Can the old time QBs play in today's game?
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00:00Dumbest thing ever.
00:02This is DJ from Hyannis.
00:03What's up, DJ?
00:06Time to put Shyme in timeout.
00:08For?
00:09Dumbest, dumbest take I ever heard.
00:11The old school quarterback couldn't handle the new school stuff because they have the
00:16new technology.
00:17Yep.
00:18They'd be bigger, stronger, and badder than the new guys.
00:22Bigger, stronger, and badder?
00:23Nothing against the new athletes.
00:26They'd be bigger and stronger.
00:29Okay, that doesn't make them better quarterbacks.
00:32They would have the technology to be better.
00:37That's what you don't understand.
00:38These guys are skinny and fast.
00:42What you're not understanding is that it doesn't, for the evolution of the quarterback position,
00:46it's not about technology.
00:48It's about the actual ability to throw the football and actually be...
00:52Exactly.
00:53No, you're missing the point.
00:54And the way offenses have evolved.
00:57We don't run the wishbone offense anymore here.
00:59We don't run the triple option.
01:03The offenses nowadays are far more complicated.
01:05Sniffing all the weed.
01:07Nope.
01:08I haven't sniffed any weed.
01:09Thank you very much.
01:10It's just that's how offenses have grown over time.
01:12I'll have you know I have not smelled the aroma of marijuana at all today.
01:17Like Kyle Shanahan's offense is more complicated than his dad's offense was.
01:21And that's just because that's how the sport has evolved.
01:23Right, but his dad would be a great coach today using the modern way in which it's being
01:28coached.
01:29And I think Kyle would be better.
01:33There's a reason these guys were more creative.
01:36Certain people are just better.
01:38And now, the quarterback position now is better than it was.
01:42And it always will be.
01:43And the people at it will be better.
01:44Even if you took those people like Joe Montana and put them in today, it would not be the
01:48same.
01:49I think the game has just evolved.
01:50So back in the days, throwing the ball wasn't a big thing.
01:54And then as the years football goes on, it has evolved.
01:57It's like when the first car came out, right?
01:59But it was a big thing.
02:00No, no, no.
02:01When Joe Montana played, it was a big thing.
02:02No, when Joe Montana played, I agree with you.
02:04Well, that's the argument.
02:05Well, that's where I think it shines out for his rocker.
02:08Because I gave him Joe Montana, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, John Elway, Warren Moon, Randall
02:16Cunningham.
02:18Those guys, I believe, would be able to play in this game.
02:21Like, they'd be able to play today.
02:25Most of the guys you mentioned are not mobile RPO quarterbacks, but it wasn't what the game
02:30was.
02:31No, it wasn't.
02:32That's why Randall Cunningham was looked at as like...
02:34He was looked at as different.
02:35Yeah, like, he's good, but he's not on the same level.
02:39They didn't RPO because guys would get their head knocked off.
02:42Yeah, it was a different game.
02:45And players hit harder today than they did 40 years ago, Greg.
02:48Because the athletes are better.
02:50Like, those linebackers nowadays are yoked up beyond belief.
02:53You're saying the guys hit harder now than they did when Wiggy played?
02:56Yes.
02:57Not even close.
02:58Oh my God.
02:59Not even close.
03:00Sean Taylor would literally obliterate whatever.
03:04He would crush any wide receiver because nowadays, you don't have to worry about going across
03:09the middle.
03:10When I was going across the middle, it was Rodney.
03:13It was Sean Taylor.
03:14It was Ray Lewis.
03:16It was Dawkins from Philadelphia.
03:21These guys would knock your head.
03:22I didn't play with Ronnie Lott, but Ronnie Lott, I played with Steve Atwater.
03:28I bet Jelani Tavai would hit harder than Brian Urlacher.
03:31Oh my God, I am going home.
03:34Called the evolution of athletes.
03:35I listen.
03:36What is wrong with you?
03:37Tom Brady was able to juke out Brian Urlacher.
03:39Brian Urlacher, are you doing this just to F with everybody?
03:42No.
03:44I played against him.
03:45Absolutely not.
03:46You actually believe him?
03:47Yes.
03:48I played against Brian Urlacher.
03:49The guy was 6'4", 260 pounds and could run a 4'5".
