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Speaker 1: NFL history. Watt has tied Michael Strahands single season record
Speaker 1: twenty two and a half. Sex t J one comes
Speaker 1: through again. Yes he did, as he has been doing
Speaker 1: all season long. That was Week e teen. T J
Speaker 1: Watt time Michael strayhands all time sack record twenty two
Speaker 1: and a half, absolutely amazing and an absolute terror for
Speaker 1: offenses this year. I'm like, yeah, I'm here's always with
Speaker 1: my good friend Addi kinkawala. Add I know you've got
Speaker 1: something on t J for me, but I gotta say hello, well,
Speaker 1: good morning. And obviously, because I was there for that, Mike,
Speaker 1: that rainy, rainy, cold, nasty day, at least he got
Speaker 1: to see something kind of cool. So there's the fun
Speaker 1: story aspect of it while you were soaking wet and well,
Speaker 1: and I did and I did talk to t J
Speaker 1: afterwards obviously, and you know he appropriately gave credit to
Speaker 1: everybody else around him. Uh. What's really interesting, though, Mike,
Speaker 1: is that there was a play earlier in the game
Speaker 1: that felt like it was a sack should have been
Speaker 1: a sack, and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in his postgame
Speaker 1: comments kept dropping that he hopes the NFL changes what
Speaker 1: the official statistics are and finds t J Watt to
Speaker 1: have sack so he can hold that record all by himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the pomp and circumstance though, will be a little bit
Speaker 1: different now that they potentially could do it on the
Speaker 1: back half, But it is NFL explained. NFL records, we
Speaker 1: are all about those monumental moments for the game, and
Speaker 1: at first the DD, you know, we weren't sure if
Speaker 1: there were going to be enough records from one to
Speaker 1: do an entire episode on. But the research continues to
Speaker 1: pour in and we just saw how many interesting stats
Speaker 1: there were, so I promised this episode is going to
Speaker 1: be nothing short of record breaking. But before we get
Speaker 1: rolling and discuss all the record breaking numbers, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to talk a little bit about this season first.
Speaker 1: The thing that always will come to my mind a
Speaker 1: d D and I think it's the same for everyone
Speaker 1: is the pandemic. So I think we should quickly dive
Speaker 1: into some crazy NFL numbers regarding COVID, especially since this
Speaker 1: is the second season in this pandemic, hopefully my second
Speaker 1: and final forever and ever and ever. So, from September
Speaker 1: nine one, the start of the season, to January tenth,
Speaker 1: the final regular season game, nine hundred and thirty one
Speaker 1: players were placed on the reserve COVID list, and that
Speaker 1: is despite the fact that we know the NFL has
Speaker 1: an absurdly high vaccination rate. December was especially brutal, which
Speaker 1: is what everybody's been telling us to expect. Of course,
Speaker 1: as the weather gets colder and people are inside. More
Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy two players we're on the reserve
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list between December one and December one. God,
Speaker 1: I'm just shaking my head thinking about all of those
Speaker 1: injury rapports, all of those stories that you and I
Speaker 1: have talked about on NFL network of players not being
Speaker 1: able to play, but the missing games. In a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, we just got to see maybe the most
Speaker 1: important position on the football field. I should say maybe
Speaker 1: the most important position on the football field. We got
Speaker 1: some names and some throwback names in some instances that
Speaker 1: I kind of almost forgot. We're still in the league
Speaker 1: one sixty two different starting quarterbacks a d sixty two,
Speaker 1: and only eleven started all seventeen possible games. All of
Speaker 1: those eleven, by the way, except for Trevor Lawrence and
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, had winning records. So clearly, teams that had
Speaker 1: their starter all season long they've benefited. And this even
Speaker 1: led us to do in a little bit more an
Speaker 1: entire episode on backup quarterbacks, which was a whole lot
Speaker 1: of fun. And if you miss that, highly encourage you
Speaker 1: to check that out, because where else you're going to
Speaker 1: get a reference to the Jets and Mike White and
Speaker 1: Hush Johnson and Colt McCoy getting some wins for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And I can't help but forget. I don't want to
Speaker 1: forget my guy who used to wear that utah ute uniform,
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley, who actually a d D. You got to
Speaker 1: see a whole lot in person in some of the
Speaker 1: instances where he got to start with Lamar Jackson, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, wasn't protocol, it was actual injuries, right,
Speaker 1: And I did get to see a ton of Tyler Huntley.
