Kordell Stewart’s ELECTRIC 1997 Season Highlights
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Kordell would finish the season with 32 total TD (21 pass & 11 rush) against 17 INT. It would be his first & full impressive season, but it would also mark the final season with Yancey Thigpen & OC Chan Gailey!
His play would partially lay the grounds for modern day NFL athletes.
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Kordell if you born in 1992 instead of 1972, the world would look at you in a whole different light SLASH 💯
I said it before , if he didn't have 3 different Offensive Coordinators he'd be a super star!
Very true they did his talents wrong
Agreed.
I think he woulda been better but what people forget is he was a triple option qb at colo
Pass that shit homie..You shot out..lol
I always felt Kordell got a lot of unwarranted hate. The man played his heart out, and put our Steelers in amazing position more than once to win it all. It’s so sad the team could never capitalize on those opportunities. Anyway, videos like this are awesome! Get to relive a little bit of my childhood. Thank you so much for this!
They tried to crucify him with the gay rumors, which in 1998 was a death sentence for an athlete. Kordell rose above it all. There's a great article that just surfaced written by Kordell himself.
I read that article. Of course it was a cop who made up that rumor.
Racism played a role too
I always felt Kordell could've been an all world wide receiver, he made a few mistakes in an AFC championship game against the Denver Broncos ,Bill Romanowski taunted him for throwing an interception in the end zone, saying use your head ,I'm a Steelers fan for life but Bill Romanowski is an A HOLE
@@emmanuelzanders1746 always
Crushed me when he watched Pittsburgh win a SB just two years later man never got his respect cause he couldn’t get that SB but he was one of a kind in his time, human highlight reel 💪
Crushed me when Cower started O'Donnell over him after Kordell got them there. We all know how that SB went.
I'll admit that I was a fan! Had the jersey as well. He did give us some fantastic weekends!
I too still have a Kordell jersey.
You say it like it’s a bad thing, lots of good QBs are cursed with no ring, Marino considered to be one of the greatest to do it and he never got one, this man was a beast
Same. My first fav football player.
Kordell was a unique talent that needed a touch of good coaching to develop.
Instead, he got horrible mismanagement.
Even with excellent coaching, not everyone can develop into a superstar. But I agree his situation was rough.
Cowher was a overrated coach
@@domenicv7962 yeah. People forget about ol’ Bill having poor records some years. A lot had to do with not having a franchise qb (though Slash was All Pro at least once). If the Steelers had that O line now, they would be a playoff force. Dermontti Dawson and Co were way above average.
What an exciting player! Thigpen is amazed also!
Yeah I forgot how GREAT Yancy Thigpen was. Amazing what Kordell Stewart and he did.
Slash was fantastic. Him and Thigpen had a great connection. Wish it would have lasted longer.
Yancy Thigpen was one of them Wr's the Steelers should have tried harder to keep,the Steelers didnt even make the playoffs again till 2001
Breuner was the ultimate teammate. He admitted he was always wanting to help the person up who had the ball. Especially bettis (if he was near them of course). I know it’s a kordell video but noticed breuner every time.
Yes, me too! Good 'Ol Mark Bruener!
Loved Breuner he was a great team guy.
Yancey Thigpen was so underrated!! Hines Ward reminds me of Yancey with his style and toughness!!
Now just imagine how good Kordell would of been if he had some consistency at the offensive coordinator position and a fan base that didn't turn on him 3 games into the 98 season when we were Clearly in rebuilding mode...we lost so much talent after the 97 season..and not to mention he was banned from QBs meetings in 00 cause they thought Kent gram was the answer.. I enjoyed Kordell Stewart as our Quarterback threw those years..
Kunt Graham.......sheeeez🙄
If he played right now, he'd be Lamar Jackson. Game was just a lot different back then. But his skill set is almost tailor made for today's NFL. Extremely elusive, great at escaping, fantastic playmaker, and a bigger arm than Lamar Jackson. He'd be Lamar Jackson with not quite as much agility but the same type of speed and a better arm.
The man of many skills...
Kordell Stewart
WHAT A GUY👍
If kordell came out today he would be a first round pick and they would build a n offense around him. He’s like Lamar but a better passer. He just played in the wrong era.
Not any shame on him. He was the trailblazer who permitted guys like a Mike Vick and Lamar Jackson could be #1 or first round picks. He showed the league what you could use a player like him for. Stewart name is etched in NFL history. I do wish he would've been able to player longer. But he played in the right era to give an unborn Lamar a shot to be an MVP.
He played in the right era , unfortunately that's how thyngs Played out ...
