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00:01You can never, ever, ever measure how bad a guy wants it.
00:07How many quarterbacks were taken ahead of Tom Brady?
00:08This is one of the great mistakes of all time.
00:19The Lombardi Trophy, the holy grail of the NFL.
00:23Forged before each season by a master craftsman from Tiffany's,
00:26often it's won by the team that shops at Walmart.
00:33We had to find somebody that we felt had more potential than other people did.
00:39You've got to study a kid, what he's made of.
00:41There's so many things that go into a guy becoming a success story in the National Football League.
00:45Our list of the top ten draft steals in NFL history was compiled through simple criteria.
00:51What players proved to be the biggest bargains and surprises for their draft position?
00:57Plenty who were passed over didn't make the list.
01:00Zach Thomas was coming the whole time.
01:02Zach Thomas went in the fifth round, Jackie Smith the tenth,
01:06and Raymond Berry wasn't selected into the twentieth round.
01:09But our list begins with Captain America.
01:14The number ten draft steal of all time, Roger Staubach.
01:22Roger Staubach, Navy quarterback.
01:25I miss football a great deal, but I do enjoy the Navy,
01:29and I have a big job over here, and I'm going to do that.
01:32Roger Staubach won the Heisman Trophy in 1963,
01:35but following that season, he was just the 129th player taken in the NFL draft.
01:41Tex Schramm was sitting there going, I'm in the tenth round.
01:44What if I just take a flyer on Roger Staubach?
01:47The Dallas Cowboys knew all along Staubach had one year of eligibility remaining at the Naval Academy.
01:54Back then, they had what they called you could draft future.
01:57If you were graduating class, was that year, then you could be drafted as a future,
02:01even though they had another year of eligibility.
02:03So he actually came out in 1965.
02:09But once college ended for Staubach, so too did football.
02:13In its place, a stint in Vietnam.
02:16We, the class of 1964, the United States Naval Academy,
02:20do hereby accept commission as officers in the United States Navy.
02:27Teams tended to shy away from Service Academy players because with the military commitment,
02:32they knew that they wouldn't have a full career out of them.
02:35A team could never do that these days.
02:37I don't think they could ever take a guy and wait the amount of time Dallas could wait.
02:44I mean, they waited five years.
02:46Clearly, he probably stayed for a start.
02:49In the service, these days, more than two years, and the rust factor seems to be prohibited.
02:55Well, you're 24 years old now.
02:57Do you think you'll be in shape three years from now?
02:59I've been told that 29 is the prime of your life.
03:03I have 13 years of real activity in me as far as athletics is concerned.
03:07What Staubach did back then was just a testament to what a great athlete he was.
03:13When Staubach returned to football, his athleticism transformed the Cowboys' offense.
03:19Landry wanted a true drop-back quarterback, execute the play as it's drawn up,
03:24but that wasn't Roger Staubach, and I think that allowed Staubach,
03:28after that long delay, to come in the NFL and have success.
03:31Well, the Cowboys made a miracle.
03:33He's going long, down the near sidelines, throwback, hit Pearson, on a 50-yard touchdown.
03:40Roger Staubach, our number 10 draft steal of all time, led the Cowboys to two world championships.
03:47He arrived at the NFL at its moment when it was exploding on television,
03:52and he represented character, clean cut.
03:55You know, he had it all.
03:57Everyone in the world compares me to Joe Namath.
03:59You know, the idea of off the field, he's single, bachelor's swing, and I'm married and family,
04:04and, you know, I enjoy sex as much as Joe Namath.
04:07Only I do it with one girl, you know.
04:09There you go.
04:10But it's still fun.
04:12He was the great American figure, and I think that's why he really became America's quarterback,
04:19America's football player on America's team.
04:25The number 9 draft steal of all time, Larry Wilson.
04:30Longfellow has a line in one of his poems.
04:34All-time underrated safety.
04:36And he says that in life, a man must be either the anvil or the hammer.
04:42And Larry Wilson was both.
04:49Every modern-day safety owes their game to our number 9 steal, Larry Wilson.
04:54Why in the world he lasted to the 7th round?
04:57I imagine a lot had to do probably with his size.
04:59Larry Wilson was such a unique physical specimen, and he was so little, he was so wiry.
05:06The ability to really ascertain how good college football players were in the 60s was very limited
05:12because you just didn't see that much of them on television.
05:16Due to the lack of film, the Cardinals didn't draft Wilson until the 7th round.
05:22Larry Wilson was an offensive player in college.
05:25He was a running back.
05:26When he went to training camp with the Cardinals, they didn't really need another running back.
05:30They had just lost night train lane, so they were a little short in the secondary.
05:34Wilson, a man who once had all his teeth knocked out, was fearless in the secondary.
05:41He had unbelievable ball skills.
05:45I can remember him intercepting a pass with two casts on his arm.
05:48Courageous Larry Wilson playing with two broken hands.
05:51Pirates Nelson's pass.
05:53Larry certainly redefined the safety position, and you've got to be fortunate.
05:57If you're going to be competitive in this league, it won't be just with your first and your second round
06:01draft choices.
06:02Well, the Cardinals still weren't competitive, but it wasn't Larry Wilson's fault.
