Roger Staubach Talks Super Bowl, Cowboys & More w/Rich Eisen | Full Interview | 2/1/19

the man to my left the Pro Football Hall of Famer Heisman Trophy winner two-time Super Bowl champion and MVP of Super Bowl 6 from the Dallas Cowboys care of VI Roger starback good to see you sir Jor Rich yeah good to see you that's an Applause my gosh I think we're all excited to see Roger starb back or wait a minute Mike can you can you give me the proper music to set up what I just did please go ahead and hit it I think it's a little better this way he is a pro football hall of favor and Heisman Trophy winner two-time Super Bowl champion an MVP of Super Bowl 6 care of VIIs Roger starback better yeah see yeah it's more appro that was yeah I don't see any Cowboy jerseys over there yeah I know I there would have been I guess if the Cowboys had made it you know for sure there definitely would have been but there are Cowboys fans everywhere and obviously you're you're a major reason why having built the the Cowboys up uh from the ground floor uh back in the day when they first were called America's team now that you're here at Super Bowl 53 asking the MVP of Super Bowl 6 I mean what was it like back in the day at the Super Bowl nothing like what we're seeing today uh well the Super Bowls have just continued to grow every year I I was still in the Navy when the uh Cowboys were they lost to Green Bay and the ice bowl and I think the Super Bowl started back then Packers won two years in a row and and then when I joined the C the um U the Cowboys we were um in the 70s we were in the hunt all the time and we were in five Super Bowls uh we won two of them and uh we lost to the Steelers a couple of times and and I the other one I didn't get a chance to play and I was on the bench but uh that was uh against uh Baltimore so it's um it's it's hard to believe how how it's grown to where it is today even back then it was it was a big deal but today it's uh it's it's all over the place it's much much more uh I think TV the TV ratings everything is just much more bigger on uh everybody's looking forward to the Super Bowl so was it was there like a big media hype presence Super Bowl there was a and we we'd get there a week earlier and we'd have a media day and it it it was you know grad I went to Super Bowl 13 so that's quite a while ago but it's it still was uh it was those were you know it's a big deal do you remember who the halftime Act of Super Bowl 6 was Roger Super Bowl 6 the halftime act yes in two lane where you play do you remember or you don't no was that you or no it was definitely not me I was in the lock I was in the locker room I didn't no it was it was Ella Fitzgerald Carol Channing yeah and Al Herz is that right and Marine Corps drill team in a salute to Louis Armstrong oh wow yeah yeah little bit different now yeah little bit different I liked uh I like New Orleans a lot we won twice in New Orleans and we lost in Miami so uh to the Steelers but we won in New Orleans so I have a you know you have your favorite places that you remember in New Orleans was uh was uh s after we won um in Super Bowl six when we beat uh Miami I was shortly before my mother passed away and uh she really had a blast at the Super Bowl I can still we were we the two of us were behind somebody on a motorcycle driving around New Orleans and she was I could not believe she got on the motorcycle but she was so happy that we won the Super Bowl and I got the MVP because Dwayne Thomas wouldn't talk to anybody so what do you mean well he had a great game we we we had you know I had a good game and Dwayne ran the ball very well our offense Calvin Hill and Dwayne Thomas but Dwayne that he he was a great player but he just wouldn't talk to the media and everything I think if he did he would have uh he would have got the vote for MVP so now when you mentioned Calvin Hill I I've not asked you this question because we've heard about it from Grant Hill is it true you named Grant Hill by suggesting the name to Calvin yeah they were having a hard time he and Janet were just going crazy about a name and uh and so um they were uh Alvin's dad was Grant and uh or Henry and so uh they were going back and forth and I said well just name him Grant Henry Hill and that way you get everything in there and they that was after two days so finally he was named Grant Henry Hill so I I was responsible for yeah I had yeah that's unbelievable yeah he wasn't my son but I I mean if you named anybody else is that the only person you've helped name Roger I mean uh well our five kids okay other than that and our 15 grandkids I haven't helped on those but on our kids I actually helped on was Landry any different Super Bowl week yes he was uh he it was he first of all he he was intense he was he was an engineer you know he had goals outstanding reasonable believable achievable they were measured and he was an engineer and he his preparation was his strength that's why we won for 20 years in a row we were well prepared but on the field things had to happen uh you know he allowed me to run hated me running at the beginning and he said and even my last year with the team he we watching film and he said Roger you got to stop that running I said well coach I'll be retiring pretty soon oh okay that so so so he he put up with that but he he just he believed in you drop back you read your keys and you throw the football that's exactly how Brady does it who is fantastic at what he does uh but he he really was uh um uh in preparation he was he he just was a a great coach as far as how how he prepared so that was his that was his uh his his way of things and and mine was a little different I just wanted to go out and win and and run and do things and we got along really well because he knew I