Flash was meant for hys Time , which help spawn future generations of players
(Lamar Jackson)
Flash stands on the shoulders of Randell Cunningham (before him)
Doubt he'd be a first rounder. Kordell was a great athlete but outside of his first couple of years, he wasn't really the dynamic athletic QB like a Vick or Lamar. Also, Kordell just didn't have it above the shoulders. The Steelers had to dumb down the offense for him. Kordell gets a lot of unwarranted hate but he was far from the trailblazing QB for guys of this era. Cunningham led the way in the 80s but it was really Vick who blazed the way for the QBd if today.
People are so disrespectful to Lamar it's insane. No, i watched kordell and he absolutely is not like lamar but better.
Totally agree@@foxfire1112
Man I wish I were old enough back then to go watch #10 and that steelers unit play, plus it'd be in the old 3 rivers stadium.
Kordell Stewart was an awesome player to watch.
Agreed!
I was there @ the Bmore game when Kordell ran that long TD run
I still can't help but think that if he had accepted a full time role as a WR when he first got to Pitt, that he would have put up HOF numbers and be even better remembered. Pitt may have also won a SB or two.Those defenses were stellar.
Best Steelers channel right here.
I thought Kordell was a great QB.
Not sure where all the hate came from but he didn’t deserve it. He was so versatile.
Aw, I appreciate it Debbie! Glad to have you here! 🖤💛
Pittsburgh loves drafting from the University of Colorado. The team I played at back in the late 80s early 90s. Good for you Pittsburgh
What a great underated channel
Aw, thank you!!!
Your welcome
He would be a perfect fit in today's NFL.
Great stuff as always!!
May the Gods bless you Sir Itz for these great videos ... We, Steelers Nation, salute you!
Thank you so much for the kind words!.. Bigger thanks for watching!!
@@ItzYinzburgh You are so welcome ... I played Pop Warner Football back in 1970 in Syracuse, NY and my team was the Steelers, fan ever since. Pittsburgh Steelers were not that good back then as we all know, but I wore my uniform all the time, pads too ...LOL. Black and Gold forever. Thanks again.
Love me some Kordell. When he was good
You know your games were special when you had Dick Enberg, Don Criqui, and Paul Maguire as your commentators. They were the "A-Team" of commentators back then and the best in the business. "Oh My" (RIP Dick Enberg)...great video and thank for posting.
He had a lot of potential. Three offensive coordinators in five years just killed him.
Loved this guy.
In the end they tried to make him a pocket passer.......that was the knock on him and they wouldnt just let him grow. He must look at players today and shake his head knowing he was before his time! H e had such a pretty stride in the way he ran,
The Mike Vick before Mike Vick
Exactly
Love me some Kordell. Make a Yancy highlight
1 thumbs down...... really . Don't hate the SLASH
The AFC Central was 6 teams strong then with both Jacksonville and Tennesee or Houston Oilers and it was tough !!!
There still has never been a player like kordell Stewart in the NFL. I mean this dude played qb and wide receiver. Wtf. And he had a remarkable 13-3 season as a full time starter. His rookie year was incredible and the amount of eye popping highlight reel plays he had as slash. A big f u to the fans who gave him undeserved hate. Still the NFL has never seen another like him. I am grateful for his Steelers Career. Awesome athlete.
When I collected cards back then I decided to get a lot of kordell Stewart. They aren't worth anything but when I look at them I smile. He was special. Wish his whole career was as great as this season was.
Great to see Kordell Stewart in action again. Can you please do a profile on Charles Johnson?Thanks
That 97 season was magic...KS..got so much hate but the man had some memorable moments, and I wanna keep those in my mind instead,,your channel is growing so fast bro, congrats .keep up the good work👏👏👏
I loved K.S. & never ever will ever understand the hate. Wth.
@@Thomas-wx4ti exactly
Congrats on 11K
Thank you so much man! ❤️
yancy thigpen was a great wideout
He'd be what Lamar Jackson is if he played today. The league was just different back then. Offenses weren't as complex, defenses were tougher in the secondary, you really had to have elite passing ability to be a great passer. He was good enough a lot of the time, but never great. He certainly had the playmaking ability though. And in this day and age, that play making ability would be much more valuable. Jackson reminds me a lot of what Slash would have been in he was playing today.
I was at the Michigan Wolverines VS Colorado State, I was young with my Pops, Uncle
He was meant to play in the modern era. Definitely my favorite qb to watch growin up. Man could do everything should been able to win more with him
Not a Steeler fan but this guy was entertaining. He could do a little of everything. I remember his Flash days.
Cowher’s biggest mistake was not adjusting the offense more for Stewart. Kordell was special before NFL coaches recognized it.
Cowher was a John Deere driver in a Ferrari.
@@boredom2go That’s an excellent assessment.
@@boredom2go I like Bill Cowher but to me the Hall of Fame is for those who build dynasties or have such a long coaching career that they have changed coaching. I believe his inflexibility with Stewart hurt the team because Stewart was 1996 Lamar Jackson & should have more time. Instead he was treated like a square peg being shoved into a round hole. Like you said, Cowher had a Ferrari in some of those teams.
