Yes and no. He was versatile but he got beat over the top a ton. Loved him, but teams that could knew where he was so they could go after him in the pass game. Amazing tackler, great player.
Still there's no better safety duo then Roy Williams and Darren Woodson..... those were two bone breaking, concussion making hard hitting safeties!! Loved watching those two on the field !!!
Yeah, I had forgotten how devastating those two were when both were on the field. Those were consistently bone-jarring hits. Let's also not forget another favorite Madden player in the Cowboys backfield and special teams.....Bill Bates. Little guy........but a f$#%ing animal.
An argument can be made for 'The Soul Patrol'....George "The Hitman" Atkinson and Jack "The Assassin" Tatum at Safety positions for the Raiders in the '70s
Hines ward is my favorite receiver of all time. He gets speared after dropping the ball right in the back, looks behind him,probably smiles and pats roy on the helmet. They don't make em like they used to. I have a Hines ward card and he's catching the ball while diving completely horizontal. Full arm extension and he is historically laughing as he caught it. Him and Larry Fitz were different like that. Roy Williams was an intimidator. He'd pull off a handful of picks each season too.
That hit would've laid 99% of wide receivers out cold. Helmet to helmet, back of the head... Hines Ward looks back and does as you say. What an absolute legend. Respect from a Cowboys fan.
This the man the NFL changed and had to put rules in place for. His style of play was his own and once they made the league into a powder puff league Williams play on the field was less and less impactful. Williams in my eyes is and was the first player to suffer from not being able to play his style of football because of the rules. He never was the same player after and when he was a Bengal it showed.
Saw him hit Jerry Rice along the sideline in Seattle. Thought it broke Jerry in half. Jerry got up like it wasn’t a big deal. One of the loudest hits ever.
stumbled on to this video..... and, thank goodness for the new rules. Everyone of his 'hits' are helmut to helmut. I have watched the NFL for years and never realized what was going on. Maybe 15 years from now, our numbers will be down on CTE. A 2023 report found CTE in 345 out of 373 NFL deceased players. Roy was great and played under the rules of the day.... it's safer now.
I've never seen a collection of hits this hard from one player before. Some look like a torpedo being fired at a dinghy. You'll never seen a grown-ass man running full speed being instantly reversed in direction like in these hits. Regarding coverage, I do remember Williams being burned on deep balls quite a few times. The intimidation of knowing he was back there though had to be huge. I know that Madden loved him.
I got three concussion and a back injury just from watching the slow motion videos that they couldn't show at regular speed because they would have to find and reinstate him just to kick him out of the NFL !!!!!
I always admired Roy growing up, but damn, brodie was always leading with the crown of his head. That's mad dangerous. And many of these were on defenseless players
Yeah today NFL sucks they cry about the concussions not to sound none symphonic but I don’t care cause they get money and choose to play the game it’s a risk so bring back the mans game. I had to play it when I was a kid hard ass tackles and live with the consequences
If I had to play against this dude I’m sitting out that week. No way. Just no. I mean he’s not letting nothing go. He’s throwing his entire body into everything he gets a chance to.
No we tried him in that role in 2007 and 08 and he failed miserably. I thought it would be a match made in heaven just like Keanu Neal but both bombed pretty bad. Takeaway... Sometimes oversized slower physical safties suck as undersized LB's. Sameway some slower CB's can't make the transition to safety.
He was just awesome to watch play the game his hard hitting style was unmatched and the powder puffs in the league's front office got scared and changed the rules so we can't see these type of hits anymore which sucks. They left out one of his best hits in college football called the superman play against Texas.
Almost every one of those hits would draw a flag today. I understand the league cracking down on excessive hits, but at the end of the day football is a violent sport.
I wish there was a highlight reel of receivers dropping passes when Roy Williams was just in the vicinity. Did he get beat over the top? Sure, but not a lot of yards were given up by the Dallas Cowboys' defense over the middle during Williams' years on the roster. So many times receivers flinched from hits that never even came...
