The STRANGEST CONTROVERSY of the 1999 NFL Season | Jevon Kearse (1999 Titans)
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In 1999, during a game against the Atlanta Falcons, Tennessee Titans defensive end Jevon Kearse thought that he broke the all-time record for most sacks by a rookie. The only problem? The sack never counted, as the NFL got the stat wrong, meaning that he didn't break the record, and the celebration was all for nothing. This is the story behind the crazy controversy involving the 1999 Titans, the 1999 NFL season, and a shot at history
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Jevon Kearse went to the same high school as my brother's and I . My older brother was in the same graduating class . Both are about 6 year's older than me . While he was playing for UF and then going into the NFL he always made it a point to come to our school at least twice a year and talk with us and hang out . One of the nicest guy's I've ever met . Also one of the largest human beings I've ever met , they did NOT call him the freak for nothing .
Thank goodness Kearse still had time to break the record for real. All Dan Reeves did was delay the inevitable.
I really don’t know how to feel about Dan Reeves. He held a grudge against John Elway and Mike Shanahan in 1998 because he felt that they were the ones who got him fired in Denver and then he starts safety Eugene Robinson in the Super Bowl a day after Eugene got arrested for soliciting an undercover police officer. I guess the later parts of Dan’s coaching career are what I’m bothered by and probably why he’s not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
@@Tdull-tv1ds He was a great coach. He will be in the Hall Of Fame eventually.
@What about Rob? Yeah but as a head coach in the NFL he doesn’t have a Super Bowl ring. He has one as a player and two as an assistant coach but not a head coach and sadly we in sports media are very critical when it comes to judging legacies. We want winners to paraphrase Mike Singeltary.
As a head coach Dan Reeves was always crying about something. Yes he has ring's but not as a head coach. As far as this story goes he must have been really good friends with the people that took that sack away because there is no way in hell that was a running play .
Do a video about the Jags 15-0 vs the NFL, but 0-3 vs the Titans in 1999.
yeah, they had an achilles heel when it came to the Titans that year
And Titans blew them out twice,it was crazy
I genuinely laughed out loud when he revealed the fact about the six yard loss. 😂
"Team that shall not be named." Is that what Urban Meyer calls them now? (Okay, cheap shot, I'm sorry.)
Kearse had 8 forced fumbles as a rookie
Kearse was so awesome the first few years. Still solid in Philly, but then never the same after the injury. He’s in my top tier of “holy crap” players; at his peak, I’ve got him in that LT/Bo/Deion/Barry tier.
He ought to go to jail for the money he stole from Philly.
@@Rockhound6165 haynesworth too. stole like $100 mill. from danny boy.
@@stevenbauer4799 I mixed Washington with Philly. Kearse did almost nothing for Philly.
@@Rockhound6165 yep. i get you. kearse stole $$$ from lurie. big time.
Anyone can have one good game or season. Wasn't Lamar Jackson the next big thing? What happened? Oh, right, the opponents figured him out. Same with Kearse. He peaked in his rookie year and went downhill ever since. Kearse is a joke compared to LT, Deion, Barry, etc. and it's disrespectful to the true greats to compare them.
Don't forget Aldon Smith. 14 sacks his rookie season, defensive rookie of the year and also 2nd in defensive player of the year voting behind Von Miller. Funny thing about him is he didn't even start for that 49ers team and saw his first action in week 4.
You can usually tell the play call by looking at the offensive line. On this guy, the center and right guard pulled to the left side of the line. The LT, LG, and RT were in a pass set.
That's a screen pass.
It was a "Sally Counter"
It was a counter play. Why would Reeves lie about it
It's sad that you got 6 thumbs up for getting the wrong answer when you were literally given the correct one.
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I think a case can be made for Ronnie Lott in 1981. He had 7 INT's and 3 TD's. I think Taylor won all the defensive accolades due to east coast bias and the 49ers weren't a dynasty yet.
Perhaps, but, I, really, don't think that Ronnie Lott, was, complaining that, much, at the, end, of that particular season, really, rare.
no east coast bias. lt was the greatest defensive player of all-time. and lott was a generational type talent too.
@@stevenbauer4799 With, four, Rings, great.
@@matthewdaley746 yep. dickerson said lott was the best cb he ever saw. could run like the wind too. said lott could run him down.
@@stevenbauer4799 Probably, did distressingly often.