06:08The thing that made Larry Wilson great in such a steal was that he became the master of the safety
06:14blitz.
06:17Larry Wilson would blitz almost every play.
06:19When you watch safeties of today, safeties that are used to blitz, to play on the other side of the
06:27line of scrooge,
06:30all of those guys really now are doing what Larry Wilson really began doing 40 years ago.
06:36You're thankful for guys like that who kind of paved the way.
06:39One of the things I've always loved about the position is that you get to do a little bit of
06:42everything,
06:43and as you study football, that wasn't always the case, and Larry Wilson kind of changed that.
06:48When you talk about Larry Wilson, you're talking about a sui generis,
06:52someone that will never be another one like him.
06:58The number eight draft steal of all time, Ray Guy.
07:03A punter.
07:04I would like to find the guy.
07:06A punter over Captain Comeback Roger Staubach.
07:10That he thought nobody else particularly thought of as a first, second, or third round pick.
07:16Now Ray Guy comes in for his first punt of the day.
07:19Kick is away.
07:20There's a high, twisting, hang time spiral.
07:23To this day, Ray Guy remains the only punter drafted in the first round, and he was a steal.
07:29Al, as you know, likes to do things that are a little off the charts.
07:32Al Davis was a risk taker.
07:34Al knew a player when he saw one, and he'd go after him.
07:38Al was always a guy who dared to be different.
07:40Not just to be different, but because he thought it was right.
07:45Coming out of Southern Miss, Guy was an all-American punter.
07:49When Al Davis drafted Ray Guy in 73, it really shocked everybody to select a putter.
07:56I'm thinking to myself, a punter in the first round.
07:58And when we go to draft him, the guy has a broken foot.
08:01What?
08:02Man, this takes some guts to do this.
08:05Usually you think, well, you're going to pick a guy who's in there every down.
08:09The Raiders realized Guy's booming kicks and five-second hang times could revolutionize special teams.
08:18You can pin a guy at the five instead of letting him take it to the 25.
08:28That's 20 yards of field position.
08:31And they'll be putting the ball back to you, and their punter's not as good.
08:36We had just gone through two years of just mediocre punting with the Raiders.
08:40Here comes a kick.
08:42It is blocked.
08:42It's loose on the five-yard line.
08:44And it's a touchdown for Pittsburgh.
08:46We like the idea of adding somebody to our defense in the form of a punter,
08:51where the opposition would have to go 80 yards rather than 50 yards.
08:55We made the pick.
08:56They came in.
08:57The foot was healed.
08:58And as soon as we saw those 60, 70-yard punts, we knew we made the right pick right there.
09:05Once a Raider, our number eight steal fit right in and became the center of controversy.
09:10We have an unofficial hang time of five seconds here.
09:14Guy was such a great punter.
09:16One time, one of his punts hit the roof of the Superdome.
09:19Guy, of course, I think you probably will know, hit the overhead TV screens in the Pro Bowl of 76.
09:26They've now elevated that screen from 90 feet up to 200.
09:31I've been in the game 41 years, and I've had occasions to see a lot of good punters.
09:36And, you know, I don't know if he's the best, but it won't take long to call the roll.
09:38If I were to pick one player that would get the adulation of all of our past great players,
09:45the greatest punter who ever played the game,
09:47Ray Gunn, someone that everyone could nod their head and say,
09:51gee, that's a good choice, coach.
10:08It's hard to believe, but the NFL's all-time leading tight end was the 192nd player taken in the 1990
10:16draft.
10:18Sometimes very difficult for you to tell how good a player he is because the competition is not that great.
10:24He came from Savannah State, so nobody knew much about Savannah State for starters.
10:30Sharp came out of Savannah State too slow to be an NFL wide receiver and too small to play tight
10:36end.
10:36He was what we call a tweener.
10:38Is he going to be a big wide receiver?
10:41He was a guy that's going to have to gain a little strength and be a tight end.
10:45We weren't sure.
10:46They didn't know what he was.
10:47All they knew was that it was Sterling Sharp's little brother.
10:50Sterling Sharp, once he caught it, they didn't have a check.
10:53Isn't that enough of a hint that you'd say, hey, somebody in this guy's family knows how to play football?
10:59Twenty-two receivers were taken ahead of Shannon Sharp.
11:03The Steelers drafted Eric Green in the first round.
11:06And later on, Mike Jones, Jesse Anderson, and Derek Walker went well before our number seven steal.
11:16We had an argument on draft day.
11:18One guy wanted a linebacker from LSU.
11:21Another one wanted Shannon Sharp.
11:23The linebacker won out.
11:24And we were fortunate enough that Shannon was there in the seventh round, so we got both players.
11:29When I came to the league, you wanted someone 270 pounds to 300 pounds, about 6'5", that could dominate
11:36the line of scrimmage.
11:37And if he caught a pass or two, oh, that was well and good.
11:39But you wanted to be able to run the football.
11:41The coaches were making...
11:42Shannon Sharp does...
11:44All due respect, Shannon Sharp does really...
11:47Kellen Winslow Sr. before him, right?
11:50He kind of...
