Top 10 Clutch Drives of All-Time | NFL Films

yeah I definitely don't put it as one of the greatest clutch drives of all time how is this only number 10 one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history how many game-winning drives in a Super Bowl have we ever had by a young quarterback that was a two-touchdown underdog this feels like a personal grudge that somebody has against Tom Brady remember when John Madden told them to take a knee and play for overtime [Music] I kind of agreed in 99% of situations that would be the correct thing to do I don't agree with what the Patriots are doing right here coming twice for overtime play for overtime play for overtime drawn on the screen and everything and you're like wait a minute Brady's got this the young bucks gonna do it the Patriots after 400 snap the lowdown here Brady to the line of scrimmage down to 9 seconds left throws the ball on the ground with 7 seconds left it's the moment that you recognize there's something different and special about number 12 you are playing the Rams double digit underdog you are tied absolutely zero chance the young upstart Patriots could ever win Tom Brady ignored the naysayers he was going to take down the Rams in regulation starts to run with it throws over the middle of his pot there after the 21 yard line over the middle that goes complete the junior Redmond to the 30 yard line not too crazy risky if we don't make it we don't make it but at least we're trying to make something happen dumps it off to the left of Luke the junior resident 3035 it's the ultimate cliche but Brady is just taking what the defense gives up fires down the field pot troy ground on the 40 he's to the left of the 37 yard line and goes on about the smart prudent patriot way you give us that we will take that then we will beat you 48-yard field goal attempt set the ghosts snap ball down kick up get his on the way I think it's one of the most important drives in NFL history it is the beginning of the mystique of Tom Brady [Applause] Tom Brady's ability to play that drive out exactly if the Patriots wanted to was the moment I realized that Tom Brady was going to be an incredible superstar in his league this is the guy who you want driving in the last moments of the Super Bowl a clutch drive in his first year as a starter like this is a guy who's gonna play his best at the very end [Music] Joe Montana is Tom Brady's hero and I'm sure a lot of it started on that day a young Tom Brady attended the 1981 NFC Championship Game maybe there is an osmosis transfer of Oman tena koe here you go kid you're gonna need this later he may not remember it but Brady witnessed a pivotal moment in the NFL's history it launched a dynasty in the San Francisco 49ers and really spelled the end of the 70s Cowboys so the Cowboys always crushed the 49ers playoff dreams and now at Candlestick Park this is the time where the 49ers are finally going to do it third and three from the six and as a 49er fan this is everything this is it keeps rolling rolling rolling rolling rolling and he's being chased by three guys including two tall Jones and I only see it in slow motion like it every time it's this beautiful slow motion spiral that Dwight Clark catches like tissue paper we have made Dwight Clark sketch the immortal moment but what we fail to remember is all of the decisions before that play the five minutes is just an absolute masterpiece of play calling what the Cowboys were trying to do is you have a limited amount of time you're going to throw the ball and Bill Leff said no we're not I know what you're doing on defense I'm willing to counteract it on that final drive the 49ers land the football on three of the first five plays Phil Walsh Saad nickel defense and did what you're supposed to do he ran the ball it was almost like watching a college class and how to operate a drive down the field Walsh knew exactly what played a call at the exact right time he was orchestrating this as well as any coach in NFL history there was a sideline throw by Montana on that drive I don't know how he fitted in it looked like he was gonna get intercepted you knew he had that magic but you didn't know how much magic this Drive kind of exemplifies what the West Coast offenses and who Joe Montana is that drive that Montana started his career with is more impressive than the throw itself to Dwight Clark I don't think this is in a spot where it should be just because it's a Super Bowl it's pretty much a Super Bowl winning drive it gets a team of Vince Lombardi Trophy and it gets a quarterback a Super Bowl MVP so the Giants got the ball back under four minutes to go I remember the best play was the first play this is the drive [Applause] out of the shotgun set me back to throw blinds the pocket heat ball down the left sideline it's going to be caught was he in bounce yes Danny had a sideline this is the best throw I've ever seen in person in my life it took the absolute perfect throw the absolute perfect catch