I watch this video every year just for the Tommy Maddox segment. Truly an amazing story. Then collegiate overachiever comes out early only to fail. Except he had a hunger, a dawg, in him and only rose back up to win an NFL playoff game after a tremendous season. Beautiful redemption story.
Jonas Gray, Running Back for the New England Patriots. Week 11, 2014 vs. Colts. He ran for 199 yards and 4 touchdowns landing him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Their next game he was benched for missing a team meeting during the week, then relegated to backup when the Patriots resigned LeGarrette Blount. Gray was then released the next year. He finished his career with 5 touchdowns, all of them during the 2014 season, and 4 of them in one game.
Orange Fox True. Whenever somebody leaves New England they seem to fall off the map. Malcolm Butler’s had an ok career, but he’s really only known for one play. And Danny Amendola hasn’t done much since he left either.
@@3rdDrawerDown Danny could've been solid in Dallas if they had used him right ugh. Deion Branch. Jamie Collins. I'd have to go over a large list. A lot of guys were good there and then not good everywhere else.
Greg Cook was just amazing. That guy had everything. Ideal size, great arm, accuracy, escapability. One of the few first year QB's who could go to his second and third options if the first guy was covered. He took a team that was pretty bad and had them thinking they could win every game. I really think he would have been one of the top five ever. What a long passer he was.
Here's one: Chris Matthews in Super Bowl XLIX for Seattle. He caught 4 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown against the Patriots, and was frustrating New England enough that they started using Revis to cover him. Didn't do a damn thing after that game lol
To me the Percy Howard story is incredible. An undrafted free agent for the Cowboys in 75 he never played college football. He hadn't played football since high school! He hardly got a look in during his rookie season and played almost exclusively on special teams. His first ever (and last ever) catch in the NFL is a touchdown in the Super Bowl and on the penultimate play he has a great chance to catch the Hail Mary that the Steelers defenders miss and then watch bounce off Howard's helmet. After this game injury ruins what career he could have had but his cameo in Super Bowl 10 is nothing short of remarkable. It's a bit sad to me that his name is not as well known as it should be as this is one of the great Super Bowl stories.
Ickey Woods: "I'm 40, now & I don't do 'The Ickey Shuffle', anymore, dude...". (**GEICO commercial shows Ickey Woods doing 'The Ickey Shuffle' in a supermarket, many years later.**.). Me: "So much for that...".
People forget this, but Larry Brown made some huge interceptions during his career in Dallas - not just in Super Bowl XXX. As a matter of fact he made the game changing interception to get there in the 1995 NFC Championship against Favre and the Packers.
He was a solid number two corner in a zone scheme and it’s pretty debatable whether he should still be on this list compared to guys like David Tyree and Malcom Smith
He and Alvin Harper have interestingly simaler career arcs. Both had success in Dallas as a number two option behind a Hall of Famer, both got paid big money to be a number one option somewhere else, and both failed to live up to expectations.
@@TheRealRMG Brown and Harper aside, and they were not game changers, someone please tell me what makes Sanders and Irvin so special. Cocaine? Both are complete scumbags. Something at least Harper and Brown cannot say. Irvin especially, I see that thug ramble on on the NFL network, and I change the channel. What a couple of pieces of crap
@@YakeTalkSports he had a good run before on the Broncos, before Peyton Manning came back. He then got four year 72 million dollar contract and he barely won games, and the players quit on him.
Clint Longley was Danny McBride playing Kenny Powers before the show was even thought of. How do we not have a skit of Clint Longley listening to his own motivational tapes in his truck after that Redskins game and then punching out Staubach? Phenomenal
Clint Longley was my 2nd least favorite player on this list (behind only Rob Johnson, who barely qualifies at all because...what WAS his one-hit, winning a meaningless Week 16 game for Jacksonville when they rested Mark Brunell ahead of the playoffs?) but I was relieved a few years ago when a reporter confirmed the guy was still alive.
Wade Phillips is the perfect example of an amazing assistant coach who is the best when he's just dealing with that one aspect of the game. Too many assistant coaches become head coaches biting off more than they can chew.
His rookie year around game 6 week i was at the mall shopping with my wife. She went into a ladies shop looking at clothes and I stayed out front leaning up against the wall. I looked to my right and standing beside me was a big guy in sweat pants that said Las Vegas on them. I looked him in the face and realized it was Ickey Woods. I started to say something and he quickly put his finger over his lips to say suzzz. I smiled and left him alone and when his girl came out he turned and said " Thanks, Merry Christmas" and left.