11:51He broke the timing position out of that mold.
11:57...and decisions on receivers to keep.
12:00And coaches normally don't ask players' opinion.
12:01But I can remember Dan Reeves asking John, what do you think of Sharp?
12:06And John really stood up for him and said, we'll find something for him.
12:11What the Broncos found was that their tweener was impossible to match up with.
12:17He was too slow to be a receiver and too small to be a tight end.
12:27He was too big for a regular defensive back to guard him and too fast for linebackers.
12:37A lot of my blocking on the moves because I was so small,
12:40that caused a substantial problem for the defense in the pass route
12:44because I was too physical for a corner.
12:46I was faster than the linebacker.
12:48Good Lord, will somebody cover this guy?
12:52Sharp may have been a seventh-round pick, but he was always a first-round comedian.
12:57Down goes Frazier!
12:59Definitely be able to choose who's the best.
13:01Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
13:03Boy, we got to cool off.
13:05They coming.
13:06Health is on the way.
13:08Here's a proof!
13:10Bye, dude!
13:15Laughing when our number seven steal helped the Broncos win two Super Bowls.
13:19I just knew it!
13:21Heavyweight champion of the world!
13:23He was even the Ravens' go-to receiver in Baltimore's Super Bowl run in 2000.
13:28Caught by Shannon Sharp out of deflection.
13:34Yeah, and that was his most legitimate title
13:37because they actually had to go through real quarterbacks,
13:41real guys to do it,
13:43not Vinny Testaverde and Cordell Stewart.
13:47Maybe I'm biased, but that's a more legitimate title.
13:52In 2004, Sharp had more catches than any tight end in NFL history.
13:57Touchdown! What a great catch!
13:59You're kidding me!
14:00Shot and shot makes a cut!
14:02I watched him go from an oversized wide receiver
14:04and playing small-time college football
14:07to walking in and probably becoming one of the greatest tight ends
14:10in the history of football.
14:11This guy is going to walk into the Hall of Fame.
14:15Dynamic runners aren't always drafted high.
14:18Hand off to Rudy, right side. Touchdown!
14:21Rudy Johnson was selected in the fourth round.
14:24Wilbert Montgomery went in the sixth.
14:26And 364 players were drafted before Billy White Shoes Johnson.
14:31Touchdown Atlanta!
14:32But none of them captivated the country like a two-sport star from Auburn.
14:39He can't make the list. He played like four years.
14:45And he only played half of those four years.
14:47So it was really two years.
14:53The number six draft steal of all time, Bo Jackson.
14:59Al was a guy that was intrigued by great physical specimens.
15:02And there was no better physical specimen than Bo Jackson.
15:04It's a foot race!
15:05Will everybody catch him?
15:07Holy Toledo!
15:08When he was six feet one, he was 230 pounds.
15:11Chiseled marble.
15:12Incredible speed.
15:13Breathtaking speed.
15:15There were clockings of him running the 40-yard dash in 4.12 seconds.
15:19You're talking about a once-in-a-generation player.
15:22In 1986, Bo was the undisputed number one player entering the NFL draft.
15:27The Heisman Trophy winner out of Auburn
15:29was the most dominant college player since Pershal Walker.
15:33If it's all about the measurables, Bo Jackson was off the charts on everything.
15:37Every scout ran back to his coach and said,
15:40You've got to have this guy.
15:41That's the shortest report I ever wrote as a scout was Bo Jackson.
15:46I gave him the highest grade you could give a player.
15:50The Buccaneers had the first pick in the draft
15:52and flew Bo down to Tampa for a physical.
15:55He was assured there was no NCAA violation involved in this
15:59because he had spring baseball to think about at Auburn.
16:02He returned to school only to be told that was a violation.
16:06You can't play your final year of baseball, which broke his heart.
16:09And there are some people that think that he held that against the Buccaneers.
16:13The Buccaneers select first choice on the first round.
16:17Running back from Auburn, Bo Jackson.
16:19One of the problems that was typical of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was the Bucs.
16:24Hugh Culverhouse was the owner back then,
16:26and he realized he'd money at this without even really trying to win.
16:30Players at that point didn't want to win Tampa Bay because it was a graveyard on draft day.
16:37And naturally, Bo Jackson, realizing that he is one of the great athletes of his era, had options.
16:43There was a real desire on his part that, you know, I want to play baseball.
16:47When a guy has that option, okay, and you're not a very good football team,
16:51you have to overpay to get him.
16:53Otherwise, he's not going to sign.
16:56Bo told the Bucs to walk the plank and became a royal nightmare by playing baseball in Kansas City.
17:03Jackson took less money to play a sport he loved more.
17:08Since Bo was unsigned, any team could redraft him.
17:12In 1985, the Raiders were beaten to the punch, drafting Hershel Walker out of the USFL.
17:18Al Davis wasn't about to miss out on another star running back.
17:22We were anticipating drafting Hershel Walker,
17:25but we weren't sure what the value really was of a guy like that.
17:28Hershel breaks away!
17:30That's good!
17:32Hershel Walker!
17:33A few of us left the room thinking we were drafting Hershel.
17:36Yeah, how about 17,000 career all-purpose yards?
