#3: Lawrence Taylor | The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players |  

Every left tackle should thank LT for their salaries because he single handedly made them the most important position on the oline

Lawrence Taylor retires All qbs: thank God

"Son, y'all gotta do better than this." That's soul crushing for any offensive player.

What's crazy is...he was only mic'd up for one game, and it was a preseason game against the Jets. And out of that, came three of the most iconic, mic'd up moments in NFL Films history.

He tackles the way a lion kills a wildebeest.

"I did it again, didn't I?"

"Aye son, yal gonna have to do better than this" So subtle, but so *savage* 😅.

People keep talking about how the NFL athletes today are all bigger, faster, and stronger. I have yet to see a player bigger, faster, and stronger than LT in his prime.

We don't even have what you're doing! "Well we better put it in Monday"- LT

Greatest LB of all time easily.

Then: "Every Linebacker now thinks they are worth $900,000!?" Now :Cleveland will pay Brock Osweiler $10 Million to not play"

I could listen to Coach Parcels tell LT stories all day long.

LT changed the very nature of the game.

Three sacks w/ 2 forced fumbles, even with a torn pec. That's all you need to know about LT.

“We don’t even have what you’re doing” 😂🤣😂

LT tackled quarterbacks while defenders were still blocking him! LOL

Greatest defensive player of all time. Period.

"Son, you got to do better than this!" - Hell T 🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Lawrence Taylor represents everything awesome about football

How bad ass is that line from LT after that sack “Son... y’all gotta do better than this.” Damn cold blooded

Best Linebacker I ever saw in my life

GREATSEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF ALL TIME. Everybody who says I'm wrong is either an idiot or never saw LT's pure greatness

I was fortunate enough to watch LT play in his prime. He was definitely the MJ of football. He was just better than everyone else. LT used speed, hands, leverage, and most importantly instincts. Every high paid Left Tackle should thank LT because before LT they weren’t a premium position. He was a natural.

the 80s NFC East, November afternoon at 4:30 pm Giants playing Redskins or Eagles, Madden and Summerall doing the game. what an amazing time

Lawrence Taylor deserved to be number 1

Von Miller's playoff run this past season was the closest thing I've seen to the way L.T played, and he's still not even close. The comparison to J.J Watt isn't fair to either player since Watt plays defensive end and Taylor was an outside linebacker. He'd probably have more sacks now in the pass happy NFL. What gets lost about his greatness was the fact that he often played severely injured (torn hamstring, severe ankle sprains, etc) and was still dominant. With all due respect to Reggie White, Ray Lewis, and Mean Joe Greene, Taylor is by far the greatest defensive player ever to grace the sport of pro football.

GREATEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER EVER!!!! Jaworski still has nightmares about L.T.

Lawrence Taylor is why I started following the NFL. which as a 6 year old kid in the North of England wasn't easy. LT and Warren Moon my 2 childhood favourite players. 36 years later still following the Giants and Titans.

LT was like a pouncing lion. He could not be denied.

As a 50 PLUS-year Cowboy's fan, I'll say LT is the greatest LB I ever saw play.

When you listen to not only his head coach but other head coaches, hall of fame head coaches. They say the same thing. He changed the way the game was played. No one had ever witnessed such athleticism at the linebacker position. Not just that he had great football instincts. He is the last defensive player and the only linebacker to win the N.F.L's regular season M.V.P award. There have been some great players since his time. Michael Strahan even said that he was more proud of breaking L.T's sack record than breaking the regular season sack record held by Mark Gastineau.

Best linebacker in the history of football 🏈 Hands Down 🙌 He changed the game forever He dominated the game at his position and he was unlike anyone else at the pro level before him or since he left

G.O.A.T. Defensive player

I'm a Patriots fan and I loathe the Giants, but this guy is by far my favorite player of all time even ahead of Brady. IMO the greatest football player ever.