@@r.williamcomm7693 I don't think Cowher should be in the Hall of Fame. His coaching career is just slightly better than Jeff Fisher's, and there's no way Fisher should even be considered. Longevity and regular season above-averageness is not Hall-worthy.
It sets a very awkward precedent too. Are they going to not put Tomlin in the Hall? His resume is exactly the same as Cowher's. Unless Tomlin wins more in the postseason he shouldn't even make it on the ballot, but there's no way they can't induct a black coach with the same exact resume as his white predecessor.
That dude could play! We should of went to the Super Bowl with him in 2001. Special teams gave up 14 points via punt return for TD and and block FG for TD in the AFC championship game… ugh
He was exciting to watch at times. He had plenty of talent around him. Could have been great
Aside from his personal struggles, the loss of Chan Gailey/Yancey Thigpen were a large part of the 98-00 stretch of mediocrity
Thigpen was most of it he's a monster
@@ItzYinzburgh No argument there! The Steelers would have remained playoff calibur or even more if Gailey and Thigpen would have stayed I think
Would have loved to see him in the super bowl.
Luv your Vidz... Kordell was electric. Do ya have any vids regarding Joe Gilliam...?
What pissed me off about this season... is Coach Cower's decision to use O'Donnell in the Super Bowl because of what - Experience? How did that work out for us?! Kordell took us the whole season to Post!
@@chazfatur1929 that was the 95 season the highlights there showing are from the 97 season
What people don't want to admit about Stewart is this, in 1997 he had all pro wr Thigpen ,Charles Johnson Hastings and Blackwell and the Bus.
Te Bruener, he had weapons when he lost those weapons his game went flat like most QB game would go.
But when he got wr again in Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, in 2001 Stewart became a all pro again.
QB need weapons and Bill Cowher didn't give Stewart consistent weapons.
Perry Ellis Cowher was too conservative when they fell behind it was a wrap because they could not.
Kordell "Never looked off a WR in his whole career" Stewart
Most exciting Steeler ever to do it, I know there was Randall, Vick and now Lamar but did they play RB and Wide Out? 🙂
Made me a steelers fan as a kid
Kordell was amazing he played Qb, WR and would return punts this guy most definitely is a Great player he was Vick before Vick #7 Atl
Guy would be a superstar in todays game.
I loved watching Cordell Stewart Donavon Mcnabb and Dante culpepper.
Kordell did go on to have a very good career in the Canadian Football League.
Very underutilized
He had the talent... I think his confidence wavered at times because of lack of continuity with having multiple offensive coordinators/different offensive strategies... his two best seasons were with coordinators who knew how to use him.. Chan Gailey and Mike Mulurkey
Slash was far ahead of his time. He was underrated, did things nobody else could do. Ben, Bradshaw, then Slash.
Hey 11k great!!
If the hall of Fame is now the hall of very good, then kordell Stewart should be in. Also, can someone tell kordell Stewart to go to Hollywood! He'd be a good actor.
He was a good player in his time and exciting to watch.It just seems he was never forgiven for the 97 and 2001 AFC championship losses.
I use to dislike him bcuz i was a raven fan. But now i appreciate how good he was. Could also punt.
I named the turtle I got when I was 7 after Kordell!
Kordell had a powerful arm back then.
Man he was just a little too ahead of his time
He was the first, and he may have been the best. So underutilized. Kordell was an automatic five yards. Every play.
He would be a top 5 qb if he played in this era
my first year i played fantasy football and selected a statistically fading dan marino with my first round pick, 2nd to last pick of the round and was basically bidding against myself and after picking him just said $40.00 and the guy who had the last pick said he wouldn't have bid more than a dollar on marino...well i only ended up starting marino once that year, week 1(because i dropped him on or before stewart's bye week and can't remember who i started that week) and my team took the L during that 1st week(interestingly marino had a pretty solid year in 97, way above his 96 numbers and based on late 90's passing stats had an above average season, 3rd in the nfl in yards passing, 1st in attempts but only 16 td's)...but luckily i drafted kordell as my backup being a steeler and kordell fan and got laughed almost out of the room for the 2nd time that night and he only went on to become the fantasy mvp that year and led my team to a championship, the only time that i have ever won a fantasy league...i also can say that with my last pick i took a little known receiver at the time by the name of T.O. and once again got a few chuckles in the room, because everybody kept talking about j.j. stokes(1st round pick in 95) and that he was the robin to rice's batman...well rice only played 2 games that year and T.O. even though he didn't have an awesome fantasy year based on his later career numbers but well above his rookie numbers and fantasy projections, still led the 49ers in all 3 major receiving categories and was a huge part of my one and only fantasy football glory moment...sorry for the boring story if anybody read this but i wanted to give props to my all time favorite nfl qb, "slash 4 life" and thank him for giving me my one true fantasy football glory moment....PS, i really hate fantasy football and haven't played for over 20 years!!!!