Literally everyone answering the fave team and fave player are kiddies who never watched football before 1999. Based off the answers
lol so what you're telling me is Kearse actually had 15 1/2 sacks that year and dan reeves is weirdly petty
In every sport, the truly great players are really never rookies. They already know what to do when they step out on the field, or on the court, or on the ice. They just know.
Kearse peaked in his rookie season. "The Freak" went to 3 Pro Bowls his first 3 seasons and never came close to earning anything else the rest of his career. He's a one-hit wonder and it's actually pretty disrespectful of the uploader to compare him to LT, who was an absolute menace from ages 22-31.
@@encycl07pedia- I agree in the case of Jevon Kearse. A lot of athletes in a lot of the team sports have had the same history as Jevon.
But my first statement is still accurate.
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14:37 friendly reminder that nameless team went 0-3 against the titans and 15-0 against everyone else in 1999
Their coach went, 2-0, against, Tom Brady in the, SB, that's, truly, gotta burn.
jags were owned by titans.
@@stevenbauer4799 Owned other opposition, crazy.
@@matthewdaley746 yep. crazy yet fluky.
@@stevenbauer4799 His, career's, notoriously, fluky.
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I never knew they took that a sack off of Kearse’s stats. Real rookie record should’ve been at 15.5.
P.S. I’m a Raiders fan and my favorite all time player is between Charles Woodson and Tim Brown
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OJG9 should do a Dumb Decisions video on the Falcons giving Hampton another carry after reaching 1000 yards. I'm sorry, WHAT?!?! Also, that is one huge trophy at 1:05.
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Yeah, 3 & 4 wideout sets, along with the empty backfield formation, were common from 1996-2000 (1995 Steelers made it to Super Bowl XXX going naked backfield, so...copycat time!). After the Ravens beat the Giants in Super Bowl 35 however, offenses once again became more interested in max protection of the QB.
yup. That's why every offense is shotgun read option now. I miss fullbacks.
@@billyhill7630 I love fullbacks. I do think they'll make a return someday, who knows, maybe as a feature back like John Riggins was. The NFL is totally cyclical: for awhile there it looked like the tight end 2as being deemphasized, and these days that position is in good shape.
With Neil O'Donnell at qb.
@@gluserty true. The whole spread the field mentality was going league wide. I like variety. Love titans derrick henry and power football, also love situational football like patriots throwing only 3 times in high winds and winning. I remember the eagles lions snow bowl game and both teams came out throwing the ball. It took a half before they figured out they couldn't when it should have been obvious pregame.
@@billyhill7630 I agree, every game has a story to tell, and I like to view as many different ones as possible. When I played Ps2 Madden, my offense was Run 'n' Gun with a Full House package included, so I definitely like different styles.
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When you said two people stepped in and was the best defensive player in the league as a rookie, I thought immediately Lawrence Taylor and Dick Butkis. But yeah, Kearse also
Butkus. Get his name right.
What about Night Train Lane? He got 14 picks as a rookie, in a 12 game 1952 season. That record still stands today.
That's so dumb. Set passing plays can turn into desperate running plays and set running plays can turn into desperate passing plays. If the QB is tackled for a loss it should be a sack.
fisher and titans proclaimed jax their house that season because they owned jags there. 3-0 on the season.
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Lots of teams run the draw on 3rd and long. Especially back in 99. Graziani throwing on 3rd and long was more of a gamble than anything.
The only thing I can think of. A bad snap like that is going to be a run. Because he has not going to be able to throw it
This is the correct take.
If I’m not mistaken
Reggie White played college football at Tennessee, then in the USFL for the Memphis Showboats
Florida and Tennessee was once a legit SEC rivalry game… the 90s… you had to be there…
Kinda fitting that Kearse, playing for a pro football team in Tennessee, ended up breaking Reggie White’s NFL rookie sack record
Who can forget the “Ol’ Ball Coach” quipping “You can’t spell citrus without the U and the T”?
It wasn't much of a rivalry game with Peyton losing every time. Jerk could win every other game but not the Gators. Then Tee Martin comes in and suddenly Tennessee can beat not only UF but my Seminoles, too. Stupid Marcus Outzen.
WWF was must watch TV in 1999 you could not miss Raw is War and SmackDown back than
Do a video on the Oilers leaving Houston
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That was weird and made no sense
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The Freak!!!! This dude was a Monster... injuries slowed him down but make no mistake about it this dude was the Don of defense in his prime..that record should have stood against the falcons..Reeves was wild for that
Cincinnati Bengals Joe Burrow
He made me fall in love with the game at the age of 14
Dan was playing Fantasy football
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Speaking of the Falcons, they drafted a DE in the first round in '99 as well, Patrick Kearney. After 2 seasons Kearse had 26 sacks to Kearney's 5. Yet Kearney would have 8.5 more career sacks, with both playing until '09.
