His rookie year around game 6 week i was at the mall shopping with my wife. She went into a ladies shop looking at clothes and I stayed out front leaning up against the wall. I looked to my right and standing beside me was a big guy in sweat pants that said Las Vegas on them. I looked him in the face and realized it was Ickey Woods. I started to say something and he quickly put his finger over his lips to say suzzz. I smiled and left him alone and when his girl came out he turned and said " Thanks, Merry Christmas" and left.
Jonas Gray, Running Back for the New England Patriots. Week 11, 2014 vs. Colts. He ran for 199 yards and 4 touchdowns landing him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Their next game he was benched for missing a team meeting during the week, then relegated to backup when the Patriots resigned LeGarrette Blount. Gray was then released the next year. He finished his career with 5 touchdowns, all of them during the 2014 season, and 4 of them in one game.
Orange Fox True. Whenever somebody leaves New England they seem to fall off the map. Malcolm Butler’s had an ok career, but he’s really only known for one play. And Danny Amendola hasn’t done much since he left either.
@@3rdDrawerDown Danny could've been solid in Dallas if they had used him right ugh. Deion Branch. Jamie Collins. I'd have to go over a large list. A lot of guys were good there and then not good everywhere else.
I watch this video every year just for the Tommy Maddox segment. Truly an amazing story. Then collegiate overachiever comes out early only to fail. Except he had a hunger, a dawg, in him and only rose back up to win an NFL playoff game after a tremendous season. Beautiful redemption story.
I bumped into Icky Woods at the Ohio State Fair and he didn't act like he played a single down in the league.......very personable and down to earth....
Greg Cook was just amazing. That guy had everything. Ideal size, great arm, accuracy, escapability. One of the few first year QB's who could go to his second and third options if the first guy was covered. He took a team that was pretty bad and had them thinking they could win every game. I really think he would have been one of the top five ever. What a long passer he was.
Clint Longley was Danny McBride playing Kenny Powers before the show was even thought of. How do we not have a skit of Clint Longley listening to his own motivational tapes in his truck after that Redskins game and then punching out Staubach? Phenomenal
Clint Longley was my 2nd least favorite player on this list (behind only Rob Johnson, who barely qualifies at all because...what WAS his one-hit, winning a meaningless Week 16 game for Jacksonville when they rested Mark Brunell ahead of the playoffs?) but I was relieved a few years ago when a reporter confirmed the guy was still alive.
Here's one: Chris Matthews in Super Bowl XLIX for Seattle. He caught 4 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown against the Patriots, and was frustrating New England enough that they started using Revis to cover him. Didn't do a damn thing after that game lol
To me the Percy Howard story is incredible. An undrafted free agent for the Cowboys in 75 he never played college football. He hadn't played football since high school! He hardly got a look in during his rookie season and played almost exclusively on special teams. His first ever (and last ever) catch in the NFL is a touchdown in the Super Bowl and on the penultimate play he has a great chance to catch the Hail Mary that the Steelers defenders miss and then watch bounce off Howard's helmet. After this game injury ruins what career he could have had but his cameo in Super Bowl 10 is nothing short of remarkable. It's a bit sad to me that his name is not as well known as it should be as this is one of the great Super Bowl stories.
@@YakeTalkSports he had a good run before on the Broncos, before Peyton Manning came back. He then got four year 72 million dollar contract and he barely won games, and the players quit on him.
Wade Phillips is the perfect example of an amazing assistant coach who is the best when he's just dealing with that one aspect of the game. Too many assistant coaches become head coaches biting off more than they can chew.
People forget this, but Larry Brown made some huge interceptions during his career in Dallas - not just in Super Bowl XXX. As a matter of fact he made the game changing interception to get there in the 1995 NFC Championship against Favre and the Packers.
He was a solid number two corner in a zone scheme and it’s pretty debatable whether he should still be on this list compared to guys like David Tyree and Malcom Smith
He and Alvin Harper have interestingly simaler career arcs. Both had success in Dallas as a number two option behind a Hall of Famer, both got paid big money to be a number one option somewhere else, and both failed to live up to expectations.
@@TheRealRMG Brown and Harper aside, and they were not game changers, someone please tell me what makes Sanders and Irvin so special. Cocaine? Both are complete scumbags. Something at least Harper and Brown cannot say. Irvin especially, I see that thug ramble on on the NFL network, and I change the channel. What a couple of pieces of crap
What I like about this list (and it's a terrific overall Top 10 presentation) is how it shows there are a lot of legitimate ways an NFL player could be a one-hit wonder. Some of these guys had decent and unspectacular careers and rose to the spectacular moment when it mattered most, like Mike Jones and Larry Brown. Some of them were terrific talents who were robbed by injuries, like Preston Howard and Greg Cook (G-d I felt terrible for Cook, who did nothing wrong and could do nothing to save his career). And yes, some of these players were exposed as frauds, like Rob Johnson and Clint Longley. Different in so many ways except that their stars shone supernova-bright and then imploded into complete darkness.
I agree about Cook so much. I had never heard of him! And I've followed football closely for over 30 years. I wish I had known of him. As his segment starts, with everyone saying he could have been one of the greats, you're like "ya ya, let's see". Sure enough, I see what they meant. Such a shame. Injuries robbed so many people of their talent. Me included :(
That set that franchise back a bit. They had Virgil Carter (The first great BYU quarterback) who was decent, but they had to wait for Kenny Anderson to develop. It took them 13 years to get to their initial Super Bowl.
Helped that Bill Walsh was the OC. If Paul Brown hadn't been passed by by the changes in the game when he finally retired, Walsh would have been Bengals coach instead of Bill Johnson, and no one would ever have heard of Joe Montana. Oh, and the Atlanta Falcons wouldn't have had to fire Leeman Bennett, since SF wouldn't have become a dynasty in their division. Cook's injury was a small hinge on a big door.
Greg Cook was an amazing player but unfortunately had his career cut short by injury. If there were the same surgical techniques and rehab routines like there are today he could've been a first ballot hall of famer
Probably taking Trumpy with him. Notice on those clips who is catching a lot of those passes (Trumpy was number 84). Bradshaw (who was top overall pick in '70) and Cook would have had some kind of duels in the 70s as they were very similar QBs and would play twice a year in the AFC Central..Bengals also got Issac Curtis in the early 70s who was their top WR for years.
Maybe if Greg Cook never gets injured: maybe Bill Walsh never leaves Cincinnati and the 49ers dynasty probably never happens: by the 70s Walsh was already running elements of the West Coast offense or as Belichick calls it the Ohio River offense with the Bengals and was known to give the Steel Curtain fits; a lot of What Ifs without question
There was a previous upload of this and back in early 2017 I commented that Nick Foles was a big one shot wonder. He had that fantastic 2013 season, tied the record for TD passes, and then was basically out of the league a year and a half later. And then that Super Bowl run happened, and then he rescued the Eagles again a year later. Looks like he's a 3 shot wonder now lol
🤣🤣🤣 Hahaha. They'd been better off with Doug Flutie instead of Rob Johnson. The Bills continued looking for a QB until Josh Allen (at least he's playing like the QB they've been looking for since Jim Kelly retired in February 1997).
Its so crazy to think that just back in 2002 Tommy Maddox's 3,000 yards and 20 TD's was considered an aerial assault. QB's get cut for those numbers now 😂👀
Harry Engel .... Bettis was splitting time by then. Considering that it was a Bill Cower Steelers team, that year was ABSOLUTELY a pass heavy offense comparatively
MikeDixonComedy.... 3000 yards and 20 TD were HUGE numbers for a Steelers QB. We were SO quarterback starved after Bradshaw retired in '83 that we thought Bubby F'n Bristers 2700 yards 20td -14int made him Joe Montana, THEN we had Neil O'Donnells 2970 17-7 which made him the 2nd coming!! After Kordell wasted one of the best defenses in history and a prime Bettis with some of the worst qb play EVER, Maddux's play was the best we'd seen in 20 years and it wasn't close. If not for Ben, Maddux would have had statues built for him in Pittsburgh
You also have to realize that it was with Pittsburg. While Bill Cowher wasn’t Chuck Noll, he was still a conservative coach. Heck, today, Mike Tomlin isn’t wide open offensively. Even in their last Super Bowl win, an option pass from Antwann Randel-El might have been their key offensive play. My point is, for Pittsburg, those numbers were wide open, especially for that time. At that point, 3000 yards was still a big deal and anything above 20 touchdowns was a pretty good year, so with a run first franchise, that year was a passing bonanza.
