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00:03If you've ever met a defensive lineman, then you've met a guy who's crazed.
00:09Regulators, mount up, we're coming.
00:12Who is this guy, where is he coming from, and how do we stop him?
00:15You're mine, baby.
00:17And he was one of the nastiest human beings ever to walk this earth.
00:27I think a great pass rusher has to be able to get into attack mode, and get into attack
00:36mode with reckless abandon, and you've got the talent, now you've got a great pass rusher.
00:48They're tough and nasty, and they punished passers.
00:56The top ten pass rushers of all time.
01:03They played in different eras, some before 1982 when sacks became an official statistic,
01:09but all gave quarterbacks nightmares.
01:13The top ten pass rusher of all time, J.J. Watt.
01:20J.J. Watt is incomparable.
01:23There's no one else even close to him in today's NFL.
01:26He is the best defensive player in the game.
01:28It's not even close.
01:29All I know is, you mess with me, you got problems.
01:43J.J.
01:43J.J.
01:43Watt is a force to be reckoned with.
01:46When he's on the field, you know that it's going to be tough for whatever quarterback
01:50he's facing.
01:52He's just the complete package as a defensive lineman.
01:54He has great speed, he has great quickness, obviously great power.
01:57He brings everything to the table that you want defensive lineman to have.
02:00He's absolutely unblockable.
02:08He sends his position.
02:09He's a dominant player.
02:11There's nobody like him.
02:12But J.J.
02:13Watt's an example, too, of what you see when you see drive in a person.
02:17When you see a person who wants it so badly.
02:22To me, he screams desire on every play.
02:25And another big play by the big man from Wisconsin.
02:29I think J.J.
02:30Watt is, without a doubt, one of the best pass rushers in NFL history.
02:33I mean, he's powerful.
02:34He's, you know, at length.
02:36He's fast.
02:37He can play defensive in.
02:38He can play defensive tackle.
02:39And he still gets pressures, sacks.
02:41He's constantly in the quarterback's face.
02:43He's always around the ball.
02:44He's always making a play.
02:45He's just that dude.
02:46So, I really like him.
02:49When I think of Watt, I think of two qualities.
02:51I think of explosiveness.
03:03J.J.
03:04Watt is definitely one of the top ten pass rushers.
03:08We've got ******.
03:24Pass rush huge men that crush backs too big of all.
03:30In France, huge men that crush quarterbacks too big and too tall, but one man loomed largest of all.
03:41The number 9 pass rusher of all time, Doug Atkins.
03:48Doug was just not a regular human.
03:53Doug Atkins was a physical marvel of our era.
03:59I mean he was like from Olympus.
04:01If you envision Zeus.
04:03He was 6 foot 8, 265 pounds and he was one of the nastiest human beings ever to walk this
04:11earth.
04:12Doug Atkins terrorized passers for 17 seasons.
04:18He was an unstoppable Goliath who played most of his career with the Chicago Bears.
04:25He was a guy that had just brute strength and his size just overwhelmed players.
04:30And in fact, players, opponents, particularly on the offensive line, would say to each other,
04:35don't make Doug mad.
04:37Because when he's mad, he's even more ferocious.
04:39This guy's not a regular human being.
04:42If we don't irritate him, he will not kill any of us today.
04:46So don't you dare mess with him.
04:48I saw him eliminate the entire Minnesota backfield.
04:50He put Brown and Mason out in two straight plays.
04:53And the following week, he put Horning and Taylor out with clotheslines in two consecutive plays.
04:58Doug Atkins was like a storm rolling over a Kansas farmhouse.
05:03He came from all directions.
05:05And all there was to do was to tie down what you could and hope he didn't take the roof.
05:116'8", 275.
05:13And heavy football pads that they used to use back then that were heavier than the ones today.
05:20Jumping over people who were six foot tall.
05:25He intimidated by verbal abuse.
05:27He intimidated by physical abuse.
05:29But Doug's job was to get to the quarterback.
05:31And he would hurdle you if he had to.
05:33He'd throw you out of the way.
05:34He'd step on you.
05:35It didn't matter.
05:35Doug took two steps, leaped completely over,
05:39and landed on top of John Unitas.
05:41It was just surreal.
05:45After 12 years in Chicago,
05:47our number 9 pass rusher played his last three seasons in New Orleans.
05:52At age 39, he was just as menacing as ever.
05:56And he finished his career in style.
05:59On his very last play,
06:01Doug Atkins sacked the quarterback.
06:15The number 9 pass rusher of all time, Derek Thomas.
06:20What made Derek a force was he had the same thing that LT had from the standpoint of that first
06:24step.
06:25They came off that court and it's the same thing.
06:28Relentless.
06:30Relentless.
06:30Relentless.
06:30Relentless first step.
06:31Time after time after time.