Favorite team is the one down in Duval County!
This brings up an interesting idea: is there a rule for stats recording for a botched snap like this but you can't tell if it was going to be a run or pass. Bonus idea: what if the call was an RPO, PRO, or RSO? What do you record there?
Go Raiders!
The FREAK
Those falcons and Titan helmets… a video touching on the “1 shell rule” would be fun now that they have changed it. The Patriots, eagles, etc can now do awesome throwbacks
The rule was established in 2013 to improve player safety, requiring teams to have only one helmet color so players would practice and play in the same helmet. While teams will now be allowed a second set of helmets, they must be the same make, model and size as the player's primary helmet.Jun 24, 2021
@@TommyVinMI The NFL never did care about player safety, which is why the season is 17 games long now. They only were forced to pretend to care because of the concussion issue becoming too big to ignore. And even then, the helmet rule was stupid. What, they couldn't make extra helmets that were safe? Why can the NFL suddenly do it now?
@@DolFan316 eggs Zachary (Chinese for exactly)
Seahawks and Steve Largent
Houston should get back the Oilers name. The Titans owner will not do it. May they forever be cursed. Zero Super Bowl Championships and counting.
Dan Reeves was nothing but a whiny crybaby he proved that back at the end of the 1993 season where he complained about the NFL adding the 2 pt conversion as a rule. Yet he does it again to the NFL stats people saying that wasn't a pass play it was a run play. Jeff Fisher didn't make it any better with his statement he just supported a crybaby just out of respect for him. I am glad that Kearse broke the record eventually because if he didn't than all hell would have broken loose and crybaby Dan would have been known as the Scrooge of the NFL.
I would say this was the best for Kearse - this way he was celebrated twice for the same record ;)
The freak
My favorite player and I’m so happy my dad named me after him just 2 years after this record. Even though I never find anything with my name on it spelled right it’s awesome to know that I’m named after one of the best players in my teams entire history
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The biggest thing I remember about the 99 Titans was Eddie George running up and down the RCA dome against my Colts in the divisional round of the playoffs.
1999 Jevon Kearse was the best rookie season I’ve ever seen
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And this has what to do with this video or were you just looking for attention.
So, Dan Reeves was the first "Karen" ????
The guards pulled; it was a running play. 11:30
I was around the team back then. It was fun.
I had his jersey back in the day !!!!!
Jevon catching Quadry Ismail from behind was unreal.
@Uncle Jake's Raider's Videos 5one of the most amazing plays that I've ever witnessed. The fascinating thing was Samari Rolle was super fast and giving chase and wasn't gaining ground.Kearse actually ran both of them down and tackled both of them. I was in the stadium for that game and that place erupted. Never seen a big guy like Javon run down a guy that fast.😳
@Uncle Jake's Raiders Videos I've searched several times but I cannot find an actual highlight of that play. If you have a link to it, it would be super awesome if you could post it because I'd love the watch that all over again. 🙏🏾🤞🏾
@@OriginalOldSkoolFunkI thought maybe I made that up because I found no footage but then I found a quick quick highlight in a video. Not sure why people don't appreciate it more but go to the 0:45 mark on the link below 👇
ruclips.net/video/gS20Dn35NR8/видео.html
Dude was awesome in nfl 2k1
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I thought it was obvious that Reeves didn't want the record being set against his team and contacted the NFL out of sheer spite. But maybe that's just me.
Absolutely, not, you, period.
Fortunately, Hampton did finally get his 1000 yard season in 1975 (by two yards)
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Kearse was good, but he wasn't on Lawrence Taylor's level, not by a long shot. Kearse was a one-hit wonder. It was hard for NFL teams to adapt to him in his rookie year, but he quickly fell off the map afterwards (his output went down year after year, all 3 Pro Bowls were in his first 3 years). He was never considered for DPoY after his rookie season, either. Similar one-hit wonders are Lamar Jackson, RG3, Peyton Hillis, Steve Emtman, Ickey Woods, etc.
I was just talking about his rookie season, not his entire career. In 1999, he routinely drew comparisons, even from Dan Reeves himself, to LT
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 You have at least a decade of hindsight and more than 1 season of (NFL) data. They didn't. And you don't bring up the comparison once or twice; you bring it up throughout the video, including the conclusion that "many would remember this Titan as the greatest defensive rookie in NFL history." I highly doubt that's a thing even for Titans fans, or if anyone thinks very much about the best rookie players.