03:53He played secondary in college.
03:55Jelani Tavai is a good football player, but he's not hitting harder than Zack Taylor who
04:03played for the Dolphins.
04:04Oh, he was tiny, wasn't he?
04:06Right.
04:07And he was just Ted Johnson.
04:09The guy like, I mean, literally, I felt like the guy had-
04:11Like Juwan Bentley is hitting harder than Teddy Bruschi did.
04:14Like Juwan Bentley is hitting harder than Teddy Bruschi did.
04:17I mean, they were all hitting hard.
04:20Don't get it twisted.
04:21I know.
04:22Don't get me wrong, Wiggy.
04:23At the time, back then, that was hard.
04:25But nowadays, athletes are just, they're stronger.
04:27They're faster.
04:28They hit harder.
04:29Remember, athletes today, they're not throwing their bodies all over the place because they
04:35can't do that in the game.
04:37So they have been trained differently how to tackle.
04:40That's why I said, when I was going across the middle against guys like Rodney and Sean
04:43Taylor, they didn't care.
04:46They were looking to take your head off.
04:48They didn't care about their own bodies.
04:49Sean, I want you to look at my screen.
04:51This was Tom Brady in 2001 against the Bills.
04:53This is Nate Clements absolutely decapitating him.
04:56Good for him.
04:57Yeah, I was at that game in Buffalo.
04:58Right.
04:59That doesn't happen in today's football anywhere.
05:01No.
05:02Not even close.
05:03That's not my point.
05:04My point is, if it did happen, Curtis, it would look 10 times worse because, again,
05:09the athletes are bigger, faster, and stronger.
05:12That's the point.
05:13Here's what I'll say.
05:14I would say there's a reason why it doesn't happen anymore because people would die.
05:17Jelani Tavares is not stronger than Brian Urlacher.
05:19No, no.
05:20Here's what I'll give you.
05:22The athletes probably are a little bit more faster today than they were.
05:30Not a little bit.
05:31No, I'm talking about overall.
05:33Right?
05:34Yeah.
05:35So let's say-
05:36Because you mean the ways the condition have improved or whatever?
05:40The learning of sprinting-
05:42Conditioning bodies.
05:43All those things.
05:44And building bodies.
05:45Yes.
05:46But I will disagree with you.
05:47The guys that play today are much smaller, they're not bigger, than when I'm playing.
05:52Sean, you're being called unqualified for your position that you currently hold here.
05:56Just be aware of that.
05:57Yeah, from texters to a radio show, I feel very secure in my position.
06:02And they're not bigger, Sean, because of the RPO.
06:05Because you need to be faster.
06:06Right.
06:07Jelani Tavai ran a 4.8, 7.40.
06:09Brian Urlacher ran a 4.5.
06:11Brian Urlacher benched more than Jelani Tavai.
06:14Yeah.
06:15I mean, he's stronger and bigger in every single way you could measure it.
06:18And I agree with you as far as the RPOs and how the interior linemen, when you look at
06:23what Aaron Donald has done, he's completely changed the game.
06:26The smaller size defensive linemen, they exist in today's football.
06:30When I played, it was Ted Washington, it was guys like Vince Wilfork, it was guys like
06:35Pat Williams.
06:37These guys were at the size of pickup trucks.
06:39Yeah, but so they've changed that.
06:42It's now, because force is mass times velocity, Wiggy.
06:46They take some of that mass off and they add a ton of velocity.
06:49That's the difference.
06:50That's my favorite theorem.
06:52I would like to end this with a friend of another station across the street, Zoe, who
06:56just wrote, what a moron.
06:58That's fine.
06:59Coming from a guy who can barely sniff the field.
07:02Warren Southern.
07:03Oh my.
07:04Wow.
07:05Shots fired.
07:07Hey, I mean, they are what they are, friends.
07:10I'm so happy Shyam decided to be a douche.
07:13It is taking all the heat off of it.
07:16Douche heat redirected.
07:18Spin the wheel of heat.
07:20You see what Shyam's saying?
07:21Basically, Zoe couldn't play in today's game.
07:24He couldn't play back then, Wiggy.
07:25You think he could play now?
07:27Damn.
07:29I love Zoe.