He had 16 picks too. I saw something the other day that 02 and those early 2000s like 15 teams had qbs with double digit ints and now the efficiency is so much better there were maybe 6 or 7 I think in either 2019 or 2020 I don't remember the exact years they used.
@@vernalgrenier3369 lol I live in missoula, hes a local legend here. Only handful of players here made to nfl but he is prob the most locally known. Hally turkey day to all also :)
Man I feel like this show would really thrive nowadays, since it basically predicted/predated the "Listicle" wave of entertainment that would come to conquer media for a while. There are so many unused ideas for lists they could do and it's been long enough that they could totally go through with a *huge* revamp of several of these old ones. Just think of the many one shot wonders we've seen in the last fifteen years or so: Peyton Hillis, Jonas Gray, Chris Mathews (Seahawks receiver in SB 49), Jimmy Garapolo, RG3, Chip Kelly (I realize you could arguably debate this one, but he only made the Playoffs one time), Matt Flynn, Mitch Trubusky, Doug Marrone, Case Keenum, Joseph Fauria...And so many more
@@Aramis262 TL,DR: Yeah in the time since my comment he has continued to be more and more consistent. I'm actually pulling for him to finish strong and for his career to truck on for a few more years! And when I listed him I was just running off the first few names that came to mind, plenty of others more deserving of being called a One Shot Full/overlong thoughts: Yeah he's definitely having something of a "bounce back" season, though he's still kind of unruly when it comes to season-long performance/consistency. His play has ranged from *strong* to *head scratching* week to week. I'd love to see him pull it all together, for a variety of reasons. Above all I never wish for an athlete (Or anyone) to have their career/potential derailed by injury, but particularly with Jimmy G I think he's a fun personality that's easy to root for and the flashes he showed in his early starts were quite strong. He has intermittently displayed both the arm talent and mental game needed to be a Top 10 QB in the league, he's just never really put it all together for a full season outside of 2019 Again, there's certainly been some outside influence there between injuries and occasionally uncharacteristically befuddling leadership/playcalling from Shanahan (Who I also like), *but* Jimmy G has also consistently sandwiched his top level performances between truly bench-level play. Im guessing it's at least a little bit in his head which would reflect in his increasing comfort as the season goes on (And he gets further from an off-season that saw his replacement drafted 3rd overall) showing in the overall increasing level of play from him. He's still showed some head slappers, but in the time since my initial comment it looks more and more like he'll finish strong maybe with a showing in the Playoffs From there who knows. I'm sure a team like the Browns or maybe even WFT would jump on him. But, yeah, he has at least escaped being a one shot wonder lol
IMO: Greg Cook and Bo Jackson are the biggest "What if's" as individual players in history of the NFL. Bo being one of the most gifted runners ever. (If he focused soley on football of course) We could be talking about him surpassing Jim Brown as the best running back and having the all the time rushing record. Greg Cook who had the talent and intangibles to be the greatest quarterback ever. He may have reached heights that Joe Montana didn't. NFL history could've looked a lot different if these two guys were not robbed by injuries.
If Greg Cook wouldn't have gotten injured then the Bengals wouldn't be such a laughingstock. They probably would have a superbowl or 2. He was a talented QB with a rifle arm lost to a torn rotator cuff and the primative surgical equipment of the 70's.
Back then the arthroscope hadn't been invented yet so surgeries that now would be minimally invasive were ridiculously invasive. It was like let's take this out, let's saw that, how about a screw maybe two here
Greg Cook’s story is tragic. You can blame the Chiefs if you want but injuries like that could’ve happened and the medical technology was not advanced enough to help Cook. If they did try to have surgery his elbow would have been destroyed beyond belief back then
Eh, Bengals always say this but they had an arguably HOF level QB in Ken Anderson for much of the 70s and he led them to a Superbowl in 81 (they lost). They had Boomer Esiason and Sam Wyche at Coach, and one of the Top WRs of the 80s in Collingsworth and they went to the Superbowl in 88 (they lost). They were the worst team in the 90s and early 00s but since 03 they've had a string of talented QBs, and WRs (Palmer, Dalton, and now Burrows) Cook's throwing motion being similar to Bradshaw is not evidence they'd have been the team of the 70s, Bradshaw was not the reason the Steelers won 4 Superbowls. Having something like 7 HOFers on the Steel Curtain Defense was.
Ur awesome man, Keep the top 10s coming I’m loving them during the quarantine!!! Cud u pls try to find gunslingers, CB tandems , comebacks, and curses lol keep doing ur thing man!!
I have watched this video several times. I am truly happy that these players got to shine even at least for a brief time with the exception of Jim O’Brien because I am a Cowboy fan. LOL !! But at least they all got their moment in the sun. I am also truly saddened that some of these men made some catastrophic and disastrous choices later on after their big moments that had extremely negative and adverse effects on their lives. And I wonder what ever became of Clint Longly and just how Greg Cook’s career would have turned out if he had been able to stay healthy ?
Longley was stuck behind Staubach-no way he is dislodging number 12 in Dallas, plus he punched his ticket out of Dallas literally by fighting Captain America #dumbmove
Well done. First, the amazing thing about Cook and that first season was that the Bengals were an expansion team yet they made the playoffs. Now, as a Cowboys fan, I have interest in 30% of your entries. First, Percy Howard nearly catching the winning pass in Super Bowl 10.confirms what I said about the Steelers-Cowboys Super Bowl rivalry. To this point, the Steelers are ahead 2-1, but it is much closer than that. The Cowboys are +2 overall in point differential for those games. We won once by ten and Pittsburg won twice by 4 with us throwing into the end zone at the End of each loss. The Clint Longley selection brings up 2 points. First, that game was the initial flash of the late game playmaking ability of Drew Pearson. Second, Clint Longley got dumped for two reasons. You didn’t do that to Roger in Dallas and, they now had Danny White to replace him since the WFL had folded. Finally, Larry Brown was very serviceable the year he won the Super Bowl MVP. I was disappointed he chose to go to free agency but he lost perspective. Anyone who played opposite Deion was going to get plenty of chances to make big plays. Plus Neil O’Donnell gave him two gifts. I loved it, but I still don’t know what Neil saw when he let those balls go. It was obvious there was miscommunication, but it was apparent from the start of each play. Things weren’t going to get corrected, so go to another receiver, run, or take the sack. But, in the end. Thank you, Neil O’Donnell.
Scott Mitchell was a good Quarterback for the lions 🦁 in 1995 Threw for over 4K yards & 32 touchdowns Led the lions 🦁 to the playoffs that year also Pretty much a one year wonder
Also had the NCAA record for passing yards in a game (705) for awhile, breaking a record I watched set in Ohio Stadium in a loss by Dave Wilson of Illinois (625 yards).
He’s a textbook pick for this list. Only reason the lions gave him a big contract in FA was cause he played great for the Dolphins the year before when Marino was hurt.
I agree. Cook was a tragedy he doesn't really belong on the list because he had talent to be more than 1 shot wonder compared to the others on the list maybe with 1 or 2 players as exceptions but Cook was in a class of his own. The problem was the injury it ruined him on the field and off it. The league would be different if he played and showed the potential that people believed he had. Mind you it was injury that could be fixed now compared to back them when no one knew how fix or even find it. R.I.P Greg Cook
Maybe, but he was really damn good. Led the AFL in passer rating by 10 points his rookie year. I think it's a matter of preference, but I think that guys who either have the Larry Brown kind of experience who get overvalued or the Greg Cook "what if" scenario are feasible one-shot wonders. What don't really qualify for me is the Mike Jones/David Tyree type.
I crack up when NFL Films plays the soundbite from Darrell Green about how he didn't remember seeing Timmy Smith again after that season and Super Bowl 22. Smith started 8 games at running back the next season in 1988. Granted that's not much, but it included 100 yard games against the Giants and Eagles, which at last check weren't defenses that sucked, and were much better than the Broncos. Clearly the O-Line was great, and he never lived up to any hype or repeating the Super Bowl, but you'd think Darrell Green might at least possibly/maybe/kinda remember a guy who he practiced against when the 1st Team D faced the 1st Team O 6 months after you won the Super Bowl.
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I agree Greg Cook healthy helps the Bengals to a winning franchise
Perfect that Trumpy is talking about Cook right before a highlight where Cook rifles one to Trumpy (84) against the Oilers for a TD. You wonder not only how great Cook could have been but what Trumpy's numbers would have been as a TE with a healthy Cook. Not to mention Paul Brown would almost have HAD to name Bill Walsh as HC when Brown retired in the mid 70s and you'd have the West Coast offense in Cincy.
