00:00And the NFL Network asked me to put my top five.
00:04And I always say, well, I'm always going to put an outlier.
00:08So what I did was I put my top six quarterbacks in the history of the National Football League
00:15and quarterbacks that I think are game changers.
00:17Now, look, Marino and guys like Johnny Unitas are not on this list.
00:23But here are the big sales, top six quarterbacks.
00:27And I'm going to start from the bottom.
00:30I'm going to start with John Elway.
00:31What made John Elway, and I had the chance to play against John Elway,
00:34what made him electric was that his ability, his athleticism, the way he saw defenses.
00:44I remember getting to the line of scrimmage at Old Mile High Stadium.
00:47And I'm standing there when I was with the Dallas Cowboys.
00:50And right before the snap of the football, John Elway was doing this.
00:55Hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut.
00:56He got me off sides twice.
00:59He gained his football team 20 yards on guys like me jumping off sides.
01:06And he did that numerous times.
01:08One of the greatest guys when it came to cadence on helping his football team get cheap yards.
01:14And one of the greatest arms of all time.
01:17There'll never be another Elway.
01:19When you talk about athleticism, John Elway is arguably one of the greatest players in the history of the sport
01:25to ever play the game.
01:26And then you put his tremendous guile in how he won football games and what made him even more of
01:33a leader.
01:33At the end of his career, Elway did what?
01:37He took a second seat to Terrell Davis and allowed that football team to be a running attack and said,
01:43you know what?
01:44I'll be the caboose now where he was the engine in the first three Super Bowls where they went 0
01:48-3.
01:49John Elway goes down as one of the greatest field generals of all time.
01:53Steve Young.
01:54Kind of a funny relationship that I have with Steve.
01:57I played high school football against Steve Young when he was at Greenwich, Connecticut, and I was at Stanford Catholic.
02:03Then we had a chance to meet up in the pros when he was with the San Francisco 49ers and
02:08I was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
02:10You talk about a guy with athleticism, 4'5 speed, one of the most accurate quarterbacks of all time, one
02:18of the toughest guys of all time.
02:21There used to be a thing back in the day when folks were saying that, you know what?
02:26Hey, look, don't get Montana hurt because really nobody wanted to go out and nobody wanted to see Steve Young
02:33because of the athleticism that he had.
02:36Not one of the greatest players of all time.
02:39I got to put Peyton Manning in here.
02:42You know, when Peyton Manning came out and people were saying between him and Ryan Leaf, there was a big
02:49argument.
02:49Ryan Leaf had the more skills and the better arm.
02:54And what did Peyton Manning do?
02:55Peyton Manning worked at it.
02:57Richie Wayne, who's a Miami Hurricane, told me that they would practice two hours before each and every single game.
03:05And they would be on the field having played a game prior to the game.
03:10And his preparation for an upcoming football game is second to none.
03:17One of the greatest arms of all time and one of the greatest field generals.
03:21I got him at number four.
03:22Number three is Patrick Mahomes.
03:24Talk about an ambidextrous quarterback right now.
03:27You're looking at a quarterback here that could just absolutely do everything.
03:31No lead is safe with him.
03:33He is by far maybe one of the most athletic guys that we've ever seen on the field at any
03:40position.
03:41And then you have the brilliance of Andy Reid teaching him the position.
03:45Just truly one of the great quarterbacks.
03:48The ambidextrous, you see him throwing with left and right hands.
03:50Truly great.
03:52And I will put at number two is Tom Brady.
03:56Listen, I got Brady at two.
03:58You're talking about a guy who looks like he has an Ichabod Crane body.
04:02And without a doubt, here was a guy that wasn't thought of.
04:05People at Michigan didn't really like him.
04:08Lloyd Carr was constantly trying to replace him.
04:10He just goes on to be the best winner in the history of the sport and winning those seven Super
04:15Bowls.
04:15And I've got to say Montana.
04:17I had the privilege of playing against Joe Montana.
04:21Montana, there is no doubt in my opinion, he's 135 quarterback rating in the Super Bowl, 4-0.
04:28He's like the Michael Jordan of Super Bowls.
04:31He beat Elway and Marino in those Super Bowls.
04:34And we're talking about a guy who took a beating.
04:37Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White, knocked the crap out of this guy.
04:42And he still won.
04:44Can you imagine a guy like Montana?
04:46And by the way, I don't really think this is close.
04:50Montana, could you imagine in a game where you didn't hit him or Jerry Rice?
04:55And let's not forget that first Super Bowl.
04:58He won a Super Bowl with Freddie Solomon and a guy named Burt Cooper and Wendell Tyler.
05:05He didn't win it with guys that were Hall of Fame players.
05:09He didn't have Jerry Rice on that first team.
05:11So there's my six, Montana, Brady, Holmes at three, Peyton Manning at four, Steve Young at five, and John Elway
05:20at six.
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