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I don't think 1 player could get the best of him because of his position. He was on defense, and once the offensive line was set, the defensive line can shift around, the offensive line can't. So hypothetically, even if there was one guy that could stop him. If that guy lined up on the left, LT could just shift to the right, etc.
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The Blind Side was a movie about a big black kid who get adopted by a white family, finds out he can be a good offensive tackle and plays major college ball and is drafted by the Baltimore Ravens. The term blind side refers to the back of a QB. For a right handed QB, it's protected by the Left Tackle and vice versa for a lefty QB. For a while, and it changed the economics of drafting and of football in general, the Left Tackle was the most prized, highest paid position in football. It was a reaction that directly resulted from the havoc that Lawrence Taylor could unleash. He was so destructive that he changed the way teams were structured in an effort to stop him, and players like him.
7:49 No one player consistently stopped him. And he was fast too, a freak of nature. He'd intercept a ball and just take off. He is in the NFL Hall of Fame and the Giants retired his number. After retirement, he continued to have drug problems and run ins with the law but has been quiet for the past few years.
"He'd intercept a ball and just take off" let's not go crazy....he was without question the greatest defensive player....a true monster and quantum leap forward.... but he only actually did what you said TWICE in his entire great career, and what you said is just too melodramatic. as if nobody else did that. EVERY lb or dB just "takes off" after intercepting a ball, to try to score if they are in a position to do so. 199 career regular season and playoff games - only 10 total pics only 3 tds total return yards = 168 97 of those yards came on 1 great int vs the lions in his 2nd season....he intercepted a pass in the flat at the nyg 3 yard line on the run....he had 97 yards of open space in front of him and nobody near him.... so of course he took off. that did not happen again till 4 years later when he picked off Joe Montana in the playoffs, who threw it right to him in the flat and he took it back for clear sailing 34 yards for the td. his remaining 8 ints totaled just 37 yards & 1 td. (goog search ' Lawrence Taylor Highlights - Interceptions') "No one player consistently stopped him." very true... but that is because nobody knew how to handle a new quantum leap edge rusher. running backs were always used to pick up blitzing lbs up to 1981...but they could not handle him. he forced the advent of a completely new prototype of olineman, the blindside left tackle, as well as needing new blocking schemes. but make no mistake he COULD be stopped....and was frequently held without sacks (though certainly he got tons of pressures and hurries) Even in his legendary mvp 20.5 sack 1986 regular season, he had no sacks in 7 of the 16 games....and in the three playoff games he had zero sacks. he was a force of nature...but he could be stopped even in his peak years.
@@USCFlash Yeah, no shit Sherlock, now quit being a smartass. Plus, even IF LT can be stopped, it's usually when he's being double-teamed or even triple-teamed at that, but still not consistently no matter the blocking scheme.
Taylor was 6'3 and 240 LBs . With his abilities Taylor created a new hybrid Line Backer position, the edge LB . Half Def End and half traditional Line Backer.
A major part of LT’s success was his knowledge of the game, his own assignments, his teammates as well as the opposing offense. No clue how playing edge (which wasn’t a term when LT played) doesn’t require you to be smart lol. If you can’t run or pass on someone getting triple teamed that’s more than athletic ability
The QB Theismann was a leading quarterback at the time, and a Super Bowl champion. And just like THAT his career as a player ended and his career as a TV commentator began 😂
One player that was the toughest before Lawrence Taylor was a middle linebacker named "Dick Butkus". He played for the Chicago Bears and is probably the hardest tackler ever. You guys should eventually do a reaction to his career.
The great Deacon Jones of the Rams “Fearsome Foursome” once said of Butkus, “when he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery not the hospital”. He also has an annual award in his honor for the best line-backers at the top 3 levels, High School, College and Professional.
Yeah, he was very intimidating. In a very early football video game, Tecmo Bowl playing as him was basically a “cheat code” and he would even block kicks. The only offensive player that could beat him was Bo Jackson, the other player/cheat code in the game
In Tecmo Super Bowl he was just as good even though it was easier to pass than in the original. Receivers would make contested catches, and there were fewer interceptions.
Yeah Bo, Walter Peyton, and Jerry Rice were the unstoppable ones in that game. I remember playing that as a kid as the Bears and just hoping to outscore the Raiders since stopping Bo was so unlikely.
