He Had the Rushing Record. He Lost It on the Very Next Play
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- In 1990, New York Jets rookie running back Blair Thomas was on the verge of doing something special against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers- breaking the Jets' single-season 16-game record for most rushing yards by a rookie running back, topping his mentor and his teammate, Freeman McNeil. You're never gonna believe what happened next
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Brad Braxter was getting the ball in goal line situations. Brad had 30 rushing TD's when they were teammates. That took away some of Blair TD's.
*I REMEMBER THAT JAMES WILDER GAME!!!* Even at age 11 and an avid Jets hater, I thought it was lame. And karma must've agreed since Wilder didn't get the record. If it's any consolation Marcus Allen shattered it the very next season anyway. The Jets and Bucs actually played again the next season and the Jets made sure to run up the score to get revenge.
2:29 That really WAS the first thing that came to my mind! HOW did he KNOW??? 😯
0:15 part of the Jets NFL draft blunders compilation. The Jeff Lagerman pick, fullback (oh no!) Roger Vick, We want Sapp!
To illustrate how meaningless rushing yardage stats have become, Michael Carter had 639 yards as a Jets rookie...and was cut less than 2 seasons later.
Running backs nowadays aren't kept on like the days of Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, and the premium all-time best ever, Walter Payton. And I'm a Packers fan. The Packers were almost out of the playoff hunt last year, but then Aaron Jones came back from his injury. Green Bay dominated those last games and Aaron Jones was the spark. When AJ Dillon was playing the Packers weren't the same team. The season ended and everyone thought AJ Dillon was going to be cut. Instead, A.Jones was cut and they resigned Dillon? The Packers then turned around and signed a Running Back off Free Agency. Running backs now have a very short life span.
@@EdsterIII Wow, you're not kidding. Just found out that Jones averaged 4.6 yards per carry to Dillon's 3.4! 😲And yes, the importance of RBs VS WRs has completely flip-flopped over the past 2 decades.
Just the Jets being the Jets as always.
When was the last time the Jets had a draft pick that worked out for them?
@Jason_Maier Darrelle Revis for sure... Though Sauce Gardner, Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson are great so far, we'll see if the Jets goof them up
Quinnen Williams is a pro bowler
@@BakiSmaki27 Surely that makes up for many of their blunders.
@iamhungey12345 no it doesn't. Where did I say that? I was just adding another recent player that is doing well. Recently, they've had mostly positive draft history.
As a Pats fan, it is hard to have sympathy for the Jets. But ngl it gets real close.
The 1990 Pats were so bad that even after forcing a combined 9 turnovers in both games VS the Dolphins and having none themselves, they still got swept. I kid you not.
@@DolFan316 LOL Bringing back memories. First game as kid I sat down in front of the TV and truly immersed myself with was the Jets beating the Pats in 1990. 42-7. I think it was a long ball to Irving Fryar that caught my attention.
The real summary of Blair Thomas's career: he had a career high 125 yards rushing VS the big, bad Bears on Monday night, but all anybody who watched game (like me) remembers is him losing a fumble when the Jets were attempting to run out the clock, leading to the Bears tying it up and winning in OT. It was one of those situations where a team has the game won, all they have to do is not fumble...and they do.
bro had to spoil the video
Yea, and CHOKE Leahy missing a 19 yard FG in OT that would have won the game also.
@@4cups80s just one of many heartbreaking loses the jets have had over my life time . im a J I M a Jets Islanders Mets fan its a life of misery 🤣
Any running back would have good game behind that offensive line...
Ironically, Thomas was signed by the Cowboys late in 1994 to back up Emmitt Smith, who was the next RB selected after Thomas in 1990. He even had 70 yards and 2 TDs in the Cowboys 35-9 divisional playoff win over the Packers, when Emmitt had to leave the game injured.
Whats sad is the next year he had 728 yards, but wasn't a rookie,then never had more than 440 yards thereafter
What? The Jets doing something stupid? I'm shocked I tell you 😂
Freeman ran for 1000 in a couple seasons for the Jets.
Riggens ran for 1000 in the 70s for the Jets.
Is this supposed to be about the Jets *rookie* rushing record?
And judging from the weird mention of "during the 16 game era" I'd assume it's supposed to be a controversy about the "Jets rookie 16 game era only rushing record"?
No one would have cared about this record.
Even if you're right, it made absolutely no sense for Coslet to bench Thomas after ONE CARRY at the start of the second half. Was he even trying to win at that point?
Riggins had 769 yards in his rookie season with the Jets in 1971 & if you want to include AFL stats Matt Snell ran for 948 yards in 1964
@@RealisticFisHed yeah, he didn't include the "rookie only" caveat until I fired off the reply.
No one would ever give a shit about the New York Jets 16 game era only rookie rushing record.