Speaker 1: And you know what, here's a little known fact for
Speaker 1: his dynamic and amazing as former m v P Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is, Tyler Huntley actually did something against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers that hadn't been done before by Lamar Jackson. Ever.
Speaker 1: He threw for two touchdowns and he ran for two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Add anything else that that strikes you about this past
Speaker 1: season that comes to mind. This is such a hard one, Mike,
Speaker 1: the way that the Raiders rebounded through this roller coaster
Speaker 1: of a year and now we're in the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: way that the final Sunday of the season ended, not
Speaker 1: just that Raiders Chargers game, but also the Rams forty
Speaker 1: Niners and the Steelers Ravens, these rivalry games all going
Speaker 1: into overtime and it just felt like they were crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy games, especially over the month. But I mean, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers once again the presumptive m v P. And forget
Speaker 1: like the hosting of Jeopardy and all the vaccination. It's
Speaker 1: just simply the fact that the Packers are the number
Speaker 1: one seed and one of the Super Bowl favorites, and
Speaker 1: it really has to do and most entirely with how
Speaker 1: unbelievably dominant Aaron Rodgers is on the field. And Mike,
Speaker 1: since this is our records episode, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: hit some of those records that were set this year
Speaker 1: by Aaron Rodgers. He had thirteen games this season with
Speaker 1: at least two passing touchdowns and no interceptions. That's the
Speaker 1: most any player has ever recorded in a season in
Speaker 1: NFL history. Here's another one. Aaron Rodgers surpassed Brett Farve
Speaker 1: for the most passing touchdowns and Packers history. He did
Speaker 1: that Week sixteen versus Cleveland, four hundred and forty five
Speaker 1: is what the record was. Aaron Rodgers after Week eighteen
Speaker 1: now has four hundred and forty nine. And then here's
Speaker 1: one more for the entire Packers team. The Packers became
Speaker 1: the first team to win thirteen games in three consecutive seasons.
Speaker 1: No NFL team before has done that. It's once again.
Speaker 1: And for any of those fans born you know, I
Speaker 1: guess what those called two thousand before or after two thousand? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that red five guy was actually pretty good. Rogers also
Speaker 1: just besting him with some of those numbers. The dv
Speaker 1: that you just dropped. But let's take a closer look
Speaker 1: at some of the other players who had m v
Speaker 1: P type seasons and some records of their own. My guy,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, little West Coast Love here the receiving triple crown,
Speaker 1: leading the league and receptions, yards and TVs. Cup is
Speaker 1: actually just the fourth player since nineteen seventy to achieve that.
Speaker 1: The other guys pretty good list. Jerry Rice Sterling Sharp
Speaker 1: the last guy to do it before Cup, one of
Speaker 1: our colleagues Steve Smith, who did it back in two
Speaker 1: thousand five with the Panthers. But Cooper actually finished the
Speaker 1: regular season second most receptions HDT, second most receiving yards
Speaker 1: almost two thousand in a single season in in NFL history.
Speaker 1: He also led all receivers with sixteen touchdowns. The dudes
Speaker 1: got a nose for the end zone and figures out
Speaker 1: ways to concord his body and wiggle his way down
Speaker 1: the sidelines and just breakthrough defenders. It really was really special. Now,
Speaker 1: one thing adds were and I think it's actually really
Speaker 1: interesting to know because we're talking about one. Cup himself
Speaker 1: actually had made reference to this. You should know, eighteen
Speaker 1: week season, seventeen games season, first in NFL history. So
Speaker 1: the records are a little funky here, but Cup actually said,
Speaker 1: we're in the longest football season ever played. What the
Speaker 1: guys did to set those records in sixteen games, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't seem right for those to be broken in seventeen games.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't hold the same weight to me as it
Speaker 1: does for guys that have done it in a sixteen
Speaker 1: game season. And the accomplishments those guys had, the seasons
Speaker 1: they put together, those are incredible things. Incredible accomplishments. You
Speaker 1: kind of have to separate the two. Who am I
Speaker 1: to say that he's wrong? But Adity, I think you know,
Speaker 1: you fast forward, I have ten twenty years. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we're going to be referencing a longer season
Speaker 1: or not, because the reality is the NFL season over
Speaker 1: time has changed and we don't necessarily characterize some of
Speaker 1: those records accordingly. Well, and that's right. You think about
Speaker 1: baseball and the asterisks, and I think that when it's new.