17:44That's a lot of value.
17:46Walker, and when we came back, we had drafted somebody else.
17:49We drafted a guy named Jamie Kimmel.
17:51He was a long snapper linebacker from Syracuse.
17:55And I could always remember looking at Jamie Kimmel and always thinking,
17:59you know, we should have drafted that Hershel Walker guy.
18:02And from that point on, I think Al kicked himself for not doing that.
18:06When the Bo Jackson thing came up two years later,
18:09we knew right then that we'd like to have him.
18:12Davis redrafted Bo in the seventh round of the 1987 draft
18:16and offered our number six steal full-time money
18:19to Hoover and Black as an off-season hobby.
18:22It was kind of classic Al Davis in that he thought it was a throwaway pick.
18:27He was going to roll the dice.
18:28So you had an executive that was willing to take chances,
18:30and he took a chance on an athlete that was not afraid to be unconventional.
18:34The problem in our society is there are a lot of people who don't want him to do both.
18:39Let him do it.
18:40Let's get behind him.
18:42It would be great for America.
18:43Quick pitch to Bo, trying to sweep the left side.
18:46Turns it up to the 10, 15, up the left side to 20.
18:49He's at the 30.
18:50Maybe nobody will get him.
18:5150, 40, he's got a blocker.
18:53He's going to the 20, the 10.
18:56Touchdown, Raiders!
18:57Bo Jackson!
18:58You talk about athletes that transcend sport,
19:01he transcended all sport.
19:06Bo knows football.
19:07The marketing campaign that they came up with and Mikey came up with was brilliant.
19:12Bo knows basketball, too.
19:14Bo knows tennis?
19:19No.
19:22Bo couldn't have been Bo had he been a Tampa Bay buck.
19:25In the end, the Raiders got four seasons and a superstar.
19:31Tampa Bay got absolutely nothing.
19:34And a quick pitch to Jackson, getting an Allen block.
19:36Cuts under it.
19:37Bangs through Bosworth.
19:38Touchdown, Raiders!
19:40He played eight to nine games a year.
19:42Was never really in shape for football.
19:45Bo Jackson, had he played football, would have set standards that even today wouldn't be topped.
19:55The number five drafts deal of all time, Dan Marino.
20:01He had the aura of a starting quarterback.
20:04If you could order it up on your computer, Dan Marino would be the guy you'd want.
20:09Let's get a drive going and score some damn points.
20:12Touch, touch.
20:14Throws into the end zone.
20:15And it is caught.
20:17It's a touchdown.
20:18Touchdown Dolphin.
20:21The 1983 draft will always be remembered as the year of the quarterback.
20:26I don't know if there will ever be another year like the 1983 draft.
20:31There was a glut of quarterback talent.
20:34Baltimore selects as the first choice in the draft.
20:39Quarterback John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason, Ken O'Brien.
20:45Elway went on to five Super Bowls and won two.
20:49Kelly took the Bills to four straight Super Bowls.
20:52Eason led the Patriots to Super Bowl 20.
20:55But Ken O'Brien was a sack machine.
20:58And Todd Blackledge threw more interceptions than touchdowns in a checkered career.
21:03Frankly, Ken O'Brien was a better quarterback than Tony Eason.
21:08And he outplayed Marino a number of times.
21:16Incredibly, Marino, our number five steal, was the last quarterback taken in the first round.
21:22We couldn't believe that Dan slid to number 27.
21:25And especially when Pittsburgh passed him up.
21:28Because he was in their backyard.
21:30They had to know everything about Dan from grade school to high school to college at the University of Pittsburgh.
21:38After a stellar career at Pitt, it seemed like a no-brainer for the Steelers and executive Art Rooney Jr.
21:43to draft Marino as Terry Bradshaw's heir apparent.
21:47My father loved him.
21:48He loved Danny Marino.
21:51I had been phenomenally adamant and obstinate about taking Bradshaw.
21:57And my father felt that I should have had the same attitude toward Marino.
22:03And I didn't because we had all the facts and everybody saw him.
22:06And I didn't feel I had to sell him.
22:08Rooney didn't argue passionately for Marino.
22:10And with an aging Terry Bradshaw, Mark Malone, and Cliff Stout, the Steelers' brain trust felt they were set at
22:16quarterback.
22:17Pittsburgh Steelers set with Mark Malone.
22:22He was terrible.
22:24And Bradshaw was old and he retired after that season.
22:28Really?
22:30Steelers' first round selection.
22:32Defensive tackle, Gabriel Rivera.
22:35Rivera's nickname was Senior Sack.
22:38He was a quick guy who they saw as another Joe Green.
22:4569, Gabe Rivera.
22:46He's been playing better and better, I am told, by the coaches of the Steelers, since he's lost some weight.
22:53Rivera is the fastest fat guy he's ever seen.
22:56Coach Noel says, we built our team originally starting the defensive line with Joe Green.
23:02And I think we should go that way.
23:04And his thought process made great sense to me.
23:08I thought that was right.
23:09Gilbert, Jim Jeffcoat, Dave Remington.
23:13Marino kept falling and nearly slid out of the first round.
23:17Pittsburgh's a big little town.