I can't wait for the video about how Neil O'Donnell set the Jets single season passing yards mark for players whose name end in "L" in 1996 with 1100 yards only to break it with 2700 in 1997....
The jets are-well-just the jets! 😮😮😮😮😮
Even worse about the Blair Thomas pick is the fact that he was drafted 15 picks ahead of the NFL's all-time leading rusher.
Drafts a crapshoot unfortunately
@@ZenOfMKVLI Facts my friend..its a definite crapshoot..
Emmitt would have ended up like Blair Thomas had he got drafted to the Jets
@@johnwade7963 maybe but maybe not..look at Barry Sanders.He played with Detroit.Theres been a lot of successful RB's that played for bad teams.
@@swampghost72 Barry Sanders was the greatest runningback. Emmitt Smith just had the greatest offensive line for the longest period of time. Hence pile right early in his career even though teams new it was coming they couldn't stop, and late in hiss career didn't work. Any other team and I doubt Emmittt makes HOF.
"Disblair?" That hurt my soul. And souls aren't even real.
Blair Thomas and Curt Warner are my saddest PSU running back stories. I was at PSU simultaneously with Warner and he was a beast in that 1982 national championship season. Not a happy NFL career, though. That team also had Todd Blackledge at QB, another NFL bust who was great for the Lions.
Curt Warner was a beast for Seattle his first 3 seasons with the Seahawks until he mess his knee up 3 time pro bowl was 2 in the league in rushing in 83 behind ED… stop disrespecting that man comparing him to Blair Thomas
@@taytay8283 I didn't compare him to anyone. I've always known he was way better than Thomas.
Ki-Jana Carter enters chat: 😮
That Jets organization and coaching staff was more of a bust than Blair Thomas was.... It's like drafting Vince wilfork and then putting him in a 4-3 alignment on the D
Blair Thomas was a Herschel Walker Adrian Peterson type, he needed a lot of cherries to bruise up the defense and then late in the game start busting out runs when the defense is defeated and broken. Why if you're running back by committee is the plan would you draft a running back in the first round ?
Jets organization number one bust in the nfl..., they wasted Freeman McNeil's career too. Riggins ran straight out of town as fast as he could as well
They used Curtis Martin effectively.
Final game of 1990: jets at bucs
First game of 1991: bucs at jets
Closet not letting Blair Thomas get another run kind of shows you where his head was
Throw the ball to Al Toon for crissake!!!
*sigh* Oh, the Jets. Blair sure was hyped upon being drafted very high by them, but this story is just a microcosm of his whole career.
I'm impressed with his set for his stream. Looks like he has to go big or go home and nobody is going to have that many helmets especially of the really bad teams
Thanks! Yep I’ve got helmets got every team and once the UFL season is done, we’re gonna change up the setup to get even more helmets of the teams I talk about in there behind me.
Love your content. Obscure and anomalies of the NFL is your niche.
Its a new day for the Jets
Kyle Brady is up there because they should have picked Sapp.
The Jets just Jets’ing 🤣🤣🤣
And Kamara was a 3rd round pick, no less. Not even a Top 10 pick. Nice job, J-E-T-S.
This game was blacked out here in Central Florida, so I wasn't aware of any record that Thomas was chasing. What a crazy situation! Also, I've heard about that James Wilder Sr. situation and seen some footage of it over the years and I can't wait for you to unearth the whole NBC telecast. That's quite a story. Nonetheless, the Bucs had to visit the Jets the season after that and the Jets flew past the Bucs that day. Unfortunately, I remember watching that game that saw the Jets exact revenge when I was only 4.
Kyle turley video?
This was the Jets rookie record, not the overall record. Freeman McNeil passed 1000 yards a couple times in his career and ran for more than Thomas ran in 1990 on the 9 game 1982 strike year.
Can you do a Johnny Johnson running back for Cardinals in 90's
That's who ended up replacing Blair Thomas lol
I’ve seen the Johnny Hector touchdown run in 1984. It was a CBS cut-in highlight.
I’ve seen that play, but that’s the only footage from that game that I think is still surviving
@@OfficialJaguarGator9Since Wilder didn’t set the record (unlike John Reaves) you don’t need post-touchdown highlights of him.
I loved a look back at the short, unremarkable career, of Blair Thomas, but I felt like this took way too long to officially explain the lost rushing record.
The draft is like Forest Gump said.. life is a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get..
The 1984 Bucs Jets game sounds like something the Florida Gators did in a 1971 game against the Miami Hurricanes. They let Miami score a meaningless touchdown to get the ball back for QB John Reaves, who had already thrown for over 2000 yards in each of his 3 seasons as the Gators QB. IIRC, they wanted Reaves to have the all time passing record, but I'm not sure who held it at the time and it may have been a single game passing record.