Speaker 1: I think it's very fair of Cooper Cup to say this,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that. But as you said, I think
Speaker 1: over time all of that sort of softens or we
Speaker 1: just don't think about it as much, you know, And look,
Speaker 1: even t J Watt, right, let's go back to the top.
Speaker 1: He tied Michael Strayhan's record in a season where, yes,
Speaker 1: the Steelers did indeed play one more game than Michael
Speaker 1: Strahan's Giants did, but t J actually only played in
Speaker 1: fifteen games, and even in three of those fifteen he
Speaker 1: had to leave early because he was hurt. So I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're what are we going to do? Are we
Speaker 1: going to sit here and divide numbers by snap counts
Speaker 1: and then come up with a number. I think at
Speaker 1: some point you just have to say, look, this is
Speaker 1: the season, mar right. No, I'm with you. It's a
Speaker 1: good point. So let's just go on to some of
Speaker 1: the other big names that have broken some records. You
Speaker 1: talked about Aaron Rodgers being the goat. I think that
Speaker 1: anybody who's ever watched Tom Brady would may be quibble
Speaker 1: with that, at least at this moment, especially since this
Speaker 1: is a game that is all about winning championships and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the record breaking machine. So this year,
Speaker 1: what are the records that Tom Brady broke. He surpassed
Speaker 1: Drew Brees for the most career passing yards right now, Mike,
Speaker 1: he sits at eight four thousand, five hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1: He also bested Drew Brees for most career completions. At
Speaker 1: this current moment, Tom Brady has seven thousand, two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty three completed passes. Brady has now the most
Speaker 1: passing yards versus one single opponent. That is no surprise,
Speaker 1: Mike the Jets with nine thousand and fifty nine. He
Speaker 1: also joined Drew Brees, Brett Farve, and Peyton Manning as
Speaker 1: the only quarterbacks in NFL history to beat all thirty
Speaker 1: two teams. Brady became the first player in NFL history
Speaker 1: to throw for six hundred passing touchdowns. Right now he
Speaker 1: has six hundred and twenty four. He also has the
Speaker 1: most games with at least three passing touchdowns that's one
Speaker 1: hundred and one, and with at least four passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: that is thirty nine. And of course, my favorite, favorite,
Speaker 1: favorite one is that Tom Brady is the oldest player
Speaker 1: in NFL history to pass for five thousand yards and
Speaker 1: that is at the ripe old age of forty four.
Speaker 1: Although I shouldn't say that, Mike. I think I've said
Speaker 1: this to you before. May Tom Brady play forever because
Speaker 1: he is older than me, and as long as he
Speaker 1: is playing, I can't really feel that old, can I
Speaker 1: know you can't. Isn't there like a thing like is
Speaker 1: it all peaches and cream with this dude? Like? Is
Speaker 1: there anything bad about what Tom Brady does on the
Speaker 1: football field? My god, I don't want to sound like
Speaker 1: the negative dude, but so interesting you say that, And
Speaker 1: you know what, Mike, you sound like Steelers fan who
Speaker 1: was like hell bent on just needing something negative about
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. There is actually one for the first time
Speaker 1: in fifteen years. Tom Brady was actually shut out when
Speaker 1: the Bucks lost to the Saints nine nothing in Week fifteen.
Speaker 1: It broke a streak of two hundred and fifty five
Speaker 1: consecutive starts without a shutout. But you know, this episode,
Speaker 1: we're focusing, Mike on records that are broken this year,
Speaker 1: this season. I feel it's only fair that we do
Speaker 1: mention that Brady already holds the record for most touchdowns
Speaker 1: and wins, and we're not even talking about the playoffs
Speaker 1: or Super Bowl records here, Mike. We could probably do
Speaker 1: a whole NFL explained on every mark that Tom Brady
Speaker 1: has ever said and what is probably never going to
Speaker 1: be threatened ever, every every So how about you're gonna
Speaker 1: make this deal with me and just say yes, even
Speaker 1: if you disagree in fifteen years, when we're still doing
Speaker 1: this podcast and Tom Brady decides to retire in fifteen years,
Speaker 1: we will do it an exclusive Tom Brady record podcast.
