It's too bad that Swann said this because the reality is that Bradshaw was a 2 time SB MVP for 78 and 79, a League MVP for 78, a two time Team MVP for 77 and 78 and SI Sportsman of the Year. for 79, as well as Pro Bowl for 75, 78 and 79. Bradshaw threw tons of extremely accurate passes if you watch his highlights, and in SB 10 where Swann was MVP, Terry threw a perfect 64 yd bomb to him that traveled over 60 yds in the air. And the 73 yd one to Stallworth in SB 14 is the most deadly accurate pass you'll ever see. It's just that Bradshaw knew Swann's ability so he often put it where only Swann could get it.
Great point, just look at Super bowl X, how well Washington for the Cowboys covered Swanny, and Terry still got the ball to a place where Lynn could do his magic.
@@amdtexas9383 Learn the rules and culture of the 70s. Swann was brutalized and still out jumped double coverage and took some of the hardest hits, and made some of the greatest catches you'll ever see. Watch his highlights, and he was huge in the post season
@amdtexas9383 Swann was a household name, and until Rice was the first WR name the average person thought of, and until Moss, he was the only other one besides Rice. Anyone who says Swann was only good hasn't watched his highlights in forever
Lynn Swann my all time favorite receiver still looks like he can play.. looks amazing and in great shape !!! He’s right him and John earn all their catches!
True Bradshaw just threw long balls to swan and stallworth that usually result in a Touchdown. Just long jump balls. Montana and young had the West Coast offense that relied on short passes that pick part defenses
Release Thekracken Absolutely NOT. If that’s your opinion of Bradshaw you’ve obviously cane to that determination from nothing more than hi-light films. Look at his long TD passes to Stalworth and Swann in those SB wins. Most of them right on the money, in stride, touch pass to Bleier in SB that traveled about 10 yards. I watched Bradshaw’s entire career. After he evolved as a passer, he wasn’t lobbing “jump balls” as you claim.
Yeah, Bradshaw threw great screen passes to his wideouts. And an assortment of others... He also loved to do the playground, “just go out and get open” improvisation play - not a lot of people know that... Stallworth was asked what chuck would say when they did that and his reply was, “We never told Chuck...”
It was the mid-80s when I first started watching the NFL. One of the first games I watched was a Steelers game with Mark Malone as QB. Malone was a good case of there being more teams than good QBs. Four years into the NFL he was last in TD passes, last in yards, first in interceptions & incompletions, lowest QB rating of all QBs during that time. & *_all_* his numbers were better than those of Bradshaw over *_his_* first four years. Swann's comment about yards after the pass is dead-on. If you look at SB X, Swann had to stop, slow down &/or turn, even on the last straight-away one where he was wide open.. It may be an exaggeration to say Bradshaw only threw jump balls, but if his receivers didn't *_consistently_* adjust, he'd sure have thrown a lot more incompletions & interceptions. Everyone loves to oversimplify. Despite what Swann said, Joe Montana _sucked_ once he had no receivers to throw to (in K.C.). Cripes, that SB toss to Clark was "great" only because he was the only player tall enough to *catch* it. Meanwhile, with Rice, Montana, then Montana's *back-up* become MVPs. Then Jeff Garcia comes in from the _CFL_ & is the highest-rated QB in his first four years in the NFL. & look at Rice's highlight reels, it's not all the ball finding him. He was the third successful QB I'm aware of who came to the NFL via the CFL, a place where it's thought no one worthy of the NFL would ever go. Warren Moon, Doug Flutie, & Garcia.
Bradshaw is the only QB who could throw the ball at Jack Tatum, knowing it was going to bounce off of his helmet, where Franco Harris would then grab it and run it in for a TD.
Yeah most accomplished and greatest are not always 1 in the same. In the NBA it sure would not be Jordan if most rings is how you count it. Bill Russell has 11 rings in 13 years! Thats insane. Jordan also isnt the all time leading scorer. That is kareem. My point is jerry being the all time leading receiver is not a lock for "greatest" Anyone with functioning eyes would tell you Randy Moss was a better receiver. Taller, faster, hands as good as jerrys. Remember what he did when he had a good quaterback? Yeah single season td record. So give moss all those years with montana and young and he would be #1 and then some.
I think Jerry Rice is the gold standard at WR. He is the all time leader in all 3 categories by a pretty huge margin and even as the league continues to be very pass happy/friendly, I think his records are very untouchable. He was also a big time performer on the games biggest stages. He averages 147 YPG in his 4 Super Bowls appearances.
@@CheetahSnowLeopard Larry Bird is my all time favorite player. His prime was better than jordan imo. Larry went against better teams and tougher D than jordan. They changed the rules to help jordan. They are called the jordan rules for a reason.