06:33Derek Thomas blew around him to make the sack.
06:36And that's really what made, I think, Derek Thomas such a great player.
06:39He had great God-given talent.
06:41But he also had the conditioning to go with it to make it, like every single play,
06:45the same gun is coming after him.
06:48Derek Thomas watching the quarterback.
06:50Teams couldn't figure out exactly what to do with him.
06:53That's a dangerous situation.
06:54Do you put a big guy on him or do you try to block him with a tight end and
06:57a fullback?
06:59You know, they learn quickly.
07:00You've got to commit an offensive lineman to Derek Thomas or he'll blow up your quarterback,
07:03and he did for a lot of people.
07:08Knock him on the ground and knock the ball, Luke.
07:10Derek Thomas knocks the ball away, and Kansas City's got it.
07:15Thomas was able to, through contortion of his body, still sack him,
07:20but yet keep a hand up to knock the ball down.
07:22The ball knocked away by Thomas and recovered by Kansas City.
07:26He just knew when to extend his arm and when to get it out.
07:29I mean, you don't get 20 sacks in a seed game without being that good.
07:34I don't think I've ever heard a player do it as well as he had.
07:37You'll see what I'm going to pass.
07:40In 1990, our rusher set the NF record with six in one game.
07:44We're a sack for...
07:45What's new?
07:46He was on his way to an even game and could have the own record.
07:50One, two...
07:51We were...
07:52I said, Mark, pull off the dogs.
07:54I said, we'll kill him if we keep this up.
07:56And Derek, at that time in the third quarter, had six sacks.
07:59It's a safety! Derek Thomas!
08:02Derek, to his credit, never said a word after the game.
08:05He had six sacks and he knew he could have got ten that night.
08:10The number eight pass rusher of all time, flamboyant and buoyant, Mark Gastineau.
08:16Number eight.
08:21The dive itself was a two, but as far as daring and skill, it was about a ten.
08:28Oh, wow. Mark Gastineau.
08:32He had a motor.
08:33I mean, he really enjoyed the game and was really very effective.
08:38Get up the field in a hurry.
08:41You know, you just look at this guy.
08:42He was 6'6", 275 pounds.
08:45I run a 4-5-40, which is very fast for somebody my size, which is about 280 pounds right
08:51now.
08:52He liked the pass rush.
08:53You know, when you like it.
08:55And so, he pass rushed on every now, you know.
08:58He was on his way.
08:59I would read the quarterback's lips.
09:01I would be over trying to get the count.
09:04It's gonna be on one.
09:05It's gonna be on two.
09:06Trying to get every little extra thing that you could possibly get.
09:10That is the key, is getting off the ball.
09:13Even faster than Gastineau, he ran up sacks, 107 and a half in 10 years.
09:20Faster still, his climb to fame.
09:24I don't know if it was his pretty boy image or, you know, his marriage to Richard Nielsen that made
09:29Mark Gastineau,
09:30but, you know, all of a sudden he was hot.
09:33Perhaps it was the New York media.
09:34Or perhaps it was because he played on the New York Sack Exchange, beside all-pro Joe Klecko.
09:41I think it's because he was good.
09:45That might be the reason.
09:47He had two 20-sack seasons in a four-year stretch.
09:51And he had 19, three 19-sack seasons in a four-year stretch.
09:57And the one season he didn't, it was because it was a shortened season.
10:05For them both to have over 20 sacks in one season, I think Mark definitely needs to be in the
10:11top ten of pass rushers.
10:13But I think Joe Klecko should be in the Hall of Fame.
10:15Our number eight pass rushers was on his way to Canton until he focused on dancing more than sacking.
10:24Jet fans loved it, but most thought that Gastineau was just a, well, you know.
10:30I thought Gastineau's sack dance was pedophile.
10:34His routines were rudimentary at best.
10:37It's one thing to be excited, but to show off is different than excitement.
10:43I always felt that he tried to impress people with how good he was by all his celebrating and all
10:49that nonsense that went around him.
10:51To me, it was his own little show and it was his own little circus.
10:53If I'm playing a cross from a guy like Gastineau and he pulled that stuff, I'd punch him right in
10:58the mouth.
10:59Third down.
11:00That's just what happened in 1983.
11:04Paracomo by Gastineau.
11:07Gastineau goes into his celebration.
11:10And something like this is bound to happen.
11:13Maybe a while before he celebrates again.
11:16Jackie Slater came over and cold cocked him from behind
11:19because Jackie Slater didn't want to be showing up.
11:22Jackie Slater, I think is the guy who starts to watch.
11:25Here's the sack by Gastineau.
11:26Now watch Slater come over.
11:28He sees the dance.
11:29He starts and he pushes him from behind.
11:31And that starts the whole deal.
11:33It was like a domino effect.