Ickey Woods: "I'm 40, now & I don't do 'The Ickey Shuffle', anymore, dude...". (**GEICO commercial shows Ickey Woods doing 'The Ickey Shuffle' in a supermarket, many years later.**.). Me: "So much for that...".
Here’s another one shot wonder: Jerome Harrison. Was a backup for the Browns for the first 3 seasons. Then in 2009, he rushed for 286 yards and 3 TDs late in the season (could’ve had a shot at 300 yards). Then nothing after that
Jerome Harrison should be on this list from a back up HB to a game with 280 plus yards just return to Earth after one other solid game never again repeating the same level of success that he found momentarily early on.
Damn Rashaad Salaam, I was too young to remember if he was good or not in Chicago, just his name was in the paper or news 24/7. Of course not for beating his lady in an elevator or jumping a delivery truck driver.... at least I don't think so
@@redwingsfan3621 Winslow was 80s - was a rookie in 1979 - and had a better QB throwing to him. With a little rearranging of events, Trumpy might have been remembered as Dwight Clark is.
Robert Griffin III. He was a one-shot wonder for the Washington Commanders in 2012, Took Command in his rookie year to a 10-6 finish guiding them to the 2012 NFL playoffs. And got a Pro Bowl selection that same year.
THEY SHOULD'VE WON THE GAME ANYWAY, THEY LOST ON A QUESTIONABLE PLAY...DOUG FLUTIE COULDN'T EVEN WIN THE TWO PLAYOFF GAMES HE DID START...HE'S A NICE GUY BUT HE SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE CFL, WHERE HE WAS AN AMAZING QUARTERBACK.
@@mrtnt3462 LOL!! WHen he came too the Bills he was 36 years old and had a 21-9 W-L record in his 3 seasons in Buffalo. In the one playoff game he played in for the bills he threw for 360 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT vs Marino. Flutie was a leader and brought a winning attitude. Rob Johnson cant hold a candle to him.
I would’ve added David Tyree. Made arguably the greatest catch and SB play of all time in Super Bowl 42, as well as the Giants’ first touchdown, and that was the last catch of his career. He was cut and picked up by the Ravens, where he did virtually nothing of note.
Maybe because it was just one play, but that was the key play in a monumental game, where New England went from the alltime record to just holding the regular season record and ending 17-1. Incidentally, Tyree did make a few big catches now and again over the next few years, but never anything quite that big again.
There's a little bit of Dave Cook in all of us. Unlike the other players on the list, he was more honored as a one shot wonder because the guy was really good. I plan to read about him a bit more because he played way before I was born. It's a sad story. What could have been.
Matt Flynn would be a good one if they re-did this list now. He was like the Rob Johnson of the 2010s....Started the last game of the 2011 season, played really well, got a big new contract from Seattle to be the starter, then lost the job to Russell Wilson, and was basically then a backup for the rest of his career.
Flynn was very much like the Rob Johnson of the 2010’s, only unlike Buffalo, Seattle gave the reigns to the player who played better without much hesitation, even though they paid the other player a significant contract.
@@fortynights1513 Yep. I remember Pete Carroll got killed at the time by the media for choosing Russell Wilson over Flynn, but he was right all along. But yeah, Matt Flynn really did get rich off one game, much like Rob Johnson did.
He was a tragedy he doesn't really belong on the list because he had talent to be more than 1 shot wonder compared to the others on the list maybe with 1 or 2 players as exceptions but Cook was in a class of his own. the problem was the injury it ruined him on the field and off it. The league would be different if he played and showed the potential that people believed he had. Mind you it was injury that could be fixed now compared to back them when no one knew how fix or even find it.
Yeah he had solid numbers for that era. He probably would have had a pretty good career. He led the AFL/AFC in Passer Rating in his rookie year by almost ten points.
I have one that might work if they redo it - Paul Justin for the Colts in '97. They played the Packers (the defending Super Bowl champions) one week, and were 0-10 coming in. Justin went 24/30 for 340 yards, and the Colts upset the Packers 41-38 for their first win of the year. Justin was a third string QB for the '99 Rams behind Warner and Green, and got his Super Bowl ring that year. For his career, Justin threw for 2,614 yards, eight TD passes, and ten INT. He had much better success in NFL Europe, winning the championship with Frankfurt in 1995, and was MVP of the championship game.
Update needed for Jonas Gray, rb for the 2013 Patriots. Just watched a video about him. One massive 210 yard 4 td game. Then his charger wasn't plugged into the wall. So his phone died and he missed his alarm. Missed practice/meetings and Belichick never really used him again. They then picked up Lagarette Blount and it was over for em.
Honorable mention: Charles Rogers (2nd overall pick 2003) Us Lions fans were drooling after his first game. It was absolutely incredible! Also struggled with addiction. RIP 🙏
I don't know that I'd call Larry Brown a one shot wonder. He came up big in a few conference title games. (Including picking off Brett Favre to seal the deal in the '95 NFC Championship game.)
and he generally had a solid 5 year run as a starter on the Cowboys. then he signed his big free agent deal and got injured and never came back to form. But I think that's actually a very, verrrry normal NFL player type story and not worthy of mention on this list. I think it got boosted in importance b/c of the SB performance AND the launch of free agency right after that so he was one of the prominent players to be available and got some media attention at the time, so it kinda inflates things in the grand scheme and rankers compiling this list back in like 06/07 would have been more familiar w/ that than we would be now
I wouldnt put Carter up there...Cook actually showcased what he could do over a whole season..I think Carter got injured in his 1st preseason game? even when he did play for Cincy, it wasnt like he put up great numbers, so we really dont know if he would have been a bust or an all time great
@@carsonc29 Yes, Carter got hurt in his first preseason game. Of course, that knee injury prevented him from putting up great numbers. What made him great in college, the quickness, cutback ability, was gone. At that time too, there was the thought that Penn St. RB's don't do well in the NFL. After Curt Warner-who had a great rookie year, tore his knee up and was pretty good the rest of his career, a few Penn St RB's who came after him were busts in the NFL- DJ Dozier and Blair Thomas-take #2 overall, ahead of Emmitt Smith!
Except he never got the chance to fail. I never really understood why Elway didnt keep him and let him learn from Manning. They have been a turn style at QB since Manning left and none of them could play as good as Tebow did as a raw rookie. Politics I guess.
@@mahmoud6843 Anyone who lived through "Tebow Mania" knows what you're talking about. Manning could've put the greatest numbers ever, won every game, and you'd still have characters demanding Tebow take over as QB.........
Seeing Jim O'Brien as number 9 on the list and being a WR at Univ. of Cincy-likely caught some passes from number 1 on the list (Greg Cook) as O'Brien entered the NFL only 1 year after Cook.
I think O’Brien was already on another team the next year after his winning kick. I remember having a football card for him the next year or 2 later with the Lions.
@@craighenry2351 O’Brien had a decent year in ‘71 for Colts, then the whole team (including Unitas) got purged in ‘72. That was likely when O’B went to Lions.
Doug Williams was a great qb. He played a great super bowl. It was nice to see him get a ton of redemption. As far as Timmy Smith goes...stupid is as stupid does.
Jamal Anderson had a great running year with the ATL Falcons in 1998 ⁉⬛🏈He had some unfortunate injuries right after that season and was never the same..The Falcons won the NFC in 1998 and played in Super Bowl XXXIII at MIami,FL..🌇
I have a question about #9, I noticed that Johnny Unitas was the Colts starting quarterback for Super Bowl V while Earl Morrall was the backup despite being NFL MVP a few years prior. Did Morrall get injured and just lose out on the starting job?
Unitas had been the starter but was hurt in 1968, allowing Morrall to lead the Colts to Super Bowl III. Once Unitas was healthy in 1969, he reclaimed the starter's job.
I'd put Timmy Smith #1. Because his story involves a Superbowl record that with how the league has developed, will likely never be broken. I mean from 2000 onward, the closest someone has gotten to Smith was Michael Pittman in SB 37 when he put up 124 yards rushing. And that was the year 2002. And digging even further, from 2000 onward only seven players total have even hit the 100 yard rushing mark in a Superbowl. Jamal Lewis in SB 35, Michael Pittman in SB 37, Dominic Rhodes in SB 41, Thomas Jones in SB 41, Frank Gore in SB 47, Marshawn Lynch in SB 49, and Damien Williams in SB 54.