think about the window that that throw had to get through to get into Manningham's hands and have him come down in bounds these are plays being made by receivers that you don't expect to make in these type of moments and to see that type of wood throw in that type of catch from Mario Manningham that was big-time that was big-time what Eli Manning does as well as any quarterback he knew the defense's that the Patriots were playing and he knew before the snap where he is going just like in Super Bowl 42 Eli Manning was at his best and it mattered most the Super Bowl loss to the Giants in 2007 was such a scar on the legacy of that team but I'm sure the Patriots players Patriots fans Patriots coaches started to watch that drive and said this cannot be happening again by the end of that drive you felt like the the best the Patriots could do is let the Giants score you think the patrons of Blenheim score got it up the middle you're screaming let's go let's go let's stop Stearns and just sort of like scuba dives into the end zone he thought about stopping but he went in for the touchdown every child dreams of scoring the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl no one dreams reluctantly falling into the end zone it was like a little anticlimactic show they score Shanna not score you would kill more time because of Tom Brady so that kind of takes away some of the luster of the draw that's why it's like it's fine this is a little lower on the list any Drive that ends with a team allowing the other teams to score a touchdown to win a Super Bowl it left you with a strange taste [Music] this is Chuck Thompson speaking to you from Yankee Stadium where the Baltimore Colts are playing in the first overtime period in the history of professional football I think it's low you're talking about a drive that defined an era defined a couple of great players and is still talked about as the greatest game ever played how is the drive that one the greatest game ever played come in seventh you know he's never had any doubt he went into the huddle and said all right guys we got a long way to go let's go backed up on their own 20-yard line Johnny Unitas methodically drove the Colts on a 13 play 80-yard Drive [Music] that is a glimpse of the future of the NFL that happens in 1958 this is where Unitas to Barry really showed that you can have this timing between a quarterback and the receiver but you use the clock you watch the clock you methodically go down the field I interviewed Unitas once and asked them at any point in that you get nervous and United said if you know what you're doing you don't get nervous and Unitas knew what he was doing Allen amici's touchdown ended the 1958 okay good at it taking place today greatest game ever played may have ended differently here the Colts are they've marched down the field they have the ball at the 10-yard line that's all you need is at field goal to win it and they don't do that not risking the field goal United hits his favorite target berry and then you get down close to the goal line and everything's okay now they just punch it in and you guys throws a pass people's reactions oh my god what are you throwing a pass in that situation and there was Unitas just running the whole thing like a maestro saying this drive is number seven on this list is like saying the American Revolution is number seven on the list of American historical achievements I mean come on this is history here this was a monumental Drive in the history of this league the amici run is what we remember but the drive itself that's the most brilliant part of that entire game it's one of the most significant drives in the history of football but as a clutch it was clutch the giant Super Bowl the catch heard round David Tyrese helmet only at sex I don't understand that one what a Super Bowl this has been and the Giants do it they're down by four they've got to go 83 yards in 239 Super Bowl 42 I went Patriot Jersey on and you're watching this horrible you know it's like a train hitting you at 3 miles per hour and you're waiting to get hit by because you've seen the course of events happen and then all of a sudden that catch on the helmet do that oh my god we're gonna lose to New York LA was facing today did the greatest whole lot of all time we don't stand a chance Michael Strahan is being sarcastic but Giants chance against the 18a no Patriots especially when we trailed it was 14 to 10 a minute to go Giants are in their own territory that would have wanted if they could have just stopped a third and five miracle that third and five miracle turned out to be one of the greatest plays in Super Bowl history Manny back to throw the lush gonna be hit fires downfield and it is over the tyree catch is truly a miracle we've never seen that before and we've never seen that sense if people want to know how to trigger me they'll just take a football and they'll hold it up by this side of their head and I'll just I can't do I can't do it can