11:35I was going in there.
11:36Jackie Slater in the rims tried to jump by Gastineau.
11:43Maybe he should have blocked him.
11:44To defend Mark.
11:46And the next thing you know, a fight broke out.
11:49I think people should know that we went in to defend Mark that day.
11:53We weren't fighting against Mark.
11:55We were fighting for him.
11:57Gastineau's 22 sacks in 1984 set a record that stood for 17 years.
12:03In a three year stretch, he's there with anybody.
12:07And then everything else is kind of pedestrian.
12:11So there was a mini Sandy Koufax in there.
12:16He should have been on the steps of Canton, Ohio.
12:19But he let all these distractions bother his productivity on the field.
12:24A great, talented, pass rushing athlete who was a bit of a jerk.
12:28And I think he paid the price for it.
12:31I thought Gastineau was judged fairly.
12:33Great, talent, bad dude.
12:36You think you can beat me?
12:37You think you can beat me?
12:39Not all pass rushers are huge.
12:43Undersized John Randall had nearly 140 sacks.
12:48I'm not 6'6", 6'7".
12:50I'm only 6'2".
12:52Don't worry about that, bro.
12:53You know, I'm short, man.
12:54I'm short.
12:54I gotta put my hands up here.
12:56I'm surprised most guys.
12:57There's most guys underestimate my strength.
13:00Same for the cold sack master, Dwight Freeney, who was just...
13:08Engine that could was Fred Dean.
13:11Dean weighed just 227 pounds, but he was a four-time Pro Bowler.
13:18You would look at Fred Dean and you thought, huh?
13:22Bank teller, accountant, pleasant sort of fellow.
13:26But then the ball snapped and he became Superman.
13:31Dean played six and a half seasons with the Chargers
13:33and once had a six sack game.
13:36In 1981, he headed up to the Bay Area
13:39and helped San Francisco win two Super Bowls.
13:43While Dean raised the young Niners to new heights,
13:46he rarely lifted a weight.
13:49He's just a great, great player.
13:51He had kind of a short career
13:53and he never worked at keeping himself in shape.
13:56He sat in the corner of the locker room all the time,
13:58puffing on one cigarette after another.
14:00He said, well...
14:02I'll just remind everybody,
14:04he just threw Anthony Munoz with one arm.
14:07He's like one of the very top left tackles of all time.
14:13I was thinking about lifting weights,
14:16but I thought I might lie here till I got over it.
14:21Dean was hazardous to a QB's health,
14:24but even more so is the next man on our countdown.
14:28The number seven pass rusher of all time,
14:32Michael Strahan.
14:34I got it.
14:36I got it.
14:37I got it.
14:37I got it.
14:38I got it.
14:39I got it.
14:39I got it.
14:39Bam!
14:42In 2007, Michael Strahan got a Super Bowl ring.
14:46He's sacked by Michael Strahan,
14:47and the New York Giants are the Super Bowl 440...
14:53...two champions.
14:54Our number seven sack master now has the hardware
14:57to solidify his place in Kent.
14:59I think that he's had a Hall of Fame career
15:01and will go to the Hall of Fame.
15:07Here's the best pass rusher in the National Football League.
15:10Strahan is brute force.
15:12Strahan does have tremendous quickness,
15:14but I've seen him manhandle some of the best offensive linemen.
15:17He's one of the strongest guys in the National Football League.
15:20He was in my face every single snap.
15:25Over and over and over again.
15:27Every time I played him, he was on top of me every single play.
15:33Michael Strahan just abused John Runyon.
15:36I tell you right now,
15:37you know everybody going to watch his ass book I put on you, right?
15:40John Runyon was an all-pro player.
15:43Michael Strahan's just killing this guy.
15:44It's like there's tire tracks on his back after every Eagles-Giants game.
15:49John Runyon is...
15:50Like, what happened?
15:51All day long.
15:52Your boy can't touch me.
15:54You know that.
15:56They need a tight end back there.
15:58You can't touch me!
16:00The seven-time Pro Bowler amassed over 140 sacks in his career.
16:04But his most memorable one came a bit too easily.
16:08Hey!
16:09I told you I was coming!
16:10I told you!
16:11He can't handle the truth.
16:13It's always stuck in my craw that he was handed the sacks record.
16:19Not enough was made of the fact that Brett Favre played God one day.
16:24Working on your golf swing?
16:26I see you were swinging, man.
16:27And decided that what Strahan had done that year was more important than what Gaston had done previously.
16:33First and ten at the 42.
16:36And...
16:38Straight hand gets the sacks!
16:40And you know what?
16:41No one's happier than Brett Favre.
16:43I mean, Brett Favre falls down?
16:46Give me a break.
16:47There's Brett Favre right there coming out.
16:49I don't think he's had an easier sack than that one right there.