Was going through my old sports cards I have had stashed since 1990. I guess I am the proud owner of a mint Topps Blair Thomas rookie card. Not sure it is worth the cost of paper.
Jets have plenty of busts in the first round. That’s their best round in comparison.
Last 2nd round pick to make a Pro Bowl for drafted position: Mark Gastineau R2 1979
Last 3rd Mo Lewis, R3 1991.
Before curtis martin, the jets some decent running backs in the 90s. Adrian murrell, Johnny Johnson, Brad Baxter, and Blair thomas
THat 1984 Buccs-Jets game ended 41-21.
McKay's final game as HC of Tampa...
Buccs players getting mad at themselves for "stopping" a TD really pissed the Jets players off.
The NEXT season....
(teams with worst records played each other the following year... NYJ and TB would meet the following year since they were both the 5th team in their divisions)
Jets led 41-21 (same score) at the HALF!
Winning 62-28.... a true stomp o rama
So if you do a story on the '84 game.. tell about the revenge game the next year too :D
When i was 7 or 8 i traded a magic johnson card for a blair thomas rookie card 🤣🤣🤣
Never draft a Penn St running back in the first round. Especially second overall!!!!! Damn I was talking about Saquon, I didn't know Blair Thomas went 2nd overall too, thats crazy. I knew he went in the first but not that high. Kijana Carter went 1st which is worse, Curtis Enis 4th, which isn't as bad but just dont take a running back from Penn St in the 1st round! EVER!!!!
the “blocking” is atrocious
It's Ken O'Brein
49ers traded 3 firsts for the pick after the Zach Wilson pick. The 49ers didn’t even call the jets because the jets made it so known they loved Zach Wilson.l
Neither of those helmets are what they wore. (I know you don't own the Buccaneers orange helmet).
Yeah I don't own any throwback Jets or Bucs helmets. Gonna add them to the studio at some point
Just another Penn state rb that doesn't pan out in the pros nothing new .
Typical, I remember those Bruce Coslet years well he was “trying to win the game” so in an effort to do so he doesn’t let his rookie running back averaging 7 yards of Carey touch the ball again with 20 minutes left to go in the game.
I will say a couple years later the last game of the season the Jets versus Miami those two both Bruce Coslet and Blair Thomas help win one of my all-time favorite games. The Jets got into the playoffs at 8-8.
As a cowboy fan I wanted him
Thank God we settled for Emmitt instead
I wanted Emmit Smith.
But who was his QB so no QB they can key on the run stack the line and it's tough
Awe my god the falcons running back 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
The New York Jets Made A Mistake By Drafting Blair Thomas Out Of Penn State He Had The Rushing Title And He Lost It That Said To You That Blair Thomas Was A Big Bust For The New York Jets
He was timed at 4.2 in the 40 at Penn State. A lot of teams wanted him. Jimmy Johnson wanted to trade up to get him. People were comparing his size and speed to Bo Jackson.
@someperson8151 If People Thought Blair Thomas Has Speed Like Bo Jackson Think Again He Wasn't Fast Bo Jackson Was On Monday Night Football In 1987 When The Los Angeles Raiders Went To Seattle To Take On The Seattle Seahawks In The Kingdome Bo Jackson Ran For A Touchdown He Ran In Tunnel On The Next Play He Ran Over Brian Bosworth
Matt Snell and John Riggins had more yards in their rookie season.
Yep, but that was 14 games
If you run for 1000 yards then lose a few yards you are still a thousand yard rusher, just didn’t finish the year with 1000 yards!
You still did not cover how the Jets math team screwed Breech Hall from 1000 yard rushing and though he got it and the social media team though he got it as well?
Jets owner should be forced to sell his team. He is horrible for the franchise and it's fans!
Call me crazy, but just taking the Jets circumstances at face value, they COULD have (at the 2nd pick in '90 ) taken EITHER #JuniorSeau #CortezKennedy OR #EmmittSmith ... And THEN... in '91 ... Even WITHOUT a 1st or 3rd... They somehow managed to PASS on opportunities to grab BOTH #RickyWatters AND #RocketIsmael in terms of the zoom factor and only landed one spot late to DRAFT #BrettFavre and knowing that they toss 1st round picks out with the bath water, couldn't be bothered to send one to a better home by trading it for the same Brett Favre one year later... No friggin' wonder #BillBelichick trusted #BillParcells who basically told him a version of "it's a dumpster fire here, let's go see what this Kraft guy is all about"
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Freeman McNeil was the last good running back the Jets ever had. He ran all over my Dolphins on a yearly basis.
Curtis Martin?
The Jets never fully replaced Curtis Martin as that "game-breaking" caliber back. They've had solid backs but not to that level he was.
@@OfficialJaguarGator9, whoops! My bad. Curtis Martin was the best.
Thomas Jones???