23:19And naturally there were rumors.
23:21There was always the thought, as incorrect as it was, that there was drug allegations.
23:26The theory is that a team that wanted to get him in the lower portion of the first round.
23:32I'm not sure this was Miami.
23:34I'm not going to accuse anybody.
23:35I wonder how stupid those guys felt when Marino never touched any drugs or stuff like that.
23:42In Miami, Miami Vice, where the white stuff was at its peak.
23:51You would think a guy who had drug problems would be doing that stuff more in Miami.
23:58But he didn't.
23:59So it says it wasn't true.
24:02It was putting something out there to discourage the other teams.
24:06There was an ability to check out to see if Dan Marino was on drugs or not on drugs.
24:11The test results were in the safe of Foge Fazio.
24:16So when it came time to draft Dan.
24:19Next up, Miami Dolphins.
24:21I picked up the phone and I called Foge Fazio, his coach at the University of Pittsburgh.
24:25And I said, you know, what's going on?
24:27Why is Dan still up there?
24:28Because we couldn't figure it out.
24:30He said, coach, he said, I don't know, but take him.
24:32And, you know, he's done some things maybe that he's not very proud of in college, but who hasn't?
24:36What are you going to be like when you're 21 years old and you're the BMOC?
24:40I mean, you're going to have a few beers.
24:43You know, you're going to do things.
24:44The Dolphins select quarterback Dan Marino of Pittsburgh.
24:50From the day he took over, you could see there was something special.
24:54Dan Marino's the best quarterback who ever put on a uniform.
24:57The first time he practiced with the Dolphins,
25:01you could hear the ball.
25:03I mean, it was, nobody had ever been around anything like that.
25:07He had the Joe Namath type of arm and probably even better than Joe Namath.
25:12I got some footage of Namath and I put it next to footage of Dan
25:17just to show the similarity in the way they delivered the football.
25:22Perfectly thrown past by Dan Marino.
25:25Things had changed.
25:26Chua changed.
25:28Their boat was Pennsylvania.
25:36Steelers as well.
25:37Fate really played a cruel trick, I guess, on the Steelers.
25:41Gabe was doing pretty well.
25:42And here he, you know, as the season started, the guy got into an auto wreck.
25:47Rivera was legally drunk,
25:50traveling at a high rate of speed when he lost control of his vehicle.
25:53He goes out of the back end of a Nissan and his body, big body, gets caught through the back
26:00window and it severs the spine.
26:03Rivera's career was over after just six games and Pittsburgh will always wonder what might have been.
26:11One year later, the Steelers and Dolphins met in the AFC Championship.
26:15Terry Bradshaw had retired and Mark Malone was no match for Marino.
26:21Well, if the Dolphins get in, it's all over.
26:24He looks lost in the corner of the end zone.
26:26That's four touchdowns.
26:27That's four touchdowns in the ball game and that's a new record.
26:30While our number five steal rewrote the record books.
26:33Dan Marino becomes the all-time leader in past completions in NFL history.
26:38The Steelers never recovered.
26:40Think about how different things would have been had the Steelers taken Dan.
26:44The last seven years, Chuck Knoll made the playoffs just once, just unheard of.
26:50Was that all because they didn't draft Dan Marino?
26:53Hmm.
26:54My dad was really upset.
26:55He never forgave me about Danny Marino.
26:57Even to the end of the year, he died.
26:59He always said, you should have taken Marino.
27:01Yeah, he shouldn't have forgiven him for not taking Marino.
27:08Plenty of defensive stars have risen from draft obscurity.
27:12Rodney Harrison, the all-time sack leader among defensive backs, was drafted in the fifth round.
27:17Joe Klecko, the sixth.
27:18And the MVP of Super Bowl VII was drafted in round seven.
27:25But those steals never converted doubters like the Deacon.
27:31The number four draft steal of all time.
27:35Deacon Jones.
27:36When you consider what he became, which is one of the greatest defensive ends in the history of football,
27:43you'd have to say getting Deacon Jones in the 14th round ranks is one of the great steals ever.
27:49His college career was obscure.
27:52In 1958, Deacon played for South Carolina State University.
27:56After a year of inactivity, our number four steals suited up for Mississippi Vocational College.
28:01Deacon Jones came from a tiny little college in the South.
28:04Deacon came up the hard way.
28:06Scouting wasn't as technical as it is right now.
28:09I mean, in those days, I was handed a book with a name or two in it and going to
28:13a school and didn't know the heights and weights.
28:16Now you go into some place, they know everything about you.
28:20In this room, you'll strip down and hopefully you'll have some underwear on.
28:24If you don't, I can loan out a couple of these pages to hide your privates.
28:27Deacon was actually discovered by accident.
28:30Some scouts were looking at tape of running backs on another team.
28:34And what they saw was this defensive tackle was actually outrunning the running backs that they were scouting.
28:42Once discovered by the Rams, Deacon was a 14th rounder in the 1961 draft.
28:47Defensive end from Mississippi.
28:50He was unknown, unheralded, unpolished, and overweight.
28:55I wanted to be the best football player when I left home.