16:52That is not the record.
16:54I am sorry.
16:56Most sacks in a season.
16:58Yeah, that was a fake.
17:00That was a fraud.
17:01Passing Mark Gastineau.
17:03Who wouldn't have gotten the sack if he would have had that, you know, right in front of you?
17:08And Favre ran right into him.
17:10Almost looked like it was a designed play.
17:13I mean, Michael could have killed him.
17:15He could have hung him out the draft.
17:17I would have.
17:19Believe me, Deacon Jones would have.
17:22If you're not, you're gonna see or hear from Deacon Jones on this list.
18:12And you're gonna plant his butt in the turtle.
18:15Or he's coming off the ball and jacking you up and kicking your butt.
18:19You take care of your own job.
18:22You kick the guy's butt in front of you.
18:25Do your butt-kicking job.
18:29That's a guy that's nobody really talked about.
18:32And you look around, you check the records, and you go, wow, this guy has some sacks.
18:38One hundred and sixty of them, to be exact, third all time.
18:41But why is Green so overlooked?
18:44Because he didn't look like the prototype sack master.
18:47And he was a journeyman who played for four different teams.
18:53Come on!
18:54Let's break it!
18:56When you got that guy that can run you over and run around you, it's...
19:00Everywhere.
19:04I think it's a stupid game.
19:12Perfect to all the circumstances out there.
19:15Kevin will not be stopped tonight.
19:17It ain't nothing like being a quarterback.
19:18Somebody crumbled and hit him.
19:19I play.
19:20Yeah!
19:21And he's a nut cake.
19:22I mean, I just wanna play.
19:25Yeah!
19:26And he's a nut cake.
19:27Get that crazy look!
19:28And he's a fruit loop.
19:29Rock and roll!
19:30Yeah!
19:31Yeah!
19:31And he freaks out.
19:32Yeah!
19:35And he loves to play.
19:37He dives on the...
19:39Oh!
19:40I try not to cuss so much.
19:42So you don't have to beep it out all the time.
19:46The L.A. beach ball.
19:48Who, oh, by the way, is right there with Lawrence Taylor.
19:53When it came to pure crazy...
19:55He's not even from Los Angeles.
19:56He's from New York State.
19:58Our number six all-time pass rusher may have been number one.
20:04I think that Kevin is a unique man.
20:08Stevie Steeler, how you doing, man?
20:10You alright?
20:10Yeah, I do.
20:11You looking ready to play?
20:12I don't think he's crazy at all.
20:14If he's crazy, it's like a fox.
20:16But, uh, if you were going into a troubled situation...
20:21I think he'd want to take Kevin along with it.
20:23Yeah.
20:23Green!
20:24Bumble the ball!
20:25I refuse to believe I'm gonna let someone be more physical than me.
20:28I'm gonna stick my face as hard as I can into that person in front of me.
20:31And hit people as hard as I can.
20:40And now the five pass rusher of all time.
20:48The most.
20:49It was Gino.
20:51I mean, Gino was John Wayne.
20:53And for the ninth year in a row, everybody's all pro, Gino Marchetti.
20:59Here was a guy that was about 6'4".
21:02Long, black-haired, Italian guy.
21:05Quiet, never said anything.
21:07You ever seen a caged lion at the zoo pacing back and forth?
21:11That's what I remember about Gino.
21:14And we opened the cage and let him out.
21:18Marchetti hunted like a lion.
21:20He used speed and instincts in addition to his brute strength.
21:26I have to say he was in the top five players of all time, possibly, at that position.
21:32I mean, he was that dominant.
21:34No question about it.
21:36He was one of the most dominant forces in the game.
21:39Number one pass rusher was Gino Marchetti.
21:42Ten-year veteran Gino, the giant Marchetti.
21:44Last.
21:45Yeah, he almost decapitated Bart started with that one.
21:49He...
21:50There's no telling how many sacks he had unofficially.
21:54But somebody had to be counting them.
21:57Green Bay quarterback, Bart Starr.
21:59Mmm.
22:00He couldn't block.
22:01Way to...
22:02I don't know, way to wait.
22:03235, 240, 245.
22:05That was the big defensive end back in those days.
22:08Unbelievable quickness, strength, and hands.
22:10I was more like a sugar ray.
22:12Punch, go in, go out, and then bone over a guy.
22:16Gino the Giant unloads on quarterback Jim Manowski.
22:19One safety and two points.
22:21That's the guy I copied my style from.
22:24Marchetti, if you look at his hand motions,
22:26how he could take a man and move his body's upper body around.
22:30Pow!
22:30Stick it and pull you one way or the other.
22:32You make an inside or an outside move with it.
22:35Quick hands, quick feet.
22:37He's mine.