Love Bill Parcells as coach...he is a general of a coach...love Lawrence Taylor...1 of a kind. 🏈🏈🏈

The greatest Linebacker ever, no question about it.

i never saw Jim Brown play except for old films but i was in Giant stadium for ALL of LT's career and i saw enough of Jerry Rice to be very familiar w/his skill set and impact. My dad played for Syracuse and watched Jim Brown's whole career. He says LT's the best football player he's ever seen w/Brown a close second. Lt's easily the best football player I've ever seen as well. I have high regard for Rice and believe he's easily in the top 10 but i think he benefitted greatly from having Joe Montana as his QB for most of his career. I think w/a lesser QB his career numbers would be a lot more modest (but still great). Montana had the best timing of any QB I've ever seen. The way he seemed to hit Rice and John Taylor in perfect stride every time was uncanny. I think that added greatly to Rice's staggering TD and yards after catch stats. If he has to slow down or come back for a lot of those catches they become 10 yard gains instead of 90 yard TDs. LT, on the other hand, was gonna be a one man wrecking crew regardless of who he played for. His accomplishments were his alone and relied on no one else to make them. He was routinely double and triple teamed and still made the play. His combo of speed, strength and relentless ferocity has never been approached. His ability to shed the blocker and close on the QB in what seemed like a nanosecond was ungodly. This is why he caused so many fumbles. QB's didn't even have time to tuck the ball and brace for the hit let alone try to avoid the sack. He was like human dynamite: he'd charge the pocket and bodies and footballs would just fly all over the place. He'd toss away 300 lb lineman like they were cheerleaders. I've never seen anyone like him and, considering its been 23 years since he retired, i doubt i ever will.

For everyone who mentions JJ Watt, Khalil Mack and Von Miller just look at this guys credentials. 10x pro bowler, 10 time 1st team all pro, 3 time defensive player of the year and NFL MVP. When those guys accomplish that then you can bring them up in the same sentence. And for all of you that don’t think he could play in today’s game go look at some more of his highlight videos. All of his hits are clean. He’s not a John Lynch who headhunted with every tackle. He wasn’t just a pass rusher either. He was great against the run. Watch his run stopping and goal line defense videos. Running backs didn’t jump over the line on the goal line against LT. He would hammer them. I don’t care how big offensive linemen are now. He was TRIPLE TEAMED on a regular basis and still wreaked havoc. GOAT

Has anyone ever noticed no matter what has Taylor has done that no other player has ever talked bad about him publicly? That to me says it all. He's possibly the most flawed "Hall of famer" ever. Now that shows just how great his football career was. All the talk about how player's character off the field don't even apply to him(and it shouldn't) . That's what I called greatness

I come back here from time to time just to get the chills. What a dope video

If LT played today, Brady, Rodgers, Brees, and Roethlisberger would've retired a long time ago

The best football player regardless of position ever to play

SINGELHANDEDLY made Left Tackles the highest paid offensive linemen in the NFL

Amazing to see how Parcells and Belichick’s eyes light up like children when they talk about LT.

I’m a die hard eagles fan. But man, I love this guy. One of my favorite players ever

As intense as this guy was, he was never dirty. I've never seen a man get to the quarterback as much as LT and set them on the ground so softly. Even that catastrophic hit on Theisman was purely accidental.

2:56 “Hey baby it’s going down like a bunch of crazed dogs, have some fun” ICONIC

3:02 "Son, ya'll gotta be better than this.."

Lol just realized that’s Tony Dungy at the beginning

LT had his share of problems but on the field where it mattered he was the GOAT.

That game against the New Orleans Saints is his legacy game. There's no I mean no defensive player to ever go through that kind of pain and still play that hard in a game. No one.

1:40 this is my favorite Lawrence Taylor story

Bill loved LT like a son 💙

In every poll LT has been ranked the best defensive player in NFL history. One of only two defensive players to ever win league MVP

Just wow. Listening to someone as hard to please as Coach Parcells talk about LT gives you goosebumps.

"I did it again didn't I?" Gotta love the innocence of raw talent

Greatest Defensive Player of all time, his autobiography could be Lawrence Taylor: The Human Nightmare

When you change the way a game is played you should be the greatest. He literally made the tackle position of the most important positions of all time. He made 3-4 outside linebacker one the most seek out player for a draft if you have a 3-4 defense. He changed the game. He's the greatest of all time. Forget greatest defensive player of all time, for someone to change the game and the way you coach, draft and play, you are the greatest ever

LT was a total masterpiece of an athlete, the finest ever, a lion, a shark, a pit bull, a Shaka Zulu with an iron determination, unstoppable will /talent, total focus & built like a powerful angel with a physique sculptures can only dream of

Been intently watching NFL football since 1974. Greatest NFL player I’ve ever watched and it’s not even close.