People will forever point to Rice's statistics, but he played so damned long that they're meaninglessness to me. Of course he was great, but by the time the 49ers were no longer a Super Bowl contender, I became seriously bored watching him. I know he had great passion for the game, but after a while it seemed like he was just trying to put his numbers so far out of reach that it wouldn't matter who came in second. Instead, he made those statistics irrelevant. I can still tell you, right off the top of my head, that Jim Brown rushed for 12,312 yards and scored 126 touchdowns (exactly 100 rushing touchdowns, if I'm not mistaken). I can't do that with the guys who have passed him.
Yah, black Republican baby, yah! But Jerry Rice was better. "Swanny" should probably be in the Top 20 All Time though, ahead of some guys with more total yards.
Sad to hear Swann say this because Terry was arguably the most accurate deep ball QB ever. Sure Swann and Stallworth made great catches but Terry's highlights will show how deadly accurate he often was. You don't win the league MVP and 2 SB mvps just off great catches
@@handsome-brute2666 You must mean 14 not 13, possible typo. Regardless, the first deep ball to Stallworth, 73 yd TD, is the most accurate pass in stride in SB and possibly NFL history. His second one to Stallworth, 45 yds, was under thrown but still beyond the defenders. Bradshaw also threw a 47 yd TD to Swann with Jack Youngblood on him. Statistically (regardless of his 3 picks) 309 yds, 3 deep balls, 2 for TDs, the MVP is going to the QB
Don't like that Swann threw a little shade at TB. Maybe Swanny and Stall didn't get quite as much separation as Rice, and Bradshaw had to put the ball where the defender couldn't get it, which meant his receivers had to go and get it.
Lynn is very well spoken and wise. He's right that you can't say who the GOAT is. Such an overused term. Just be the best you can and don't worry about others.
I think that a player who sets records that are not broken for decades is a good candidate for GOAT. Even though the game changes, his records stand the test of time. Although many of Dan Marino's records were eventually broken, they lasted for decades, and some still stand.
We know this, but the idiot talking heads don't have a clue about the true history of the sport, or what it took for great players to reach their greatness beyond statistics. So instead, they come off as about as "knowledgeable" as the obnoxious drunk at the bar whom no one wants to sit next to. There are too many books, videos, and other reliable sources that could tell us so much more than these nimrods could ever dream of knowing, and I don't think they care. That's why guys like Patrick are dumbfounded when Swann gives them such candid answers.
@@patwhite8106 It's the Era and the rules Brady plays under. In Swann's Era, the quarterbacks called their own plays, did not have the protection that Brady plays under
@@scottgood7888 For sake of argument, let's say "clutch" refers to 4th Quarter Comebacks. NFL Reference has Terry tied at 65th. So there's dozens that were(are) more clutch than Terry. Lynn DOES show respect with his candid honesty. Terry would agree, I'm sure.
The game has changed so much. Now a QB throws 25 passes a game 3 yards down field and 10 passes 7 yards down field. Bradshaw did not throw very many short passes like they do today.
When Jerry Rice, who appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show, was asked the question, by Arsenio, "Who was the greatest receiver you have ever saw?", Jerry responded with, "Lynn Swan!". Need anything more be said...
Stupid clickbait headline. He didnt 'bash' bradshaw he simply complimented montana and youngs accuracy. Why cant he give his opinion? Bradshaw had a great arm and we all know it....
I love that he’s talking about “the greatest of all time” being a bullshit argument. The way the rules have changed and evolved, it’s a slap in the face to the greats who played when you could take down a quarterback by the face mask or hit and hold receivers until the ball was coming their way. All these sports nerds who never played past high school trying to say definitively that so and so is the best ever... it’s bs. Best of their era, sure, but not of all time.
That's because Pittsburgh ran the ball a lot. Bradshaw spread the ball around to running backs and tight ends. The game was different in the seventies. Corner backs could keep thier hands on wide receivers and rough them up until the ball was thrown
@No Capping TV • Steelers were a run first offense, even after the rule changes. The rules prior to 1978 did not favor the passing game. Receivers could get hit 20 yards down field. Mel Blount forced the league to change the rules to open up the offense
I totally agree you can't compare guys from different eras who played under different rules and in different offensive philosophies. Guys wouldn't be putting up the numbers they do today and catching 100+ passes if teams still ran the ball as often as they used to and corners didn't have to give a 5 yard cushion basically a free release off the line.used to be corners could hit the reciever untill the ball was in the air.also QB'S and all the rules now protecting them as allowed much greater accuracy in the passing game.
I think Terry Bradshaw has more gripes against Chuck Noll and the fans in Pittsburgh than he does his ex-teammates. Lynn Swann was just being honest. I've heard Rocky Bleier say worse about Bradshaw than that.
In Bradshaw's day, not even fans knew much about what anyone but the QB did. If the defense scored a safety, the QB would be shown celebrating on the sidelines. I think that Bradshaw getting _all_ the credit (even the announcers talk about his great passes when, if Swann doesn't adjust, it's an interception) took its toll on what was a Great Team. It was forced, & people in media start believing their own hype. The players know. It's not simply resentment. They get to _see_ the better QBs on the other teams leading the receivers, making accurate throws. Then they hear their QB get credit for their great saves of his mediocre throws. You can *see it* in the footage.