People who make lists of unbreakable records usually never mention Timmy Smith’s Super Bowl rushing record, but it is indeed likely unbreakable. Not just because most runners in recent years haven’t come close, but also because most teams don’t center their schemes on running the ball to pass later, and most running games don’t have one running back getting the bulk of the carries. An honest list of unbreakable NFL records should be filled with volume rushing records.
@@fortynights1513 Exactly. The closest anyone in general has gotten to Smith's record was Terrell Davis in SB 32. He had 157 yds on the ground. But he got the bulk of teams carries all season. And as you said, teams don't really do that anymore. They split things up with two, sometimes three backs. Unless someone just ridiculously goes off whenever they touch the ball, this record isn't gonna be broken.
They briefly mentioned the Drew Brees injury and surgery...I have always thought if they ever did one of these top 10s that covered something like single team decisions that changed the league....the Drew Brees situation is one that changed the most ever. Just think if the medical staff in Miami, with head coach Nick Saban...had agreed that Brees would recover and they should sign him. IF...they had done that...just how much different would and could both Saturday and Sunday look?? Saban likely would have won games in Miami...while that may not have promised him a long tenure there...it would have made more teams interested and offering....plus, Brees does not go to New Orleans...that changes the trajectory of that team for a decade or more...Saban staying in the NFL would have Saturdays looking seriously different, and perhaps an entirely different legacy in Alabama. That one little decision cause things that no one would ever see to change....for years to come. How different would Miami have looked if they had gotten Brees...how different would things be in N.O.? How different would Saturdays look if you take everything Saban has done at Bama away? Hell, nationwide recruiting would be completely different. Who knows what colleges would be where today. One great class that wins a title can change the way up and coming kids look at your program for at least a generation. I usually do not do what ifs....but, this situation has always made me wonder. I bet Miami still does not like those doctors.....lol
They did. They never answered that question of if Brees played for the Dolphins. Chances are if the Dolphins didnt panic on Brees, the Saints wouldn’t have stayed in N O after Katrina.
If this was updated I'd have added WR Kris Matthews of Seahawks. In 2014 NFC Title Game that recovered onside kick and then in Super Bowl 49 had 100 yard game and TD.
“I’d rather have a small Flutie than a big Johnson” has got to be the best sign I’ve ever seen at a football game.
FACTS!!!
ROBOSACK!!!
You've not seen many football signs then
I’ve got a huge Johnson
Can't stand Sheffter.
Ickey Woods was reborn with the GEICO commercials a few years back. Get some coldcuts, get some coldcuts, get some coldcuts.........wooooooo
🤣 I remember that corny commercial hahaha.
His rookie year around game 6 week i was at the mall shopping with my wife. She went into a ladies shop looking at clothes and I stayed out front leaning up against the wall. I looked to my right and standing beside me was a big guy in sweat pants that said Las Vegas on them. I looked him in the face and realized it was Ickey Woods. I started to say something and he quickly put his finger over his lips to say suzzz. I smiled and left him alone and when his girl came out he turned and said
" Thanks, Merry Christmas" and left.
I can't believe these videos are about 15-16 years old. Love watching these top 10 videos. Time flies by.
It was peak nfl network before all the stupid corny shows they have on now
They gotta do an updated one
I wish they would bring it back but honestly not a lot of people even watch cable tv anymore so I don’t think they’d even bother
@@Thrashman-ye4cf yeah I pretty much watch TH-cam instead of TV.
@@mrsinister8943There's an "NFL Throwback" TH-cam channel with a bunch of old games and other stuff
Jonas Gray, Running Back for the New England Patriots. Week 11, 2014 vs. Colts. He ran for 199 yards and 4 touchdowns landing him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Their next game he was benched for missing a team meeting during the week, then relegated to backup when the Patriots resigned LeGarrette Blount. Gray was then released the next year. He finished his career with 5 touchdowns, all of them during the 2014 season, and 4 of them in one game.
They should just make number 1: Belichick football players, because I’ve seen so many of them over the years.
Orange Fox True. Whenever somebody leaves New England they seem to fall off the map. Malcolm Butler’s had an ok career, but he’s really only known for one play. And Danny Amendola hasn’t done much since he left either.
@@3rdDrawerDown Danny could've been solid in Dallas if they had used him right ugh.
Deion Branch. Jamie Collins. I'd have to go over a large list. A lot of guys were good there and then not good everywhere else.
the patriots could start me at running back against the colts and id probably put up 150 yards and 3 tds
@@familyguyfreemoviedownload8314 I bet you wouldn't even get 10 yards even if they gave you the ball every play.
I watch this video every year just for the Tommy Maddox segment. Truly an amazing story. Then collegiate overachiever comes out early only to fail. Except he had a hunger, a dawg, in him and only rose back up to win an NFL playoff game after a tremendous season. Beautiful redemption story.
He can always call himself a champion too. Even though a young Big Ben played, he (Tommy) WAS part of the team.
A great segment in a great episode
David Tyree has to be up there on this list
Pretty much known for the helmet catch and that's it.
If they'd had done it after 07 he probably be at #1 instead of Greg Cook
I think he’s more tied with Percy Howard. Cook is a guy who should’ve been a HOFer if not for injury.
@@hammerheadsportsproduction1282 Not sure about that, definitely in the top 3 or 5
@@orangefox1231 I agree
I bumped into Icky Woods at the Ohio State Fair and he didn't act like he played a single down in the league.......very personable and down to earth....
He seems like a cool guy on this video
Greg Cook was just amazing. That guy had everything. Ideal size, great arm, accuracy, escapability. One of the few first year QB's who could go to his second and third options if the first guy was covered. He took a team that was pretty bad and had them thinking they could win every game. I really think he would have been one of the top five ever. What a long passer he was.
I'd argue that Cook wasn't a One-Shot Wonder. He's a What Could've Been.
Greg Cook was amazing! RIP!!
@@Tyrunner0097 A Torn Rotator Cuff ruined his potential HOF CAREER
@Joe Brrr 🐅 JEFF GEORGE!!!!!
The original RG3. Amazing talent ruined by injuries.
Ronnie lott knocked the shuffle out of icky woods. That was a big-time hit early in the SB.
😂😂😂😂
too good 😂.
A more recent one hit wonder would have to be Peyton Hillis, went from no one to madden cover, then he just seemed to disappear!
He was such a beast that year. They shoulda just paid the man.
The Juice Why? He’d never come close to what he was 😂
@@salamisumo2 because of a knee injury lol the man was a beast even in Denver you could tell he would be good if he got the ball more
KTO did a great video about him, check it out!
What's funny is, this was made right before Peyton's breakout year
Clint Longley was Danny McBride playing Kenny Powers before the show was even thought of. How do we not have a skit of Clint Longley listening to his own motivational tapes in his truck after that Redskins game and then punching out Staubach? Phenomenal
Clint Longley was my 2nd least favorite player on this list (behind only Rob Johnson, who barely qualifies at all because...what WAS his one-hit, winning a meaningless Week 16 game for Jacksonville when they rested Mark Brunell ahead of the playoffs?) but I was relieved a few years ago when a reporter confirmed the guy was still alive.
Here's one: Chris Matthews in Super Bowl XLIX for Seattle. He caught 4 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown against the Patriots, and was frustrating New England enough that they started using Revis to cover him.
Didn't do a damn thing after that game lol
I think it was Browner who started covering him
He also recovered the onside kick in the nfc championship game that year.
Ooh good one. Youre almost right he was covered by Browner
To me the Percy Howard story is incredible. An undrafted free agent for the Cowboys in 75 he never played college football. He hadn't played football since high school! He hardly got a look in during his rookie season and played almost exclusively on special teams. His first ever (and last ever) catch in the NFL is a touchdown in the Super Bowl and on the penultimate play he has a great chance to catch the Hail Mary that the Steelers defenders miss and then watch bounce off Howard's helmet. After this game injury ruins what career he could have had but his cameo in Super Bowl 10 is nothing short of remarkable. It's a bit sad to me that his name is not as well known as it should be as this is one of the great Super Bowl stories.
@qa Qa The heck you just copy and pasted this from a comment above and had nothing to do with Chris Matthews here? 😂
Brock Osweiler should definitely be on this list if they ever redo it.
I came down to comment exactly this and saw yours! Bill Obrien should've been fired years ago for that contract
Chris Ivory Or Martavius Bryant
Why?
