Dan Fouts Highlights
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- A gunslinger and the MFIC for the Air Coryell Chargers. Broke the NFL record for passing yards two seasons in a row and produced fireworks every Sunday. Never won a Super Bowl, but easily made the Hall of Fame as a 6x Pro Bowler and 2x First Team All Pro.
I am from Oregon and remember Dan Foust as a kid. When I joined the Navy in 75 and was stationed in San Diego, for bootcamp and was placed in the drum and bugle corp. We marched during the halftime show against the Giants that year. One of the highlights of my youth!!
Great compilation! For 12+ minutes, it took me back to my childhood. As a San Diego guy, Dan Fouts will always be my quarterback. And watching this video, we can also appreciate the fact that Don Coryell is FINALLY in the Hall Of Fame!
The innovator of the NFL we watch today
Maybe the most under appreciated QB in NFL history. Fouts would have dominated NFL today. So would Kellen Winslow.
Yeah he was perfect for the Air Coryell; an aggressive downfield passer who knew no fear.
He’s overshadowed by Rivers
Duke to Duke. You are dead on right
@@aidanmiranda6140 better then Rivers
@@dukewilson14 : Exactly, they were the greatest show on turf before the 99 Rams greatest show on turf.
Dan Fouts was the most under appreciated quarterback of his time. He played the entire 15-year career with the San Diego Chargers. He was the greatest quarterback to never reach the Super Bowl. He played along with Kellen Winslow Sr. during his time with the team.
I was a teen in the 80s watching Dan Fouts play. He was damn good!!!
Fout's 4800 yard season was a glimpse of the future of football
Dan Fouts was a great QB. Hall of Famer.
Dan was absolutely fearless and coldblooded. Tough as nails and hadthe mindset that they could beat anyone, any day. Fast forward 40 years and that mindset and culture is back again with 2022 Chargers. Boltup baby its gonna be a hell of a ride...
Air Coryell, one of the top offenses ever. They were a blast to watch.
There’s nothing underappreciated about Fouts. Maybe by people born after 1980, but for those of us who saw him, we know what’s up. Once Don Coryell came to town, Fouts was the league’s PREMIERE PASSER until the rise of Marino. He was well decorated and respected. Like a few other greats , he never guided his team to a Super Bowl victory, but that doesn’t diminish him in my eyes. When I first started watching the NFL in the 2nd grade, Fouts was the first QB I latched onto. He was the template for how a QB should walk, talk, and play: fearless, tough, and knowing that HE was the most important man on the field.
Fouts broke the single season record for passing yards in 1979, then did it again in 1980, and did once more in 1981. Insane. Must have been the beard.
Back when you could actually hit a qb and slam him, Dan was a tough SOB. Like my friend said. He would dominate in today's game. No question.
This dude was good.
"Good players, all of them good enough to win, but Hall of Famers? I don't think so. You could add Dan Fouts to that list. I know he's in already, but we played him enough times, when I was with the Raiders. But I never had the feeling that, OK, we're paying the Chargers now -- the one guy we have to worry about is the one throwing the ball."
My hero growing up.
Great video, was the best offense in the early 80’s. Too bad they didn’t get to a Super Bowl.
The great Dan Fouts, the "guilty" i am actually a chargers fan 🏈⚡⚡⚡
Love the San Diego Charger song!!!
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NFL should move the Super Chargers back to Ron Burgandy’s town just because of this song…
Grown up watching DF … amazing QB
Only a fan of the Chargers started only because of Dan Fouts,,,I still have that charge for the team only because Mr. Fouts started it,...he was the BEST!!!!
i would of loved to be in my 20s and 30s living in san diego in the late 1970s early 80s
I've got to give u credit u deserve one of the greatest of all time
Knew Fouts was good, but not this great! Checked his stats: led the league twice in TD passes; four times in total passing yardage; tremendous peak from ages 28-32 with consistent pro bowl appearances and MVP votes. All while rocking the best uniform in pro sports!
Pure passer
The good old day! Fouts, Joiner, Jefferson, Winslow.
Don't forget Wes Chandler.
very fun to watch.
and James Brooks and Chuck Muncie. Stacked offense.
And Lionel “Little Train” James.
If only the defense had been close to as good as the offense...It was so frustrating to see the offense put up 30 or 41 points and still lose a game.