we stop [Music] well obviously the tie replay is the play from Super Bowl 42 but what people don't remember is that at the very beginning of the drive Amani Toomer catches a pass for nine and a half yards and it looks like the Giants got a bad spot so the Giants have to go for it on fourth and one and if Brandon Jacobs doesn't get the first down ball game over this is the ball game and up Jacob runs right by daddy's got the first down well I remember a key third down in that drive Steve Smith made a catch on the sideline so the Giants to win their game had a few plays go their way more than a few plays go their way Asante Samuel could have finished that off for them and then he didn't Samuel didn't intercept that one Asante Samuel could ended that Drive at that point and we wouldn't be talking about Tyree we'd be talking about the 19 and O Patriots but that's football I bet you there's a strong contingent of people that think that the David Tyree helmet catch was either a a touchdown or be the last play of the game but it wasn't John after the helmet catch the Giants were still down for he did the touchdown that captured their third Super Bowl title the touchdown past the Plaxico burst that throw was one of the best throws I've ever seen Eli Manning make in a game and it came in a pressure situation on a game-winning drive in the Super Bowl I'm sure he likes to go burst bushes that play was celebrated a little more but let's be honest the player of the game was the Tyree catch that drive that moment Super Bowl history NFL history lives forever and is not just the helmet catch it's everything that went through it it's one of the great drives of all time it has everything you could possibly want greatest clutch drive that eyewitness would have been was at the 1988 Super Bowl with Joe Montana against the bangles [Music] [Applause] completely to crack the way that the drive happened methodically right to left right to left driving 90 yards you sitting back and like and it's guys making it look easy and at the end of that ball game Joe Montana of hits John Taylor on a slant route to the left back to throw Montana [Music] Wow that's what I'm trying to be like before the drive even started Joe Montana showed why he's known as Joe Cool's the ultimate way to show just how cool under pressure that Joe Montana was is the fact that they're down three less than four minutes to play and instead of thinking about I've gotta go 92 yards it is Hey look there's John Candy in the stands you know there's certain things I don't mean to be a curmudgeon but the Joe Montana spotting John Candy and that this is somehow provides some insight into how cool Joe Cool was all right it's enough already right [Music] so they said that you know Joe cool comes out to the hood oh he's joking around his John Candy sitting over there everybody's loose and then he immediately starts rattling off passes he hits Roger Craig eight yards then he hits rice on the past then he hits rice again 17 yards rice again 27 yards over the middle then he hits Greg again get down to the 10-yard line I mean Montana just shredded them to death he goes down the field without making a mistake he uses almost every second on the clock and Montana looks off Jerry writes for the game when he touched down to throw to John Taylor [Applause] play with night yard need eleven points I'm not even sure if it's the best Montana drive the drive leading to the catch was pretty good to me in in this wonderful fur of Joe Montana if you think of one drive this is absolutely the tape you roll is Super Bowl 23 against the Bengals bro I think a little bit of the clutch factor goes away when you realize this was just routine for them at this point that gosh the epitome of the Bill Walsh Joe Montana era nothing better it's number one as far as I'm concerned 60 years ago and his name is Lombardi Vincent is there and he's like everyone do you know the Gipper they like we don't know the Gipper so you don't ok don't win one for the Gipper win one for the Frostbite that is on your legs and feet because if we do not in this game everyone will turn into a white Walker and they did it a lot of people argue that maybe the greatest game ever played because you'll never find conditions worse than that you'll never find the stakes higher than that [Music] if that's the case then he could argue that maybe that drive was the greatest Drive of all time on the coldest New Year's Eve in the cold cold history of Green Bay the Packers met the Dallas Cowboys of the Eastern Conference for the championship for the National Football League I remember the morning in that game getting a wake-up call and the lady said good morning mr. Sabel the Sun is out the wind is out of the north it's 16 degrees below zero have a nice day and that's the way the ice ball started for us despite the frigid temperatures Bart Starr and the Packers heated up driving 68 yards on 12 plays on one of the coldest and most clutch drives in NFL history