🤣🤣🤣 Hahaha. They'd been better off with Doug Flutie instead of Rob Johnson. The Bills continued looking for a QB until Josh Allen (at least he's playing like the QB they've been looking for since Jim Kelly retired in February 1997).
Greg Cook was an amazing player but unfortunately had his career cut short by injury. If there were the same surgical techniques and rehab routines like there are today he could've been a first ballot hall of famer
Probably taking Trumpy with him. Notice on those clips who is catching a lot of those passes (Trumpy was number 84). Bradshaw (who was top overall pick in '70) and Cook would have had some kind of duels in the 70s as they were very similar QBs and would play twice a year in the AFC Central..Bengals also got Issac Curtis in the early 70s who was their top WR for years.
Maybe if Greg Cook never gets injured: maybe Bill Walsh never leaves Cincinnati and the 49ers dynasty probably never happens: by the 70s Walsh was already running elements of the West Coast offense or as Belichick calls it the Ohio River offense with the Bengals and was known to give the Steel Curtain fits; a lot of What Ifs without question
What I like about this list (and it's a terrific overall Top 10 presentation) is how it shows there are a lot of legitimate ways an NFL player could be a one-hit wonder. Some of these guys had decent and unspectacular careers and rose to the spectacular moment when it mattered most, like Mike Jones and Larry Brown. Some of them were terrific talents who were robbed by injuries, like Preston Howard and Greg Cook (G-d I felt terrible for Cook, who did nothing wrong and could do nothing to save his career). And yes, some of these players were exposed as frauds, like Rob Johnson and Clint Longley. Different in so many ways except that their stars shone supernova-bright and then imploded into complete darkness.
I agree about Cook so much. I had never heard of him! And I've followed football closely for over 30 years. I wish I had known of him. As his segment starts, with everyone saying he could have been one of the greats, you're like "ya ya, let's see". Sure enough, I see what they meant. Such a shame. Injuries robbed so many people of their talent. Me included :(
@@vernalgrenier3369 lol I live in missoula, hes a local legend here. Only handful of players here made to nfl but he is prob the most locally known. Hally turkey day to all also :)
That set that franchise back a bit. They had Virgil Carter (The first great BYU quarterback) who was decent, but they had to wait for Kenny Anderson to develop. It took them 13 years to get to their initial Super Bowl.
Helped that Bill Walsh was the OC. If Paul Brown hadn't been passed by by the changes in the game when he finally retired, Walsh would have been Bengals coach instead of Bill Johnson, and no one would ever have heard of Joe Montana. Oh, and the Atlanta Falcons wouldn't have had to fire Leeman Bennett, since SF wouldn't have become a dynasty in their division. Cook's injury was a small hinge on a big door.
Its so crazy to think that just back in 2002 Tommy Maddox's 3,000 yards and 20 TD's was considered an aerial assault. QB's get cut for those numbers now 😂👀
Harry Engel .... Bettis was splitting time by then. Considering that it was a Bill Cower Steelers team, that year was ABSOLUTELY a pass heavy offense comparatively
MikeDixonComedy.... 3000 yards and 20 TD were HUGE numbers for a Steelers QB. We were SO quarterback starved after Bradshaw retired in '83 that we thought Bubby F'n Bristers 2700 yards 20td -14int made him Joe Montana, THEN we had Neil O'Donnells 2970 17-7 which made him the 2nd coming!! After Kordell wasted one of the best defenses in history and a prime Bettis with some of the worst qb play EVER, Maddux's play was the best we'd seen in 20 years and it wasn't close. If not for Ben, Maddux would have had statues built for him in Pittsburgh
You also have to realize that it was with Pittsburg. While Bill Cowher wasn’t Chuck Noll, he was still a conservative coach. Heck, today, Mike Tomlin isn’t wide open offensively. Even in their last Super Bowl win, an option pass from Antwann Randel-El might have been their key offensive play. My point is, for Pittsburg, those numbers were wide open, especially for that time. At that point, 3000 yards was still a big deal and anything above 20 touchdowns was a pretty good year, so with a run first franchise, that year was a passing bonanza.
He had 16 picks too. I saw something the other day that 02 and those early 2000s like 15 teams had qbs with double digit ints and now the efficiency is so much better there were maybe 6 or 7 I think in either 2019 or 2020 I don't remember the exact years they used.
