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from the San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice 20 NFL seasons 10 time all-pro three Super Bowl rings with the 49ers [Applause] [Applause] football history [Applause] the owner of nearly every single receiving record known to National Football League man and he is here tonight is it cool that you guys are at the same table are we all good I want to show me every time I see me goes by you say you want to see your ring again oh yeah I'd like to are you going you talking about Super Bowl 23 I wasn't going to but go ahead get your best shot on the final drive of Super Bowl 23 I had a teammate came up to me and said we got him now they have moved the ball day we got him now they got to go 90 yards or whatever it was three minutes to go I was like oh my god what are you saying I said would you please check the huddle and see it's number 16 and number 80 are out there and sure enough the MVP of the game went boop boop boop Cincinnati leads again 1613 and it appears we'll start deep in their own in first down play [Applause] Yuriy rice with another cast to rise again the Cincinnati 47 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there's the man right [Applause] classes for 222 yards to shatter holes reception and yard records in super history was always a challenge with the jury and how so well even when we had the game one hit 83 yarder for us with a minute and a half to go in a game and beat us there in Giants Stadium so that was brutal I still I still dream about that play I remember that play well you should [Laughter] [Applause] superbly from since what the chair advice it breaks again quite often we've talked about the greatest runner in the history of the game and Emmett holds all the records the greatest receiver now with Jerry and yet neither one of those guys would you say is that freakish athlete you know it's one of the things that I always loved about the game of football is there's something else there this is about something inside your mind and your heart and your soul you ever tried to explain that to somebody the difference in what an athlete is and what a football player is we talk about the kind of the the dictionary when you put football player up there there's a there's a picture of guy it's not fastest it's not tallest it's not biggest benchpress its football player and that's where Jerry Rice goes where he is that's exactly right and the thing for me it was fear failure that was my motivating factor I never wanted to let the fans down in Mississippi the fans in San Francisco I think the first 10 years basically I didn't take a vacation now you're not even out of breath no I mean how often you do this every day you do this mountain every when we run this he'll three times ten we're on the trek for two days and I think it's really starting to pay off for me I always wanted to get better but I never felt like I got to the point where I was the best [Applause] the Pro Football Hall of Fame class member of 2018 Randy Moss they caught me to freak man cuz I'm a freakin Nature [Applause] one of the greatest catches the 21st overall pick in the 1998 draft Maul set the single-season record for touchdown caches with 23 in 2007 which I think you remember go Bella check very well I bet you do also a member of the NFL's all-decade team of the offs he joins us at NFL Films right now what do you think of when you see Randy Moss sitting right here coach Belichick one of smartest players I've ever coached certainly a smartest receiver he taught me more about receiving in the passing game than by far to anybody else don't be surprised if they come out and play us a lot of zone says they're not matching look for that you know we're just playing it you know left side right side and they're playing at three see that cover one right no whatever whatever they play they can't play like this you know I remember our first meeting when you came in from Oakland and I've never coached anybody like Randy Moss and no no we're talking a single high safety and a running game and all that rain is like you don't get any more single high safety can forget about that the thing about it was that I really studied the Patriots their offense and how they went with their passing game and I said coach we're going to see cover two or then plan the passing game for the whole season and he thought I was playing that then the magic started happening yeah and then it was like well we were running on this route and you know was a post and rain is like well why do I run a post guy standing right there well what do you want to do well let me even take it here or let me take it across him so we put in you know all the different conversions on the deeper outs where if they were where the pattern was headed he had a two-way go to either go over on the pistol routes and all that and and here and O's incredibly well jammer is playing an outside technique so so Randy Moss comes off the line bends into him a little just to hold him and then runs a slam this one he runs the corner he just comes like he's coming to the inside fakes to the post and goes back to the corner Randy Moss runs great patterns has great speed and they make it look so easy playing quarterback is hard getting open is hard but when you watch them do it it doesn't look difficult at all does it my first touchdown as a patriot I had a hamstring injury and so throughout the whole month I've been hearing reports of maybe they should release some Randy Moss it's in the Patriots best interest if they just let Moss just go so I called you we were in a preseason game we were in Tampa and I said I said coach are there any reports of you releasing me you said hell no so that gave me confidence because I'm just coming from Oakland I'm bringing all this baggage with me and so I remember my first touchdown I haven't even opened up