Yes and no. He was versatile but he got beat over the top a ton. Loved him, but teams that could knew where he was so they could go after him in the pass game. Amazing tackler, great player.
Still there's no better safety duo then Roy Williams and Darren Woodson..... those were two bone breaking, concussion making hard hitting safeties!! Loved watching those two on the field !!!
Yeah, I had forgotten how devastating those two were when both were on the field. Those were consistently bone-jarring hits. Let's also not forget another favorite Madden player in the Cowboys backfield and special teams.....Bill Bates. Little guy........but a f$#%ing animal.
An argument can be made for 'The Soul Patrol'....George "The Hitman" Atkinson and Jack "The Assassin" Tatum at Safety positions for the Raiders in the '70s
Hines ward is my favorite receiver of all time. He gets speared after dropping the ball right in the back, looks behind him,probably smiles and pats roy on the helmet. They don't make em like they used to. I have a Hines ward card and he's catching the ball while diving completely horizontal. Full arm extension and he is historically laughing as he caught it. Him and Larry Fitz were different like that. Roy Williams was an intimidator. He'd pull off a handful of picks each season too.
That hit would've laid 99% of wide receivers out cold. Helmet to helmet, back of the head... Hines Ward looks back and does as you say. What an absolute legend. Respect from a Cowboys fan.
This the man the NFL changed and had to put rules in place for. His style of play was his own and once they made the league into a powder puff league Williams play on the field was less and less impactful. Williams in my eyes is and was the first player to suffer from not being able to play his style of football because of the rules. He never was the same player after and when he was a Bengal it showed.
Saw him hit Jerry Rice along the sideline in Seattle. Thought it broke Jerry in half. Jerry got up like it wasn’t a big deal. One of the loudest hits ever.
I've never seen a collection of hits this hard from one player before. Some look like a torpedo being fired at a dinghy. You'll never seen a grown-ass man running full speed being instantly reversed in direction like in these hits. Regarding coverage, I do remember Williams being burned on deep balls quite a few times. The intimidation of knowing he was back there though had to be huge. I know that Madden loved him.
I got three concussion and a back injury just from watching the slow motion videos that they couldn't show at regular speed because they would have to find and reinstate him just to kick him out of the NFL !!!!!
If I had to play against this dude I’m sitting out that week. No way. Just no. I mean he’s not letting nothing go. He’s throwing his entire body into everything he gets a chance to.
Yeah today NFL sucks they cry about the concussions not to sound none symphonic but I don’t care cause they get money and choose to play the game it’s a risk so bring back the mans game. I had to play it when I was a kid hard ass tackles and live with the consequences
stumbled on to this video..... and, thank goodness for the new rules. Everyone of his 'hits' are helmut to helmut. I have watched the NFL for years and never realized what was going on. Maybe 15 years from now, our numbers will be down on CTE. A 2023 report found CTE in 345 out of 373 NFL deceased players. Roy was great and played under the rules of the day.... it's safer now.
No we tried him in that role in 2007 and 08 and he failed miserably. I thought it would be a match made in heaven just like Keanu Neal but both bombed pretty bad. Takeaway... Sometimes oversized slower physical safties suck as undersized LB's. Sameway some slower CB's can't make the transition to safety.
Almost every one of those hits would draw a flag today. I understand the league cracking down on excessive hits, but at the end of the day football is a violent sport.
I never saw anyone absorb a hit from Roy and fall forward, he always stopped them where the contact occurred and often separated the player from the ball. Played back in the day when hard hits were allowed, he'd be too violent for today's powder puff rules.
He was just awesome to watch play the game his hard hitting style was unmatched and the powder puffs in the league's front office got scared and changed the rules so we can't see these type of hits anymore which sucks. They left out one of his best hits in college football called the superman play against Texas.
I honestly thought he was going to be one of the best defensive players in NFL history but when he lost a step and started getting beat on the long ball he was done! But #31 was the hammer and the nails though! Great music to this video!
@@RockwellJunya true.. but early on, especially when Woodson was still there, he actually had some nice interceptions.. but for the most part, coverage wasn’t good
I wish there was a highlight reel of receivers dropping passes when Roy Williams was just in the vicinity. Did he get beat over the top? Sure, but not a lot of yards were given up by the Dallas Cowboys' defense over the middle during Williams' years on the roster. So many times receivers flinched from hits that never even came...
Roy was a walking highlight reel for big hits. It's like he had the fkn cheat for jacking people up. Unarguably one of the most vicious hitters of all time. #31 DC4L
RW made watching defense more exciting than watching the offense. Thise receivers got alligator arms when he was on the field because they knew there was a big price to pay.
Im a Cowboy fan & Roy was just one of a Handful of Hard Hitters. You had Dick "Night train" Lane, Steve Atwater, John Lynch, Ronnie Lott, Sean Taylor, Kam Chancellor, Brian Dawkins, & Rodney Harrison, but the Hardest Hitter of them all & His nickname is Mr. Death or Dr. Death or The Assassin aka JACK TATUM. All of The above are good but then You have Jack Tatum who was in a class by Himself.
You could tell the impact he had just being on the field with how many of the receivers dropped passes right in their hands they were afraid to get hit by him
I just don’t understand why as the game evolved, why they didn’t explore Roy as a linebacker? He had the body and the strength to make that type of transition.
EVERY ONE OF ROY'S HITS IS "HELMET TO HELMET"...THE CROWN OF THE HELMET AT THAT 👌🏿. HITTING FACE UP IS ONE THING (THAT'S ALL I DID) LEADING WITH THE TOP OF YOUR "HAT" IS SOME OTHER SHIT.
ahhh i remember roy williams. he is the reason why the nfl is so soft now. because of him the league has so many rules towards hitting and protecting players
I'm so f**ked up by the "new" NFL.. that while watching this in full; I was expecting to see a flag on every hit!!! I love some Roy Williams, now-a-days he wouldn't have any amount of paycheck left after the fines
My man, this video would be great of you didn't constantly zoom the view....just makes it dizzying and too hard to to track play movement. Less is more bud.