I remember 10 years back at a Giants game and our defense was playing like shit, and there was a guy in the crowd yelling "Someone get Taylor a dimebag!!! Our defense can't stop shit! Suit him up!!"
What made LT great was that his ability caused the way the entire sport was managed on the field, not only were defenses now looking at his attacking style, but offenses had the reinvent their plays to account for him, he really changed the game single handedly..
I recently watched a Giants game from the '86 season and was very surprised how often he wasn't used as a pass rusher but dropped into coverage. Just imagine his sack numbers of he was rushing every single pass play.
Lawrence Taylor was a gamechanger in the sense that he was the prototype for a new type of linebacker. It's an influence that is still felt today. When teams spend high draft picks on 'edge rushers' they are looking for a Lawrence Taylor.
Growing up on Long Island in the 80's I got to watch him every Sunday on TV. He was a beast! At the time the Giants had the best linebackers in the NFL with Taylor, Reasons, Banks, and Carson. With those great players the Giants could run a 3-4 defense (3 linemen and 4 linebackers), and cause so much havoc. The 80's Giants hardly had to score because they gave up so little points. Their strategy was defense and time management.
Thanks Jim. This is great info. We haven’t seen anything much of the Giants yet. Hopefully we maybe get to see a video of their 80s team in action some day
That Gary Reasons hit against Denver 😳 Yea I wasn't even alive in the eighties but I know a lot of NFL history from it's one hundred plus year history and I definitely know that the eighties and early nineties Giants defenses are considered some of the best ever mostly because of their linebackers back then.
@@ModeloLoveMeLongTime Folks talk about the Saints 'Dome Patrol' (Rickey Jackson, Sam Mills, Vaughn Johnson,Pat Swilling). Shoot, we had the Big Blue Wrecking Crew (LT, Reasons, Harry Carson & Carl Banks). In the early part of the 80s (before Reasons & Banks), it was LT, Brad Van Pelt, Brian Kelly & Carson. They set the foundation for what followed.
There was no one that got the better of Taylor alone, no one. They started out by trying to block him with a running back, LOL, didn't work. They tried putting a tight end on him, didn't work. Then they put a tackle on him, also didn't work. Then they started double teaming him with the tackle and the guard, also didn't work "many times". He's even beaten triple teams at times. The guy was an absolute freak of a player and in my opinion was the greatest individual player in NFL history. When a single defensive player changes the way entire offenses play the game, that tells you all you need to know. I mean that is 1 out of 11 players on the defensive side of the ball we are talking about. And what wasn't even covered or talked about in this video was his speed. He was one of the fastest players in the league. He routinely ran down running backs from behind to make tackles behind the line of scrimmage. And if he ever recovered a fumble or intercepted a pass and had some open field in front of him to run with, he was gone. No one was catching him. Again, the guy was a freak of nature. Super strong, quick off the snap, could run as fast as anyone out there, and had the passion and aggression unmatched by anyone is the league. All of those things together put him in a category all alone. I'm just thankful I was able to grow up watching him live.
15+ years ago or so, LT was my neighbor on the same floor of my condo building here in Miami Beach. He was actually a really nice and polite neighbor, but boy was he a huge man!
DN Reacts:. This is a great video for a reaction to Lawrence Taylor. Y'all had a great reaction. But what I notice a lot of times people don't follow up this video by watching an interview with Lawrence Taylor. This video only shows LT as pretty much an animal. Whichever interview on RUclips you choose will allow you to see the man that is Lawrence Taylor. Plus I've never seen a interview of LT that wasn't entertaining.
As a Giants fan, it was a privilege to go watch him play. His talent and tenacity had no equal. It was easy to find him on the field because that was where the action was. Quick story; The Giants went to play in Los Angeles so naturally Taylor went partying the night before the game. He brought a teammate with him and his teammate was so hungover that he was completely useless. Taylor was his usual self. The head coach was so pissed off at his teammate that the coach threw him off the team on the spot. The coach wouldn't even let him on the plane to get back home!
Just met LT in Atlanta for coaching at his family foundation football camp. Its crazy from seeing videos about him to standing infront of him and talking to him.