I agree. Cook was a tragedy he doesn't really belong on the list because he had talent to be more than 1 shot wonder compared to the others on the list maybe with 1 or 2 players as exceptions but Cook was in a class of his own. The problem was the injury it ruined him on the field and off it. The league would be different if he played and showed the potential that people believed he had. Mind you it was injury that could be fixed now compared to back them when no one knew how fix or even find it. R.I.P Greg Cook
Maybe, but he was really damn good. Led the AFL in passer rating by 10 points his rookie year. I think it's a matter of preference, but I think that guys who either have the Larry Brown kind of experience who get overvalued or the Greg Cook "what if" scenario are feasible one-shot wonders. What don't really qualify for me is the Mike Jones/David Tyree type.
Man I feel like this show would really thrive nowadays, since it basically predicted/predated the "Listicle" wave of entertainment that would come to conquer media for a while. There are so many unused ideas for lists they could do and it's been long enough that they could totally go through with a *huge* revamp of several of these old ones. Just think of the many one shot wonders we've seen in the last fifteen years or so: Peyton Hillis, Jonas Gray, Chris Mathews (Seahawks receiver in SB 49), Jimmy Garapolo, RG3, Chip Kelly (I realize you could arguably debate this one, but he only made the Playoffs one time), Matt Flynn, Mitch Trubusky, Doug Marrone, Case Keenum, Joseph Fauria...And so many more
@@Aramis262 TL,DR: Yeah in the time since my comment he has continued to be more and more consistent. I'm actually pulling for him to finish strong and for his career to truck on for a few more years! And when I listed him I was just running off the first few names that came to mind, plenty of others more deserving of being called a One Shot Full/overlong thoughts: Yeah he's definitely having something of a "bounce back" season, though he's still kind of unruly when it comes to season-long performance/consistency. His play has ranged from *strong* to *head scratching* week to week. I'd love to see him pull it all together, for a variety of reasons. Above all I never wish for an athlete (Or anyone) to have their career/potential derailed by injury, but particularly with Jimmy G I think he's a fun personality that's easy to root for and the flashes he showed in his early starts were quite strong. He has intermittently displayed both the arm talent and mental game needed to be a Top 10 QB in the league, he's just never really put it all together for a full season outside of 2019 Again, there's certainly been some outside influence there between injuries and occasionally uncharacteristically befuddling leadership/playcalling from Shanahan (Who I also like), *but* Jimmy G has also consistently sandwiched his top level performances between truly bench-level play. Im guessing it's at least a little bit in his head which would reflect in his increasing comfort as the season goes on (And he gets further from an off-season that saw his replacement drafted 3rd overall) showing in the overall increasing level of play from him. He's still showed some head slappers, but in the time since my initial comment it looks more and more like he'll finish strong maybe with a showing in the Playoffs From there who knows. I'm sure a team like the Browns or maybe even WFT would jump on him. But, yeah, he has at least escaped being a one shot wonder lol
If Greg Cook wouldn't have gotten injured then the Bengals wouldn't be such a laughingstock. They probably would have a superbowl or 2. He was a talented QB with a rifle arm lost to a torn rotator cuff and the primative surgical equipment of the 70's.
Back then the arthroscope hadn't been invented yet so surgeries that now would be minimally invasive were ridiculously invasive. It was like let's take this out, let's saw that, how about a screw maybe two here
Greg Cook’s story is tragic. You can blame the Chiefs if you want but injuries like that could’ve happened and the medical technology was not advanced enough to help Cook. If they did try to have surgery his elbow would have been destroyed beyond belief back then
Eh, Bengals always say this but they had an arguably HOF level QB in Ken Anderson for much of the 70s and he led them to a Superbowl in 81 (they lost). They had Boomer Esiason and Sam Wyche at Coach, and one of the Top WRs of the 80s in Collingsworth and they went to the Superbowl in 88 (they lost). They were the worst team in the 90s and early 00s but since 03 they've had a string of talented QBs, and WRs (Palmer, Dalton, and now Burrows) Cook's throwing motion being similar to Bradshaw is not evidence they'd have been the team of the 70s, Bradshaw was not the reason the Steelers won 4 Superbowls. Having something like 7 HOFers on the Steel Curtain Defense was.