If Jerry Rice played in today's era, with all the rules favoring the receivers, he would've had 100 thousand yards instead of the amazing 20 thousand for his career totals.
rice admitted to cheating, he deserves zero accolades....he played in the easy catch era, wore special gloves and admitted to spraying them with a form of stickum ......overrated.
@@choosecarefully408 im sure it was quite a few, my point being is that he is lauded as the greatest despite admitting to it, and the nfl keeps this myth up, just like they prop up the tammy brady myth despite spygate...and the special treatment tammy has gotten from the league over the years.
@@wbmstr24 I'd advise care in how you word things on two fronts, but to no avail. First, is "Tammy" meant to be the girlish nickname for Tom? It would be appropriate except this is an American sport. & in the U.S.A., well, all of you are Mary-Sue wannabes. If police in North Korea arrested people's possessions on the grounds that it was suspected they had been acquired through illegal activity, we'd laugh at this obvious example of tyranny. When it's "our government" doing it, we call it 'Civil Forfeiture' & dismiss it. Not even "as a necessary evil." Everyone just pretends that it doesn't exist. Being that the mindset of exceptionalism is evil no matter where you personally draw the line & one cannot _pay _*_ANY American_* to stand tf up to a single one of their authority figure *no matter **_what_** they do,* well, as I said, it would be to no avail. Just as people justify everything by claiming (utterly falsely, these things need to be tested for _years_ for long-term safety studies) that the mandated jabs are safe, it's literally because some Authority _FIGURES_ said so. Authority figures with zero knowledge about any such safety tests. Just the fact that they are authority _figures_ sends all Americans into a state of backing down out of sheer cowardice. & it ruins everything. We feel disgusted not being able to trust anyone, lose something dear to us in the case of Rice, & everyone ducks their heads & allows it because no one wants to grow tf up & face *any* adult responsibility. Mitch McConnell blocked *Heroic First Responders* from getting needed medical aid for _years,_ illegally for his cronies in insurance. This *mindset* caused all Americans to subconsciously decide "well, he's a politician and he's doing it. So let's pretend that we know it's legal if not moral" & think about it no further. For _YEARS,_ real heroes could not get common decent respect from the Entire Population because the mindset views anyone politicians act against as Enemies Of Us All. & _that_ is disgusting. & continues. duckduckgo.com/?q=maddie+de+garay&t=newext&atb=v290-1&ia=web. Because when Daddy-Government tells us something is safe & reality says otherwise, we blame reality. *_&_* its victims. & yes, no need to tell me you never wanted the conversation to go here. Except, well, for Maddie's sake it *needs* to go there. How long are we going to protect corporate interests over people who need protection _from_ billionaires who only want more $? Until we address the issues like responsible adults. Which will not be until after we stop ignoring them.
If Pearson was able to break away during "The Catch" game in 81', would have been greater than Alvin Harper in 92' . Emergence of Tony Hill as the number 1 receiver back in the late 70's, early 80's just about kills Pearson's case for the HOF.
Lynn swan said drew Pearson shouldn’t be in hall of fame. He said the drunk driving incident where he killed his baby brother is the main reason he can’t be in hall of fame. I think lynn also mentioned his stats don’t hold up either. Lynn is a Christian man and said drew didn’t hold up those values whenever that means. Seems self righteous to me but lynn knew Drew’s brother so there ya go
I hope Swannie laughs his ass off every time anybody mentions "Boo Hoo" Pearson in the same breath with him. Damn some statistics and that overrated "Hail Mary." Lynn Swann was the man of the moment more often than not, and people don't even realize what a great game he played in Super Bowl XIII.
Jerry Rice played when the rule change made it possible to have the receptions he did and even the league had changed, by the time he ended his career. Image A Rookie Joe Namath / Dan Marino And Yes Terry Bradshaw would have had different results.
Lynn Swann is the greatest receiver ever! He made catches in Super Bowls for touchdowns that Rice couldn't even make in his sleep. Rice was great, but Swann is better. Receivers know.
Terry was very accurate, especially in the clutch when it counted the most. Swanny made some great catches but none of them would've been made without the original TB12 putting it where it had to be. Swann was MVP of SBX with only 4 catches, and his 4th and final catch of that day came on the receiving end of one of the greatest throws in SB history. Let respect be shown.
That’s all about evolution of the passing games. The use of route depth with drop depth and timing. Swann can speak on Terry’s accuracy but Terry could speak on more consistent and sharper route running by Rice. But that came down to style and approach. The West Coast offense used the most precise route running requirements ever while the Steelers didn’t have the same attention to detail in its requirements because they really hadn’t been invented yet.