I've met and talked to Dan Fouts about rival Raiders he hated them because they gotten beat alot by them includes 1980 afc championship game here lost to Raiders 34-27 and had to not make mistakes beaten the San Francisco Joe Montana teams beaten them 1979 and 1982.
Many people discount his often flutterball spirals, forgetting that those were timing routes, often thrown full seconds before receivers made their breaks.
My football hero💪💪
Mine too friend
3 seasons in a row. First to pass for over 4000 yards, then killed that with 4700 yards and then 2800 yards. 1979-80-81
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People who love the NFL today don't realize that before Fouts, it was 3 yards and a cloud of dust and NO one threw for 300 yards a game or 4000 yards a season. Fouts made it common place. The NFL found it exciting, filled stadiums, so changed rules to make it much more common (protecting QBs and WRs, DFBs not allowed to look at a WR the wrong way, etc.) - Basically, if not for "Air Coryell" we'd still be suffering through 9-3 games, like the Dolphins went undefeated, the QB in the Superbowl had what? 2 Completions?
Man I miss #ChargerPower
If they would have had any semblance of a defense my God they would have been a dynasty
1979 was their best shot as they had a complete team. Defense definitely held them back after 1979.
Just image if Fouts had the same "defensive" as Cowboy/Steelers/ Raiders or even 49ers.
3:03 OBJ Who? #83 John Jefferson made those one handed catches just about weekly and work no tacky gloves either. I forget which record it was - most TDs or Yards in a season that Jerry Rice owns, but they forget the Charger WR (Wes Chandler held that record and did it in a strike shortened season, so Jerry Rice had about 2x more games to get it and then just barely got it.
In today's opened up offenses. Fouts woulda killed them all. He is and was the smartest and toughest qb ever. Hank Bauer will tell you the same
That's true; the athletes on defense are better now though. Also the scheme has been a run by a few teams over the years which shows how great the air coryell scheme is.
Fouts was terrible at not throwing picks, but he was a stats machine.
That's misleading because the offense was going to lead any QB to throw a lot of picks. It was high risk high reward.
Sdc 1961
fouts joiner,winslow,jefferson...enough said
I have him 4th on my best QB ever list.
Brady
Montana
Marino
Fouts
Brady isn't number one.
Elway ahead of Fouts
Brady sux
Justin Herbert throws deep just like dan but justin is more mobile there a lot a like dan was great and very underrated i see some Superbowl rings in the feature for the Chargers if they get there sorry defense toghter
Drew Lock plays very similar, I hope he can prove himself like fouts did.
Mustard pants
San diego super chargers
Bring back the baby blue
The chuf
West coviners
Los faltos
Fouts obviously was a tremendous quarterback and a deserving hall of famer. But often times he's put in the same category as guys like Dan Marino and Peyton manning and John Elway etc and I just don't agree with that . He had barely a career winning record and I understand that you don't have to win multiple super bowls to be great . His completion pct is good but he threw a lot of interceptions and I know he had to carry the chargers a lot because their defense was lousy . But overall Dan Fouts was a great quarterback
There are guys in the Hall Of Fame like Joe Namath, who had way more interceptions than touchdowns passes, and Terry Bradshaw, who also threw a lot of INTs and barely completed 51% of his passes. So those guys didn't have great numbers, but they won a lot of games. That's why they're in as well. Fouts had way better numbers than those two, even though he never got to a Super Bowl. But from 1979-1982, Fouts won more games than any other QB, and it's not even close.
@@punkadiddle well said. In the case of Namath however I personally believe that he's in the hall of fame largely based on superbowl 3 and it being a seminal game that proved that the afl was just as good as the NFL. Because overall Namath was mediocre.
El df
This team was stacked. Couldn’t win the big one.
Yeah defense couldn't hold up their end of the bargain.
Defense wasn't stacked.
Defense was terrible. Couldn't stop a team if they had a refs whistle.
Sdsc
Back in the day when a QB didn't throw 3 yard dump off passes or 4 yard cross patterns and are labeled a hero. Yeah, I'm talking about Aaron Rodgers, Brady, Brees. These guys week after week threw a 4 yard pass and the receiver made 9 guys miss and the QB gets all the credit for being savvy with his ball placement. Hilarious.