Well done. First, the amazing thing about Cook and that first season was that the Bengals were an expansion team yet they made the playoffs. Now, as a Cowboys fan, I have interest in 30% of your entries. First, Percy Howard nearly catching the winning pass in Super Bowl 10.confirms what I said about the Steelers-Cowboys Super Bowl rivalry. To this point, the Steelers are ahead 2-1, but it is much closer than that. The Cowboys are +2 overall in point differential for those games. We won once by ten and Pittsburg won twice by 4 with us throwing into the end zone at the End of each loss. The Clint Longley selection brings up 2 points. First, that game was the initial flash of the late game playmaking ability of Drew Pearson. Second, Clint Longley got dumped for two reasons. You didn’t do that to Roger in Dallas and, they now had Danny White to replace him since the WFL had folded. Finally, Larry Brown was very serviceable the year he won the Super Bowl MVP. I was disappointed he chose to go to free agency but he lost perspective. Anyone who played opposite Deion was going to get plenty of chances to make big plays. Plus Neil O’Donnell gave him two gifts. I loved it, but I still don’t know what Neil saw when he let those balls go. It was obvious there was miscommunication, but it was apparent from the start of each play. Things weren’t going to get corrected, so go to another receiver, run, or take the sack. But, in the end. Thank you, Neil O’Donnell.
I have watched this video several times. I am truly happy that these players got to shine even at least for a brief time with the exception of Jim O’Brien because I am a Cowboy fan. LOL !! But at least they all got their moment in the sun. I am also truly saddened that some of these men made some catastrophic and disastrous choices later on after their big moments that had extremely negative and adverse effects on their lives. And I wonder what ever became of Clint Longly and just how Greg Cook’s career would have turned out if he had been able to stay healthy ?
Longley was stuck behind Staubach-no way he is dislodging number 12 in Dallas, plus he punched his ticket out of Dallas literally by fighting Captain America #dumbmove
IMO: Greg Cook and Bo Jackson are the biggest "What if's" as individual players in history of the NFL. Bo being one of the most gifted runners ever. (If he focused soley on football of course) We could be talking about him surpassing Jim Brown as the best running back and having the all the time rushing record. Greg Cook who had the talent and intangibles to be the greatest quarterback ever. He may have reached heights that Joe Montana didn't. NFL history could've looked a lot different if these two guys were not robbed by injuries.
Scott Mitchell was a good Quarterback for the lions 🦁 in 1995 Threw for over 4K yards & 32 touchdowns Led the lions 🦁 to the playoffs that year also Pretty much a one year wonder
Also had the NCAA record for passing yards in a game (705) for awhile, breaking a record I watched set in Ohio Stadium in a loss by Dave Wilson of Illinois (625 yards).
He’s a textbook pick for this list. Only reason the lions gave him a big contract in FA was cause he played great for the Dolphins the year before when Marino was hurt.
Ur awesome man, Keep the top 10s coming I’m loving them during the quarantine!!! Cud u pls try to find gunslingers, CB tandems , comebacks, and curses lol keep doing ur thing man!!
Perfect that Trumpy is talking about Cook right before a highlight where Cook rifles one to Trumpy (84) against the Oilers for a TD. You wonder not only how great Cook could have been but what Trumpy's numbers would have been as a TE with a healthy Cook. Not to mention Paul Brown would almost have HAD to name Bill Walsh as HC when Brown retired in the mid 70s and you'd have the West Coast offense in Cincy.
THEY SHOULD'VE WON THE GAME ANYWAY, THEY LOST ON A QUESTIONABLE PLAY...DOUG FLUTIE COULDN'T EVEN WIN THE TWO PLAYOFF GAMES HE DID START...HE'S A NICE GUY BUT HE SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE CFL, WHERE HE WAS AN AMAZING QUARTERBACK.
@@mrtnt3462 LOL!! WHen he came too the Bills he was 36 years old and had a 21-9 W-L record in his 3 seasons in Buffalo. In the one playoff game he played in for the bills he threw for 360 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT vs Marino. Flutie was a leader and brought a winning attitude. Rob Johnson cant hold a candle to him.
Damn Rashaad Salaam, I was too young to remember if he was good or not in Chicago, just his name was in the paper or news 24/7. Of course not for beating his lady in an elevator or jumping a delivery truck driver.... at least I don't think so
Jerome Harrison should be on this list from a back up HB to a game with 280 plus yards just return to Earth after one other solid game never again repeating the same level of success that he found momentarily early on.
Robert Griffin III. He was a one-shot wonder for the Washington Commanders in 2012, Took Command in his rookie year to a 10-6 finish guiding them to the 2012 NFL playoffs. And got a Pro Bowl selection that same year.