They made each other. Trust me, of all the other Steeler quarterbacks of that era, only the late Joe Gilliam could throw the ball with Bradshaw. His downfall on the field was at least partially because he was too pass happy, which led to more mistakes, but Terry Hanratty, Mike Kruczek, Cliff Stoudt, and Mark Malone could not deliver the ball to them consistently, and only they could consistently bail Bradshaw out of his occasionally errant throws. Jim Smith was a notch below them.
I just watched an 18 minute vid on Swann n Stallworth And Bradshaw was very accurate with his passes .. .even the ones where he was getting hit as he passed .
Notice the articulateness and cerebral perceptiveness of Lynn Swann. This is indicative of many NFL players of his era. Today's typical, gridiron knuckle dragger can hardly assemble a coherent sentence.
During his time you had many more student athletes -- Broadyway Joe, OJ, Swann, Stallworth, Merlin Olson, Bob Trumpy, Irv Cross, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Marcus Allen, etc.,, -- As whole today people in general are dumber so this is not surprising because of technology. I am sure all of the above could use a MAP and chart a course to a destination.
Swann was kind of the Moss of his day honestly. If you watch old games commentators talk about him like he was pretty widely considered the best at the time. I've talked to older guys who say the same thing. He was fast, could jump high, great control on sideline catches, and had amazing hands. People talk bad about his production but the 70s steelers had so many viable offensive options to use any given game. He was used as the circus catch, deep threat, touchdown guy and he did fantastic at it despite very often being the guy the defense chose to double cover.
Huh? You’re not gonna find a better combo than Swann and Stallworth. Not to mention Franco Harris, Bleier, Fuqua, decent TEs. Bradshaw had tons of weapons and a good line too
@@jefffawcett I could argue the same for Bradshaw. You may bring up some quarterback playing today but could they take the punishment that QB's like Bradshaw had to endure in those days?
lonemapper I don’t know what you’re attempting to argue, you made it sound like Bradshaw would’ve been better if he had better wide receivers I’m pointing out that he had great wide receivers. The Steelers were my favorite team, I didn’t miss a TV game of theirs for years. Bradshaw is a deserving HOF QB, just like half of their team was. Bradshaw was a monster and as tough as they come but nobody ever claimed he was as accurate as a Montana or Brady or Brees.
@@jefffawcett Did he have this kind of talent to work with? Look what the great Tom Brady could do this past year without the talent. Swan is criticizing Bradshaw for not being as accurate as a Montana but maybe Swan wasn't as great as Jerry Rice or Larry Fitzgerald or Randy Moss. I'm not arguing anything but considering this as a possibility for his "inaccuracy"
Todays game is about the players brand, not the team. Fantasy football killed the game we loved. Now it’s a punks game. Posing and dancing, the game today is all about scoring. Defenses have their hands tied. My son didn’t even know what having alligator arms meant.
It's too bad that Swann said this because the reality is that Bradshaw was a 2 time SB MVP for 78 and 79, a League MVP for 78, a two time Team MVP for 77 and 78 and SI Sportsman of the Year. for 79, as well as Pro Bowl for 75, 78 and 79. Bradshaw threw tons of extremely accurate passes if you watch his highlights, and in SB 10 where Swann was MVP, Terry threw a perfect 64 yd bomb to him that traveled over 60 yds in the air. And the 73 yd one to Stallworth in SB 14 is the most deadly accurate pass you'll ever see. It's just that Bradshaw knew Swann's ability so he often put it where only Swann could get it.
Great point, just look at Super bowl X, how well Washington for the Cowboys covered Swanny, and Terry still got the ball to a place where Lynn could do his magic.
Swann's ability? Most overrated receiver in the HOF. Shouldn't even be in the HOF.
@@amdtexas9383 Learn the rules and culture of the 70s. Swann was brutalized and still out jumped double coverage and took some of the hardest hits, and made some of the greatest catches you'll ever see. Watch his highlights, and he was huge in the post season
@@80steen44 I am well aware of the game from that time as I grew up in the 70's. Lynn Swann was a good receiver not great.
@amdtexas9383 Swann was a household name, and until Rice was the first WR name the average person thought of, and until Moss, he was the only other one besides Rice. Anyone who says Swann was only good hasn't watched his highlights in forever
Swann ... class act ... should never NEVER knock Bradshaw though ... but, he is top 3 greatest wide receivers to ever play the game ... EVER ....
Lynn Swann my all time favorite receiver still looks like he can play.. looks amazing and in great shape !!!
He’s right him and John earn all their catches!
True Bradshaw just threw long balls to swan and stallworth that usually result in a Touchdown. Just long jump balls. Montana and young had the West Coast offense that relied on short passes that pick part defenses
Release Thekracken Absolutely NOT. If that’s your opinion of Bradshaw you’ve obviously cane to that determination from nothing more than hi-light films. Look at his long TD passes to Stalworth and Swann in those SB wins. Most of them right on the money, in stride, touch pass to Bleier in SB that traveled about 10 yards. I watched Bradshaw’s entire career. After he evolved as a passer, he wasn’t lobbing “jump balls” as you claim.