28:58Being a 14th round draft choice and a salary of $7,500, the club ain't got very much invested in
29:05me.
29:06So the only chance that I have is to open my mouth.
29:09So I threatened people.
29:10I told them I was going to tear their heads off.
29:12And I did that.
29:16Our number four steals, Head Slap, made believers out of the NFL en route to a Hall of Fame career.
29:24Deacon Jones really was the player who glamorized the pass rusher.
29:28I mean, he was the secretary of defense.
29:31And he had thousands of people in his cabinet.
29:34Competition was what made me go.
29:37And the hate of quarterbacks.
29:40Sacking the cornerback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people.
29:46I mean, it's just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball
29:51bat and beat on the bag.
29:53Okay, we just found the term.
29:55There are some guys who are so good that they could truly play and excel in any era.
30:00And Deacon Jones is one of that group.
30:04The number three draft steal of all time, Terrell Davis.
30:09I can't see.
30:10Okay, just do this.
30:12You don't worry about seeing it on this place because we're going to fake it to you.
30:14The 15 lead.
30:15But if you're not in there, they won't believe we're going to run.
30:18No one could see that Terrell Davis was marked for greatness.
30:22Touchdown!
30:23Yeah!
30:23We don't have Terrell Davis winning the Super Bowl.
30:26To say that we knew he was going to come in and be that type of player, I don't think
30:29we can sit here and say that today.
30:34Everything changed for the Denver Broncos on the second day of the 1995 draft.
30:39And Terrell Davis looked like a running back.
30:43He just ran a 4-6-40.
30:45He ran a slow 40.
30:47And that was slow by even the standards of 30-plus years ago.
30:54Until then, the Broncos and their quarterback, John Elway, were known as big game losers.
31:00And now the Broncos, a troubled team.
31:02Mike Shanahan in 1995 took over an aging, declining 7-9 team without any picks in the top rounds because
31:11of trades.
31:12The Broncos only had a fourth round pick on.
31:14So we were looking for diamonds in the rough, so to speak.
31:19The Broncos found their unpolished diamond in Terrell Davis.
31:23He was the 196th player taken.
31:26We had him ranked as a third round guy.
31:28We weren't looking for a running back at that time.
31:31But the value was so good, we took Terrell in the sixth round.
31:34One of the knocks on Terrell Davis coming out of college is that he was not exceptionally fast.
31:38Terrell ran like in the high 4-6s.
31:41He didn't have, you know, 4-3, 4-4 speed.
31:43He had game speed that you can't clock.
31:52I need a Z!
31:53In the 5 draft, no matter who was on the clock, they passed on our number 3 steal.
31:58Kajana Carter, Tyrone Wheatley, Napoleon Kaufman, James Stewart, Rashawn Salam.
32:05Fifteen running backs went ahead of TD.
32:08A number of no-brainers were total bust.
32:11Kajana Carter blew out his knee.
32:13Two James Stewart's were taken, one by the Jaguars and one by the Vikings.
32:17And the Packers took Travis Jervie instead.
32:22When you get guys that come in as low-round draft picks, they're not guaranteed anything.
32:28They cut six-rounders every day.
32:30They don't cut first and second-rounders.
32:32So they know they're going to have to make an impression every single day.
32:37Absolutely crushed by rookie Terrell Davis.
32:41Like, who is that?
32:42And they're like, that's TD.
32:44That's the running back.
32:45That's the running back.
32:48Mike Shanahan said he wants some people to impress him.
32:53I'm like...
32:54Shannon Sharp earlier on this list right now.
32:58I find it strange that Sharp would be so surprised
33:03at a late-round pick making plays
33:06when he himself was the late-round pick that was making plays.
33:12After I did that, I would be on the lookout for...
33:14Yeah, you got to draft this guy late.
33:20That's going to be our starting running back.
33:23Hand off.
33:23Davis cuts back.
33:24Davis bounces left side.
33:25Here we go.
33:2640.
33:26Midfield.
33:27It's a foot race.
33:2740.
33:2835.
33:2830.
33:2925.
33:3020.
33:3015.
33:3110.
33:32Touchdown!
33:33Terrell Davis, the rookie.
33:35There was nothing that he couldn't do and do well.
33:38He came in as a rookie, handled himself like a 10-year vet.
33:41First guy over 200 yards.
33:43And obviously, game ball for TD.
33:49When we acquired Terrell, it basically took some of the pressure off of John.
33:54He's seen TD, what he did.
33:56He saw Will coming.
33:57He knew he was going to pick it up, so he went weak to pick it up.
34:00Quarterback can only win a championship if he has other pieces around him.
34:05When we showed up that day for the Super Bowl to play Green Bay, that was the first Super
34:09Bowl John was in where he knew he had a lot of help behind him.
34:14Davis.
34:14It is a rocking standing up.
34:17Third rushing touchdown.
34:18That's a Super Bowl record for TD.
34:20He was the difference in the game for us and the difference in John getting that first
34:24championship.
34:25The Broncos are world champions.
34:28You're looking for Terrell Davis every year.
34:30You hope to be that coach sitting in the room that says, hey, we need to give this guy a
34:34look.
34:35I tell our kids every year in training camp, if you can play, you're going to get on that
34:39field.