22:39No wonder, like Deacon, the number five pass rusher of all time, was a tough guy who would do anything
22:46to win.
22:49Look, Chuck.
22:50Jim Taylor wants the ball.
22:51I think Mr. Taylor changed his mind, wouldn't you?
22:55Gino Marchetti was a great pass rusher, and he'll tell you this himself, because he cheated.
22:59He lined up just a little bit offside, but not so far offside that the officials were calling on him.
23:05Doesn't take anything away from him.
23:07He was just pushing the rules as far as he could push them.
23:09But, I mean, that was his stock and trade.
23:12Gino was indeed a giant, and was named to the Hall of Fame's all-time team for the first 50
23:19years.
23:20Everybody's here tonight, about the three areals I've given them.
23:26But nobody's ever said the thrills that I've had on this football field for 13 years.
23:33Reminder, Gino was 26 when he debuted in the NFL.
23:39He had to go and fight in the war.
23:43You know what I'm talking about.
23:4526.
23:46So he was already past it a few seasons in.
23:51To think he was still an All-Pro in his 30s like that.
24:00Imagine how he debuted at 22.
24:07The number four pass rusher of all time, Bruce Smith.
24:14There are opponents that are just on another level of fear and respect.
24:22Bruce Smith.
24:23We're gonna put the heat on him now.
24:24Bruce Smith.
24:25This movie is rated R.
24:27When he played, he would do it at will.
24:29Language and violence.
24:31Love it.
24:31Back in the pocket.
24:32Brushes after him.
24:34And he...
24:35Come on!
24:35It was one of the great pass-rushing defensive ends we've seen in the last 20 years of the NFL.
24:40Bruce Smith is the NFL's number one all-time career sacker with 200.
24:47We talk about how many Hall of Famers are on the field.
24:50I know one thing.
24:50There is definitely one in the Bills uniform.
24:53Number 78 is going to camp.
24:54Hamilton!
24:56We got Bruce, man!
24:58Bad things, bad!
25:01Bad things!
25:02I used to love to watch him on film as everybody did because, you know, what are you gonna do?
25:07Bruce Smith made the hit!
25:08The Bills have the ball!
25:09Not only what is he going to do, but what is the offense trying to do to stop him?
25:15And the fact that, you know, this is the part where you get into, yeah, he's a great rusher, but
25:18he actually did everything else too.
25:21When you look at pass rushers, there generally are two kinds of guys.
25:26Either you have a speed guy, or you have a power guy.
25:30Smith was both.
25:32Bruce Smith was one of those speed guys.
25:36The ability to bend that shoulder, dip around the corner, still stay on their feet and turn.
25:42Had that lean.
25:44He could run around the tackle and it looked like he was about two feet tall.
25:48He is hit from behind by, guess who?
25:50Bruce Smith!
25:52It was a big long stride.
25:53Bruce would get a lot of sacks by just grabbing the s**t up.
25:56No question about that.
25:57But Ray...
25:59I think every MacGyver was playing against me.
26:03For every game, Bruce beat...
26:11Bruce beat him off the line.
26:14I mean, it was ridiculous.
26:16Second goal!
26:20Bruce Smith!
26:22Yeah, Everett McCarver was a complete bum in the league.
26:26And the only reason we know him today is because Michael Irvin attacked him with scissors.
26:33Yeah, after he nearly got Boomer Esiason killed, he's lucky he didn't attack him with scissors.
26:40Left-handed ones.
26:45Boom.
26:48He is shaking off!
26:49Boomer!
26:49It was like, oh, Boomer dead!
26:51Is he dead?
26:52Oh my God, he killed Boomer!
26:55Bruce Smith, I thought he killed him.
26:57I was like, wow!
27:01I know I sound bad laughing, but, boy, he, boy, he got crushed.
27:06Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
27:10Go, Tom!
27:11Go, Tom!
27:13200 sacks makes a strong case for Smith to be number one on our countdown.
27:19Hey, baby!
27:20Are y'all convinced, man?
27:22Sorry, Bruce.
27:23You'll have to settle for number four.
27:26When you look at defensive players of the 80s, the first name that comes up is LT, and right, right
27:34behind him is Reggie White.
27:36I mean, Bruce Smith was a great, great player.
27:39Showtime!
27:40And being the guy that helped them get the four consecutive Super Bowls, that's quite an accomplishment.
27:50The best Bruce Smith did, in quotation 16, Saxon, taken to that three, is LT, Reggie White, and the Deacon.
28:00Point blank.
28:03Come on.
28:05Rush the quarterback.
28:07You understand?
28:08Rush the quarterback.
28:10Greg Lloyd was a master at blitzing off the edge.
28:14So were Hall of Famer Bobby Bell,
28:18Pat Swilling,
28:20Andre Tippett,
28:22The Biscuit Cornelius Bennett,
28:24and Otis Wilson.