Yeah, Bradshaw threw great screen passes to his wideouts. And an assortment of others... He also loved to do the playground, “just go out and get open” improvisation play - not a lot of people know that... Stallworth was asked what chuck would say when they did that and his reply was, “We never told Chuck...”
NFL Films rated Bradshaw's throw in X to Swann the greatest throw in league history
It was the mid-80s when I first started watching the NFL. One of the first games I watched was a Steelers game with Mark Malone as QB.
Malone was a good case of there being more teams than good QBs. Four years into the NFL he was last in TD passes, last in yards, first in interceptions & incompletions, lowest QB rating of all QBs during that time. & *_all_* his numbers were better than those of Bradshaw over *_his_* first four years.
Swann's comment about yards after the pass is dead-on. If you look at SB X, Swann had to stop, slow down &/or turn, even on the last straight-away one where he was wide open.. It may be an exaggeration to say Bradshaw only threw jump balls, but if his receivers didn't *_consistently_* adjust, he'd sure have thrown a lot more incompletions & interceptions.
Everyone loves to oversimplify. Despite what Swann said, Joe Montana _sucked_ once he had no receivers to throw to (in K.C.). Cripes, that SB toss to Clark was "great" only because he was the only player tall enough to *catch* it.
Meanwhile, with Rice, Montana, then Montana's *back-up* become MVPs. Then Jeff Garcia comes in from the _CFL_ & is the highest-rated QB in his first four years in the NFL. & look at Rice's highlight reels, it's not all the ball finding him.
He was the third successful QB I'm aware of who came to the NFL via the CFL, a place where it's thought no one worthy of the NFL would ever go. Warren Moon, Doug Flutie, & Garcia.
Bradshaw is the only QB who could throw the ball at Jack Tatum, knowing it was going to bounce off of his helmet, where Franco Harris would then grab it and run it in for a TD.
Mel was a beast!
The greatest WR in the NFL of the 70s.
I can’t say for sure that he was the best but he was definitely my favorite as a young kid.
The game is DEVOLVING, fundamentals, defense, and the running game are obsolete. Blocking and tackling is terrible too.
Bradshaw wouldve been bored with this dink and dunk crap u see today. Lynn was a tremendous athlete.
2:50 Just being realistic about Jerry Rice. A great one for sure but the greatest?
Yeah most accomplished and greatest are not always 1 in the same. In the NBA it sure would not be Jordan if most rings is how you count it. Bill Russell has 11 rings in 13 years! Thats insane. Jordan also isnt the all time leading scorer. That is kareem. My point is jerry being the all time leading receiver is not a lock for "greatest" Anyone with functioning eyes would tell you Randy Moss was a better receiver. Taller, faster, hands as good as jerrys. Remember what he did when he had a good quaterback? Yeah single season td record. So give moss all those years with montana and young and he would be #1 and then some.
@@boxcarbandit2098 Moss has been my #1 as well. Also, my opinion is that Larry Bird is the greatest of all time.
I think Jerry Rice is the gold standard at WR.
He is the all time leader in all 3 categories by a pretty huge margin and even as the league continues to be very pass happy/friendly, I think his records are very untouchable.
He was also a big time performer on the games biggest stages. He averages 147 YPG in his 4 Super Bowls appearances.
@@CheetahSnowLeopard Larry Bird is my all time favorite player. His prime was better than jordan imo. Larry went against better teams and tougher D than jordan. They changed the rules to help jordan. They are called the jordan rules for a reason.
People will forever point to Rice's statistics, but he played so damned long that they're meaninglessness to me. Of course he was great, but by the time the 49ers were no longer a Super Bowl contender, I became seriously bored watching him. I know he had great passion for the game, but after a while it seemed like he was just trying to put his numbers so far out of reach that it wouldn't matter who came in second. Instead, he made those statistics irrelevant. I can still tell you, right off the top of my head, that Jim Brown rushed for 12,312 yards and scored 126 touchdowns (exactly 100 rushing touchdowns, if I'm not mistaken). I can't do that with the guys who have passed him.
Swann is 100% correct!
Funny that Bradshaw didn't attend Coach Knoll funeral..i feel Swann won't attend Bradshaws ⚰🤔
So not cool...
Yah, black Republican baby, yah! But Jerry Rice was better. "Swanny" should probably be in the Top 20 All Time though, ahead of some guys with more total yards.
F LS !