I crack up when NFL Films plays the soundbite from Darrell Green about how he didn't remember seeing Timmy Smith again after that season and Super Bowl 22. Smith started 8 games at running back the next season in 1988. Granted that's not much, but it included 100 yard games against the Giants and Eagles, which at last check weren't defenses that sucked, and were much better than the Broncos. Clearly the O-Line was great, and he never lived up to any hype or repeating the Super Bowl, but you'd think Darrell Green might at least possibly/maybe/kinda remember a guy who he practiced against when the 1st Team D faced the 1st Team O 6 months after you won the Super Bowl.
Here’s another one shot wonder: Jerome Harrison. Was a backup for the Browns for the first 3 seasons. Then in 2009, he rushed for 286 yards and 3 TDs late in the season (could’ve had a shot at 300 yards). Then nothing after that
He was a tragedy he doesn't really belong on the list because he had talent to be more than 1 shot wonder compared to the others on the list maybe with 1 or 2 players as exceptions but Cook was in a class of his own. the problem was the injury it ruined him on the field and off it. The league would be different if he played and showed the potential that people believed he had. Mind you it was injury that could be fixed now compared to back them when no one knew how fix or even find it.
Yeah he had solid numbers for that era. He probably would have had a pretty good career. He led the AFL/AFC in Passer Rating in his rookie year by almost ten points.
Matt Flynn would be a good one if they re-did this list now. He was like the Rob Johnson of the 2010s....Started the last game of the 2011 season, played really well, got a big new contract from Seattle to be the starter, then lost the job to Russell Wilson, and was basically then a backup for the rest of his career.
Flynn was very much like the Rob Johnson of the 2010’s, only unlike Buffalo, Seattle gave the reigns to the player who played better without much hesitation, even though they paid the other player a significant contract.
@@fortynights1513 Yep. I remember Pete Carroll got killed at the time by the media for choosing Russell Wilson over Flynn, but he was right all along. But yeah, Matt Flynn really did get rich off one game, much like Rob Johnson did.
Maybe because it was just one play, but that was the key play in a monumental game, where New England went from the alltime record to just holding the regular season record and ending 17-1. Incidentally, Tyree did make a few big catches now and again over the next few years, but never anything quite that big again.
@@redwingsfan3621 Winslow was 80s - was a rookie in 1979 - and had a better QB throwing to him. With a little rearranging of events, Trumpy might have been remembered as Dwight Clark is.
There's a little bit of Dave Cook in all of us. Unlike the other players on the list, he was more honored as a one shot wonder because the guy was really good. I plan to read about him a bit more because he played way before I was born. It's a sad story. What could have been.
Honorable mention: Charles Rogers (2nd overall pick 2003) Us Lions fans were drooling after his first game. It was absolutely incredible! Also struggled with addiction. RIP 🙏
I would’ve added David Tyree. Made arguably the greatest catch and SB play of all time in Super Bowl 42, as well as the Giants’ first touchdown, and that was the last catch of his career. He was cut and picked up by the Ravens, where he did virtually nothing of note.
I don't know that I'd call Larry Brown a one shot wonder. He came up big in a few conference title games. (Including picking off Brett Favre to seal the deal in the '95 NFC Championship game.)
and he generally had a solid 5 year run as a starter on the Cowboys. then he signed his big free agent deal and got injured and never came back to form. But I think that's actually a very, verrrry normal NFL player type story and not worthy of mention on this list. I think it got boosted in importance b/c of the SB performance AND the launch of free agency right after that so he was one of the prominent players to be available and got some media attention at the time, so it kinda inflates things in the grand scheme and rankers compiling this list back in like 06/07 would have been more familiar w/ that than we would be now
I have one that might work if they redo it - Paul Justin for the Colts in '97. They played the Packers (the defending Super Bowl champions) one week, and were 0-10 coming in. Justin went 24/30 for 340 yards, and the Colts upset the Packers 41-38 for their first win of the year. Justin was a third string QB for the '99 Rams behind Warner and Green, and got his Super Bowl ring that year. For his career, Justin threw for 2,614 yards, eight TD passes, and ten INT. He had much better success in NFL Europe, winning the championship with Frankfurt in 1995, and was MVP of the championship game.
Update needed for Jonas Gray, rb for the 2013 Patriots. Just watched a video about him. One massive 210 yard 4 td game. Then his charger wasn't plugged into the wall. So his phone died and he missed his alarm. Missed practice/meetings and Belichick never really used him again. They then picked up Lagarette Blount and it was over for em.