Speaker 1: At that point, I think it'll be fair to say
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady holds the most records for of any category.
Speaker 1: It'll be Tom Brady's name, and we'll just dedicate a
Speaker 1: whole episode of NF will explain to him. Just because
Speaker 1: of that, there's some other dudes that also stood out. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, frankly, I'm a girl who likes to run
Speaker 1: the ball as opposed to right and especially as we
Speaker 1: get to this weather, and so let's get into some
Speaker 1: of that. You got any running records for me? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a dude who was pretty good who I
Speaker 1: thought was in the m v P conversation for most
Speaker 1: of the season. It's Jonathan Taylor the Cults They're back,
Speaker 1: was tremendous youngest player. And we're talking about Brady being
Speaker 1: one of the oldest dudes and some of those records.
Speaker 1: How about what Taylor was able to accomplish youngest player
Speaker 1: with at least two thousand yards from scrimmage and at
Speaker 1: least twenty touchdowns. The dude is twenty two years old.
Speaker 1: Kind of crazy when you consider the success he's had
Speaker 1: already from a cult perspective. Single season rushing yard record
Speaker 1: he now owns it. Single season scrimmage touchdown record, he
Speaker 1: owns that as well, and actually tie one of our
Speaker 1: colleagues with Danian Tomlinson, like Eel Mitchell, also for the
Speaker 1: consecutive games mark with eight with at least a hundred
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage and one rushing touchdown. That is a
Speaker 1: really good company for him to be in. So a
Speaker 1: little bit of love to Jonathan Taylor and what he
Speaker 1: was able to accomplish, But a d D. I think
Speaker 1: we are off to a fast start, not as fast
Speaker 1: as Jonathan Taylor on the football field. I think we've
Speaker 1: actually covered some of the biggest stories of the season.
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we're going to cover some
Speaker 1: more record breaking numbers from the one campaign and get
Speaker 1: into some of the more bizarre records that have been set,
Speaker 1: like which college currently has a twenty four game losing
Speaker 1: streak with their quarterbacks in the NFL. The answer is
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Speaker 1: field goals. This is for an NFL record sixty six
Speaker 1: yards on tw it boxes off the place calls oh
Speaker 1: dif just happy, grand want a check, welcome back to NFL, explained,
Speaker 1: I can't help but smile as I listened to that ball.
Speaker 1: That was, of course, Week three one, Justin Tucker nailing
Speaker 1: a sixty six yard game winning field goal against the Lions,
Speaker 1: setting the record for the longest field goal of all time,
Speaker 1: bounced off the crossbar and through and Mike. That happened
Speaker 1: a week after he was our very first guest on
Speaker 1: this podcast when we were talking about all things upright
Speaker 1: related field goal related to be fair, not just upright.
Speaker 1: I want to throw something in your way. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you view uh field goals differently after
Speaker 1: our conversation with Tucker, because I do, because I know
Speaker 1: we were talking about the uprights on that episode, but
Speaker 1: Justin also went through some of the fraumatics and the
Speaker 1: science behind some of the kicks. He didn't do a
Speaker 1: deep dive, but I find myself now every time there's
Speaker 1: a field goal kicker lining up to just watch every
Speaker 1: single moment. And there's one thing about that Tucker field
Speaker 1: goal that I just will never forget, just that little
Speaker 1: hop step before he takes off to get a little
Speaker 1: bit of extra momentum, like he never does that, and
Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone else do it as well. And
Speaker 1: it was good enough for that ball to go through
Speaker 1: the uprights with a little bit of help because Tucker
Speaker 1: did say there's no uprights. He's necessarily more fond of
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But when you get help like that,
Speaker 1: I would be popular in your mind compared to some
Speaker 1: of the other one ones. But I do want to
Speaker 1: continue on. Well, let's yeah, let's stick in the a
Speaker 1: f C North. Actually, okay, so how about this, because
Speaker 1: we were once again loving up an older Tom Brady
Speaker 1: at the quarterback spot. I want a little bit younger
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Taylor. But another quarterback for you, Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, weeks seventeen. In fact, I was actually working
Speaker 1: Sunday of weeks seventeen, and we're obviously coming off a
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow performance which was amazing against Baltimore and then
Speaker 1: what he did against Kansas, and I was in the
Speaker 1: stadium for that one. You were in the stadium for
Speaker 1: that one, so you know what I'm talking about here.