because I've been hobbling that hamstring injury and he said the play where I can go anywhere on the field so Tom said Randy if they played this coverage where do you want to go I said Tom if they play Seeger coverage I'm going immediately all the way across the field just wait on me [Music] [Applause] down as a patreon Tom was born almost on the right side of the hash and he threw me all the way across to the opposite side of the field that's to play the coaches talking about they got a linebacker running with you to safety one of those guys it doesn't look like he's one but nobody catches up to him just being able to have my speed later in my career getting up on those safeties and they're giving me a two and three way go 23 touchdowns yeah 23 touchdowns I never had a hamstring problem because I'm gonna tell you why because I was not fast like this guy four to five in in the 40 does outruns everybody into the he is incredible brandy could be the fast when you guys got together when did you know this was gonna be a little different this is a different tool than you've ever had to work with day one granny was in Houston right yep we had to make we were trade in the fourth round pick with the Raiders and this conversation with myself and mr. Davis has been going on for like a month with Ewing the Raiders back and forth back and forth back forth now we're down to like we're down to like 12 hours before the before the second day of the draft or Sunday so my phone rings I'm in line you ready going to the club and so my phone rings and I didn't see I didn't know the number so I said excuse me I got to step away hello who was this hey is this Bill Belichick so who is Bill Belichick I said man stop playing on my phone and I hung the phone up so then he calls me back probably within 60 seconds and said no Randy this is Bill so uh you know I hung up on the codes you know can I ask one question you were in line for the club I'm just saying that knows me Chris no I'm I'm not a flashy guy so usually most of time I try to hide up under a hat as you can see so uh as I'm in line nobody noticed that I was in the our name is Randy Moss well guess what after I got off the phone guess where I was then they had the door open come on god they called bambi back in the day with the charges and the Dallas Cowboys Lance Alworth San Diego Chargers are fortunate to have Lance Alworth their stable growth football's finest receiver all worth played 11 seasons with the Chargers and Cowboys he won an AFL championship and a Super Bowl and in 1978 he became the first AFL player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Chris would you like about him you know it's so hard to tell because we get highlight tapes of this guy and so I was really enjoying watching them but it was kind of hard to tell what kind of routes he was running because he was always so far behind the defense all you saw was him run in the end zone so he's catching a ball and running it I don't know how fast he was but I do know this they had this little tippy toe style of running the ball into the end zone thus the nickname BAM beep but he was always behind the defense I don't know how you did it matriculating our way through the reveal list here for the wide receivers next up from the Ohio State University a standout with the Browns and dolphins Paul Warfield is on this list he was named the NFL's all decade wide receiver team in the 1970s he was on that and he helped Cleveland win an NFL championship before winning two rings with the Dolphins I think one of the most underrated wide receivers in the history of the game for my money you'll never see the numbers because they didn't throw the ball at the time the way they do in the game today but the routes and the ability to get in and out of cut that was just so effective but one of the great receivers of all time coach Belichick has the clicker in his hand which means only one thing that means it's time to break down some wide receiver film first up is the man they called Crazy Legs Elroy Hirsch a first-round pick of the Cleveland Rams in 1945 Hirsch was named to the NFL's all-decade team of the 50s and the NFL's 50th anniversary team now he's on the hundredth coach why first of all his nickname Crazy Legs it's pretty easy to see why he's called that could see he's got very good hands here handling this punt how do you tackle that just goes straight to the side does anybody run like that the Rams converted him from running back to a wide receiver and as you can see in these clips he's very fast nobody's catching him from behind he had a big year in 51 he had 1,400 95 yards receiving so for only his second really third year of playing wide receiver and again a combination of a lot of deep passes and also some exceptional runs with the ball on shorter catch and run plays our next wide receiver was a charter member of the Pro Football Fame it's Don Hutson a two-way star with the Packers he led the NFL and receiving in eight of his 11 seasons and won the Joe F car trophy is the National Football League's MVP in 1941 and 1942 and may just have the best nickname on the NFL 100 all-time team the Alabama antelope Don Hudson well rich a lot of interesting things about Hudson first of all he played end at the University of Alabama Bear Bryant was the other end Hudson was as you can see his skills here he had great hands and he was the first route runner in the National Football League that guy right there and my mind probably changed the wide receiver position as much as anybody who's ever played no question he he absolutely changed the wide receiver position there were no split out receivers and there were no routes designed for receivers it was kind of go deep or go over or go out this is the Notre Dame box so Curly Lambeau played one year at Notre Dame can we go over this just a little bit this shift here so literally you don't know who