I wouldnt put Carter up there...Cook actually showcased what he could do over a whole season..I think Carter got injured in his 1st preseason game? even when he did play for Cincy, it wasnt like he put up great numbers, so we really dont know if he would have been a bust or an all time great
@@carsonc29 Yes, Carter got hurt in his first preseason game. Of course, that knee injury prevented him from putting up great numbers. What made him great in college, the quickness, cutback ability, was gone. At that time too, there was the thought that Penn St. RB's don't do well in the NFL. After Curt Warner-who had a great rookie year, tore his knee up and was pretty good the rest of his career, a few Penn St RB's who came after him were busts in the NFL- DJ Dozier and Blair Thomas-take #2 overall, ahead of Emmitt Smith!
They don't mention about Percy Howard, but he never even played another regular season down in the NFL. He had a bad knee injury in the preseason the following year, sat the entire season, reinjured it in training camp the following year, and got released. It's too bad, but he will always have that one moment to hold on to for the rest of his life: he burned a HOF player, Mel Blount, and scored a TD in a Super Bowl. Even for one moment, he can always carry that with him.
Except he never got the chance to fail. I never really understood why Elway didnt keep him and let him learn from Manning. They have been a turn style at QB since Manning left and none of them could play as good as Tebow did as a raw rookie. Politics I guess.
@@mahmoud6843 Anyone who lived through "Tebow Mania" knows what you're talking about. Manning could've put the greatest numbers ever, won every game, and you'd still have characters demanding Tebow take over as QB.........
Two more good one-hit wonders: Vernon Perry, who only played professional football for five years, had eleven interceptions in his career as a safety. *FOUR OF THEM* came in the 1979 AFC Divisional as he singlehandedly stopped Air Coryell. And 1995 Erik Kramer, who threw 3,838 yards, 60.3% completion percentage, 29 touchdowns, 10 INT and a 93.5 passer rating; basically the greatest QB season in Bears history. That was the only full 16 game season of his whole career, and he never even so much as had 15 touchdowns in a year before or since.
Seeing Jim O'Brien as number 9 on the list and being a WR at Univ. of Cincy-likely caught some passes from number 1 on the list (Greg Cook) as O'Brien entered the NFL only 1 year after Cook.
I think O’Brien was already on another team the next year after his winning kick. I remember having a football card for him the next year or 2 later with the Lions.
@@craighenry2351 O’Brien had a decent year in ‘71 for Colts, then the whole team (including Unitas) got purged in ‘72. That was likely when O’B went to Lions.
The Titans had one hell of a defense Robertson at free safety Bishop at strong Safety 1999 NFL ROTY Jevon Kearse (Tennessee’s first round draft out of Florida- go gators 🐊) Bowden at linebacker Samari Rolle at CB Darrell Walker at CB I doubt that flutie would fair any better
It's very interesting watching these old videos but in my time watching different leagues enter professional football they have all failed for many different reasons but a new league has entered into the picture enter the UFL,ex football players from the NFL, and they hope that a team,or coach will catch their attention as they need to fill a position and it doesn't matter if it's 2nd string or 3rd string, because these player's are professional athletes, and after they retire they can look forward to their 2nd part of their lives and families and their communities to make a big impact with their life on the road in different cities just like when I was in the Army, good to see the world for free,that's the best part.
Doug Williams was a great qb. He played a great super bowl. It was nice to see him get a ton of redemption. As far as Timmy Smith goes...stupid is as stupid does.
Harry Engel he couldn’t handle the fame. He got deep into drug problems and lost his focus once he made his big money. Running backs tend to break down a lot faster than, say, QBs, so the window of opportunity is a lot smaller, as well.
Yeah, I've always been partial to Timmy Smith.. because in the end he got the big plays and set the record. He also finished plays. He ran hard into defenders.. didn't run out of bounds. When you're jersey is dirty, you clearly battled. Even if it was just a short career. Sure the Hogs were the reason why for success.. and they cleared the front.. but watching that game again, Smith was constantly running past Tony Lilly, Mike Harden, Mark Haynes and Dennis Smith. Or, like I said, running into them to finish a play. I don't think Lilly every played a NFL game again after that. Early in 88 the next season Smith had a couple of 100 yard games against good defenses, but didn't hold up. It's gonna be a while before that SB rushing record is ever broken. Teams don't run as much, they use 2 diff tailbacks too much, and defenses that make the super bowl are usually always good against the run. Hope Smith got the personal problems taken care of. I wish good things for people.
Jamal Anderson had a great running year with the ATL Falcons in 1998 ⁉⬛🏈He had some unfortunate injuries right after that season and was never the same..The Falcons won the NFC in 1998 and played in Super Bowl XXXIII at MIami,FL..🌇