He was the sickest defensive player ever and I was lucky enough to see him when I was a young fan. Of course there were games where the offense was able to contain him to a point. He might get his tackles, but the the other team won and there aren't going to be youtube videos where some offensive lineman with the help of a tight end protected a QB long enough to complete a pass. Worst part as a Giants fan was where he said if he took care of himself and actually trained he could have been so much better. Clearly a freak of nature with his natural talent.
As a NY Giants fan I saw Lawrence Taylor play every single game of his career. He was hands down one of the greatest defensive, if not THE greatest of all time. I'm not exaggerating when I say that. He would strike fear into the opposing quarterbacks, because they knew with his size and speed he was unstoppable. 6:39 I watched that game where he ended Joe Theisman's career. The play happened so fast that you didn't realize what you had just seen. Then they showed the replay over... and over... and over... and over. The Giants also had playing on the opposite side a guy named Carl Banks who was just as big, but not quite as fast.
He was that dude, his play alone could intimidate anyone straight savage (also the last defensive player to win NFL MVP that was for the 1986 season) jus could not stop him.
It was an honor and a privilege to have been able to have been in Giants Stadium to watch LT play in person as many times as I got to. On the field he was WAY ahead of his time and dominated the game like nobody else before him. He is what every linebacker in the league today wants to be! EVERY great linebacker that came after him emulated him in one way or another.
I'm a Tarheel fan...where LT went to college...I'm also an eagles fan & watched him destroy Jaws everytime we played...in his HOF speech he thanked Jaws for helping him get there😭...Him & the eagles Reggie White is the constant debate over who was truly more dominant...
John Randle has a really good story. A literal rags to riches story. “He aspired to be a garbage man, didn’t get drafted and then became the highest paid defensive player in NFL history” (at the time)
i started following the Giants in 86..not cos that was a year they were gd but cos i saw LT..stayed with them ever since between the bad and the Gd yrs...never seen a player like him again!!!!
Another unic player was The Minister Of Defense, Reggie White. He played hard but after he knocked you down he helped you up. After a while other players started helping up their opponents. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers
The entire defensive line of the 80s Giants was legendary. Leonard Marshall, Harry Carson, Jim Burt, LT. They were one of the best defensive units to ever play the game. Leonard Marshall’s stats were almost as good as LTs
If you want to see someone getting at least to even standing, check John Riggins and the Redskins against Taylor's Giants. Taylor played from 1981 to 1993, the Redskins won the championship in 1983, 1988, and 1992. They played the Giants twice a year, every year, in the regular season. They also may have played a third game in the playoffs - but I'd have to check. John Riggins and the left tackle Joe Jacoby are two of the hall of fame players that were on that Redskins team.
LT was responsible for ending the career of Washington Redskins' QB, Joe Theisman in what is probably the most gruesome injury in NFL history. Theisman suffered a compound leg fracture when he was sacked by LT. It was so bad, even LT was visibly shaken by it after the play. You couldn't see it happen during the play, but the reverse angle replay showed the fracture occured as LT came down on the leg as he was tackling him. Players on the field said they could audibly hear the bones break.
As with most highlight films, he was the greatest, but he didn't do this on every play. He was just that intimidating and caused the offense serious concerns. There really wasn't any offensive linemen that could contain I'm, but many teams did double team the man to try to reduce his effect his play on the field. Great video guys.
LT also had one of the best smack talk lines ever. Once, after sacking Boomer Esiasan, LT looked down at Esiasan, shook his head, and said "Son, y'all gotta do better than this." Just straight demoralizing!
LT is the best player ever in the NFL (imo). You could put him on any team, in any era, and he'd still be the most dominate player on the field every game.
I once met members of the Buffalo Bills in person. They were massive, frightening dudes. Thurman Thomas, Cornelius Bennet and Bruce Smith. Extremely large individuals.
Most offenses were thrown off before the snap because they were always looking to see if LT was on the field. The most brutal hit he ever gave a QB was that hit in Theismann.
Watching a couple of British blokes react to some of the best players in the NFL is wildly entertaining! And yes, LT was on BEASTMODE 100% of the time on the field. I got to see his play live coming up and his intimidation factor alone was something to behold. I can’t wait for the Moss video. You’re going to learn why anytime a WR posterizes a DB it’s called “getting Mossed”.