You could tell the impact he had just being on the field with how many of the receivers dropped passes right in their hands they were afraid to get hit by him
I never saw anyone absorb a hit from Roy and fall forward, he always stopped them where the contact occurred and often separated the player from the ball. Played back in the day when hard hits were allowed, he'd be too violent for today's powder puff rules.
I honestly thought he was going to be one of the best defensive players in NFL history but when he lost a step and started getting beat on the long ball he was done! But #31 was the hammer and the nails though! Great music to this video!
@@RockwellJunya true.. but early on, especially when Woodson was still there, he actually had some nice interceptions.. but for the most part, coverage wasn’t good
RW made watching defense more exciting than watching the offense. Thise receivers got alligator arms when he was on the field because they knew there was a big price to pay.
Roy was a walking highlight reel for big hits. It's like he had the fkn cheat for jacking people up. Unarguably one of the most vicious hitters of all time. #31 DC4L
I just don’t understand why as the game evolved, why they didn’t explore Roy as a linebacker? He had the body and the strength to make that type of transition.
Im a Cowboy fan & Roy was just one of a Handful of Hard Hitters. You had Dick "Night train" Lane, Steve Atwater, John Lynch, Ronnie Lott, Sean Taylor, Kam Chancellor, Brian Dawkins, & Rodney Harrison, but the Hardest Hitter of them all & His nickname is Mr. Death or Dr. Death or The Assassin aka JACK TATUM. All of The above are good but then You have Jack Tatum who was in a class by Himself.
ahhh i remember roy williams. he is the reason why the nfl is so soft now. because of him the league has so many rules towards hitting and protecting players
@@adamgonzales5649 It may be a little unfair to call Williams one of the most disappointing Cowboys ever, but in terms of expectations and production, he completely fell off the map. He was boxed because of his inability to effectively cover the pass,-or more specifically, the deep ball-
EVERY ONE OF ROY'S HITS IS "HELMET TO HELMET"...THE CROWN OF THE HELMET AT THAT 👌🏿. HITTING FACE UP IS ONE THING (THAT'S ALL I DID) LEADING WITH THE TOP OF YOUR "HAT" IS SOME OTHER SHIT.
I'm so f**ked up by the "new" NFL.. that while watching this in full; I was expecting to see a flag on every hit!!! I love some Roy Williams, now-a-days he wouldn't have any amount of paycheck left after the fines
My man, this video would be great of you didn't constantly zoom the view....just makes it dizzying and too hard to to track play movement. Less is more bud.
Roy was one of the last of the great hitters, Other teams had to know where he was at at all times.
Yes and no. He was versatile but he got beat over the top a ton. Loved him, but teams that could knew where he was so they could go after him in the pass game. Amazing tackler, great player.
Different breed back then.
My favorite player. Madden said if you want to know how to tackle, watch Roy
Or ask T.O
Still there's no better safety duo then Roy Williams and Darren Woodson..... those were two bone breaking, concussion making hard hitting safeties!! Loved watching those two on the field !!!
Number 1 defense when they were both there
It's hard to believe I grew up watching that safety duo and we haven't even had a good safety since.
Yeah, I had forgotten how devastating those two were when both were on the field. Those were consistently bone-jarring hits. Let's also not forget another favorite Madden player in the Cowboys backfield and special teams.....Bill Bates. Little guy........but a f$#%ing animal.
An argument can be made for 'The Soul Patrol'....George "The Hitman" Atkinson and Jack "The Assassin" Tatum at Safety positions for the Raiders in the '70s
Didn't they have Terence Newman at corner also...?? He was lock tight on receivers..!
BEST SAFETY EVER IN HISTORY😤
That was just about the time football ended. Wish they still played like that
A thing of beauty.