28:27Lights Out linebacker Sean Merriman may be among the best blindside hitmen,
28:32but there's no doubt who was the best ever.
28:38The number three pass rusher of all time,
28:42Lawrence Taylor.
28:44Is he dropping?
28:45Is he coming?
28:46He's coming.
28:47He's coming.
28:47And you're just like, man.
28:50Relentless explosiveness.
28:52Sax.
28:52Pain.
28:53You talk about devastating fu-
28:56Talk about impact.
28:58Dan Faust was in the AFC and Taylor was in the NFC.
29:01They played each other like twice or three times.
29:06You know how much of an impact you have to have for a guy from another conference to remember you.
29:18You knew Lawrence Taylor was going to kill that quarterback at one point in the football game.
29:23L.T.
29:24Way to go.
29:25He hit like he weighed 300 pounds.
29:28The only word I could use is he's just awesome.
29:32He was awesome.
29:36There's been not a more disruptive force, I think, in the history of defensive football than Lawrence Taylor.
29:44Finest defensive football player I think ever played the game.
29:49We never saw anyone like L.T. and I don't think we ever will again.
29:57The reason why-
29:58Now let's break.
29:59I agree.
30:00Now let's break down why.
30:02L.T. was as great as he was.
30:04No one had ever had that kind of speed on that size of a body before.
30:08The most physically gifted linebacker of all time, it's not even close, Lawrence Taylor.
30:12I played baseball.
30:13I played basketball.
30:14But nothing gave you a thrill or sent chills up your body or excitement through your head like football because
30:24of the contact.
30:25The contact was always the most important thing to me.
30:27Whoo!
30:28Whoo!
30:29But we're talking about pass rushers.
30:30I mean, we got to start with Taylor, right?
30:32Don't we have to start?
30:32I mean, come on.
30:33I mean, a psychopath.
30:34I'm sending this psychopath.
30:36Give me a choice to an irrational man or the psychopath.
30:37I'll take the psychopath any day.
30:40We go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs.
30:42I mean, that's Lawrence Taylor to me.
30:43Hey, baby, let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs.
30:46That's some fun.
30:46He was tough.
30:48He hated everybody.
30:50Tried to tear your head off when he got to you.
30:53Quickness, strength, throwing guys to the ground.
30:57Oh, Lawrence, the magician.
30:59LT was manhandling.
31:01I mean, he would just...
31:02I mean, you're in the way.
31:04He just picked you.
31:05I wouldn't want to get sacked by him, you know?
31:07He would take him out physically and mentally.
31:10Hey, Sula, you better hope I never get back in there.
31:13I will kick your ****.
31:15Guys just would go into his shell when they played against him.
31:20He was a tough, physical guy and backed up his talk with his play.
31:28Son, that guy do better than this.
31:32Son, that guy do better than this.
31:34He changed the way the game was played on offense.
31:38They had to do something different.
31:40You put the running back on him.
31:41Well, that wouldn't work.
31:42So then you move the full back to running back position,
31:45put the bigger back on him.
31:45He couldn't block him.
31:47So then we put a tight end over on that side and brush and then go,
31:52you know, to slow him down.
31:53Well, that didn't work.
31:55Then we started turning the tackle out
31:57and putting the running back up inside on the linebacker,
32:00and he'd beat the tackle.
32:02None of them worked real well.
32:15But he's not our number one pass rusher.
32:20The reason is not how tough he was.
32:23It's how he got many of his sex.
32:26When you talk about pass rushes,
32:28it's so unfair to compare
32:29how Lawrence Taylor got to the quarterback
32:32and as a pass rusher
32:34to a defensive
32:43rush against little guy's tailback.
32:46Lawrence Taylor matched a weak
32:53right off the line.
32:57Very awesome.
32:593 on the
33:00LLT!
33:02LLT!
33:03LLT!
33:04LLT!
33:05Yeah boys, anything I can do for you?
33:07Looked at him and I'm flashing in my mind.
33:11Stonewall.
33:11Toomsday.
33:12Rich Jackson.
33:13Oh my god.
33:15Few remember Jackson,
33:17a great but little known sacker
33:19who played in Denver.
33:21Coy Bacon toiled in upsets,
33:23but I've sacked games.
33:25Remember Jerry Philbin's 19 sacks back in 1968?
33:30Yep.
33:32But there's one man
33:33who makes even Tombstone Jackson seem famous.
33:39Norm Wildman Willie.
33:42Alright, I'll tell you everything I can know about him.
33:45Norm Wildman Willie.
33:47He was wild.
33:4814 sacks in a game.
33:52And even if those were half sacks,
33:54he still had,
33:55he holds the NFL record for sacks in a game.
33:58No matter how many he had.
34:01And he played for you guys' team.