I once bumped into Lawrence Taylor and his club in New Jersey. When I say I bumped into him I do mean bumped into him and he turned around and stared me down, me not knowing who I was about to get into a fight with stood there and stared him down. Lawrence just smiled at me and turned around and walked off. My buddy Dave grabbed me by my arm and drugged me off! Calling me an idiot saying " Do you know who the F_CK that was? "That's Lawrence Taylor!!!"....Lmao!!!!
6' 3" 252. There will NEVER be another like him. Besides the way he played, no one and I mean no one could ever play hurt the way he did and still dominate the game, on several occasions !! The best football player I've ever seen...
Taylor played a role as a football player in the movie "Any given Sunday" It is an excellent movie about professional football that has a sh't ton of famous players and actors. Al Pacino plays the coach! Check it out.
Absolutely the best defensive player ever. Idk if highlights can truly show his dominance. He single handely ruined offenses. Even running away from him wasnt safe enough. He had freakish athleticism mixed with a insane mind for the game. The mental aspect is rarely spoke about but he knew the game in and out.
Best play I ever saw from LT was when the OT blocked LT passed the QB and LT grabbed the QB by the back of his shirt with his left hand and threw the QB down. All this happened as LT was being blocked by the OT.
I saw Lawrence Taylor as a college senior at North Carolina when they came to Lubbock, TX to play my Texas Tech Red Raiders. Truly one of the best I ever saw play in Lubbock against my team. What is really something about Taylor however, is that he says when he thinks of the best defensive player of all time, he does not think of himself. He thinks of Reggie White. He is worth a look also.
If you are video game guys, I'd highly recommend trying to get a hold of a copy of the latest Madden game you can find for your console of choice. Not sure how accessible it would be in the UK, but few things have taught me more over the years about how play calling and execution work than that series. Loving following your journey so far, hope you continue to enjoy!
New York Giants fan here, and someone who watch Lawrence Taylor's entire career. Not only was Taylor the GREATEST defensive player of all time, he fundamentally changed the way football was played!!! Of the field, Taylor had his demons, but on the field - simply the greatest. Funny, when the Giants drafted him, most Giant fans were upset as the ONLY position that the Giants were strong at was Linebacker, and needed players at every other position. Needless to say, Taylor proved Giant fans wrong.
There was not only a player but essentially a type of player that emerged almost purely to deal with Lawrence Taylor: The modern Left Tackle. Players like Bubba Smith(before he ate himself out of a job) a truly massive man, with long arms and very quick feat. The most extreme version of this type of Player was Jonathan Ogden, though he entered the League two years after LT retired. LT's tenure in the NFL coincided with Free Agency arriving in the NFL, players like Will Wolford who became the first serious Left Tackle on Free agency got a then massive 6.75 million dollar deal just because he could stop LT one on one.
Derrick Thomas. Right there with LT in talent. They were different in approach to the game but both could totally wreck an offense and QB. Both one of a kind players. Just glad I lived in a time when both these guys played.
I was a Giants fan before Taylor. When Taylor & Bill Parcells (& Bill Belichek) came along, it was football-heaven. The Northeast-appropriate[bad weather] smashmouth-football approach [You'll get that terminology, eventually] actually worked, & was a joy to watch. :) Btw, I wasn't LT, but towards the end of my senior year, I found out that my teammates were afraid to block me, when an argument broke out in practice [punt team] , as to who was going to be the one to try to block me, & they kept shifting positions, so as to avoid me....... THAT felt good ;) :PPPPP
My husband (as a teenager) and father-in-law were at the redskins vs giants game when LT broke Theismann’s leg. Ended his hall-of-fame career. I still can’t watch it.
Yes, John Ayers of the great San Francisco 49'ers kept LT from sacking Joe Montana. Ayers matched up very well against LT. LT once said he hated playing against the kind of offense the 49'ers ran. I'm a huge 49er fan and I used to brag about how our offense line was the only one that could neutralize LT. Great video, and I was watching that MNF game when LT broke Theismanns leg.
Nobody EVER got the better of LT. No one! I watched every game he played and he was never overplayed. They'd put 2-3 guys on him without success. Dominant.
The history behind Joe Thiesmans injury is weird when you think about the fact that the exact same injury happened to Washingtons QB a few years ago on the same yard line of the same side of the field, both injuries happened on November 18th, my birthday, both caused by the only 3 time defensive players of the year playing against a backup left tackle when the starting probowl tackle was out with injury, I think they both happened at the same time of day and the same time of the game too
Just discovered your videos today; really enjoy them! I have subscribed. Somebody you should watch is Devin Hester. Special teams player, specialized in returning kickoffs. Super talented!