the pack has launched a last-second Drive kind of a March that has becoming their trademark I think they really believe that this is what we were built for this situation these kinds of conditions and this moment and I can't explain to you how we're going to do it I don't know exactly what plays we're going to do but I know how it's going to end and it's going to hand with us one in the game one yard the clock and the brave Dallas defense were all that stood between the Packers and the impossible great think about the stones it takes to make that play call the third down 16 seconds left and no timeouts if he falls short of the goal line the Packers lose that football this is win or lose [Music] what a Jedi moment just like you know what guess what guys we're gonna run it to the right just kidding I'm gonna smash this up the middle myself that win the game beautiful I think there have been more impressive drives I think that was a great game but as far as the drive I'd put it a little lower the Packers find a way to go down the field to ice the Cowboys in the ice ball it's amazing drive I ever had to tell anybody with the Green Bay Packers of my era were all about I'd say go back and watch that drive in the ice ball the execution of everybody on the field was just absolutely sensational [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so you have a category called greatest drives and a play called the drive and that's not number one like it's right there it's like in the name of the top ten title it's called the drive it has to be number one how can you have the drive not be number one when we're talking about drives it's a drive by Elway yeah only people care about better people in Cleveland and Denver giant fans really yeah drive what drive yeah thanks for getting the drive done cuz we beat you up in a Super Bowl at 98 yards our number 3 clutch drive is the longest on our list here's the key it was a drive you're talking a 15 play 98 yard drive in five minutes and two seconds at the end of the fourth quarter the most pivotal time the Browns never force a fourth down I mean it almost gets hurt in its ability to be called a clutch because it was seemed too easy I mean then he just drove down the field methodically I've never seen anything like it touchdown ninety eight and a half yard drive you know what I remember from the drive third and 18 John Elway got sacked Cleveland crowd was going nuts they thought they were gonna thought it was done and the next play through a 20-yard rifle shot to mark checks and wide open a middle to talk Mark Jackson first down at the Cleveland 27 yard line that's what I remember about the driver there's plenty of reasons John Elway is wearing a gold jacket and is in the Hall of Fame but the drive I think meant maybe as much to John Elway's legacy as any play he ever made we walked in knowing that it was a do-or-die situation there was nothing else it either go to the Super Bowl we're going home and we got a chance to do it on this Drive John Elway went six of nine for 78 yards and he ran twice for 20 yards 78 plus 20 is the 98 he accounted for all of it that's what made John Elway who John Elway is yeah well John Elway he's one of the best at football you can ask anybody [Applause] I wouldn't even let him in the stadium that day not if you want to win it football for me the drive could easily be number one it's one of the most iconic memories situations plays moments in NFL history and also it's called the drive every week in the NFL their drives and their been a million drives but you talk about the drive that was the drive [Music] the catch catches the I mean like yeah well man now you got me thinking the catch is better than the throw I think the throw the Roethlisberger made to me is equally amazing no I'm still gonna say the catch you're trying to fit that ball through a mail slot degree of difficulty Santonio Holmes 10 the throw from Big Ben 5 well Damon even if you were blown away by the throw you had to be impressed with the drive big been orchestrated in Super Bowl 43 [Applause] a Larry Fitzgerald touchdown gave the Cardinals the lead and left the Steelers with two and a half minutes to win the Super Bowl I don't know how you get your composure after that play and you march down the field trying to be break time to be great first completion on the drive is such a defining play Ben Roethlisberger escapes pressure could have been sacked he gets the ball to Santonio Holmes they start looking forward when he got that drive started it would you he just sent something special was gonna happen Ben Roethlisberger is told in the huddle by San Antonio homes just keep throwing to me man and Roethlisberger goes ok pumps fires up assets and what's amazing is that the Cardinals had no answer for San Antonio the entire Drive Ben Roethlisberger Telegraph's every pass on that drive this was go to San Antonio that one's good to Santonio this one's go to Santonio Santonio Holmes is uncontainable