Tennessee Titans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is here to break down football movie and television scenes from 'Friday Night Lights,' 'Little Giants,' 'Any Given Sunday,' 'The Longest Yard,' 'Starship Troopers,' 'Remember the Titans,' 'Jerry McGuire,' 'Rudy' and 'Leatherheads.'
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00:00 What's up GQ?
00:00 It's your boy DeAndre Hopkins, NFL wide receiver,
00:03 and this is the breakdown.
00:04 Friday night lights.
00:13 - You're just stepping aside and letting them walk in.
00:15 - Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
00:17 That's what I want.
00:18 All of you around that ball.
00:19 I've had plenty of moments like that
00:20 where coaches have called me out.
00:22 Coaches are critical the most.
00:24 At halftime, usually at the beginning of halftime,
00:26 they usually say what they have to say.
00:28 Not too long, and it's on the players to kind of huddle up
00:31 and make that decision.
00:32 If they want to go out, give in.
00:34 If they're losing, or play together as a team and fight,
00:37 no matter what the scoreboard says.
00:39 - We're going to use our speed.
00:40 We're going to run Texas power.
00:41 - What's wrong with y'all?
00:43 Y'all play like some little girls.
00:44 Y'all like y'all never played football before.
00:46 - This is what I'm talking about.
00:48 This is when great leaders step up
00:49 and take it out of the coaches' hands.
00:51 Because at the end of the day,
00:52 the coaches can only call plays
00:54 and put you in the best position they think
00:56 for you to be successful, but it's on you
00:58 to have that natural instinct to go out and make plays,
01:00 to go out and play off instinct.
01:02 Right here is a prime example of a player
01:05 taking that leadership role, letting the team know
01:08 it's on us, it's not on the coaches.
01:10 Coaches aren't yelling at you just to yell at you.
01:12 And I think that's what separates some of the great players
01:15 from the good players.
01:16 The great players are able to listen
01:18 and be told that they're not doing something right,
01:20 no matter how it comes off,
01:21 and understand that this coach has the best interests
01:24 of the team.
01:24 And obviously, whatever I'm doing,
01:26 being yelled at isn't up to par, isn't up to standard.
01:29 My first coach in the NFL, Coach Jerry Rice,
01:32 I was a rookie.
01:32 I would do a lot of things that wasn't up to his standard.
01:35 Rightfully so.
01:36 He's seen the best receiver in the NFL.
01:38 He would compare certain things that I did to him.
01:41 Did I think that was fair?
01:43 No, I didn't.
01:43 But he obviously seen something in me
01:45 that I didn't see in myself,
01:46 and he held me to a higher standard
01:48 than I held myself at that time.
01:50 And I'm forever grateful and thankful for that.
01:52 Little Giants, classic.
01:54 [grunting]
01:56 - Yeah!
01:58 - No mercy!
01:59 - No ball.
02:01 - This Little Giants trick play
02:05 is one of the best trick plays of all time.
02:07 Just saying.
02:08 They're doing their best to keep their hopes alive,
02:10 trying to trick the defense.
02:13 And I think they were a trick.
02:14 Obviously, they went for it.
02:16 Keeping the ball alive the right way,
02:18 not throwing it forward.
02:19 That's a good example of real football right there.
02:21 They have a lot of people that are misleading the defenses.
02:26 Everybody had to do their role.
02:27 Everybody had to act like they had the football,
02:29 and they did a great job of it,
02:30 of taking on the tackle.
02:32 I salute the Little Giants.
02:33 That's not easy to do, to sit there and take on a hit.
02:36 When I was watching Little Giants,
02:38 thought this was the coolest play ever,
02:39 how they were throwing it backwards.
02:41 And I remember, I used to always wanna try to run this play
02:43 when I was in Recreation League.
02:45 Keeping the ball alive is something that many people do.
02:48 We actually practice it during the week.
02:49 It's a real thing.
02:51 You practice it in the offseason, you practice it
02:53 during training camp, you practice it in season.