So aggressive in every tackle he made, and it was infectious...made his teammates feel the urge come on with it just the same intensity as #31 and #28
Hines ward is my favorite receiver of all time. He gets speared after dropping the ball right in the back, looks behind him,probably smiles and pats roy on the helmet. They don't make em like they used to.
I have a Hines ward card and he's catching the ball while diving completely horizontal. Full arm extension and he is historically laughing as he caught it. Him and Larry Fitz were different like that.
Roy Williams was an intimidator. He'd pull off a handful of picks each season too.
That hit would've laid 99% of wide receivers out cold. Helmet to helmet, back of the head... Hines Ward looks back and does as you say. What an absolute legend. Respect from a Cowboys fan.
The game changed single handedly because of this man. Nobody.. and I mean nobody hit harder.
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor
Ronny Lott
He and Sean Taylor RIP. Changed the game into what it is today.
I'm a niner fan but loved watching this monster. Very underrated imo. This a long video with alot of clean hits
The best to do it
Watching him lay out Shegals players was my favorite.
Die Shegals Die
He is One very underated player's.
This the man the NFL changed and had to put rules in place for. His style of play was his own and once they made the league into a powder puff league Williams play on the field was less and less impactful. Williams in my eyes is and was the first player to suffer from not being able to play his style of football because of the rules. He never was the same player after and when he was a Bengal it showed.
To be fair the horse collar tackle is dangerous lol
He was in the NFL just a few years too early.
Yep, horse collar became illegal because of him. He hurt TO and McNabb in the same game with horse collars.
I honestly think he's one of the best box safety/linebackers in the league if he plays today. The NFL learned he can't cover after Woodson got hurt.
@@td31g if your a wuss. Football is dangerous that’s why your parents had to sign a release. Quit being a wuss
Modeled my hs game after him. Cost me a broken jaw, hand, And I don’t remember a year of geometry but it sure was fun
Nightmare walking 🚶♂️ 😳
Roy was one of the hardest hitting safeties we ever had but in the league now he would get so many flags
Football has gotten so soft ,now. Before too long defense won't be able to tackle anymore
This channel is the best 👌👍💯💯💯
Saw him hit Jerry Rice along the sideline in Seattle. Thought it broke Jerry in half. Jerry got up like it wasn’t a big deal. One of the loudest hits ever.
Roy was so badass he even knocked dudes out at the Pro Bowl... They prolly hated him... 🤣🤣🤣
Miss that kind of smash mouth football !🤬
It hurt my soul to see him in a bengals jersey!
He was the man.......
stumbled on to this video..... and, thank goodness for the new rules. Everyone of his 'hits' are helmut to helmut. I have watched the NFL for years and never realized what was going on. Maybe 15 years from now, our numbers will be down on CTE. A 2023 report found CTE in 345 out of 373 NFL deceased players. Roy was great and played under the rules of the day.... it's safer now.
The Hitman...
I've never seen a collection of hits this hard from one player before. Some look like a torpedo being fired at a dinghy. You'll never seen a grown-ass man running full speed being instantly reversed in direction like in these hits. Regarding coverage, I do remember Williams being burned on deep balls quite a few times. The intimidation of knowing he was back there though had to be huge. I know that Madden loved him.
I miss this dude
Dude clearly should've been at LB and it would've prolonged his talents and career
He was like the size of a linebacker too. You could tell guys were afraid of him there were so many dropped passes in this video
Background music should be a little known, obscure R&B song from the early 1980's, "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward.
THE HIT AGAINST EMMITT CLASSIC 😆 MADE HIM RETIRE 🤠
Back when football was played by men
I got three concussion and a back injury just from watching the slow motion videos that they couldn't show at regular speed because they would have to find and reinstate him just to kick him out of the NFL !!!!!