I remember thinking Kearse was going to be great in the NFL, too. He was "The Freak"... quite briefly. He quickly faded into obscurity and even when I heard his name on highlights I wondered why nobody was talking about him when his name was brought up on NFL Primetime... It's because he was never that remarkable afterwards. LT and Barry Sanders were in the NFL lexicon long after they passed their prime and retired. Kearse was just an "Oh, yeah. He was good," if people even remember him.
I mean in 2022 I could call Ickey Woods, a man known more for a celebration than rushing, the next Walter Payton just based on his rookie season. I'd understandably catch a lot of flak.
Is it possible that what Reeves was arguing is because the center muffed the snap-leaving it high and forcing the QB to the right just to get possession-that the QB was turned into a runner, and thus when tackled it needed to be called as a run of negative yards instead of a QB sack?
I am, unfortunately, a Bears fan.
I can't think of a favorite player off the top of my head though.
@David Lim I am still kicking myself for not betting on Hester returning the opening kickoff of the Super Bowl for a score 😭😭😭
@David Lim Cross of Butkus and Ditka?
I hope you are joking. "Sweetness" Walter Payton all the way.
@@CTubeMan Ditkus.
@@cecilshackelford8861 I was thinking current NFL players, not historical ones. Also, I used to be a Washington fan, so my grasp on Bears history is a little bit less firm than it would be on Washington's.
That said, of Bears players from the past, Sweetness is the first one who comes to mind for me as a favorite.
I didn't know about this but I know that Don Shula argued against Mercury Morris getting a 5 yard loss on a play so he would have 1000 yards on the season and Morris and Csonka would be the first pair of RBs to have 1000 yards in the same season.
Yeah, and, he rewarded this act of, "courage," by getting himself arrested, this guy, truly, was, such an, ungrateful, loser, that it, isn't, even funny, period.
@@matthewdaley746 yep. it was funny when cops came to arrest eugene mercury he went running like he was off on a 75 yd. td run.
@@stevenbauer4799 Yeah, loser, entirely, period.
Kind of a strange hill for Reeves to die on, but whatever.
Also - Patriots fan all the way, bay bay!
It happens all the time. Stats get messed up and are corrected later in the week.
I always wished that would happen to Emmitt Smith when he broke Payton's record and had a career ending injury on thee play where he lost 6 yards. And yes, I hate Emmitt Smith and every Cowboy from their Super Bowl teams of the 90's that much. Bills fan....oh and Bruce Smith is the greatest defender of all time. Spent 70 percent of his career playing right end in a 3-4 and still racked up sacks.
Direct your hatred towards the, many, HOFers, that allowed the Giants to hoodwink them in the, only, SB, that, was, actually, winnable.
@@matthewdaley746 I agree but those Cowboys Super Bowl losses broke me. Smith and Irvin and their incessant show boating and trash talking and the turnovers. That with the absolute beat downs they put on us just makes me hate them so much.
@@PhilP8980 cocky irvin's fumble in nfc title game vs. niners directly kyboshed boys three peat bid. i loved it. at least barry wanted no part of breaking walter's record. emmitt was washed up as a card. only went there to stick it to jerrah. and just held on to hog the rushing record.
@@PhilP8980 Karma, evened, matters, exorbitantly.
@stevenbauer4799 Everything collapsed in Philadelphia.
13:54 Looks like almost the exact same formation to me. Surprised Coughlin didn't argue it. Maybe he did and the NFL shot him down.
Who knows, but, Michael Strahan, set the season record, on a, "sack," of, Brett Favre, that wouldn't have been a, sack, in, Touch Football, and, apparently, the, NFL, had no problems, with, that, who knows what they, were, actually, thinking.
@@matthewdaley746 It's still a sack if the QB trips on the bootleg and is touched down, the same as a TD is still a TD whether it's a 99-yard pass or a QB sneak.
@@encycl07pedia- Regardless, play unwatchably horrible.
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Did some googling, found something called the NFL guide for statisticians. Which makes it clear, for there to be a sack, there has to be an apparent attempt to pass.
On the play in question, there was not. Botched snap, QB chases the football down, and is tackled by Kearse as soon as he collects it. Never had a chance to look downfield. So not a sack, whether or not it had been intended as a passing play.
www.nflgsis.com/gsis/documentation/stadiumguides/guide_for_statisticians.pdf