02:55 That one play right there is a real representation
02:58 of a real life football play.
03:01 Any given Sunday.
03:03 - All right, listen up.
03:03 We're gonna run left, deuce, zig, 22 time pass.
03:08 Are you all right?
03:09 Snap count, what's the snap count?
03:12 - Beeman, would you make the call already?
03:13 - You all right?
03:14 - Come on.
03:15 - Myself, I've never vomited.
03:17 I felt like I wanted to vomit.
03:18 My first game in the NFL, I was nervous.
03:21 Until I had some players kinda come over to me
03:23 and tell me certain things they did that first game.
03:25 So I was thankful for Andre Johnson and Brian Cushion
03:29 for kinda lightening my load a little bit
03:32 and letting me know it's not just on me,
03:34 but they have my back as well.
03:35 Him feeling like he needed to vomit and get that out,
03:38 the jitters, that's part of the game.
03:39 But everything slows down once you get going
03:42 and get your feet wet.
03:43 [players grunting]
03:45 Having players around you, having teammates,
03:48 having coaches like he had to let him know
03:51 it's gonna be all right, calm down.
03:53 But once he got it, any given Sunday
03:55 is any given Sunday for a reason.
03:57 [static]
03:59 Jamie and his teammate are fighting.
04:04 I think that's something that obviously could divide a team,
04:07 but also bring a team closer or bring two people closer.
04:10 It's football, you're gonna have your differences.
04:12 You're gonna go out and battle.
04:13 You're gonna fight, you're gonna practice hard.
04:15 But you have to know when to turn that off
04:17 and realize that you're on the same team.
04:18 Most of the times I've seen it bring teams together
04:21 and unite them when people get their differences out.
04:24 Most of the time, they put their ego down to the side
04:27 and realize that it's not about them, but the team.
04:30 The longest yard.
04:31 - The give is to the big man, Turley.
04:35 He's stopped by Lambert at the line for no gain.
04:38 No way!
04:40 The ball's picked up by Scarborough.
04:44 This right here is what you would call a trick play.
04:47 Most of the time, they don't work,
04:49 but let's see how this play out.
04:51 - Touchdown!
04:57 - As you can see, it worked.
04:59 It was a touchdown.
05:00 Usually when the other team has your number,
05:03 you can't do anything.
05:04 You can't move the ball, you can't score,
05:06 you can't get a first down.
05:07 So you gotta go to the tricks.
05:08 This was a good trick play.
05:09 I haven't seen this one before.
05:11 Trick plays are definitely a part of the game.
05:14 I wish they were used more,
05:16 but I could see why they're not
05:17 'cause a lot of them aren't successful.
05:19 The trick play that they used was legal.
05:21 It was very realistic.
05:22 The ball was on the ground, the guy covered up the ball.
05:25 That play has been used before,
05:27 but the person touching the ball,
05:29 Neek, cannot be on the ground or that plays down.
05:32 I don't think he was touching the ball.
05:33 So this trick play is definitely legal,
05:36 and I think this can be used.
05:37 Starship Troopers.
05:39 - Hut!
05:40 [crowd cheering]
05:43 - I've seen some quarterbacks do this multiple times.
05:47 Been blessed to play with some great quarterbacks
05:49 who are not just great throwers, but runners.
05:52 Deshaun Watson, Kyler Murray.
05:54 This is realistic.
05:55 I think quarterbacks can do this.
05:57 I don't know what protective suit they had on,
05:59 but I think Deshaun and Kyler might've had
06:01 the same protective suit that these guys had on
06:03 'cause they definitely evaded two or three tacklers
06:07 and threw me a touchdown, so.
06:09 [crowd cheering]
06:11 The front flip over the defense to get open.
06:19 I mean, I have seen someone do a front flip
06:21 and score a touchdown.
06:23 I don't know if he's seen this movie,
06:24 and that gave him the idea to flip in the end zone.