Sad to hear Swann say this because Terry was arguably the most accurate deep ball QB ever. Sure Swann and Stallworth made great catches but Terry's highlights will show how deadly accurate he often was. You don't win the league MVP and 2 SB mvps just off great catches
One MVP should have went to Stallworth for his catches in SB 13
@@handsome-brute2666 You must mean 14 not 13, possible typo. Regardless, the first deep ball to Stallworth, 73 yd TD, is the most accurate pass in stride in SB and possibly NFL history. His second one to Stallworth, 45 yds, was under thrown but still beyond the defenders. Bradshaw also threw a 47 yd TD to Swann with Jack Youngblood on him. Statistically (regardless of his 3 picks) 309 yds, 3 deep balls, 2 for TDs, the MVP is going to the QB
Don't like that Swann threw a little shade at TB. Maybe Swanny and Stall didn't get quite as much separation as Rice, and Bradshaw had to put the ball where the defender couldn't get it, which meant his receivers had to go and get it.
@waynejohnston2441 There was no 5 yd chuck rule til 78 n wasn't heavily enforced until 04
It's clear to see he was being sarcastic about Bradshaw...
Lynn is very well spoken and wise. He's right that you can't say who the GOAT is. Such an overused term. Just be the best you can and don't worry about others.
I think that a player who sets records that are not broken for decades is a good candidate for GOAT. Even though the game changes, his records stand the test of time. Although many of Dan Marino's records were eventually broken, they lasted for decades, and some still stand.
We know this, but the idiot talking heads don't have a clue about the true history of the sport, or what it took for great players to reach their greatness beyond statistics. So instead, they come off as about as "knowledgeable" as the obnoxious drunk at the bar whom no one wants to sit next to. There are too many books, videos, and other reliable sources that could tell us so much more than these nimrods could ever dream of knowing, and I don't think they care. That's why guys like Patrick are dumbfounded when Swann gives them such candid answers.
It's Tom Brady
@@patwhite8106 It's the Era and the rules Brady plays under. In Swann's Era, the quarterbacks called their own plays, did not have the protection that Brady plays under
Lynn is such a gentleman, and a great speaker. I could listen to him for hours on end.
He looks like he could still play too!
He would’ve been a great governor.
He needs to show a little more respect to the best, most clutch big game QB in NFL history. Who was better in the clutch? No one!
@@scottgood7888 For sake of argument, let's say "clutch" refers to 4th Quarter Comebacks. NFL Reference has Terry tied at 65th. So there's dozens that were(are) more clutch than Terry.
Lynn DOES show respect with his candid honesty. Terry would agree, I'm sure.
@@THE-HammerMan Clutch in Super Bowls.
@@scottgood7888 Look at the list. Tom Brady and others rank higher than Terry, whom I've always loved as a player and broadcaster.
I like to know where he bashed Terry Bradshaw at? The title of the video is misleading almost to the point that it's clickbait
Answers that no youngan now could answer. With respect.✊🏼 Lynn Swann
The game has changed so much. Now a QB throws 25 passes a game 3 yards down field and 10 passes 7 yards down field. Bradshaw did not throw very many short passes like they do today.
When Jerry Rice, who appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show, was asked the question, by Arsenio, "Who was the greatest receiver you have ever saw?", Jerry responded with, "Lynn Swan!". Need anything more be said...
Stupid clickbait headline. He didnt 'bash' bradshaw he simply complimented montana and youngs accuracy. Why cant he give his opinion? Bradshaw had a great arm and we all know it....
Montana threw 5, 10 yard passes. Bradshaw threw 20, 30, 60 yard passes. That's why Terry wasn't as accurate.
I love that he’s talking about “the greatest of all time” being a bullshit argument. The way the rules have changed and evolved, it’s a slap in the face to the greats who played when you could take down a quarterback by the face mask or hit and hold receivers until the ball was coming their way. All these sports nerds who never played past high school trying to say definitively that so and so is the best ever... it’s bs. Best of their era, sure, but not of all time.
Jerry rice stats make Lynn Swann look like a bum
That's because Pittsburgh ran the ball a lot. Bradshaw spread the ball around to running backs and tight ends. The game was different in the seventies. Corner backs could keep thier hands on wide receivers and rough them up until the ball was thrown
@No Capping TV • Steelers were a run first offense, even after the rule changes. The rules prior to 1978 did not favor the passing game. Receivers could get hit 20 yards down field. Mel Blount forced the league to change the rules to open up the offense
I always like listening to Swanny talk!
Great player!
I totally agree you can't compare guys from different eras who played under different rules and in different offensive philosophies. Guys wouldn't be putting up the numbers they do today and catching 100+ passes if teams still ran the ball as often as they used to and corners didn't have to give a 5 yard cushion basically a free release off the line.used to be corners could hit the reciever untill the ball was in the air.also QB'S and all the rules now protecting them as allowed much greater accuracy in the passing game.
Typical Dan Patrick. Knows nothing, says nothing.
Come on Swann, you didnt have to throw Terry under the bus. I could just see why Terry had resentments when he left Pittsburgh.
I think Terry Bradshaw has more gripes against Chuck Noll and the fans in Pittsburgh than he does his ex-teammates. Lynn Swann was just being honest. I've heard Rocky Bleier say worse about Bradshaw than that.
