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Ted Johnson assembled a list of the players he’d want on his team if he had one game to win it all.
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00:00But if I had one game to win, there's literally no quarterback that anyone should pick other than Tom Brady.
00:06Tom Brady is literally the guy.
00:08And you said, well, I mean, right.
00:11It's not debatable.
00:11That's the one position to me that I don't think is debatable.
00:13And I believe after watching that Atlanta Super Bowl, he solidified.
00:17He is the most clutch player, maybe even player all around player in NFL history.
00:22That was just one of the greatest comebacks.
00:25And he there's it's almost not debatable.
00:27So I was thinking about it.
00:28There are certain players who can have better stats, you know, who could who could be in the league longer.
00:34And when you take a look at it, look like they might be a greater player than another one.
00:38But that might not always be the one you want if you've got one game to win.
00:43So, Ted, I wanted to see if you could come up with the ultimate roster of players that if you've
00:48got one game to win, who would you pick?
00:51This is this was fun and easy.
00:53OK, fun and easy.
00:54I love it.
00:55Very easy.
00:55Because for me, this was not that easy.
00:56Like there's a couple of positions that I had to think.
00:58Did you include coach in here?
01:00And we'll be we've got all we've got all the major positions.
01:03I skipped some of the linemen and stuff because I really don't care.
01:06But let's Johnson, Lane Johnson, of course.
01:09Number one.
01:10All right.
01:10Let's start with the obvious.
01:12Let's start with quarterback.
01:12Who do you have the one who win one game?
01:14What do you got?
01:15I'm going with my guy.
01:16TB 12.
01:17Is there any other guy?
01:18I mean, seriously, to me, that's not even debatable.
01:20But for for this exercise, I got Tom Brady.
01:23Not even a question.
01:24All right.
01:25Two wide receivers.
01:26You have to win one game.
01:27What?
01:27And this, by the way, is like the modern era.
01:29I'm going to say like since the 90s.
01:31Who do you want to pick?
01:32I got Jerry Rice and I got Megatron.
01:34Oh, Megatron.
01:36Those are my two.
01:37On my radar.
01:38Yep.
01:38He had a shorter career because he just hated playing for the Lions.
01:41But he was a guy to me that you would pay money to watch him.
01:45You know, Jones fit in that category for a time.
01:47But there's just wide receivers that were just physically like dominant that that you
01:52just could really change the game.
01:53Not Moss.
01:54Wouldn't it consider Moss?
01:55No, no.
01:56And Moss is obviously he'd be close.
01:58But I've seen Moss quit on his teams before.
02:01Yep.
02:02So I can't get that out of my brain, man.
02:04Megatron's a great one.
02:05Retired way too early.
02:06All right.
02:07Running back.
02:08Tough one.
02:08My favorite running running back of all time.
02:11He comes from an era that maybe is too old.
02:12So I got a second one.
02:13But Earl Campbell was my favorite running back.
02:15OK.
02:15Just obviously.
02:16But to me, the modern day running back's got to be able to catch and run.
02:21And that's why I got Christian McCaffrey as my guy.
02:25Damn it.
02:25I would have picked him.
02:26I put Marshawn Lynch.
02:27By the way, on the current list of, you know, Fowler's got all these lists and they did
02:30running backs.
02:31And I was surprised that he was still as high as he was.
02:34They had for running backs, McCaffrey third, which is still pretty high for how old is he
02:39is, you know?
02:40Well, and for how many hits he's taken.
02:41I mean, we've seen McCaffrey take some unbelievable hits and get back up.
02:45He's a great today's NFL.
02:47You need a good wide receiver out of the backfield, too.
02:49So that's true.
02:50Yeah.
02:50McCaffrey's probably the best.
02:51That's a great one.
02:52All right.
02:53One game to win.
02:54Who are you choosing at tight end?
02:56I got I got Gronk.
02:58There you go.
02:59I could go.
02:59You know, it's a statue.
03:01Tony, you know, it was it was it was a hell of a tight end.
03:04And, you know, obviously, Kelsey.
03:05But to me, Gronk's the best of all of them.
03:07This might be the perfect example of numbers and stats versus pure one game to win it will
03:15and drive.
03:16I think that Kelsey is going to surpass Rob Gronkowski and probably has in a lot of categories.