06:27 I remember watching the highlight.
06:29 I wasn't part of the game, but it was one person, not three.
06:32 But us as athletes, I think that's doable as well.
06:35 - Could you pull that out through the flip
06:36 and then the catch?
06:37 - Maybe when I was 21, but the catch for sure.
06:40 Maybe a little spin move, you know,
06:41 but I've never been a flipper kind of guy.
06:45 Little jealous.
06:46 Remember the Titans, classic.
06:48 - What we gonna do is change.
06:50 We are a team.
06:51 We gonna change the way we run.
06:53 We gonna change the way we eat.
06:55 - What coach is saying, you know,
06:57 we're gonna do everything as a team.
06:58 We're gonna change the way we run, change the way we eat.
07:00 This is all stuff that leads to a successful team,
07:03 doing things together, not just in a facility,
07:05 but outside a facility.
07:07 - As everyone know who's seen this movie, they bonded.
07:09 They did things outside of the practice field.
07:12 They really brought them closer for success.
07:14 It's a reality to now as well.
07:16 A lot of guys have different things going on,
07:18 different backgrounds, but when you're on one team,
07:22 you have to be one.
07:23 And the drills that they're doing, they're tough,
07:25 but you have to depend on the person beside you
07:28 to be successful in those drills.
07:30 And it really makes you realize that no matter
07:32 where you come from or what background you're in,
07:35 you're gonna get judged.
07:36 And if you don't do that drill
07:38 with the person beside you right,
07:40 all of y'all are running together.
07:42 People still to this day, do certain things like that
07:44 for you to hold your teammate accountable.
07:47 - All right, listen, you ready to run?
07:48 - Yes, sir.
07:49 - Fake 23 blast with a backside George reverse.
07:53 You got that?
07:54 Fake 23 blast with a backside George reverse
07:56 like your life depended upon it.
07:58 Let's go.
07:58 Let's go.
07:59 - He's telling the quarterback,
08:00 run this play like your life depend on it.
08:02 That's the reality of it.
08:04 Some people jobs, some people lives depend on one play.
08:07 That's real football.
08:09 That's real life.
08:09 Especially in the NFL, people have families.
08:12 One person job can dictate what happens that year or after.
08:16 For him to tell the player run this play
08:18 like your life depends on it is a reality of football.
08:22 [dramatic music]
08:32 - That play right there,
08:33 it's one of the best plays in any football movie.
08:36 'Cause that was actually based off real events right there.
08:39 Somewhat of a desperate last play,
08:41 Hail Mary kind of situation.
08:43 I've been in one of those plays before in my time.
08:45 Couple seconds left.
08:46 Basically, coach called a play
08:48 and told us to run a play like our life depended on it.
08:50 I told Kyler, whatever he do,
08:52 just give me a chance, throw the ball up.
08:54 He found a way to find me an end zone.
08:57 I can relate to this.
08:57 Remember the Titans last desperado play.
09:00 It led into a touchdown.
09:02 Jerry Maguire.
09:03 - Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no.
09:04 Show you the money.
09:05 - I'm not show you, show me the money.
09:07 - Show me the money.
09:08 - Yeah.
09:09 - Show me the money.
09:10 - Shut that mother, you got to yell that shit.
09:12 - Show me the money.
09:13 - I need to feel you, Jerry.
09:14 - Show me the money.
09:16 - Jerry, you better yell.
09:17 Show me the money.
09:19 - No, this is a player and his agent going back and forth.
09:22 He's telling his agent,
09:23 basically go give me the money, show me the money.
09:25 I think that's a real representation
09:27 of how athletes go about business.
09:29 I wouldn't say we go about it like that,
09:31 by telling our agent to show us the money.
09:33 When you're good, you get paid well,
09:35 that's the name of the game.
09:36 [crowd cheering]
09:39 This celebration right here
09:51 will definitely get you fined a couple thousand dollars,
09:53 so don't try this at home or in a game.