@@YakeTalkSports he had a good run before on the Broncos, before Peyton Manning came back. He then got four year 72 million dollar contract and he barely won games, and the players quit on him.
@@JChung407 bro he got benched before the playoffs cause he started to play like dogshit. Homie had like 3 good games
Welp, The Greg Cook story makes me want to cry myself to sleep.
Greg Cook, David Klingler, Carson Palmer... ruining promising quarterbacks seems to be a Bungle tradition. Asgard help Joe Burrow...
Wade Phillips is the perfect example of an amazing assistant coach who is the best when he's just dealing with that one aspect of the game. Too many assistant coaches become head coaches biting off more than they can chew.
This
That'd be a fun Top 10 list.
IT WASNT HIM!!! RALPH WILSON FORCED HIM TO START JOHNSON over flutie. This gets misconstrued all the time
People forget this, but Larry Brown made some huge interceptions during his career in Dallas - not just in Super Bowl XXX. As a matter of fact he made the game changing interception to get there in the 1995 NFC Championship against Favre and the Packers.
He was a solid number two corner in a zone scheme and it’s pretty debatable whether he should still be on this list compared to guys like David Tyree and Malcom Smith
He and Alvin Harper have interestingly simaler career arcs. Both had success in Dallas as a number two option behind a Hall of Famer, both got paid big money to be a number one option somewhere else, and both failed to live up to expectations.
C'mon, Andrew. Don't try to fool us. He was a stiff. Al Davis overpaid for Marc Wilson and overpaid for this clown.
@@TheRealRMG Brown and Harper aside, and they were not game changers, someone please tell me what makes Sanders and Irvin so special. Cocaine? Both are complete scumbags. Something at least Harper and Brown cannot say. Irvin especially, I see that thug ramble on on the NFL network, and I change the channel. What a couple of pieces of crap
@@JAWrightonline #facts
God…Greg Cook is the NFL’s best story nobody even talks about
He looked like he had a very quick release too. Not as quick as Namath or Marino, but still very quick.
@@Tyrunner0097Certainly a player who we didn’t see the full potential of.
Love this specific Top 10 because it covers so many different eras of the NFL
Also, Fuck Rick Reilly...is such a smug plagiarizing asshole
Mel Blount: *laughs
Percy Howard: “And I took that personally”
*scores on very next play
did nothing before or after so overall Blount shut em down
Who is Percy?
My hat is off to Mel Blount.
Percy Howard caught one pass in super bowl x.
First time I saw this, I thought Ickey was really old because he said he’s 40. Now I’m 40 and yeah, I feel really old.
You’re not lol. It’s all how you take care of yourself physically. I’m 33, but feel like I’m 23.
Crow, you’re still a pup. :)
I’m 42. And feel better, and look better than I ever have. Age ain’t nothin but a number, baby!
@@TheRealElJugo say that at 60, the key is to be injury free
@@s.tavares3257 You're 33? How many times has that birthday been celebrated? 😏😏😏
What I like about this list (and it's a terrific overall Top 10 presentation) is how it shows there are a lot of legitimate ways an NFL player could be a one-hit wonder. Some of these guys had decent and unspectacular careers and rose to the spectacular moment when it mattered most, like Mike Jones and Larry Brown. Some of them were terrific talents who were robbed by injuries, like Preston Howard and Greg Cook (G-d I felt terrible for Cook, who did nothing wrong and could do nothing to save his career). And yes, some of these players were exposed as frauds, like Rob Johnson and Clint Longley. Different in so many ways except that their stars shone supernova-bright and then imploded into complete darkness.
I agree about Cook so much. I had never heard of him! And I've followed football closely for over 30 years. I wish I had known of him. As his segment starts, with everyone saying he could have been one of the greats, you're like "ya ya, let's see". Sure enough, I see what they meant. Such a shame. Injuries robbed so many people of their talent. Me included :(
Man, that sucks about Cook. I never heard of him (born in ‘76), but I hate when a great athlete gets sidelined because of injury.
That set that franchise back a bit. They had Virgil Carter (The first great BYU quarterback) who was decent, but they had to wait for Kenny Anderson to develop. It took them 13 years to get to their initial Super Bowl.
@@craighenry2351 Yeah, but The West Coast Offense started with Virgil Carter. He had a weak arm but was very accurate on short passes.
Helped that Bill Walsh was the OC. If Paul Brown hadn't been passed by by the changes in the game when he finally retired, Walsh would have been Bengals coach instead of Bill Johnson, and no one would ever have heard of Joe Montana. Oh, and the Atlanta Falcons wouldn't have had to fire Leeman Bennett, since SF wouldn't have become a dynasty in their division.
Cook's injury was a small hinge on a big door.
Greg Cook was an amazing player but unfortunately had his career cut short by injury. If there were the same surgical techniques and rehab routines like there are today he could've been a first ballot hall of famer
Probably taking Trumpy with him. Notice on those clips who is catching a lot of those passes (Trumpy was number 84). Bradshaw (who was top overall pick in '70) and Cook would have had some kind of duels in the 70s as they were very similar QBs and would play twice a year in the AFC Central..Bengals also got Issac Curtis in the early 70s who was their top WR for years.
Maybe if Greg Cook never gets injured: maybe Bill Walsh never leaves Cincinnati and the 49ers dynasty probably never happens: by the 70s Walsh was already running elements of the West Coast offense or as Belichick calls it the Ohio River offense with the Bengals and was known to give the Steel Curtain fits; a lot of What Ifs without question
Yeah, greengo, the video stated that very exact thing. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
There was a previous upload of this and back in early 2017 I commented that Nick Foles was a big one shot wonder. He had that fantastic 2013 season, tied the record for TD passes, and then was basically out of the league a year and a half later.
And then that Super Bowl run happened, and then he rescued the Eagles again a year later. Looks like he's a 3 shot wonder now lol
"I'd rather have a small Flutie than a big Johnson."
It's okay...I'm sure you'll find someone to love you.
🤣🤣🤣 Hahaha. They'd been better off with Doug Flutie instead of Rob Johnson. The Bills continued looking for a QB until Josh Allen (at least he's playing like the QB they've been looking for since Jim Kelly retired in February 1997).
It won't work on dating unless she's a Bills fan
Bah Dum Tss
Rob Johnson, lacked big game heart back in his college days at USC.
Its so crazy to think that just back in 2002 Tommy Maddox's 3,000 yards and 20 TD's was considered an aerial assault. QB's get cut for those numbers now 😂👀
Harry Engel .... Bettis was splitting time by then. Considering that it was a Bill Cower Steelers team, that year was ABSOLUTELY a pass heavy offense comparatively
MikeDixonComedy.... 3000 yards and 20 TD were HUGE numbers for a Steelers QB. We were SO quarterback starved after Bradshaw retired in '83 that we thought Bubby F'n Bristers 2700 yards 20td -14int made him Joe Montana, THEN we had Neil O'Donnells 2970 17-7 which made him the 2nd coming!! After Kordell wasted one of the best defenses in history and a prime Bettis with some of the worst qb play EVER, Maddux's play was the best we'd seen in 20 years and it wasn't close. If not for Ben, Maddux would have had statues built for him in Pittsburgh
You could run the ball as a primary mode of attack then.
You also have to realize that it was with Pittsburg. While Bill Cowher wasn’t Chuck Noll, he was still a conservative coach. Heck, today, Mike Tomlin isn’t wide open offensively. Even in their last Super Bowl win, an option pass from Antwann Randel-El might have been their key offensive play. My point is, for Pittsburg, those numbers were wide open, especially for that time. At that point, 3000 yards was still a big deal and anything above 20 touchdowns was a pretty good year, so with a run first franchise, that year was a passing bonanza.
He had 16 picks too. I saw something the other day that 02 and those early 2000s like 15 teams had qbs with double digit ints and now the efficiency is so much better there were maybe 6 or 7 I think in either 2019 or 2020 I don't remember the exact years they used.
43:27 in a nutshell is the plot to Dr. Strange
Idk, mike Jones they said was their leader in defense so we may have only seen that one play. But his teammates made him captain
who?
@@rymayo2812 Mike Jones!
@@vernalgrenier3369 lol I live in missoula, hes a local legend here. Only handful of players here made to nfl but he is prob the most locally known. Hally turkey day to all also :)
Hey, you stick in the NFL 11 years, that's a pretty damned good accomplishment!
Man I feel like this show would really thrive nowadays, since it basically predicted/predated the "Listicle" wave of entertainment that would come to conquer media for a while.