When watching this, you understand why Kordell typically had a pretty even TD/INT ratio. The guy believed he could fit the ball into any window, and most of the time he was right. Such a talented, exciting QB. HIs head was so fucked at the end with coaching changes and fan criticism, it's so sad his career ended the way it did. I'd give virtually anything to go back in time to when I was a kid and see Kordell win a Super Bowl.
My Ultimate Team QB
Best athlete in the league for a stretch there
I was at that game at Arrowhead. The only time I have seen the Steelers lose in person.
KORDELL STEWART BAY BAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I
Was in 3 rivers stadium for kordells first start, against the Dallas cowboy’s a rematch ( kind of) of super bowl 30! They lost 37-7
VERY STREAKY....
I really like Kordell as a person and loved him as Slash but he was too much of a headcase to play QB full time. If he made one mistake it just seemed to rattle him and spiral downward for the rest of game. He did have some great moments though and in those moments I loved him!
Idgaf what nobody say Kordell was a baller...his ego had to be super enormous with the skills and natural ability he had...it was scary...he was the original rg lll
Slash !
Second best QB Pittsburgh's had.
I love the Stewart to Thigpen hookups.
All those runs by Kordell down the sidelines!! And that run going through the middle, after first disappearing into the line TD!
I completely disagree with you, Big Ben #1, Bradshaw #2.
7:22 there goes Kordell Stewart...
I remember that game like it was yesterday. I remember that run. "Electric" is an understatement. Imagine having a designed QB run from your own 25 that goes the distance. There had never been anything like that in the NFL. Heck, it's rare now.
@@boredom2go exactly 👍
Madden97 & GameDay 97 days
IN KORDELL DEFENCE WHEN MILLS HASTINGS LEFT FOR MORE MONEY , THEN THIGPEN LEFT FOR MORE MONEY LEAVING JOHNSON , THAT WAS IT ,MUSICAL CHAIRS AT RECIEVER
Well, they picked up a young receiver named Hines Ward. Of course, they didn't realize what they had there either.
He should’ve played WR
He shouldhave stayed a wide re iever he would b a hof
So true!!!! So many of us, well I thought that too!
14 TD's on The Season.
The league was much different then. There were dudes that had the MVP with 25 or less tds.
Stewart was the older cousin of Michael Vick 6'2 205 4.35 with a strong right arm.
I would say Lamar Jackson. Kordell was nimble and quick. His frame is similar to Lamar but Lamar is faster
@@WhathehadasSole I still say Vick has the edge in speed but Stewart,Jackson are not too far behind and RGIII do not forget about him.
Kordell and Yancey Tigpen was dominant that season. Too bad what couldve been both couldve HOFers. I think their offensive coordinator left and Thigpen had a nagging foot injury. RIP Charles Johnson and Tim Lester
I agree. I dont think his passing progressed because of all the Gay talk and a mixed bag of people against him and for him. If everyone woulda just supported him and started to speak out against the rest stop crap, I think he would have been a very good QB.
Looking at these highlights I’ve come to the conclusion this is what Kyle Shanahan had in mind in selecting Trey Lance in the draft. Trey Lance may have some flash in the pan success but Kordell was by far a more accurate passer than Trey. For the record as a Niners fan, I wanted The guy whose gonna win multiple SuperBowls and his name is MAC JONES.
I know this is about Kordell but Hawkins had no business wearing 88 shame on the organization
I hope to god Justin Fields ends up like this guy, with more trust placed in him by Management and the coaching staff.
Is that Kordell Stewart or is that Lamar Jackson?
Last td did a Deion L@@kbac
Did homie ever throw a duck, all I see are tight spirals and beautiful footwork
If he had stayed a receiver, then he would have been the greatest receiver ever.
7th
I wish I could go back in time to 1997 til bill cower day and Rooney Hey guys we have a really good team yes but this year we need a tank on purpose we need to finished at last. And here's why we need to get rid of Cordell Stewart and in the 1st overall pick at the 1998 NFL draft draft Peyton Manning. Imagine the steelers having Peyton Manning as QB.
If that happened, we'd have never had Ben. Manning wouldn't have lasted long behind those atrocious 2000s offensive lines the steelers had. I'm happy with Ben
Imagine If Football wasn't so egotistical back then.them.. meaning, A coach designed an offense to his Talent. (Lamar)
If New England wasn’t cheating in 01’ we might’ve won the Super Bowl that year. Kordell would have a Championship
Game Jamison Winston plays Super Bowl for New Orleans this year. 2020 brees and hill goes down. Spoils their perfect season. Who dat. Rap Game ain't shit. Hello Rayne, Louisiana?
Cordell should have stayed at Colorado