Best a cowboy of all time at least one of the best
I always admired Roy growing up, but damn, brodie was always leading with the crown of his head. That's mad dangerous. And many of these were on defenseless players
The only thing missing from this video was the hit roy put on marshawn lynch back on 2007 on MNF. Overall wonderful video man😁
He would of been ejected from about 90% of these games today
Yeah today NFL sucks they cry about the concussions not to sound none symphonic but I don’t care cause they get money and choose to play the game it’s a risk so bring back the mans game. I had to play it when I was a kid hard ass tackles and live with the consequences
If I had to play against this dude I’m sitting out that week. No way. Just no. I mean he’s not letting nothing go. He’s throwing his entire body into everything he gets a chance to.
If he was playing with Dallas today and playing the role that kearse is playing he would be a perennial pro bowler
Yeah but he would get flagged like crazy, with the rules today.
Facts. He’d be a phenomenal big nickel linebacker and sam linebacker
No we tried him in that role in 2007 and 08 and he failed miserably. I thought it would be a match made in heaven just like Keanu Neal but both bombed pretty bad.
Takeaway... Sometimes oversized slower physical safties suck as undersized LB's. Sameway some slower CB's can't make the transition to safety.
Roy is a Beasts
The Roy Williams tackle AKA The Horse collar
there was also the michael irving rule, and the erik williams rule.
Sick
He was just awesome to watch play the game his hard hitting style was unmatched and the powder puffs in the league's front office got scared and changed the rules so we can't see these type of hits anymore which sucks. They left out one of his best hits in college football called the superman play against Texas.
I believe the hit on Emmitt Smith at 2:00 was so hard it broke Emmitt’s shoulder blade. Even though Roy hit him in the front.
Almost every one of those hits would draw a flag today. I understand the league cracking down on excessive hits, but at the end of the day football is a violent sport.
Roy was fined so many times that he had to change his tackling style, and that ended his career.
He was a great player. Most of those hits would be illegal now because of him
Old school, Mama Said KNOCK YOU OUT!
Violence.... Need that the next 5 weeks...
I wish there was a highlight reel of receivers dropping passes when Roy Williams was just in the vicinity. Did he get beat over the top? Sure, but not a lot of yards were given up by the Dallas Cowboys' defense over the middle during Williams' years on the roster. So many times receivers flinched from hits that never even came...
Damm we should have won a ring with this team
That man could hit .
a work of art if played at quarter speed
You could tell the impact he had just being on the field with how many of the receivers dropped passes right in their hands they were afraid to get hit by him
I never saw anyone absorb a hit from Roy and fall forward, he always stopped them where the contact occurred and often separated the player from the ball. Played back in the day when hard hits were allowed, he'd be too violent for today's powder puff rules.
They don't want players to end up with CTE. Almost every hit in the highlight is him going helmet to helmet, that's no good for the brain.
Ricky Williams was the only one I saw falling forward after meeting roy.
I'm glad the pro bowl hit was included lol
If Roy dont have CTE, its a myth. What a legend.
CTE is a myth. It's just an excuse for bad behavior.
Exactly
Imagine smackin someone like that in today’s pro bowl era
Good for about 4 years.
I think i will break out my Black and blue #31 Williams jersey this weekend.
The king of helmet to helmet contact. About 3 quaters of these hits are illegal now. Lot of guys dealing with CTE because of RW.
I honestly thought he was going to be one of the best defensive players in NFL history but when he lost a step and started getting beat on the long ball he was done! But #31 was the hammer and the nails though! Great music to this video!
He was elite as a SS but once he got moved to FS he was mediocre, didn’t quite have the coverage skills needed to be a great FS
Yep.. he’ll of a hitter.. but when he started slowing down & had to cover, that was it
He was really like a Linebacker playing Safety. He had no Coverage skills.
@@RockwellJunya true.. but early on, especially when Woodson was still there, he actually had some nice interceptions.. but for the most part, coverage wasn’t good
RW made watching defense more exciting than watching the offense. Thise receivers got alligator arms when he was on the field because they knew there was a big price to pay.
That is what a Face Mask and helmet were designed for.
TRRW as we knew him in Norman
The Real Roy Williams, aka Superman!