03:21And when you look at it on paper, you're going to think that he was the best.
03:24But but prime Gronk, you couldn't beat the guy.
03:26He would drag dudes.
03:28He was it was uncoverable.
03:29He was and so was Kelsey to an extent.
03:31But yeah, I agree with you.
03:33Kicker.
03:34It's not even close.
03:35Give me Adam Vinatieri all day, every day.
03:37Speaking of six, flip teams for that year.
03:39Right.
03:40Did that swing Vinatieri going to the Colts for the after you retired?
03:44That's the year after you retired.
03:45He left with the Colts.
03:46Yep.
03:46Yeah.
03:47So that.
03:47But yeah.
03:48Yeah.
03:48He I mean, he wanted to stay here as a Patriots.
03:51But when a dome team calls and wants to pay you more than what the Patriots are often,
03:55then you go to that dome team.
03:56You're going to the Hall of Fame.
03:58I am not.
03:58I was going to thought about it and it just it's not going to work out.
04:02OK.
04:02At least you reached out.
04:03That's cool.
04:04Yeah.
04:04No, it's awesome.
04:04I love A.V.
04:05Yeah.
04:05I just still think to this day it was one of the most embarrassing thing that New England
04:11fans have ever done is to boo Vinatieri when he came back.
04:13I didn't get it.
04:13And bizarrely, he was not in the Patriots Hall of Fame yet.
04:16So he's going to go in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but he's not currently at Foxborough.
04:19I didn't even think about that.
04:20He's on the Patriots Hall of Fame.
04:21Because they only let like one guy in a year and it's just bottlenecks.
04:24But Vinatieri.
04:25I know.
04:25I mean, like I.
04:27It was Brady.
04:28And now it's Gronk.
04:29And so it's he's stuck.
04:30All right.
04:31By the way, that's a rule they can change.
04:33They own the team.
04:34Like, that's a rule.
04:36I changed the rule.
04:37Right.
04:37It's.
04:38Oh, sorry.
04:39Yeah.
04:41Let's go to corner.
04:42Who do you got?
04:43Got to win one game.
04:44Well, I got two corners because there's two in the playing game.
04:46I got the tie law and Daryl Green are my two corners.
04:50OK.
04:51Right.
04:51Not Revis.
04:52No, no, no, not Revis.
04:53Dale Green, 20 years in the league.
04:55He was.
04:56I mean, he's to me, he's more decorated than Revis.
04:58Yeah.
04:59You know, but it's called Revis was excellent.
05:01And I also liked the other free corner they brought in.
05:05Why can't I think of his name?
05:06Who I liked a lot.
05:07But Stefan Gilmore.
05:08Stefan Gilmore.
05:08Yeah.
05:09I thought it was excellent.
05:09But give me tie law.
05:10Daryl Green.
05:11Linebacker.
05:12Who do you got?
05:12So I'm going inside and outside.
05:14I'm going 52.
05:16Ray Lewis.
05:16Oh, no.
05:17You got Ray Lewis?
05:18I got Ray Lewis at inside.
05:19I got Junior Seau at outside.
05:21OK.
05:21It sucks I got to agree with you on Ray Lewis because I can't stand the guy.
05:24He's phenomenal.
05:24Yeah.
05:25He was.
05:25I mean, he was the best I've ever seen play inside linebacker.
05:28And Junior played outside and inside.
05:31But I'll put him as an outside.
05:32Why was Ray like a step above inside?
05:34I mean, because he had because there was zero weakness.
05:37You didn't come off the field on first, second, third or fourth down.
05:41He was just as good of a pass defender as he was instinctual run defender.
05:48So there was zero weakness in it.
05:50He could blitz.
05:51He could cover.
05:51He could tackle.
05:53So he had all the tools to be the best inside and linebacker.
05:57The best is when you talk to guys who played with Ray Lewis.
06:00They were like as tough as he was after maybe about a season.
06:04Every time he would come into the locker room and try to do one of those
06:07rousing speeches, everyone unanimously would just roll their eyes.
06:10Well, they went on for like 10 minutes.
06:12He's a gospel sermon.
06:13He could stop him from making those speeches.
06:14And he never did, man.
06:15Nope, he never did.
06:16All right.
06:17Let's go with safety.