09:56 Some people say the NFL is a no fun league.
09:58 I think it's fun.
09:59 We still have a lot of fun.
10:00 We still find ways to celebrate.
10:02 Don't try this celebration, don't take your helmet off,
10:04 or it will get you fined a lot of money.
10:06 He showed them that he was worth the money.
10:08 And myself, I like to celebrate with my mom.
10:12 When she's sitting in the first row,
10:13 I like to give her a football.
10:14 That's just a little tradition we have.
10:16 Or sometimes I like to do my yoga pose,
10:18 something that I've been doing for a long time.
10:21 Asked you guys from Arian Foster.
10:23 I dedicate that one to Arian.
10:25 Namaste.
10:26 Rudy.
10:27 [crowd cheering]
10:30 - That's what I'm talking about.
10:32 - Hey, what are you doing, huh?
10:35 This is something that you learn young,
10:36 how to practice the right way.
10:38 Sometimes practicing and going out and killing your teammates,
10:42 cheap-shotting teammates,
10:43 doesn't turn over to having success in the game.
10:46 With the right coaches, with the right people around you,
10:49 they'll teach you how to practice the right way
10:51 and the safe way,
10:51 'cause you always wanna protect your teammates.
10:53 You wanna practice hard, but everybody's on the same team.
10:56 In Rudy's situation, it was for him
10:58 how to turn that over into real life,
11:00 how to take that into the game.
11:02 But he always had the motor, had the engine to go hard,
11:04 and that's something that you wanna, in any player,
11:07 but you wanna protect each other.
11:08 [grunting]
11:10 And I think for Rudy, being small,
11:12 being the guy in his situation,
11:13 not being the star player, he has something to prove.
11:16 It's a lot of people like that.
11:18 They're not the guy on the team
11:19 that is getting all the attention,
11:21 but still, you have to protect each other.
11:23 And I think for Rudy, he was an underdog.
11:25 He felt like he needed to go hard every play.
11:27 Having the right teammates around him to call him out
11:29 is sometimes the best situation.
11:31 Sometimes people need to tell you about yourself.
11:33 Obviously, that led to Notre Dame's success
11:36 of Rudy figuring out how to turn his practice habits
11:38 into playing habits.
11:40 Leatherheads.
11:41 - 17, 32, 24, height!
11:45 - I'm happy the game has evolved
11:48 from wearing these, what you call, helmets.
11:52 It's not a helmet, it's not protective.
11:54 And I think a lot of guys were concussed,
11:56 had a lot of injuries, a lot of broken noses,
11:58 which led to the face mask.
12:00 And for myself, I wear certain things.
12:02 I wear slimmer shoulder pads
12:04 'cause I need to be able to expand my arms.
12:06 But for me, being a guy that can get out of bounds
12:08 or dodge certain tackles, it works for me.
12:10 - Height!
12:11 [Rudy grunts]
12:15 - First, as a kicker,
12:16 you should always take more steps than just one.
12:18 But that's the result,
12:19 kicking in the back of your own teammates.
12:22 And this is the biggest kicker I've ever seen.
12:24 I don't know how he got to that position,
12:26 but I'm interested to see.
12:27 - You stand over here, next to him,
12:29 and you hit anybody that comes near him.
12:32 Anybody that comes near him.
12:33 - I like that they changed his position
12:35 from kicker to fullback.
12:37 It makes sense.
12:38 You wanna have a bigger guy at fullback
12:40 blocking for the running back to open up the hole.
12:42 Playing certain positions,
12:44 there's certain, I would say, measurements
12:46 that you should be at.
12:46 Me being a slimmer guy, playing receiver,
12:48 and I'm happy that his team put him in the right position
12:52 for them to win.
12:53 [upbeat music]
12:55 That's what you don't do as NFL player,
12:59 'cause you will get a hefty fine fighting on the field.
13:03 Thank y'all for watching these clips with me.
13:05 I'll catch y'all next time.
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