There are so many unused ideas for lists they could do and it's been long enough that they could totally go through with a *huge* revamp of several of these old ones. Just think of the many one shot wonders we've seen in the last fifteen years or so:
Peyton Hillis, Jonas Gray, Chris Mathews (Seahawks receiver in SB 49), Jimmy Garapolo, RG3, Chip Kelly (I realize you could arguably debate this one, but he only made the Playoffs one time), Matt Flynn, Mitch Trubusky, Doug Marrone, Case Keenum, Joseph Fauria...And so many more
Oh Matt Flynn is perfect for this list lol. Had an all time game of 6 TD's and got a payday by the seahawks and never did a damn thing again.
Jimmy G has played well this year!
@@Aramis262
TL,DR: Yeah in the time since my comment he has continued to be more and more consistent. I'm actually pulling for him to finish strong and for his career to truck on for a few more years! And when I listed him I was just running off the first few names that came to mind, plenty of others more deserving of being called a One Shot
Full/overlong thoughts:
Yeah he's definitely having something of a "bounce back" season, though he's still kind of unruly when it comes to season-long performance/consistency. His play has ranged from *strong* to *head scratching* week to week. I'd love to see him pull it all together, for a variety of reasons. Above all I never wish for an athlete (Or anyone) to have their career/potential derailed by injury, but particularly with Jimmy G I think he's a fun personality that's easy to root for and the flashes he showed in his early starts were quite strong. He has intermittently displayed both the arm talent and mental game needed to be a Top 10 QB in the league, he's just never really put it all together for a full season outside of 2019
Again, there's certainly been some outside influence there between injuries and occasionally uncharacteristically befuddling leadership/playcalling from Shanahan (Who I also like), *but* Jimmy G has also consistently sandwiched his top level performances between truly bench-level play. Im guessing it's at least a little bit in his head which would reflect in his increasing comfort as the season goes on (And he gets further from an off-season that saw his replacement drafted 3rd overall) showing in the overall increasing level of play from him. He's still showed some head slappers, but in the time since my initial comment it looks more and more like he'll finish strong maybe with a showing in the Playoffs
From there who knows. I'm sure a team like the Browns or maybe even WFT would jump on him. But, yeah, he has at least escaped being a one shot wonder lol
Joseph Fauria?
Jimmy g ain’t a one shot wonder lol
Timmy Smith is #1 because Cook was a "what might have been".
I agree 100%
I concur.
IMO: Greg Cook and Bo Jackson are the biggest "What if's" as individual players in history of the NFL. Bo being one of the most gifted runners ever. (If he focused soley on football of course) We could be talking about him surpassing Jim Brown as the best running back and having the all the time rushing record.
Greg Cook who had the talent and intangibles to be the greatest quarterback ever. He may have reached heights that Joe Montana didn't.
NFL history could've looked a lot different if these two guys were not robbed by injuries.
You know this is an old episode when Josh freeman is on the top 100 players ticker
If Greg Cook wouldn't have gotten injured then the Bengals wouldn't be such a laughingstock. They probably would have a superbowl or 2. He was a talented QB with a rifle arm lost to a torn rotator cuff and the primative surgical equipment of the 70's.
Back then the arthroscope hadn't been invented yet so surgeries that now would be minimally invasive were ridiculously invasive. It was like let's take this out, let's saw that, how about a screw maybe two here
I agree with both of you.
As the video stated, they had to basically destroy the whole shoulder to fix the tear.
Greg Cook’s story is tragic. You can blame the Chiefs if you want but injuries like that could’ve happened and the medical technology was not advanced enough to help Cook. If they did try to have surgery his elbow would have been destroyed beyond belief back then
When a baseball pitcher had rotator cuff surgery, his career was done
Eh, Bengals always say this but they had an arguably HOF level QB in Ken Anderson for much of the 70s and he led them to a Superbowl in 81 (they lost). They had Boomer Esiason and Sam Wyche at Coach, and one of the Top WRs of the 80s in Collingsworth and they went to the Superbowl in 88 (they lost). They were the worst team in the 90s and early 00s but since 03 they've had a string of talented QBs, and WRs (Palmer, Dalton, and now Burrows) Cook's throwing motion being similar to Bradshaw is not evidence they'd have been the team of the 70s, Bradshaw was not the reason the Steelers won 4 Superbowls. Having something like 7 HOFers on the Steel Curtain Defense was.
Ur awesome man, Keep the top 10s coming I’m loving them during the quarantine!!! Cud u pls try to find gunslingers, CB tandems , comebacks, and curses lol keep doing ur thing man!!
I will try my best.
He’ll get to them! Lol. At your pace, Isaac.
@@isaacgreen3273 Mobile quarterbacks? That's the one I've always looked for, but have never found.
1:17 to 1:47 is pure poetry. Everything they say encapsulates this doc and sports in general so perfectly
I have watched this video several times. I am truly happy that these players got to shine even at least for a brief time with the exception of Jim O’Brien because I am a Cowboy fan. LOL !! But at least they all got their moment in the sun. I am also truly saddened that some of these men made some catastrophic and disastrous choices later on after their big moments that had extremely negative and adverse effects on their lives. And I wonder what ever became of Clint Longly and just how Greg Cook’s career would have turned out if he had been able to stay healthy ?
Longley was stuck behind Staubach-no way he is dislodging number 12 in Dallas, plus he punched his ticket out of Dallas literally by fighting Captain America #dumbmove
Well done. First, the amazing thing about Cook and that first season was that the Bengals were an expansion team yet they made the playoffs. Now, as a Cowboys fan, I have interest in 30% of your entries. First, Percy Howard nearly catching the winning pass in Super Bowl 10.confirms what I said about the Steelers-Cowboys Super Bowl rivalry. To this point, the Steelers are ahead 2-1, but it is much closer than that. The Cowboys are +2 overall in point differential for those games. We won once by ten and Pittsburg won twice by 4 with us throwing into the end zone at the End of each loss.
The Clint Longley selection brings up 2 points. First, that game was the initial flash of the late game playmaking ability of Drew Pearson. Second, Clint Longley got dumped for two reasons. You didn’t do that to Roger in Dallas and, they now had Danny White to replace him since the WFL had folded.
Finally, Larry Brown was very serviceable the year he won the Super Bowl MVP. I was disappointed he chose to go to free agency but he lost perspective. Anyone who played opposite Deion was going to get plenty of chances to make big plays. Plus Neil O’Donnell gave him two gifts. I loved it, but I still don’t know what Neil saw when he let those balls go. It was obvious there was miscommunication, but it was apparent from the start of each play. Things weren’t going to get corrected, so go to another receiver, run, or take the sack. But, in the end. Thank you, Neil O’Donnell.
Just a note: the Bengals finished 4-9-1 that season and did not make the playoffs.
"Golden Richards was a beautiful receiver....I replaced him....briefly" - Percy de la tour Howard
Such a funny episode
Golden was targeted once and made zero catches in super bowl x.
Percy caught one pass.
Scott Mitchell was a good Quarterback for the lions 🦁 in 1995
Threw for over 4K yards & 32 touchdowns
Led the lions 🦁 to the playoffs that year also
Pretty much a one year wonder
Also had the NCAA record for passing yards in a game (705) for awhile, breaking a record I watched set in Ohio Stadium in a loss by Dave Wilson of Illinois (625 yards).
He’s a textbook pick for this list. Only reason the lions gave him a big contract in FA was cause he played great for the Dolphins the year before when Marino was hurt.
Robert Griffin III. He was a one-shot wonder because of his rookie year in 2012 guiding the Washington Commanders to the playoffs that year.
Greg Cook is #1 on What Could Have Been, not One Hit Wonder which has a negative meaning.
I endorse making this type of list.
Harry Engel #3 would be Fred Taylor. He missed 55 career regular season games and retired 17th all time in rushing.
I agree. Cook was a tragedy he doesn't really belong on the list because he had talent to be more than 1 shot wonder compared to the others on the list maybe with 1 or 2 players as exceptions but Cook was in a class of his own. The problem was the injury it ruined him on the field and off it. The league would be different if he played and showed the potential that people believed he had. Mind you it was injury that could be fixed now compared to back them when no one knew how fix or even find it. R.I.P Greg Cook
Maybe, but he was really damn good. Led the AFL in passer rating by 10 points his rookie year.
I think it's a matter of preference, but I think that guys who either have the Larry Brown kind of experience who get overvalued or the Greg Cook "what if" scenario are feasible one-shot wonders. What don't really qualify for me is the Mike Jones/David Tyree type.