I have a TB jersey, he'll always be my guy ....but they Swann and Stallworth made TB. Hey and Terry doesn't bite his tongue on anyone.
In Bradshaw's day, not even fans knew much about what anyone but the QB did. If the defense scored a safety, the QB would be shown celebrating on the sidelines.
I think that Bradshaw getting _all_ the credit (even the announcers talk about his great passes when, if Swann doesn't adjust, it's an interception) took its toll on what was a Great Team. It was forced, & people in media start believing their own hype.
The players know. It's not simply resentment. They get to _see_ the better QBs on the other teams leading the receivers, making accurate throws. Then they hear their QB get credit for their great saves of his mediocre throws.
You can *see it* in the footage.
If Jerry Rice played in today's era, with all the rules favoring the receivers, he would've had 100 thousand yards instead of the amazing 20 thousand for his career totals.
I think everyone would agree Jerry is the best he was still going long after Montana and Young had retired.
I don't agree, I still think Swann was the best..
rice admitted to cheating, he deserves zero accolades....he played in the easy catch era, wore special gloves and admitted to spraying them with a form of stickum ......overrated.
@@wbmstr24 😳 😳 😳 say _WHA-A-A-AT?_ *HOW* tf did he get _away_ with it? I mean, was it only him, or did a _lot_ of players do that?
@@choosecarefully408 im sure it was quite a few, my point being is that he is lauded as the greatest despite admitting to it, and the nfl keeps this myth up, just like they prop up the tammy brady myth despite spygate...and the special treatment tammy has gotten from the league over the years.
@@wbmstr24 I'd advise care in how you word things on two fronts, but to no avail. First, is "Tammy" meant to be the girlish nickname for Tom? It would be appropriate except this is an American sport. & in the U.S.A., well, all of you are Mary-Sue wannabes.
If police in North Korea arrested people's possessions on the grounds that it was suspected they had been acquired through illegal activity, we'd laugh at this obvious example of tyranny. When it's "our government" doing it, we call it 'Civil Forfeiture' & dismiss it.
Not even "as a necessary evil." Everyone just pretends that it doesn't exist.
Being that the mindset of exceptionalism is evil no matter where you personally draw the line & one cannot _pay _*_ANY American_* to stand tf up to a single one of their authority figure *no matter **_what_** they do,* well, as I said, it would be to no avail. Just as people justify everything by claiming (utterly falsely, these things need to be tested for _years_ for long-term safety studies) that the mandated jabs are safe, it's literally because some Authority _FIGURES_ said so. Authority figures with zero knowledge about any such safety tests.
Just the fact that they are authority _figures_ sends all Americans into a state of backing down out of sheer cowardice.
& it ruins everything. We feel disgusted not being able to trust anyone, lose something dear to us in the case of Rice, & everyone ducks their heads & allows it because no one wants to grow tf up & face *any* adult responsibility. Mitch McConnell blocked *Heroic First Responders* from getting needed medical aid for _years,_ illegally for his cronies in insurance. This *mindset* caused all Americans to subconsciously decide "well, he's a politician and he's doing it. So let's pretend that we know it's legal if not moral" & think about it no further.
For _YEARS,_ real heroes could not get common decent respect from the Entire Population because the mindset views anyone politicians act against as Enemies Of Us All.
& _that_ is disgusting. & continues. duckduckgo.com/?q=maddie+de+garay&t=newext&atb=v290-1&ia=web.
Because when Daddy-Government tells us something is safe & reality says otherwise, we blame reality. *_&_* its victims. & yes, no need to tell me you never wanted the conversation to go here. Except, well, for Maddie's sake it *needs* to go there. How long are we going to protect corporate interests over people who need protection _from_ billionaires who only want more $? Until we address the issues like responsible adults.
Which will not be until after we stop ignoring them.
I wonder what Lynn Swann thinks about Drew Pearson being excluded from the Hall of Fame.
If Pearson was able to break away during "The Catch" game in 81', would have been greater than Alvin Harper in 92' . Emergence of Tony Hill as the number 1 receiver back in the late 70's, early 80's just about kills Pearson's case for the HOF.
Lynn swan said drew Pearson shouldn’t be in hall of fame. He said the drunk driving incident where he killed his baby brother is the main reason he can’t be in hall of fame. I think lynn also mentioned his stats don’t hold up either. Lynn is a Christian man and said drew didn’t hold up those values whenever that means. Seems self righteous to me but lynn knew Drew’s brother so there ya go
I hope Swannie laughs his ass off every time anybody mentions "Boo Hoo" Pearson in the same breath with him. Damn some statistics and that overrated "Hail Mary." Lynn Swann was the man of the moment more often than not, and people don't even realize what a great game he played in Super Bowl XIII.
Swann's thought: "Better him than me."
Jerry Rice played when the rule change made it possible to have the receptions he did and even the league had changed, by the time he ended his career.