06:18Who do you got?
06:19So I got two safeties.
06:20I got Ronnie Lott and I got Rodney Harrison.
06:22Okay.
06:23All right.
06:24I don't think you can argue with either one of those.
06:27This is a tough one.
06:29Defensive end.
06:30So I got two defensive ends.
06:32I got Reggie White and J.J.
06:35Watt.
06:35You got J.J.
06:36Watt.
06:36Those are my two.
06:37I've gone on record saying J.J.'s the best football player I've ever seen.
06:41Wow.
06:42I mean, there were seasons, probably about two back-to-back, where he was unstoppable.
06:48Absolutely unstoppable.
06:49I think there's three defensive players that have won defensive MVP three times in their
06:54career.
06:54One is Lawrence Taylor.
06:56Another one is our boy there out in St. Louis.
07:01Why am I forgetting the defensive tackle?
07:03I'm forgetting his name.
07:04And then also J.J.
07:05Watt.
07:06So to win three defensive MVPs in your first five years, J.J.
07:10Watt.
07:10Aaron Donald.
07:11Aaron Donald.
07:12Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:12Aaron Donald.
07:13Isn't he considering coming back?
07:15Yeah.
07:15Did you see this?
07:16He's in the weight room.
07:18Yeah.
07:18And his girlfriend's posting videos of him looking like he's trying to get in game
07:22shape.
07:23I don't know.
07:24That just smells disaster, doesn't it?
07:25Doesn't it seem like Conor McGregor going back into the arena and popping his
07:29knee out?
07:29How long has he been out?
07:30Like three years?
07:31But he left with a lot of fuel still in the tank, I think.
07:34When do you see that happen, where someone takes a year or two off and they come back
07:38and they're good?
07:40I don't know.
07:41Good question.
07:42Who was the running back, the brother for the Giants, tried to come back after his
07:47media career, didn't he?
07:48Oh, yeah, yeah.
07:50I don't think the success rate's very high.
07:52It doesn't happen often.
07:53And there's someone.
07:54Oh, man.
07:54Someone did that recently.
07:55And it was a disaster.
07:57Oh, I know it.
07:58It was.
07:58I remember every year everyone was like, oh, Colin Kaepernick, bring him back.
08:01And my dude, once you're out of the league, it's like there's.
08:04And you would notice Brady and Jordan kind of technically both let him retire.
08:07And then you had our boy, our miss.
08:09It was a bolo tie wearing from the St.
08:13Diego Chargers that went to the.
08:14Oh, Philip Rivers.
08:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:16That's true.
08:16He was respectable anyway.
08:18He came back and he was not right.
08:20I don't know about that.
08:21That was a cool story, though.
08:21But Aaron Donald could play 10 snaps, I think, and still be a factor.
08:25That's all you need.
08:26Put him in for 20%, 20% of the plays, he could probably do that.
08:28Listen, you would know this better than anybody, but I got to think there's some psychological
08:31thing that when you leave, it's like your body has basically just convinced itself you're done.
08:37Believe it or not, it takes a couple years.
08:39Wow.
08:39Or you'll watch football for two years after you retire and think you can still, I can still
08:43do that.
08:43I can still do that.
08:44That's how guys think.
08:44Wow.
08:45Roddy Dangerfield back to school did the triple Indy, came right out of the stands.
08:48That's the greatest example.
08:50They needed him back.
08:50All right.
08:51And finally, you got one game to win.
08:54What coach are you picking?
08:56You want to go first?
08:58I mean, what do you mean you want me to go first?
09:01Of course it's Bill.
09:02It's Bill and Brady.
09:03If you're going to have Brady as your quarterback.
09:04You know, I'm a big fan of Dick Vermeule.
09:06Dick Vermeule would be my coach.
09:07That would be my one coach.
09:09Jason Garrett.
09:10Okay.
09:11All right.
09:11Bill Parcells.
09:12Bill Parcells.
09:13All right.
09:13Bill Parcells.
09:14Bill Parcells.
09:15All right.
09:15Bill Parcells.
09:16I'll take it.
09:17Without a doubt.
09:18All right.
09:18Bill Parcells.
09:18That's a good team.
09:19That's a good team.
09:20That's the, if you've got to win one game, the one game to win team.
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