Roy was a walking highlight reel for big hits. It's like he had the fkn cheat for jacking people up. Unarguably one of the most vicious hitters of all time. #31 DC4L
When he be hitting them it's like a car crash...He wasn't playing with them
The One Hit Wonder
Damn alot of those hits would be penalties an fines nowadays
Worse back in the 70s. They flat out punched each other lol
almost every single one was helmet to helmet😂
I just don’t understand why as the game evolved, why they didn’t explore Roy as a linebacker? He had the body and the strength to make that type of transition.
Madden implemented the hit stick bc of RO. Williams.
best safety my cowboys ever had
Darren Woodson was better.
The horse collar penalty was created because of Roy. He broke two guys legs lol.
Roy was trying to bring the bih out folks 😂😂😂😂
If you youngsters wanna hit like this, don't skip the power-cleans in the weight room...!😝
i think i only saw 1 legal hit in all of those clips....couldnt play today
I have his cowboys jersey
I have one, too. I purchased it at the old Texas stadium.
Playing with D.woodson probably helped.
Im a Cowboy fan & Roy was just one of a Handful of Hard Hitters. You had Dick "Night train" Lane, Steve Atwater, John Lynch, Ronnie Lott, Sean Taylor, Kam Chancellor, Brian Dawkins, & Rodney Harrison, but the Hardest Hitter of them all & His nickname is Mr. Death or Dr. Death or The Assassin aka JACK TATUM. All of The above are good but then You have Jack Tatum who was in a class by Himself.
I already know what your thinking...
illegal... illegal... -Pauly shore
90% of his tackles would be flagged today
Was that Emmitt @ 2:02
Would have been an all time great if he could cover. But a great hitter!!
Roy came into the NFL 20 years too late
ahhh i remember roy williams. he is the reason why the nfl is so soft now. because of him the league has so many rules towards hitting and protecting players
How was his pass coverage tho?
Great he was a great safety he would intercept and not to mention the wideouts had to know where he was
@@adamgonzales5649 It may be a little unfair to call Williams one of the most disappointing Cowboys ever, but in terms of expectations and production, he completely fell off the map. He was boxed because of his inability to effectively cover the pass,-or more specifically, the deep ball-
Not early in his career he didn’t , he was a pro bowler and had interceptions, I think you need to go back and visit him
Couldn't cover the deep ball to save his life. I never was a fan of RW31
Then you probably don’t know football and didn’t see him play.
EVERY ONE OF ROY'S HITS IS "HELMET TO HELMET"...THE CROWN OF THE HELMET AT THAT 👌🏿. HITTING FACE UP IS ONE THING (THAT'S ALL I DID) LEADING WITH THE TOP OF YOUR "HAT" IS SOME OTHER SHIT.
Jerry Jones can't have a player like that around him they might win
Baby Ronnie Lott
😯
Mr. Roy "helmet to helmet, spearing and launching penalty" Williams
There was no such thing as hitting a defenseless receiver back in the day. Roy was the reason Receivers had alligator arms coming across the middle
Every tackle is with the helmet
Thats how you make sure they dont catch it lol
I'm so f**ked up by the "new" NFL.. that while watching this in full; I was expecting to see a flag on every hit!!!
I love some Roy Williams, now-a-days he wouldn't have any amount of paycheck left after the fines
He's got to have the the brain of a 100 year old crash test dummy nowadays
Micah who?
My man, this video would be great of you didn't constantly zoom the view....just makes it dizzying and too hard to to track play movement. Less is more bud.
Dam Roy was bad would give u a good pop. We nee to draft someone like that now
Holy CTE Batman!! Freal, so many helmet to helmet hits…I loved him as a player, but tackling the way he does in here is what fucked up Ryan Shazier.
The rules prevented him from being a greater player. He really messed up TO, if i remember correctly.
His greatest Hits was t young babyless Kelly Rowland 😏