Truly a legend

LT is the GOAT. He caused sacks to become an official stat. He revolutionized the OLB position and in turn revolutionized the left tackle position. And he was a damn great player. He murdered QBs on a regular basis. No one was better than LT. NO ONE. #BigBluePride #LT #GOAT

Sacks the QB, tells him they need to do better than this. Helps him up only to probably sack him again the very next play. L.T = legendary.

I’m glad I was able to watch LTs entire career. It was a pleasure. Last defensive player to win the MVP. Will always be my favorite football player.

LT turned around one of the worst franchises at that point. The Giants stunk from 64-81 w/ zero playoff appearances. Greatest defensive player I've seen. He changed the way defense is played - after him a lot of teams drafted players like Pat Swilling, Andre Tippet, etc., and used them the same way the Giants used LT.

We haven’t seen a more relentless player like this, probably never will. Special talent. Glad he was part of my favorite Giants! had the best defensive player of all time! Go NYG big Blue! 💙🏈

God that ending gives me chills when they play that music showing a full body pick of Taylor. NFL on point always 💯

i watched him every sunday when he came into the league, and i still remember every sunday was a NFL films Highlight reel just focusing on LT....he was the best player on the field every time he played

Lawrence Taylor, the defensive G.O.A.T. at any position on the defensive side of the ball...period.

"If I hit a guy right, I'll hit a nerve and he'll feel electrocuted"....LT

Best LB of all time and it's not even close... 🐐 💯

I would have added his 98-yard pick-six to the highlights...for no other reason than the fact that it wasn't his normal thing, and he did it like it was nothing.

LT was a cold piece of work. That man was awesome.

LT was the reason I became a football fan. He's the only defensive player I've seen taken over games like an offensive player. LT is also one of those athletes like Jordan, Larry Bird, Griffey, Mantle, Barry Sanders and Walter Payton, when they take over a game it turned sports into a beautiful artful performance.

Those lovely, beautiful almost all white uniforms. Love those Giants late 80s ones. So many dark and black and red uniforms these days. White, a bit of blue, a bit of red....awesome!

Another of my favorite players.

I don’t care what anyone says but lawrence Taylor is the best linebacker and I’ve never seen any linebacker like this

Lawrence Taylor is hands down the best player to play in the NFL. Never seen someone play so well, but be clean while doing it.

GREAT TO HEAR HE TUNA TALK ABOUT LAWRENCE AND EVEN GREATER TO WATCH TAYLOR LOVE THE GAME !!!!

Being a Tampa fan awesome seeing young Dungy

A freak of nature. Greatest OLB in the history of the game.

The GREATEST IMO but I'm bias I'm a Giants fans lol

This man shakes my soul...

Got the chills with this one , LT

NFL should "universally" retire LT's uniform number, 56, across all national football league teams.

Oh yes Lawrence Taylor; as a Cowboy "fanatic" I had a love hate relationship. First I loved his approach to the game, his speed and knowledge where frightening. When an offensive line has to game plan an alter their scheme you quickly free up another player to threaten your QB. His only drawback is that he didn't play for the Cowboys. 🤣

Man.. look at how big their gear was, probably was mad heavy too.

A Dandy indeed! thanks LT!

LT is the greatest defensive player of all time and the second overall greatest of all time. Only the GOAT tops him

I’m a Jets fan but have to admit that Sir Lawrence Taylor is by far, the greatest NFL player of all time.

LT. Last of the throwbacks. Like Jack Youngblood, who broke his leg in a playoff game for the LA Rams. He taped it up, went back in and they won. Then he went on to not only play in the rest of the playoffs, he also won a Super Bowl AND played in the pro bowl right after that. Yeah, LT is one of those legends.

Gave me chills watching this

Imagine a defense with LT on one side and Jack Ham on the other, with Ray Lewis and Lambert in the middle

_Two tight end offenses were literally created because of him._

"I did it again, didn't I?" Lol LT Was a baaaaad man!

That man was awesome!!!

There is no one like LT not anymore in football

I can’t even imagine how valuable was Taylor that 86 season that they have chosen the linebacker to be MVP, just better than everyone else

I'm from Trinidad we don't play football or watch it when I was young but somehow I knew about LT. Must've been some player

Love the coaches face at 2:54 when LT is yelling at Shula about kicking his ass!