undefendable in that moment when you have somebody who's that hot you just keep going back to the well and they did for one of the grand moments in the game's history that was like one of the greatest drives I ever saw and that that pass was so beautiful he scrambles around throws it back one of the end zone feet dangling the sideline in the corner he just rips that pass about this big of a window to fit it in and tenth ownio Holmes needs to catch it with his fingertips get his toes down with three other defenders in the area when he lets up all go he's got almost nowhere to put it and Holmes almost got nowhere to go I was stunned that he was able to basically take over an entire Drive in a Super Bowl this might be the greatest clutch drive by any non quarterback in NFL history I'm thinking to myself wow they're not only losing they're getting blown out look it for holy up what a catch that will live in Super Bowl history right there this is great there's always that one catch good or bad it's good run fun team to watch I'm happy we got to the Super Bowl and then all of a sudden I blacked out for a harder top for everything the Patriots weren't going down without a fight there twenty five point deficit was quickly reduced to eat at that point in the game the Patriots had already come back so I'm like we're winning this game there's no to the Patriots this is what they do gotta believe boys the first test of faith happened on a third and ten twenty five Wow Oh our quarterback is in a groove everything they did in that fourth quarter Julia 34 that's one of those moments that it's a miracle moment you know never should be able to make that catch but all luck goes your way just changes the entire game it was a fantastic grab they changed the drive that was it that's the game-winning play right there I thought it crazy I swear to God what no no are the stars just aligned a certain way that Edelman catch was so insane that you knew something funky was going on and that funky thing was the Patriots winning that Super Bowl I already know what's happening I just now like it's just like this is just so Brady this is just so the past once the Patriots started rolling you knew the Patriots were going to tie it up you knew how it was going to end by that point in time it was inevitable the collapse was complete Tom takes the snap he backs up hands at the white up the middle touched or pigeons they had the presence of mind to score as fast as they could because they knew they had to hit the two-point conversion Randy under center Don takes a step quick go to Amador screen left Masood reaches across the goal line for a score yeah down by 25 the Patriots are even with Atlanta 28 to 3 and this is this is the thing that puts the exclamation they are able to come back make an amazing catch and everybody rolls to another Super Bowl it's not surprising that it's number one of course I like really like yet what just give the Pats everything they got the coin toss after the drive they got the Super Bowl victory after the Drive Tom Brady goes off with Gisele they get everything of course they got this that was a historic drive not only do they have to go down to score a touchdown they have to get the two-point conversions so that's all there I think that adds to it they didn't just have to come up with the clutch drive literally their longest drive of the entire season to tie the game and Super Bowl 51 and those circumstances see that's pretty hard to beat it's the number one clutch drive of all time it's the number one greatest win of all time it's the number one worst collapse of all time everything from that game can be number one because we have never seen anything like it and we will never ever see anything like that again [Music]

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Length: 33min 9sec (1989 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 03 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/AlwaysInProgression]

It's amazing how something like these two SB winning drives can have an impact on your life. Nothing has motivated or inspired me more than watching Eli work this kind of magic twice in the past 10 years.

I realllllly hope Eli gets a 3rd ring before he retires.

And as salty as I am to say it, I can only imagine how Eagles fans feel about having their SB win against Brady. I wanted Eli to be the only one, but I have to give credit where it's due. That trick play where Foles caught the TD will be remembered and revered just like our SB drives against Brady.

[u/EliToon]

Manningham throw is low key one of the best throws ever and Eli did it in the Super Bowl down in the 4th quarter.

I fucking love that man.

[u/Delanorix]

A.K.A. the Eli Manning reel

[u/TheAlcolawl]

I went to college in PA. I don't think I've pissed off more people in my life than the night of Superbowl 46. Nearly lost my voice celebrating. Guess Eagles fans weren't thrilled about that. Whatever. I Still get goosebumps watching this footage.