wanted to win and uh the players believed in me and so he put up actually put up with me those first few years I thought he was going to trade me and uh but we won the Super Bowl in 71 and that that helped a lot he thought you thought Roger stach you thought Tom Landry was going to trade you I well I I really did yeah I thought uh he I I was not you know I wasn't a pocket just straight pocket passer uh but he he really he he was creative we put the shotgun in in 75 because you know I he knew I could run a little bit we we ran from the shotgun a few times but we also had it in no no one else had the shotgun isn't that amazing now now now you see the shotgun on on on on fourth in inches people going a shotgun right now but but he was creative and he uh we had motion you know like Drew pi was in motion all the time what the defensive backs used to get up on top of the wide receivers and just you know just hit them off the line of scrimmage and keep running with them that way so he put one in motion which you legally you could have one in motion so he couldn't get hit off the line of scrimmage so that became that was we were the only team with had anybody in motion too and uh so coach Landry was really creative he was a a really good EXO uh coach and uh the emotion side of it what goes on on the field and everything else uh uh that was taken over by the Leroy Jordans and the Bob Liles and you know uh and hopefully myself on offense sure absolutely and then it's interesting you you mentioned how you were in the Navy during the Ice Bowl and obviously an MVP of Super Bowl 6 a champion um uh a second time uh less than a decade later the fact that we're seeing Brady in his ninth Super Bowl you're the perfect person to ask since you've seen a lot you played against many people say he's the Undisputed great greatest of all time what do you think well what uh one one of the things really hard to predict obviously is drafting a quarterback uh I mean there's some that are obvious and you know Troy Aman with Dallas was one of the best drafts ever and but they they knew that right away but uh you know Brady was taken in the sixth round and they they obviously didn't understand his strengths uh or he would have been drafted sooner and his strengths are he's got he's got a very good arm but he uh he he gets rid of the ball quickly he he sees what's going on and he evidently understands what's going on more than most quarterbacks because he gets gets rid of that ball quickly it's hard to it's hard to sack him and he's not he doesn't run he doesn't really buy time run around but he does it uh with his mind and in reading the keys on defense he can tell when it's Zone manto man and he knows that the receivers know when to hook up on a on his own and uh and you know make the break on a manto man and he uh he gets rid of the ball and he picks out that receiver whether it's grank or idelman or whoever it is so is that a yes he yes he he he he's amaz he's the he's really the best at being able to get rid of that ball and knowing what's going on there then and he's got you and he's a good athlete he's uh stays in great shape yeah I mean you you played till you're 37 I mean this man's a 41y old now he has never known uh what it's like to be a 40-year-old not finishing up in the Super Bowl he was a 40-year-old last year and he's in a 41y old old right now it's you know 41 you if you if you stay in shape you're you know I I I had some concussion issues I I was just turning 38 and uh and so I played 11 years and um I was told by uh Dr Fred Plum at Cornell Medical School that I should uh the next one could be the real problem in your life uh you've had too many of them so I retired then but I was still playing physically at a at a very good level then because I stayed in shape and and that's what Brady it's it's you know they talk about a bad game because he's 41 years old well that he had a bad game when he was 30 so he still is playing great football at his age and he uh just needs to not listen to people to tell him how old he is to just get out there and keep doing what he's doing well in terms of concussions we'll get to the vice's helmet in a second but I do want to ask you Roger stabach about the current state of the Cowboys you mentioned how uh Aman was a uh uh a short fire quarterback draft pick but he was a first overall pick uh and you mentioned where Brady was in the six what about a fourth round draft choice in Dak do you believe he's the future the Dallas C I think Dak is going to be uh and continue to be a quarterback that's getting better every year I think he's a very good quarterback and the thing about Dak is that um he he truly has confidence in himself and he transfers transfers that confidence to his teammates his teammates really believe in him everything that you hear you inter when I see interviewed by players they love him they know that and he's come through in the fourth quarter he never quits never blames anybody else so he's a leader and you know for every bad pass he throws I mean everybody they're they're usually early in the game he's he's he's he's he's pretty well in the game and he's got a good winning record so I I I'm I'm uh disappointed in u the uh the question marks on on Dak in his his uh strength and I think his future is going to be very good I think I think he's the uh he'll be the Dallas quarterback for a number of years are you surprised that Jason Garrett is going to have to coach without in a contract extension next year uh I you know I uh someone mentioned that I'm I'm thinking well Jason I I hope went in there and said Hey listen I'm gonna we're gonna we're gonna we're going to go to the Super Bowl next year so don't worry about my contract I don't need an extended contract or but uh