the quarterback is going to be or that's right and and and whether the formation whether the strength of the formation is to the left side or if they shift over to the right side the thing about Lambeau was he modified this offense to take advantage of Hudson who's at the top of the screen there number 14 but you can see here Hudson going up for the ball it's got strong hands very athletic guy last one is somebody that I know you're quite familiar with Raymond Barry he's a member of this team drafted in the 20th round by the Colts in 1954 he would go on to catch a then-record 631 passes for 9275 yards and 68 touchdowns in his 13-year career of course he had a great quarterback with Unitas so that was an excellent combination United's firing a sideline pass to Raymond Murray that sets off the scoring mark he had the toe drag slag before anybody knew what it was dude you watch him play after play after play the number of times he makes the catch and gets his feet down inbounds diving usually out of bounds that combination was amazing just so confident on the sideline that you know United's knew if he could just get the ball over the defender Barry would catch it and come down inbounds how could you make a catch into that crowd right yeah I mean look look more they are a Unitas had tremendous confidence in Barry this is the type of play that as a kid when you played catch one guy was Raymond very the other guy was Johnny Unitas and if you were Raymond Barry you made those kind of catches in your mind and you know that's really what the Colts were about it was Unitas the Barry was a tremendous combination Larry Fitzgerald the third overall pick of the 2004 NFL Draft Fitzgerald makes the grab touchdown Cardinals Fitz currently ranks in the top three all-time in both receptions and receiving yards no player ever at his age has had 100 catches and a thousand yards of the same season Larry Fitzgerald the future hall-of-famer the greatest Arizona Cardinal ever larry fitzgerald number two all-time on the NFL receptions list and good to see you Larry Fitzgerald decisions blowing how are you I'm doing outstanding congratulations on the team thank you so much as it's an honor to be with you guys man it's uh grew up looking up to the Meyer and his men I haven't checked with research but I think you were the only member of this team who borrowed a car for prom from another member of this team can you tell us the story please back in the day in Minnesota well I mean I mean me and being here Randy has a lost parts dude that I'll never forget the first time I met him in 1998 the hip of Mankato and I'm I'm a ball boy and you know obviously it was huge fan father's career Marshall and finally get a chance to meet him and you've come to my high school football games I mean like you have no idea you know that the confidence he instilled in me and that gave me the belief that I could go out there and achieve anything I put my mind to what about the prom I mean he had a 1990 OSN it was a it was in 99 it was a 99 BMW it was the new 747 for tli and it was the coldest car out and and I had the courage to go ask him and he kind of looked at me like why you asking me this but and it's in his way he told me yes and the kind of stuff that this man did behind the scenes for people with no notoriety no fanfare it was so inspirational to me and I'm wondering I'm one of the many charity cases they already looked out for when I first laid eyes on on Larry I don't really know what really what came over me but I was seeing his dad as a beat writer for the Vikings so knowing that that was his son and just seeing how much he wanted to play catch and how he would feel the punts and things like that so you know I remember a brief story and we were invited to his high school football game and I don't know who they were playing but I remember going out there we didn't really have we just had t-shirts on and if you know anything about Minnesota the state bird in Minnesota is mosquito there you go the state bird is the skiddo in minnesota so we go out to one of his games we go out to one of his games you know they got the lights on the lights were discovered you could barely see there's just so many mosquitoes out there so we couldn't even enjoy his game we're out there just flapping and family we got our hats and stuff over so god rest her soul his mother brings us over the off oh so she's like I seen y'all over here and I want y'all to watch my babies game here y'all take this and y'all can keep it so we sprayed it everywhere when our shoe strings and everything the off settle down we were able to see I knows a little crazy story but just being able to be outside of the Vikings facility and go support you know basically our very own he didn't support me at all one time in this studio on inside the NFL in the history of the NFL has there been a worse playoff team than what Arizona looks like so now I'm world-famous in Arizona now knuckle head over here goes on one of those runs for the ages yes that playoff run that you had that was the most remarkable run of football I've ever seen from a white out every seed bowl as the Cardinals embark on their first postseason in a decade it's a flea-flicker corner throat deep near Saigon for fancies and double coverage it doesn't matter Larry Fitzgerald deadly and single-minded a purpose stab the ball out of the air Warner with ton of time throwing right side fins open but at the five heading for the pylon [Music] throws up little the bits inside the five breaks a tackle orna going deep airing it out middle of the field Fitz's there [Applause] they cannot deal with larry fitzgerald warner takes back to throw fade left side Fitzgerald [Applause] Super Bowl 43 here you have all of these great wide receivers that have went to the postseason but they didn't do it like the way he did I just need to hear you know from from that performance