Speaker 1: But Burrows set the NFL record for the first time
Speaker 1: a player has had back to back games of four
Speaker 1: hundred plus passing yards and at least four passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: with no picks. The dude was on fire, burrowing the
Speaker 1: Bengals rounding it to form probably a d D at
Speaker 1: the right time. Would you consider we're knocking on the
Speaker 1: door of the playoffs and potentially a little bit of
Speaker 1: a run here from a Cincinnati squad. But this is
Speaker 1: will be back at Paul Brown Stadium this weekend to
Speaker 1: be a whole lot of fun. Borrow does it against
Speaker 1: the Raiders? Right? No, I'm with you. There's also some
Speaker 1: staples right on the fensive side that you just kind
Speaker 1: of anticipate. We're always going to put up big numbers.
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald comes to mind. Four straight seasons with twelve
Speaker 1: plus sacks. That's the second longest streak in NFL history.
Speaker 1: And give me the young fellow Micah Parsons thirteen sacks
Speaker 1: and had he been healthy enough to be able to play,
Speaker 1: maybe we could have added to that total in that
Speaker 1: last game of the regular season. But thirteen sacks ties
Speaker 1: for the third most by a rookie in NFL history,
Speaker 1: And who knows if he didn't test positive for COVID
Speaker 1: and was able to play in the last game of
Speaker 1: the regular season. That actually might have been fourteen sacks
Speaker 1: or fifteen, because he's that much of a monster. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of rookies, let's go to the rocky pass catchers.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Joe Burrow at the top, so of course
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's favorite receiver was his old L s U
Speaker 1: teammate Jamar Chase. Well, Chase not only said a Bengals
Speaker 1: franchise record for most receiving yards, he also set a
Speaker 1: record for the most receiving yards in a game by
Speaker 1: a rookie, and that's an NFL record two d and
Speaker 1: sixty six yards versus Kansas City Week seventeen, jail and waddle.
Speaker 1: He suppressed on Quan Bolden for the most receptions by
Speaker 1: a rookie in NFL history, the Dolphins Turkie had one
Speaker 1: hundred and four. And then the first rookie tight end
Speaker 1: with a thousand receiving yards Atlanta's Kyle Pitts. No one's
Speaker 1: ever done that in the Super Bowl era? How about that,
Speaker 1: which is pretty amazing. Here's another one. I'll throw this
Speaker 1: one out there just because it's you know, the Lions,
Speaker 1: and it was a tough year and I got to
Speaker 1: talk to this young man this year Amon Ross st Brown. Lovely, lovely,
Speaker 1: lovely young man. You can see he's going to turn
Speaker 1: into a real leader. Well with his performance against Green
Speaker 1: Bay at the end of the season, he bested Lions
Speaker 1: former first round pick Roy Williams with eight hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen yards in his rookie season. That is a Lions
Speaker 1: franchise record. Sc Fans are like, yo, fight on. We
Speaker 1: saw this from him and we knew he'd be this good.
Speaker 1: He has been terrific for that Detroit team. One of
Speaker 1: those bright spots the TV that you made reference to
Speaker 1: already mentioned Jonathan Taylor. A couple other super sophomores entered
Speaker 1: the record books as well. How about we throw out
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson's name. I still think back as I closed
Speaker 1: my eyes, I can imagine and see him on the
Speaker 1: football field with the Odell Beckham T shirt on. I
Speaker 1: was able to surpass O b J for the most
Speaker 1: receiving yards in a player's first two seasons, just over
Speaker 1: three thousand. What a big number there, and Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: one of the nice guys passing Andrew Luck most passing
Speaker 1: yards in a player's first two seasons. All those Haymaker throws.