34:39And he's just a great example of that.
34:42And he did it again, and they did it again better the next year.
34:47Plenty of Super Bowl quarterbacks didn't make our list of top 10 draft steals.
34:53Touchdown Seahawks!
34:54We're going to Detroit!
34:55Matt Hasselbeck went in the 6th round, Brad Johnson went in the 9th, and Hall of Famer
35:00Bart Starr didn't go into the 17th round.
35:03Bart Starr not make the list.
35:07But none of those quarterbacks left their heart in San Francisco.
35:11Montana?
35:14The number two draft steal of all time.
35:17Number two.
35:18Joe Montana.
35:19He wasn't a great player at Notre Dame just by passing through town.
35:23It is great, and it shows up, it showed up there, and it showed up since he's probably
35:27first put on a male supporter.
35:3039 seconds, and Montana will get one throw.
35:33Here's Montana.
35:34Back to throw, Montana.
35:41Walsh came up to the first draft that he conducted.
35:45The 49ers did not have a first-round pick.
35:50Walsh was looking for a quarterback.
35:53The 49ers had Steve DeBerg, who was considered a bright young prospect.
35:57Great throw by Steve DeBerg, Marvette was right on the money.
36:00But we wanted a quarterback that could move better than Steve.
36:04We had to find somebody that others weren't aware of or that we felt had more potential.
36:12What Bill Walsh was always a step ahead at was finding that player, not necessarily who
36:18everyone else thought was NFL-ready, but that he thought he could develop into an NFL star.
36:25Joe Montana played for the most storied program in college football, but scouts had written
36:31off the Notre Dame quarterback as an ordinary Joe.
36:35At quarterback, number three, Joe Montana.
36:38He's got the quick release.
36:40He's going to be a 5-4 quarterback.
36:42The scouting report on Montana was that he was frail and didn't have a strong arm.
36:47Montana was a quarterback who had been very...
36:49He was frail and didn't have a strong arm, but his strength was in the lower torso and
36:59above the neck.
37:02He could run, move in the pocket, move outside, and he could think.
37:09Very erratic in college.
37:12He had some great moments.
37:13And it's a touchdown!
37:15Unbelievable finish.
37:16But he hadn't been very consistent.
37:18His college coach, Dan Devine, I'm convinced to this day, talked him down.
37:23He got to Notre Dame and thought that he was listed as the number 12 quarterback.
37:28Oh, come on.
37:29That's just a story.
37:31He was a part-time starter.
37:32For some reason, I'll never know.
37:34Maybe it was the length of his hair or something.
37:37After a workout, Walsh realized Montana was the perfect quarterback for his West Coast offense.
37:43He worked out Montana.
37:45He liked his athleticism.
37:46He had the quickest feet.
37:48He was the most nimble athlete of his time.
37:50He reminded me of only one man, and that was Joe Namath.
37:53Now our problem was to see how other people felt about him.
37:57We called every team in the league, but we certainly didn't bring up Joe's name right
38:01away.
38:01The best we could do is one team said, well, we might around the fifth round consider him.
38:07After 81 players were drafted, Walsh finally selected our number two steal.
38:13Three quarterbacks were taken ahead of Joe Kuhl.
38:16Phil Simms proved a star in New York, but the throw-in Samoan Jack Thompson only threw interceptions,
38:23and Kansas City's Steve Fuller failed to make an NFL splash.
38:29Montana's selection had the Bay Area scratching its head.
38:34What about Joe Montana and the reasoning behind picking him?
38:37Well, he's been in a great program.
38:41Why would anybody draft anybody?
38:44We think he can play.
38:46It's a dumb question.
38:49...had great success.
38:51He's intelligent and has a certain amount of size and movement, and he throws the ball well.
38:56He just had a good combination that we were always looking for.
38:59The first game Joe started, he didn't do that well.
39:03The season progressed in 1980.
39:06He played more and more and did better, and then there was a game against New Orleans where
39:10we were behind 35-7 at halftime, and Joe brought us all the way back to win the game.
39:16He has Solomon open at the 5, breaks the tackle, throws the outside, touchdown 49ers!
39:22I don't think anybody can go into the stadium against us and feel safe with a victory.
39:27At that point, you had to say, this is going to be a great quarterback.
39:30We don't have any problems at that position.
39:3458 seconds remaining at the 6-yard line of the Dallas Cowboys.
39:38We're going to call a sprint option.
39:40He's going to break up and break into the corner.
39:42Okay, you got it?
39:43The right will clear.
39:44Everything hangs in the balance now.
39:46The season, the outcome of the Super Bowl berth, hangs in the balance.
39:50He has the ball.
39:51Montana rolling out the right.
39:53Looking toward the end zone.
39:55Throwing under pressure.
39:56Throws his pass.
39:56It's called by Clark.
39:58Too Tall says to Joe, you just beat America's team.
40:01And Joe said, well, you can sit at home with the rest of America and watch the Super Bowl.
40:06He was fired up that day, and he wanted it.
40:09Probably to prove everybody wrong.
40:11Everybody that didn't draft him in the first two rounds.
40:14And his coaches at Notre Dame.