34:06Wild.
34:07Don't really have much recollection of Norm Wildman Willie.
34:11Absolutely.
34:11And he was a man.
34:13Help me out on that one, will ya?
34:15That's all I got.
34:16Who is Norm Wildman Willie?
34:20Defensive end Norm Willie played for the Eagles from 1950 to 1957.
34:26He was a sack master in his day.
34:28But in those days, they didn't keep those sacks as they do today.
34:33In 1952, Willie got more sacks in one game than some of the greats ever got in an entire year.
34:40He had a game, a particular game against the New York Giants,
34:43in which it is recorded as being as many as 17 sacks in one game.
34:49That's amazing.
34:51That's a whole season of sacks for somebody.
34:5517 times.
34:56I want to see every one of those 17 sacks,
35:00and I want to see it against the same team on the same day with the same weather.
35:03I just don't believe it.
35:05Willie remembers that wild day and still puts his money where his mouth is.
35:11Rushed the pass we got, it was $10.
35:14The coaches would look at the films and write down the money.
35:18And if I remember, I made $170 that day.
35:22It's a shame that more people don't know that.
35:24Well, they didn't keep a sack stat in those days.
35:271984.
35:28Yeah.
35:28That's when it started.
35:29Yeah.
35:291982.
35:31Actually, it was 1982.
35:33And three years later, the old Eagles staffer was on the field
35:37for the introduction of an unforgettable Philadelphia legend.
35:43The number two pass rusher of all time, Reggie White.
35:50Amazing grace, how sweet the sound.
35:56They didn't call it minister of defense for nothing.
35:59When he hit a quarterback, he on top of me.
36:02He had that little .
36:03And then they get up and say, you all right?
36:04He said, all right, well, bless you then.
36:06He ain't going back to the other.
36:07And he found a way to come bless you again.
36:19Being blessed with 310 pounds with force and mass and acceleration behind it,
36:26right on top of you, is enough to make one lose their religion.
36:46Yo.
36:48Plan started.
36:49It was going to be well.
36:50Let's just not let Reggie kill us on Sunday.
36:53Reggie was the guy that everybody feared.
36:56Let's get magic playing football like we started out the first four games, right?
37:00For a snap, he was going to turn the pass button.
37:03Reggie would go by.
37:04It would be like a blink and he'd be gone.
37:06And then the next play, he'd go, I got to get in front of me.
37:08Get in front of me, Reggie.
37:10He would give him that throw and he'd throw him over his shoulder.
37:14He was just an, I mean, I hate to use the phrase animal, but he was an absolute animal.
37:19You look at the great defensive end.
37:21You start out with a Deacon Jones, a Doug Atkins.
37:25Reggie took it to the next level.
37:27In terms of his physical strength, there was nothing the guy couldn't do.
37:30Probably could lift the truck by himself.
37:33Reggie was a man among boys.
37:35Reggie was more like a dump truck with turbochargers on it.
37:41There was nothing you could do to stop what he was doing.
37:43Reggie White was the complete package.
37:46The thing that probably stands up with Reggie White was his upper body strength.
37:50He would just take both hands, extend them, and then just look to see where the quarterback was and got
37:56rid of the offensive tackle.
37:58He'd run around the guy.
38:00He'd fake outside, go inside.
38:02He'd bull rushing and just push him back to the quarterback.
38:05Where he just had that big monster arm where he'd just hit the tackle and just, the guy would just
38:12go two or three yards outside, Reggie White to side.
38:17Reggie decided he was leaving Philadelphia, but it wasn't like the Eagles made a great effort to keep him here.
38:23To be honest with you, I mean, it had gone out of me.
38:26I mean, I had no enthusiasm about wanting to be a Philadelphia Eagle again.
38:29And the Eagles pretty much said, hey, you know, we don't want this guy no more.
38:33Now, going to Green Bay and saying that that's where the Lord put him, and it just happened to coincide
38:38with the team that offered him the most money, some people think was coincidental, others didn't.
38:42He came out with this thing that God told him to go to Green Bay, and we would always go,
38:46but the real reason was the green in Green Bay.
38:48I'm bringing the sack to the pack.
38:51Reggie White on the sack.
38:53Reggie did bring the sack to the pack.
38:56He brought something more special, too.
39:01It's a thing you put on your finger.
39:02His sack total soon passed 150.
39:05I gotta get eight and a half.
39:08You got 151.
39:09All right.
39:10His final tally was 198.
39:13A long list of frightened quarterbacks, including his own.
39:18Oh, God.
39:19I like it.
39:19This is cool.
39:21I'm glad you do.
39:24White didn't come to the Packers to build his numbers.
39:26He came to help build a champion.
39:28He did both with a Super Bowl record three sacks, including two back-to-back.
39:34True.
39:35Straight back in the pocket.
