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.

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