40:16Just to show everybody that he was a hell of a player.
40:20To get a guy who was the best quarterback of his era, and some think he may be the best
40:26of all time.
40:27Yes, that is very much of a steal.
40:40I remember the first time he met me, he called me Kyle.
40:42Kyle Brady, the tight end.
40:44He said, hey, Kyle.
40:45And I said, hey, Mr. Kraft.
40:46I said, I'm Tom Brady.
40:47And he goes, oh, yeah, of course.
40:48You know, I know.
40:49You're a quarterback.
40:50I've seen you play.
40:50You're doing a good job.
40:51And I said, well, I just want to tell you, it's one of the best decisions you ever made picking
40:56me.
40:57The NFL's best quarterback was a sixth-round steal.
41:01In the 2000 draft, 198 players were taken ahead of a man named Brady.
41:06Tom was 199th, and I don't think anyone in the NFL, in their wildest dreams, looked at him and saw,
41:13you know, remotely what he became.
41:15Tom Brady has thrown four.
41:17Touchdown passes.
41:18Part of the situation with Tom Brady was he didn't get to play a whole lot at Michigan.
41:23I started as the seventh quarterback on the depth chart.
41:26When I was recruited there the following spring, the head coach was fired.
41:30The guy who recruited me left for Stanford, and the quarterback coach was only there for one year.
41:34I wasn't sure if I was ever going to be able to play.
41:37In Ann Arbor, Brady's leadership skills were overshadowed by Drew Henson's cannon arm.
41:43Touchdown, Michigan!
41:46When Tom Brady played in Michigan, he was solid.
41:50He was reliable.
41:52He never was anything like he was at the NFL level.
41:55Now, I don't know what happened.
41:56I don't know, you know, when a woman grows up and becomes Gisele Bunchen.
42:00I don't know how that happens.
42:02Coincidentally, he later married Gisele Bunchen.
42:07At the 2000 Combine, scouts paid little attention to our number one steal.
42:12If Brady couldn't win the starting job at Michigan, how could he start in the pros?
42:17Teams didn't have a real thorough sense of what he was all about as a quarterback.
42:22His athleticism didn't show up very well.
42:25He did not have the prototypical NFL body.
42:28He came out kind of skinny, and they didn't think he was strong enough.
42:31He didn't run very well.
42:32He got to the Combine and looked pretty slow.
42:36Brady ran the 40 in a pedestrian 5.2 seconds.
42:40You want to see them run 5 or under.
42:44What would he be?
42:44Maybe a backup at best.
42:46Maybe a starter if you really worked with him and developed him.
42:50Only one man saw something in Brady.
42:53The late Dick Rabon, the Patriots quarterback coach.
42:57I sent Dick to see a couple quarterbacks prior to the 2000.
43:03He really came back and felt like Tom would be the best fit for our system and our team.
43:08We had an opportunity to take him.
43:09We took him.
43:10Welcome to the first NFL college player draft of the new millennium.
43:16Part of the reason he lasted for us as long as he did was we had fewer than 40 players
43:21on our roster, and we were $10.5 million over the cap.
43:25One of the positions that we did have filled was quarterback.
43:29Fires, touchdown.
43:30The key fires.
43:31Through Bledsoe's third.
43:33Touchdown.
43:33Pass of the game.
43:34So even though Tommy's name was higher up where he was so much higher than so many of
43:38the other players, we couldn't pass him up any longer.
43:41Six quarterbacks were taken ahead of Tom Terrific, Chris Redman, Mark Bolger, Chad Pennington,
43:48Giovanni Carmazzi, T. Martin, and even Spurgeon Wynn.
43:53How did Spurgeon Wynn get picked ahead of Tom Brady?
43:57That's a question that everybody in the NFL has asked over the last six years.
44:02What they didn't have is what the scouts don't measure, the intangibles.
44:07You can never, ever, ever measure how bad a guy wants it.
44:13When he was a kid, idolized Joe Montana, idolized the 49ers.
44:18His whole life, he wanted to be this.
44:21Brady back to throw.
44:23Shoots it long.
44:24Touchdown.
44:24What a great throw.
44:26Brady looks, fires.
44:27End zone.
44:27Wide open.
44:28Touchdown.
44:30In his second season, Brady replaced an injured Drew Bledsoe.
44:34Brady drops back to throw.
44:35Looks.
44:35Fires right.
44:37Touchdown.
44:38And led the Patriots to a world championship.
44:41And the Patriots are Super Bowl champions.
44:44Our number one draft steal has won two more titles while becoming the second quarterback
44:48to start in five Super Bowls.
44:51Classic case of where the NFL just can't see around the corner and why this thing is not
44:56anywhere near the exact science that they like to pretend it is.
45:00He's become one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, and that doesn't really have anything
45:04to do with Bill and I.
45:05That has everything to do with Tommy Brady.
45:07If we were smart, we would have drafted him sooner than 199th overall.
45:11That's the truth.
45:12And Foxborough loves Tom Brady.
45:15In this year's draft, teams will be picking plenty of blue chippers, but in the end, it
45:21will probably be a draft steal like Tom Brady that makes the difference.
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