so he needs to have a good year next year and I I I I hope Jason does because I like Jason and he's done some good things in Dallas but um this will be a big year for the whole team the whole team it's a good football team so this coming year is going to be a big year and it's gonna be a big year for uh Jason as far as his future is uh with Dallas probably well you you know Jerry right I mean so Jerry is essentially kind of putting everyone on notice he knows exactly what he's doing I think he real I think he kind of likes that in a way don't you think well I I don't know I'm not but Jerry is he's a competitor he wants to win and but he is he is loyal to players the one thing about the Jones family they're very generous people they they do a lot in the community they they care about other people and and and I think I think uh Jerry cares about Jason wants to handle it the way you should handle things but you you also have to make some tough decisions and um uh yet I think he believes that Jason can get things turned around next year yeah now um do you think the right decision was made with Scott lenan bringing in 29-year-old coordinator now in Kell Moore well I wish I was uh I wish I was you know there because I don't understand the interworkings of some of the coaches there I I I've heard more on just great things about him what a smart kid he is a good ex andno guy and I go back and tonight I'm having dinner with Dan Reeves and Dan Reeves um was fantastic uh he was a player for us then he became the backfield coach quarterback coach we certainly know him here in this and he really helped uh helped me a lot he he did a great job in in Denver obviously the Super Bowls uh they went to and then he was here in Atlanta but so Dan Dan really uh meant meant a whole lot to me as a uh as a coach and so that's a very important position and evidently Moore is uh going to be uh the one to take over on uh to to really help that get to the next next level also Roger stach here on the Rich Eisen show before uh I let you go we've got the vice helmet right here uh Russell Wilson Patrick Mahomes Doug Baldwin Golden Tate and over 100 NFL players are wearing it since it launched last year what do you what do you say about this helmet that actually uh helps with what caused you and obviously Troy Aman it seems to retire it's a great helmet I mean it's it's the NFL has recognized it in a in a very positive way that's why you're you're seeing you know it's in a lot of colleges now in high schools and um you know I wear it all the time with our 15 grandkids I ha I God so it's it's uh it's just it's a great helmet I mean that the helmet the helmet isn't going to be the total answer for concussions but it's going to be help my first helmet was a leather helmet in high school we emulated Notre Dame and Notre Dame had leather helmets at that time so I had my first concussion my leather helmet had a couple with a not a great helmet at at Navy for a while then they built a special helmet for me where they padded it and so when I was with Dallas so this helmet is uh is is really uh try to tries to prevent the brain from getting knocked around a little bit well I mean your post playing career has been a model for so many other players um have you had any effects at all you have effects of concussion after playing the game Roger from time to time no George I I haven't had well done well no it's it's that's not funny anymore I don't think but uh no I no I'm i' I've knocking wood I'm feel fine I mean sometimes I my wife says I might forget something that I shouldn't forget but usually I do it intentionally nice well I don't want to give up any game that you're playing at home Roger I don't want to give up the ghost everything's being investigated now the CTE and there there's a lot of uh I've got a number of teammates that have have very severe dementia so there's there's probably something to it in sports I I'd like to see young kids be play all everybody play touch football for a while until they get older older then they then they could play uh uh then some kids are playing touch football but it's hard if you're just playing touch then all of a sudden you get in high school and somebody else has been playing been hitting so so it it's uh it it it's being investigated and I think they're trying to do more with the rules with the with the equipment um but the this the CTE thing is uh will get better understood when it's not just players that that have died that they they do they do the testing so uh it it's a serious issue concussions and uh and your brain has got to heal like anything else so they're keeping players out when I had mik you know I get knocked out a number of times then you have the dingers where you just get confused but you need to come out when you have a Dinger and you're confused and even though you start thinking again because your brain hasn't really healed yet right so today they're they're doing a much better job of keep keeping players out of the game might even skip a couple weeks so they're it's going the right direction but football is one tough Sport and uh Force sequels mass times acceleration I uh I used to plug that at the Naval Academy with the slide rule by the way so I love it so for players are bigger and faster so the force is is greater today uh you get hit harder today than even in the old days so well you got the vi helmet here and it's it's a thrill to have you here Roger really really I'm honored whenever you uh you know call in or stop by it's it's great so thanks for being here to kick off the Friday PR Roger starback is right here on the Rich Eisen show the Rich Eisen show weekdays at noon Eastern on audience

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Published: Fri Feb 01 2019