Speaker 1: Herbert certainly d able to to rack up some yardage
Speaker 1: numbers just because of some of those long bombs. All right, well,
Speaker 1: how about the leaders? How about the coaches. Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: ties Don Shula for the most ten win seasons by
Speaker 1: an NFL head coach, with twenty. He did that Week
Speaker 1: seventeen versus Jacksonville. The first head coach to win one
Speaker 1: hundred games with more than one franchise, well, that became
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. He won a hundred, of course with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: In Week fourteen of this year, he won his one
Speaker 1: with the Kansas City Chiefs. And then, of course there's
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur. He's thirty nine and ten in his first
Speaker 1: three seasons as a head coach. That seventy nine point
Speaker 1: six win percentage is the highest in the NFL since
Speaker 1: the start of the two thousand nineteen season, and the
Speaker 1: highest in the NFL history for any head coach that
Speaker 1: has coached five games. Nice to have Aaron Rodgers on
Speaker 1: your team right when your first time head coach. There
Speaker 1: is that for sure. And let me tell you that
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor, another young coach who was hired at the
Speaker 1: same time as la fleur. He had two very rough
Speaker 1: first season, six wins in those first two seasons, but
Speaker 1: you got Joe Burrow and a healthy Joe Burrow. Everything's
Speaker 1: changed this year. Yeah, quarterback position, oh so important. Do
Speaker 1: we also add had some close games. Heason actually started
Speaker 1: with the Bucks just taking out the Cowboys Thursday Night
Speaker 1: Football ended with that insane thirty five to overtime win
Speaker 1: for the Raiders over the Chargers. A time out called
Speaker 1: that I think will forever be synonymous with that Chargers team,
Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll be able to write the ship in
Speaker 1: the next couple of years, and that Steelers fans will
Speaker 1: forever be grateful for because remember, the Raiders needed to
Speaker 1: win that game or the Chargers somebody needed to win.
Speaker 1: Had there been a tie, the Steelers would no longer
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs. So there were a lot of
Speaker 1: fan bases, very very invested in what happened in that game. Oddly,
Speaker 1: and I Mike Tomlin dozing off at the end of
Speaker 1: that game, so he claims, so he claims that one.
Speaker 1: But you know what, Mike, I don't think this is anecdotal.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Ravens playing so many close games
Speaker 1: earlier well, Mike, you know what, it's not just anecdotal.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Ravens playing so many close games.
Speaker 1: We've talked a lot, at least I have talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the Steelers kind of engineering game winning drives,
Speaker 1: specifically Ben Roethlisberger, who, by the way, is second all
Speaker 1: time in history in terms of engineering game winning drives,
Speaker 1: second to Tom Brady. But they season, there were actually
Speaker 1: more games decided by a winning score on the final
Speaker 1: play of the game than in any other single season
Speaker 1: in NFL history. Thirty five games, Mike decided on the
Speaker 1: final play of the game. I mean, that's insane, right,
Speaker 1: There's so many moments just watching at home or at work.
Speaker 1: I'm going you gotta be kidding me. I mean even
Speaker 1: sometimes thea looked like the game was gonna be over
Speaker 1: and you just didn't really give the other team a
Speaker 1: chance to really make that run late, and then they did.
Speaker 1: All right, Mike, But before we say goodbye to everybody,
Speaker 1: let's go through some of the really fun records broken
Speaker 1: in season. Twelve players this year who waited at least
Speaker 1: three hundred pounds scored a touchdown, and Week sixteen, four
Speaker 1: of them did it. In one single day. That's the
Speaker 1: most in NFL history. Never before in NFL history have
Speaker 1: four three hundred plus pounders scored a touchdown on one day.
Speaker 1: That was Dallas is Terence Steele, the Jets, Connor McDermott,
Speaker 1: the Eagles, Lane Johnson, and Jacksonville's Will Richardson. Okay, legit,
Speaker 1: when you said all of those three pound guys, I
Speaker 1: only knew one, and maybe most fans didn't know any
Speaker 1: of them, or maybe the die hard ones that were watching,
Speaker 1: you know what happened to be a Dallas fan or
Speaker 1: Jets fan or Philly Farner Jack they would have known.
Speaker 1: But I got to cover Connor McDermott when he was
Speaker 1: in college at u c l A. I saw it.