That's a fair number 2 pick.
I crack up when NFL Films plays the soundbite from Darrell Green about how he didn't remember seeing Timmy Smith again after that season and Super Bowl 22. Smith started 8 games at running back the next season in 1988. Granted that's not much, but it included 100 yard games against the Giants and Eagles, which at last check weren't defenses that sucked, and were much better than the Broncos. Clearly the O-Line was great, and he never lived up to any hype or repeating the Super Bowl, but you'd think Darrell Green might at least possibly/maybe/kinda remember a guy who he practiced against when the 1st Team D faced the 1st Team O 6 months after you won the Super Bowl.
I agree Greg Cook healthy helps the Bengals to a winning franchise
Perfect that Trumpy is talking about Cook right before a highlight where Cook rifles one to Trumpy (84) against the Oilers for a TD. You wonder not only how great Cook could have been but what Trumpy's numbers would have been as a TE with a healthy Cook. Not to mention Paul Brown would almost have HAD to name Bill Walsh as HC when Brown retired in the mid 70s and you'd have the West Coast offense in Cincy.
Being from a nearby town it would have been awesome to see the Bengals be incredible. And no 49ers dynasty probably
Ickey Woods: "I'm 40, now & I don't do 'The Ickey Shuffle', anymore, dude...".
(**GEICO commercial shows Ickey Woods doing 'The Ickey Shuffle' in a supermarket, many years later.**.).
Me: "So much for that...".
Money talks, bullsh*t walks.
Greg Cook doesn't belong on this list. Like Trumpy said, he got cheated.
Just looking how Rob Johnson wore his jersey in practice tells me all you need to know.
Love these old videos 🤣
They are so brutal lmao
Watching these with my dad at 5-6 years old was the best
Mark madden the scourge of Pittsburgh
Super Genius!!
Jerome Harrison...285 rushing yards in a game for the Browns and then next to nothing after that
Peyton Hillis.......................
David Tyree, Malcolm Smith, Brock Osweiler
Macom Smith was a two shot wonder super bowl 48 and the interception in that year's NFC championship
Here’s another one shot wonder: Jerome Harrison. Was a backup for the Browns for the first 3 seasons. Then in 2009, he rushed for 286 yards and 3 TDs late in the season (could’ve had a shot at 300 yards). Then nothing after that
Jerome Harrison should be on this list from a back up HB to a game with 280 plus yards just return to Earth after one other solid game never again repeating the same level of success that he found momentarily early on.
Damn Rashaad Salaam, I was too young to remember if he was good or not in Chicago, just his name was in the paper or news 24/7. Of course not for beating his lady in an elevator or jumping a delivery truck driver.... at least I don't think so
Passed away in 2016.
He fumbled way too much.
I enjoyed this one.
Salute to all of you!👏💪💞🇵🇭
12:47 dude straight up said “Windy Shitty” 🤣🤣
Nicholas Cage needs to write and star in "The Rob Johnson Story"
Why would Cage want to play a failure and letdown?
@@christianorr1059 Because he won't even have to act.
@@DopeIsotope Ouch!
Just watched him in good old Raising Arizona, lmao’d all afternoon…….
That’s the best comment I’ve read so far!!! Hilarious!!!
Bob Trumpy was the best TE of the 70's, and I am a staunch Falcons/Jim Mitchell fan. HOF for both of them.
Better than Winslow?
@@redwingsfan3621 Winslow was 80s - was a rookie in 1979 - and had a better QB throwing to him. With a little rearranging of events, Trumpy might have been remembered as Dwight Clark is.
@@macofalltrades6396 Okay, I like Trumpy so I’ll take your word for it,
Russ Francis was the best tight end of the 70s.
Robert Griffin III. He was a one-shot wonder for the Washington Commanders in 2012, Took Command in his rookie year to a 10-6 finish guiding them to the 2012 NFL playoffs. And got a Pro Bowl selection that same year.
That was horrible. They sacrificed their franchise players leg just to not win a wild card game.
@@chrisdardar9445He's still a one-shot wonder. Stop saying HE'S A BUST. He's also a quarterback tease.
10: Tebow
9: Tebow
8: Tebow
7: Tebow
6: Tebow
5: Tebow
4: Tebow
3: Tebow
2: Tebow
1: Tebow
"Even though he played well??" Rob Johnson was awful vs the Titans. Mcnair was even worse. Flutie starts that game and the Bills win hands down.
Yep 10-22, six sacks !!
But Flutie was too short. Right?
THEY SHOULD'VE WON THE GAME ANYWAY, THEY LOST ON A QUESTIONABLE PLAY...DOUG FLUTIE COULDN'T EVEN WIN THE TWO PLAYOFF GAMES HE DID START...HE'S A NICE GUY BUT HE SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE CFL, WHERE HE WAS AN AMAZING QUARTERBACK.
@@mrtnt3462 LOL!! WHen he came too the Bills he was 36 years old and had a 21-9 W-L record in his 3 seasons in Buffalo. In the one playoff game he played in for the bills he threw for 360 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT vs Marino. Flutie was a leader and brought a winning attitude. Rob Johnson cant hold a candle to him.
@@williampremo3096 yup, too short, 21-9 W-L record in Buffalo.
@@williampremo3096 one of those sacks was a safety too.
Matt Flynn would be a good recent one.
Good one especially considering people were judging him on one meaningless game.
Or even Matt Castle or Mark Sanchez
Robo Zack🤣🤣🤣🤣 That’s a funny monicker!!
I would’ve added David Tyree. Made arguably the greatest catch and SB play of all time in Super Bowl 42, as well as the Giants’ first touchdown, and that was the last catch of his career. He was cut and picked up by the Ravens, where he did virtually nothing of note.
Case Keenum should make this list after that lone Vikings season... and yes, of course, David Tyree belongs on a newer iteration of this list
Maybe because it was just one play, but that was the key play in a monumental game, where New England went from the alltime record to just holding the regular season record and ending 17-1. Incidentally, Tyree did make a few big catches now and again over the next few years, but never anything quite that big again.
You can see it in Dave Cook's eyes. He's still hurt over that. Poor guy. I wanna give that guy a hug.
There's a little bit of Dave Cook in all of us. Unlike the other players on the list, he was more honored as a one shot wonder because the guy was really good. I plan to read about him a bit more because he played way before I was born. It's a sad story. What could have been.
Your thoughts are wonderful (but his name is Greg).
Hearing the DangerDoom sample used in "Old School Rules" is awesome. Always wondered where it was from.
Matt Flynn would be a good one if they re-did this list now. He was like the Rob Johnson of the 2010s....Started the last game of the 2011 season, played really well, got a big new contract from Seattle to be the starter, then lost the job to Russell Wilson, and was basically then a backup for the rest of his career.
Yea he broke the single game record for TD passes in Lambeau field. In the snow I might add
Flynn was very much like the Rob Johnson of the 2010’s, only unlike Buffalo, Seattle gave the reigns to the player who played better without much hesitation, even though they paid the other player a significant contract.
@@fortynights1513 Yep. I remember Pete Carroll got killed at the time by the media for choosing Russell Wilson over Flynn, but he was right all along. But yeah, Matt Flynn really did get rich off one game, much like Rob Johnson did.
Great video!!!!
By the way, Roger Staubach invented the Hail Mary.
Thanks.
Actually it was the San Francisco 49ers dubbing it the alley oop
@@RobTheNotary Okay. Thank you.
I didn’t know about Greg Cook, what a terrible shame. Seems that by all accounts he was on his way to stardom.
He was a tragedy he doesn't really belong on the list because he had talent to be more than 1 shot wonder compared to the others on the list maybe with 1 or 2 players as exceptions but Cook was in a class of his own. the problem was the injury it ruined him on the field and off it. The league would be different if he played and showed the potential that people believed he had. Mind you it was injury that could be fixed now compared to back them when no one knew how fix or even find it.
Yeah he had solid numbers for that era. He probably would have had a pretty good career. He led the AFL/AFC in Passer Rating in his rookie year by almost ten points.
You know, the name "David Tyree" comes to mind...
I loved Ickey Woods as a kid. He was just awesome! 😁
I have one that might work if they redo it - Paul Justin for the Colts in '97. They played the Packers (the defending Super Bowl champions) one week, and were 0-10 coming in. Justin went 24/30 for 340 yards, and the Colts upset the Packers 41-38 for their first win of the year. Justin was a third string QB for the '99 Rams behind Warner and Green, and got his Super Bowl ring that year. For his career, Justin threw for 2,614 yards, eight TD passes, and ten INT. He had much better success in NFL Europe, winning the championship with Frankfurt in 1995, and was MVP of the championship game.
