowl champs.
44:29He should have been banned.
44:33It was an illegal
44:35amount of production.
44:37Opening day
44:38against the Ravens.
44:39You knew it was going to be
44:40a special year
44:41for Peyton Manning.
44:55look at the impact
44:56that he has
44:57on the players
44:58that he's playing with.
45:00That's how I always
45:01judge a quarterback.
45:02Are the people
45:02around him
45:03better because
45:04he's on their team?
45:06Third down.
45:07Manning takes a snap.
45:08Throws the ball.
45:09He's going to be caught
45:10by Demaryius Thomas.
45:11He's off to the races.
45:12D.T. in midfield
45:13and he is long gone.
45:14That will be
45:14Peyton Manning's
45:17seventh touchdown pass.
45:19That was the start
45:20of a year
45:21that no other
45:21quarterbacks ever had.
45:23Touchdowns
45:23to me means
45:25it's helping your team
45:26win games.
45:27To me,
45:28if we would have had
45:28a losing record
45:29and you break
45:29an individual record
45:30and you're just
45:31throwing a lot,
45:32you know,
45:32attempts and yards
45:33and you don't have
45:35a chance to make
45:36the postseason,
45:36that doesn't mean
45:37a whole lot.
45:44That's the beauty
45:45of having a guy
45:46like Peyton Manning.
45:49Whatever he gets paid
45:50to play football,
45:50it's not enough.
45:51That's the way to answer.
45:52That's what we got to do.
45:52We got to do it again,
45:53now.
45:54We're going to have
45:54to do it again,
45:55all right?
45:55Maybe twice.
45:56He had not only
45:57the best year
45:58he had ever had,
45:59but the best year
46:01anyone had ever had.
46:02And maybe it's a
46:03but it really speaks
46:05to his dedication
46:05and what it means
46:07to come back
46:07from an injury.
46:13In 2013,
46:14Peyton was only
46:15two years removed
46:16from major neck surgery.
46:18How you doing, man?
46:19How you feeling?
46:19It's a lot, dude.
46:20Hang on in there.
46:20Hang on in there.
46:21Good, yeah.
46:21You know,
46:21they like to move
46:22his head
46:22like he's Frankenstein,
46:24fix some stuff in there,
46:25put it back on,
46:26reattach it,
46:27and now here he is
46:28doing what he's done.
46:29It was no sure bet.
46:34They injected his neck
46:35with super soldier syrup.
46:37That's why he broke
46:38the record.
46:40I actually got
46:41inside information.
46:44That he would get back
46:46on that football field.
46:47Now he's not only back
46:48on the football field,
46:49he pretty much runs
46:50the joint.
46:51Let's go, hey.
46:52Let's hit this seam,
46:53man.
46:53Let's get a big one
46:54out of this.
46:55Setson throws a deep ball.
46:56He wants Decker.
46:57Decker's there.
46:58Perfectly thrown strike.
46:59It's easy to say
47:00a guy is going to fall off
47:02if you're not talking
47:03about Peyton Manning.
47:05Peyton certainly
47:05didn't fall off
47:06in 2013.
47:08In fact,
47:09he had the best year
47:10of his career
47:11at age 37.
47:12Touchdown, Denver!
47:13But with all of the
47:15high-flying antics
47:16of the new age NFL,
47:18what will it mean
47:19for Peyton's records?
47:20We're starting to see
47:21more and more
47:22that these yards
47:23are just going up
47:23and up and up.
47:24It's become a passing game.
47:26We will see a 6,000-yard passer.
47:27That is coming.
47:28Whether or not
47:29we see a 6,000-yard passer
47:32remains to be seen.
47:33But if time is any indication,
47:35our current
47:36number one
47:37single-season performance
47:38might take a backseat
47:40to the next generation.
47:45Not a chance.
47:47Not likely.
47:49Not likely.
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