Speaker 1: I went nuts at home because he's like the nicest
Speaker 1: dude ever. And actually one of our producers is a
Speaker 1: Jets fan, and just because of that, we just thought
Speaker 1: we would play the audio board and the fullback is
Speaker 1: in fake from Wilson. Here they come Rolston to the ends, tuchsdown,
Speaker 1: Tony mcderbot going there for the Jets. So much fun
Speaker 1: to see those kind of plays to do right, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was awesome. Also awesome to hear my
Speaker 1: college buddy spireaud this on the call on that one
Speaker 1: um a d D. You know, I actually teased this
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, and I actually knew the answer
Speaker 1: because I was working with one of our friends and
Speaker 1: colleagues and Lewis, I was hosting a radio show with him,
Speaker 1: and he threw this question out to me as a
Speaker 1: trivia question, and I was ashamed because I can only
Speaker 1: name two quarterbacks that could have been in the mix.
Speaker 1: So I actually got it right, but that's just by
Speaker 1: dumb luck. So I threw out this question about Notre
Speaker 1: Dame quarterbacks and a d D one Ian book started
Speaker 1: at QB for the Saints a Monday at football in
Speaker 1: Week sixteen and lost. It was the four consecutive loss
Speaker 1: for a Notre Dame quarterback in the NFL, which is
Speaker 1: mind boggling. And here's some of the guys Ian book
Speaker 1: Seawan Kaiser, Jimmy Clawson's one of those guys. Brady Quinn
Speaker 1: the other one. So Red had asked me, He's like,
Speaker 1: who's the last one to get a win? So I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, maybe it's Jimmy, maybe it's Brady Quinn.
Speaker 1: I went with Brady Quinn but it was Brady Quinn
Speaker 1: and I actually had forgotten that he wore that Kansas
Speaker 1: City uniform beat Cam Newton's Carolina squad back in twelve.
Speaker 1: It is wild. Oh it's my birthday. I remember that,
Speaker 1: So you remember that exact moment. You're probably on a
Speaker 1: football field somewhere covering a game on your birthday, knowing you.
Speaker 1: But this is kind of wild. Notre Dame starting quarterbacks
Speaker 1: during that game, losing streak, completion percentage, fifteen touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: Oh dd, this is what's going to get it thirty
Speaker 1: two picks. Well, here's another little lah fighting Irish nugget.
Speaker 1: Before Tom Brady, a Michigan man came along, Notre Dame
Speaker 1: actually had the most Super Bowl wins of any college
Speaker 1: and that's because of Joe Montana and Joe Siseman, who incidentally,
Speaker 1: when he was growing up in South River, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: his name was pronounced Joe Theisman, and it's when he
Speaker 1: went to Notre Dame and they wanted his name to
Speaker 1: rhyme with Heisman that it became Oh good, No, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that story. South River, New Jersey is right
Speaker 1: next to East Brunswick, New Jersey, which is where I
Speaker 1: grew up, so you know, these are things we just learned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: things that you get on the NFL Explained podcast. That's
Speaker 1: a bonus nugget for you fans and Cincinnati a DT.
Speaker 1: They've had some up and down moments over the years.
Speaker 1: Coming up here on the NFL Explain podcasts, I will
Speaker 1: give you a nugget that will have every fan who
Speaker 1: wears a Bangles jersey smiling ear to ear. That's coming
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Speaker 1: All right, let's just continue jumping into some of these records.
Speaker 1: All right, here's another bonus one. And I hate to
Speaker 1: do this one as having grown up as a Giants
Speaker 1: fan who wants to give roses to the Cowboys, But
Speaker 1: we have to give roses to Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: because week sixteen, he threw touchdown passes to a running
Speaker 1: back Ezekiel Elliott, a tight end Dalton Schultz, an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman Terrence Steele, and a wide receiver Amari Cooper. This
Speaker 1: happened one time before, and it was our colleague and friend, who,
Speaker 1: of course has also been one of our podcast guests,
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, who did it in got it done in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Speaking of getting get done in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: my guy Rob Gronkowski got to give him some love,
Speaker 1: passing Tony Gonzalez for the most career one hundred yard
Speaker 1: games by a tight end in NFL history thirty two
Speaker 1: of them at DV thirty two. That's just wild to me.