Icky woods is a legend to this day in Cincinnati idc if he lasted a season or a play he’s a legend
I couldn't agree more.
Not like cincy had anything else to cling too in the last 35 years until last year.
@@fatkidgames4381 I mean we won the World Series in 1990 so
Mike Jones was a 10 year wonder
Update needed for Jonas Gray, rb for the 2013 Patriots.
Just watched a video about him. One massive 210 yard 4 td game.
Then his charger wasn't plugged into the wall. So his phone died and he missed his alarm.
Missed practice/meetings and Belichick never really used him again. They then picked up Lagarette Blount and it was over for em.
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12th round pick by Dallas in 1991
Most Valuable Player of SBXXX in 1996 (intercepted 2 passes)
3x SB Champion
Larry brown cornerback
@Harry Engel
Thnx 4 the 411
I wouldn’t have known that 🤔
After this aired GEICO made a commercial with Ickey Woods doing his shuffle when his number was called at the deli counter.
Honorable mention: Charles Rogers (2nd overall pick 2003)
Us Lions fans were drooling after his first game. It was absolutely incredible! Also struggled with addiction. RIP 🙏
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I don't know that I'd call Larry Brown a one shot wonder. He came up big in a few conference title games. (Including picking off Brett Favre to seal the deal in the '95 NFC Championship game.)
and he generally had a solid 5 year run as a starter on the Cowboys. then he signed his big free agent deal and got injured and never came back to form. But I think that's actually a very, verrrry normal NFL player type story and not worthy of mention on this list.
I think it got boosted in importance b/c of the SB performance AND the launch of free agency right after that so he was one of the prominent players to be available and got some media attention at the time, so it kinda inflates things in the grand scheme and rankers compiling this list back in like 06/07 would have been more familiar w/ that than we would be now
Man, the Bengals had two players who might have had HOF careers, if not for injuries- Greg Cook and Ki-Jana Carter!
I wouldnt put Carter up there...Cook actually showcased what he could do over a whole season..I think Carter got injured in his 1st preseason game? even when he did play for Cincy, it wasnt like he put up great numbers, so we really dont know if he would have been a bust or an all time great
@@carsonc29 Yes, Carter got hurt in his first preseason game. Of course, that knee injury prevented him from putting up great numbers. What made him great in college, the quickness, cutback ability, was gone. At that time too, there was the thought that Penn St. RB's don't do well in the NFL. After Curt Warner-who had a great rookie year, tore his knee up and was pretty good the rest of his career, a few Penn St RB's who came after him were busts in the NFL- DJ Dozier and Blair Thomas-take #2 overall, ahead of Emmitt Smith!
@33:17 that has to be one of the best teases into a commercial break I've ever heard.
Mike jones tackle is definition of wrap up.
You know I keep thinking about it and the more I do, Tim Tebow should be on this list for 2011-2012 season alone
Except he never got the chance to fail. I never really understood why Elway didnt keep him and let him learn from Manning. They have been a turn style at QB since Manning left and none of them could play as good as Tebow did as a raw rookie. Politics I guess.
@@ronniemillsaps possibly because he knew the fanbase would riot if he kept Tebow
@@mahmoud6843 Anyone who lived through "Tebow Mania" knows what you're talking about. Manning could've put the greatest numbers ever, won every game, and you'd still have characters demanding Tebow take over as QB.........
Seeing Jim O'Brien as number 9 on the list and being a WR at Univ. of Cincy-likely caught some passes from number 1 on the list (Greg Cook) as O'Brien entered the NFL only 1 year after Cook.
I think O’Brien was already on another team the next year after his winning kick. I remember having a football card for him the next year or 2 later with the Lions.
@@craighenry2351 O’Brien had a decent year in ‘71 for Colts, then the whole team (including Unitas) got purged in ‘72. That was likely when O’B went to Lions.
@@andrewpadaetz5549, He caught a LOT of passes from Cook.
This video is one long back-handed compliment. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
They need to bring this show back
"Look at the hippie!" - Bubba Smith
Jamie Dukes is wrong. Larry Brown’s bff is Neil O’Donnell 🤣.
Doug Williams was a great qb. He played a great super bowl. It was nice to see him get a ton of redemption. As far as Timmy Smith goes...stupid is as stupid does.
Peyton hillis, jerome Harrison, David tyree, Derek Anderson, Brandon lloyd, victor cruz.
I have to disagree with Brandon Lloyd- dude played 11 seasons and 3 of them were really good.
How was David Tyree not on this list😂. Name him doing literally anything else besides gluing that football to his helmet.😂
All of these lists should be redone, would be very interesting to see which current or recent players land of the lists
Jamal Anderson had a great running year with the ATL Falcons in 1998 ⁉⬛🏈He had some unfortunate injuries right after that season and was never the same..The Falcons won the NFC in 1998 and played in Super Bowl XXXIII at MIami,FL..🌇
I have a question about #9, I noticed that Johnny Unitas was the Colts starting quarterback for Super Bowl V while Earl Morrall was the backup despite being NFL MVP a few years prior. Did Morrall get injured and just lose out on the starting job?
Unitas had been the starter but was hurt in 1968, allowing Morrall to lead the Colts to Super Bowl III. Once Unitas was healthy in 1969, he reclaimed the starter's job.
I'd put Timmy Smith #1. Because his story involves a Superbowl record that with how the league has developed, will likely never be broken. I mean from 2000 onward, the closest someone has gotten to Smith was Michael Pittman in SB 37 when he put up 124 yards rushing. And that was the year 2002. And digging even further, from 2000 onward only seven players total have even hit the 100 yard rushing mark in a Superbowl. Jamal Lewis in SB 35, Michael Pittman in SB 37, Dominic Rhodes in SB 41, Thomas Jones in SB 41, Frank Gore in SB 47, Marshawn Lynch in SB 49, and Damien Williams in SB 54.
People who make lists of unbreakable records usually never mention Timmy Smith’s Super Bowl rushing record, but it is indeed likely unbreakable.
Not just because most runners in recent years haven’t come close, but also because most teams don’t center their schemes on running the ball to pass later, and most running games don’t have one running back getting the bulk of the carries.
An honest list of unbreakable NFL records should be filled with volume rushing records.
@@fortynights1513 Exactly. The closest anyone in general has gotten to Smith's record was Terrell Davis in SB 32. He had 157 yds on the ground. But he got the bulk of teams carries all season. And as you said, teams don't really do that anymore. They split things up with two, sometimes three backs. Unless someone just ridiculously goes off whenever they touch the ball, this record isn't gonna be broken.
They briefly mentioned the Drew Brees injury and surgery...I have always thought if they ever did one of these top 10s that covered something like single team decisions that changed the league....the Drew Brees situation is one that changed the most ever. Just think if the medical staff in Miami, with head coach Nick Saban...had agreed that Brees would recover and they should sign him. IF...they had done that...just how much different would and could both Saturday and Sunday look?? Saban likely would have won games in Miami...while that may not have promised him a long tenure there...it would have made more teams interested and offering....plus, Brees does not go to New Orleans...that changes the trajectory of that team for a decade or more...Saban staying in the NFL would have Saturdays looking seriously different, and perhaps an entirely different legacy in Alabama. That one little decision cause things that no one would ever see to change....for years to come. How different would Miami have looked if they had gotten Brees...how different would things be in N.O.? How different would Saturdays look if you take everything Saban has done at Bama away? Hell, nationwide recruiting would be completely different. Who knows what colleges would be where today. One great class that wins a title can change the way up and coming kids look at your program for at least a generation. I usually do not do what ifs....but, this situation has always made me wonder. I bet Miami still does not like those doctors.....lol
Didn't they have an episode on the top 10 what ifs of all time?
They did. They never answered that question of if Brees played for the Dolphins. Chances are if the Dolphins didnt panic on Brees, the Saints wouldn’t have stayed in N O after Katrina.
If this was updated I'd have added WR Kris Matthews of Seahawks. In 2014 NFC Title Game that recovered onside kick and then in Super Bowl 49 had 100 yard game and TD.
"Ickey Woods Charity" Pretty sure that's just his regular paycheck nowadays. LMAO
Bro, can you please try to find the top 10 best running backs of the 80s
I will try my best.
David Tyree wya