Image A Rookie Joe Namath / Dan Marino And Yes Terry Bradshaw would have had different results.
Lynn Swann is the greatest receiver ever! He made catches in Super Bowls for touchdowns that Rice couldn't even make in his sleep.
Rice was great, but Swann is better. Receivers know.
Terry was very accurate, especially in the clutch when it counted the most. Swanny made some great catches but none of them would've been made without the original TB12 putting it where it had to be. Swann was MVP of SBX with only 4 catches, and his 4th and final catch of that day came on the receiving end of one of the greatest throws in SB history. Let respect be shown.
Terry was probably best deep thrower ever in money time , ne fan
@@leodrosia4369 I agree! Who else even comes to mind? No one.
He should be way more respectful to Bradshaw, Terry helped make Lynn who he was.
@@danielevans9379 Absolutely!
Charles Barkley is the guy who spit it on folks
Bradshaw had a much stronger arm than Montana.
That’s all about evolution of the passing games. The use of route depth with drop depth and timing. Swann can speak on Terry’s accuracy but Terry could speak on more consistent and sharper route running by Rice. But that came down to style and approach. The West Coast offense used the most precise route running requirements ever while the Steelers didn’t have the same attention to detail in its requirements because they really hadn’t been invented yet.
He's got a point!
Swan was amazing
GOAT 🐐🐐🐐
Who made who. Did Swann and Stalworth make Bradshaw or did Bradshaw make them with all those crappy throws?
They made each other. Trust me, of all the other Steeler quarterbacks of that era, only the late Joe Gilliam could throw the ball with Bradshaw. His downfall on the field was at least partially because he was too pass happy, which led to more mistakes, but Terry Hanratty, Mike Kruczek, Cliff Stoudt, and Mark Malone could not deliver the ball to them consistently, and only they could consistently bail Bradshaw out of his occasionally errant throws. Jim Smith was a notch below them.
@@TheSenegato Sorry,look at Stallworth with Malone.
Joe Buck is just an outstanding interviewer. I love this podcast.
lol comeon swanny, RIce is the GOAT!
I just watched an 18 minute vid on Swann n Stallworth And Bradshaw was very accurate with his passes .. .even the ones where he was getting hit as he passed .
Those were"Highlights"?
@@mcdonoghrahloh459 Lol!
Notice the articulateness and cerebral perceptiveness of Lynn Swann. This is indicative of many NFL players of his era. Today's typical, gridiron knuckle dragger can hardly assemble a coherent sentence.
During his time you had many more student athletes -- Broadyway Joe, OJ, Swann, Stallworth, Merlin Olson, Bob Trumpy, Irv Cross, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Marcus Allen, etc.,, -- As whole today people in general are dumber so this is not surprising because of technology. I am sure all of the above could use a MAP and chart a course to a destination.
Flip Side: What if Terry Bradshaw had a Jerry Rice or Randy Moss
Swann was kind of the Moss of his day honestly. If you watch old games commentators talk about him like he was pretty widely considered the best at the time. I've talked to older guys who say the same thing. He was fast, could jump high, great control on sideline catches, and had amazing hands.
People talk bad about his production but the 70s steelers had so many viable offensive options to use any given game. He was used as the circus catch, deep threat, touchdown guy and he did fantastic at it despite very often being the guy the defense chose to double cover.
Huh? You’re not gonna find a better combo than Swann and Stallworth. Not to mention Franco Harris, Bleier, Fuqua, decent TEs. Bradshaw had tons of weapons and a good line too
@@jefffawcett I could argue the same for Bradshaw. You may bring up some quarterback playing today but could they take the punishment that QB's like Bradshaw had to endure in those days?
lonemapper I don’t know what you’re attempting to argue, you made it sound like Bradshaw would’ve been better if he had better wide receivers I’m pointing out that he had great wide receivers. The Steelers were my favorite team, I didn’t miss a TV game of theirs for years. Bradshaw is a deserving HOF QB, just like half of their team was. Bradshaw was a monster and as tough as they come but nobody ever claimed he was as accurate as a Montana or Brady or Brees.
@@jefffawcett Did he have this kind of talent to work with? Look what the great Tom Brady could do this past year without the talent. Swan is criticizing Bradshaw for not being as accurate as a Montana but maybe Swan wasn't as great as Jerry Rice or Larry Fitzgerald or Randy Moss. I'm not arguing anything but considering this as a possibility for his "inaccuracy"
Steve young was not that accurate
Joe green isn't in the top ten defensive tackles
Bs. He's the no.1 defensive tackle of all time
Greene helped his team become a winner...4 Super Bowls in 6 years. What has Aaron Donald done for the Rams?
@@patwhite8106 dam right 👍🏾
Todays game is about the players brand, not the team. Fantasy football killed the game we loved. Now it’s a punks game. Posing and dancing, the game today is all about scoring. Defenses have their hands tied. My son didn’t even know what having alligator arms meant.