Speaker 1: How about this one. You know who the first quarterback
Speaker 1: is with a rushing touchdown in the first five games
Speaker 1: he played, Uh, I'm back, Cam Newton. Cam Newton rejoined
Speaker 1: the Panthers mid season and in his first five games back,
Speaker 1: each of them featured a rushing touchdown and he was yelling,
Speaker 1: I'm back, I'm back, which was kind of cool, except
Speaker 1: that he went oh and five in those games. We
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about that. So let's just let's
Speaker 1: just take let's keep this thing positive here longest, all right?
Speaker 1: We had the NFL had it's it's biggest season ever,
Speaker 1: the longest day of football in the last fifty years,
Speaker 1: from the London kickoff. If you missed our international show,
Speaker 1: you gotta go back and check that one out. But
Speaker 1: the London kickoff to the end of the Sunday night
Speaker 1: football game fifteen hours and one minute back on October
Speaker 1: t roller coaster of a day. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: you know who else had a roller coaster of a season.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins. They lost seven straight games and they also
Speaker 1: won seven straight games. Talk about streaky. But can we
Speaker 1: go to the guys that I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time with this year, one of them being rookie running
Speaker 1: back Naji Harris. He of course was the Steeler's first
Speaker 1: round pick, and I tweeted this the other day, three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one touches without a single fumble. I
Speaker 1: do have to say, Mike that when I tweeted this,
Speaker 1: I said, because I'm sure Naji Harris doesn't believe in jinxes.
Speaker 1: And then I share that that he is a first
Speaker 1: rookie in NFL history to have three hundred rushes, to
Speaker 1: have seventy receptions. He definitely got stronger as the year
Speaker 1: went on, and every time we tried to talk to
Speaker 1: him about his body hurting or what was going on,
Speaker 1: he said, I am built for this. I train for this.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, the guy who's most great full
Speaker 1: that he had Nagi Harris on his team is Big
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, who at some point is going to complete
Speaker 1: his eighteenth season. You know, we said goodbye to him
Speaker 1: in this epic Monday Night against the Browns at Hines
Speaker 1: Field and then what was supposed to be his final
Speaker 1: start in Baltimore, except the Steelers engineer this overtime when
Speaker 1: over their rival Ravens, and then, as you talked about
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, the Raiders kicked that game winning
Speaker 1: field goal. And so now Ben Roethlisberger has at least
Speaker 1: one more game against Kansas City. Whenever he does hang
Speaker 1: it up, it will be the longest tenure for any
Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history with just one team. So he
Speaker 1: has been a stealer from day one to whatever the
Speaker 1: final day is now. Kicker Lou Groza did play twenty
Speaker 1: one seasons with just one team, but he's a kicker,
Speaker 1: not a quarterback, So there you go. The distinction there,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm gonna leave everyone with this one. I
Speaker 1: know we loved Joe Burrow. I want to give Cincinnati
Speaker 1: fans even more reason for often miss him. The Bengals
Speaker 1: first team in NFL history to have a four thousand
Speaker 1: yard passer, a one thousand yard rusher, and two one
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers, all twenty five or younger in the
Speaker 1: same season, Burrow, Mix and Chase Higgins. They got themselves
Speaker 1: a nice little offensive core, a d D And with that,
Speaker 1: I think we can kind of drop the mic on
Speaker 1: the records right for the season for now, But you know,
Speaker 1: the playoffs are just starting, so we may come back,
Speaker 1: so we'll do a playoff edition. I'm still looking for
Speaker 1: that episode on Tom Brady. Fifteen years from now, when
Speaker 1: you retires me and you another edition. We may be retired.
Speaker 1: We may be pushed a pastor by then, but not
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. It's been a hack of a season. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this. I certainly appreciated the extra game. I'm
Speaker 1: all about more football, and we have more football in
Speaker 1: this playoff weekend. It's an amped up super wild Card weekend.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone enjoys that weekend of football that a
Speaker 1: d D made reference to enjoy the postseason. And of course,
Speaker 1: if you've missed any of our fun episodes of the
Speaker 1: NFL Explained podcasts, make sure you check those out. And
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