39:36Here they come again.
39:37Reggie got him again.
39:38Back in the 15-yard line.
39:40It's a great series by Reggie White.
39:43After 12 superb seasons, White was finally a world champion.
39:49I wanted to hold that up not only for, you know, us having the opportunity to win it and me
39:54finally being on the team to win one,
39:55but to let them know, hey, you guys are the original champions and you deserve it just as much as
40:00we do.
40:01And Reggie White is richly deserving of being number two on our list of the greatest pass rushers of all
40:08time.
40:17David Deacon Jones.
40:22When you talk about great pass rushers, you have to think that he's got to be the one Deacon Jones.
40:29Derek Thomas and the LTO and all of them up there.
40:33But, you know, the baddest guy, you know, don't tell him Deacon Jones.
40:40As a rookie in 1961, Jones was bad.
40:44The raw and confused kid just out of South Carolina State.
40:49When Deacon Jones came into the NFL, he was unknown, unheralded, unpolished, and overweight.
40:56But as he once said, he could outrun daylight.
41:00Overnight, that speed matched with a fierce will to win turned young David into the deadly Deacon.
41:08When you look at the film of that time and you see the jump.
41:12He was huge and fast and had fire in his heart.
41:19Guess what?
41:20He had three 20-sack seasons and average 20 sacks for five years.
41:28Back when he only played 14 games a season.
41:33That he gets off the snap and how fast he is getting to the corner.
41:37I mean, there really was no way to even slow Deacon Jones down, much less stop him.
41:45The thing that separated Deacon from...
41:52I think he might have been the meanest man alive ever to play this game.
41:57I wanted to put as much fear into his heart and as much pain on his back as I possibly
42:02could.
42:03And his big old eyes were about this big.
42:06They looked like saucers.
42:07He looked me in the eye and he said, that's right, son.
42:09I'm getting ready to beat this stuff inside of you.
42:12You got this 260 pounds up to 4.5 and...
42:16Angle on him.
42:17He should go to the hospital.
42:19And that's exactly what I tried to do.
42:21With no remorse in my heart, I tried to put him in the hospital every time I tackled.
42:26So each time he came over there, I tried to tear his damn head off.
42:32Deacon Jones really was the player who glamorized the pass rusher.
42:37He was the secretary of defense and he had the thousands of people in his cabinet.
42:43And in his toolbox, he kept a devastating weapon.
42:49Deacon Jones' head slap, the most awesome thing I've ever seen.
42:54Bam!
42:54Right up against the guy's head.
42:56Almost knocked him out every single time.
42:58Deacon knew where to hit you.
43:00And he hit right in the ear hole and the concussion from that hand slapping into that hole left their
43:05ears ringing.
43:06The head slap was a quick blow upside your head.
43:08When somebody strikes you upside your head, you have a tendency to close your eyes.
43:12Because when you open your eyes, I ain't gonna longer be there.
43:16Our number one pass rusher of all time was a bully who never hesitated to use dirty tricks.
43:24Tripping was legal in his book.
43:27So was tearing someone's face off.
43:34Jones put his indelible stamp on every game and put the defensive end position on the map.
43:42He was not only a great player, but he was a spokesman for the position.
43:46Deacon is the guy who freys sack.
43:48Mm-hmm.
43:49But more than that, he left his stamps on their back, on their chest because he was on top of
43:56them so much.
44:03Sacking the cornerback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people.
44:09I mean, it's just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball
44:14bat and beat on the bag.
44:16There was no category for them. No one was keeping track of them.
44:19But based on what I've seen and what I believe, I don't know if he averaged 20 sacks a year.
44:25But I feel quite certain that he had years where he had 20 plus.
44:29Jones, however, kept track of them all by keeping notes in his playbooks.
44:34I got my 1967-68 playbook. The two years that no lineman has ever had in this game.
44:42Okay? I had 26 sacks in 14 games and six in postseason.
44:47And in 1968 I had 24 sacks.
44:49Uh-uh, I can't let that go. I will never let that go. And you tell Sable he's seen them.
44:55You tell Steve Sable he's seen them and he knows how many I had.
44:59You know, if Bruce Smith had 200 and Deacon had 225, okay, in terms of numbers, the all-time sacker
45:06in the history of the game.
45:08And would still be today.
45:11He was credited with 273 and a half.
45:14His last seasons were spent in Washington and in San Diego.
45:18When Jones realized he was no longer the best on the field, he retired in 1974.
45:26I loved every minute of it and I gave it everything I had.
45:30I gave my whole heart and soul to the game.
45:32I walked out like a man. I didn't wait until they had to carry me out.
45:36When I could not rule the roost, I walked.
45:40That's the only reason I walked.
45:42I came, I saw, and I did conquer.
45:45Let's go.
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