like what were you feeling well you know what right now he wasn't feeling anything nothing different than what I have been doing nothing I just it's just the starters aligned for me that those four weeks might a lot of great guys around me that you know put me in position to be successful I just did my part I think doing that Super Bowl I saw you run away from someone take one to the house and he was not one of those you know fast guys right yeah no four to five or anything like that but you know he still he was able to catch the ball he had football speed to get to the end zone [Applause] it's a 64-yard touchdown pass by Warner to Fitzgerald and the Cardinals lead Super Bowl 43 I think the most impressive thing of your career when Bruce Arians came in as your head coach and you had always been the wide out you'd been the guy out wide and yet you had the Hines Ward role that he wanted you to come inside and block and you're blocking in my mind finalized the fact that you're on this team boy fits with a great block downfield not very many times do you talk about a wide receiver blocking enforcer for Seattle well I think there's always like a defining moment a writer's career I look back when Jerry when he left San Francisco people were saying you know Kenny still be the dominant player that he's always been throughout his career Randy you know the two years in Oakland they were down years compared to what he did in Minnesota people were saying there's Randy still the prolific dominant past catcher he's always been and what they did is they just exceeded expectations they didn't nothing change they just needed to change the scenery to showcase what they were really capable of doing I never had to leave my team but my coach changed the position that was that so I was in that uncomfortable place and it makes you it makes you dip deep it makes you really find out what you're made of when you're tested in that fashion because it was really the first time in all of my career that I've ever been challenged somebody telling me I can't do what I've always done and you know you have you have two options at that point you lay down or you fight and and that's the only options you have Steve Largent is the ninth member to be announced here on this program the seahawks legend played 14 years in the Pacific Northwest caught passes in 177 straight games and at the time of his retirement he held the career records for receptions receiving yards and receiving touchdowns [Applause] and also another number 80 of note on the team would you think of Steve Largent unbelievable not only a great football player but just a great individual and I remember when I went to Seattle he walked up to me he said I want you to wear number 80 just blew me away and and and you can't say no to a legend I took a lot of backlash because of that but he wanted me to wear his jersey but he was just that type of receiver NFL Films is gonna showcase in my mind his talent everything was a different move he was the guy you could watch his eyes like he would look back for the ball and get the guy to turn around and then here comes a comeback round out of it every single thing was perfection probably the closest may have been Raymond Barry back in the day that you know wasn't gonna wow you with the athleticism but he was going to get open because he had something creative that he had come up with and in practice and practice and practice and was always open well that leaves one last spot on the wide receiver team and that last spot goes to Indianapolis Colt Marvin Harrison who played 13 seasons in Indianapolis an eight-time Pro Bowler he helped lead the Colts to a victory in Super Bowl 41 and of course team with peyton manning's to form the most prolific quarterback receiver tandem in the history of our league looks for the [Applause] that breaks the record held by right it was very difficult to vote for a wide receivers on this in this project this it was so difficult but here's what I said as a defensive coach as a head coach if I double covered a guy every single time we played him I'm putting him on a list okay so that's you you you and Marvin Harrison double coverage but we're getting beat by somebody else single coverage was was really manning knew it too a few single covered him he's going right to him [Applause] he looks out there he had a run call he checked out of the run while plate coverage man-to-man on Marvin Harrison and that's where he went we were going to play two coats or something like that before warmups they would spend like hours out there just going through the the route tree this was way before the actual game before every game Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison talked about and they run the entire passing tree you know these are the shorter ones these are the better ones then they finish up with this one yeah that was the last one you know what I used to look at the chemistry between Payton and Marvin there's really one play that really stood out to me and that was that stretch played that Payton would show that ball to a outside run pulled it back Marvin Harrison were going there like he's blocking the safety and I said to myself every time Peyton Manning them was showed that stretch run with Edgerrin James pulled it back out you best believe this Marvin Harrison going for 50 60 yard or plus Manning on first and 10 from his own 20 gives it Andrew [Applause] [Music] [Applause] favors [Applause] I would never watch action James I would worried about the run that hundred and forty-one cash season he had wasn't a lot of gestures I mean unbelievable and he probably caught 40 of them on under routes and you knew it was coming and you just couldn't stop it there was no route he could not run

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Length: 28min 25sec (1705 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 07 2020