I grew up in NY and got to see LT play at many home games in the Meadowland. Dude was a force of nature. To answer your question, if anyone stood up to LT and got the better of him? NO. A lot of football players may not be the brightest crayon in the box but nobody was dumb enough to get into LT's and try to intimidate him. He would just laugh if they tried and then he would make them look silly on national tv and in front of the offenders family. LT was stone cold on the field. Amazing athlete. Freak of nature. IMHO
In high school two retired Giants players visited and gave life coaching. They told us about their teammate LT and how crack had made him break into his OWN house and steal his OWN stuff without realizing it. So yes, "Don't smoke crack kids."
Context can help answer your question: NFC EAST (same division as Giants) Washington Reskins coach Joe Gibbs realized that NO SINGLE player could stop LT, so he reinstated the H back position (a running back stays behind the line to work as another offensive lineman essentially) So no, not to my knowledge, no one bested LT
The only player who was more feared in the NFL as LT was Dick Butkus. LT was a flatout beast and killer on defense. First Ballot Hall of Famer, quick as hell and strong like a elephant. Ask any New York Giants fan who is their favourite player and 99% will tell you in between 1 second LT ! But you have to watch Butkus too, this dude was electric.
LT is one of only 2 defensive players to ever win the NFL's Most Valuable Player award and the only defensive player to be voted MVP unanimously in 1986. He was, by a wide margin, the most dominant defensive player in history. There have been other guys who were scarier, but no one has ever been that scare and that good. After the Giants won the championship in 1990, his dominance waned. Then in 92' he ruptured his Achilles tendon mid season. He came back in 93' and was good. The giants' defense was again #1 in the league, but LT was not the player he once was. He retired after that season and was a shoe in first ballot hall of fame inductee. I was a linebacker in high school from 86' to 89' and he was my absolute idol.
There was a movie called the Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, and she's narrating because of Lawrence Taylor, there was a need for strong players; in the movie, they adopt this African-American kid who's having trouble in school and a wealthy family, so they give him a tutor, and he does get picked up by the NFL. There was a movie called the Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, and she narrated that because of Lawrence Taylor, there was a need for strong players; in the movie, they adopt this African-American kid who's having trouble What is the true story of Michael Oher? Michael Oher's story is one of the most inspirational to ever pass through the National Football League. After a childhood of poverty and sheer misery, Oher was adopted by the wealthy Tuohy family, which created the conditions for him to succeed in school and maximize his athletic potential.
Nice reaction. LT is a guy I watched growing up. I've never seen a more dominating player. It's like watching someone like Messi. It may seem to be a stretch to compare the two sports or the skill and vision of someone like Messi to the physicality and violence of NFL football. But they are alike in this way --- you are watching the greatest athletes in the world compete and there is one player who stands out because it seems like he is playing a different game entirely.
There is a really cool LT highlights reel played to Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold". That one will get your blood pumping. There's no comentary in it, but you heare some things Taylor says by being miked up. That man was terrifying.
I was a Giants fan back then and I was awed by him; he was just so dominant! There was no one who could or would take him on. Even MICHAEL JORDAN feared him during pickup basketball games at North Carolina.
LT seemed scary off the field as well. He was in the Oliver Stone movie Any Given Sunday and he really blurred the lines of real person and fictional character.
As a linebacker, he was generally going against different blockers or schemes moving around. Idk that any one player ever shut him down. In his time, maybe Larry Allen 1 on 1 or a few of the best linemen, but he’d probably still beat ‘em half the time
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I don't think 1 player could get the best of him because of his position. He was on defense, and once the offensive line was set, the defensive line can shift around, the offensive line can't. So hypothetically, even if there was one guy that could stop him. If that guy lined up on the left, LT could just shift to the right, etc.
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Lawrence Taylor was actually in The Waterboy. He tells a group of kids, "Don't smoke crack".
Wow, I’ve seen that film so many times and did not know the context behind this!
Lol
It says it as a total non sequitur lol..."which brings me to my next point, don't smoke crack!"
@@mattc2824hahahaha right? Bobby goes off and then LT just turn to the kids and says that. Still die everytime
This movie came out weeks after his arrest for crack possession. When i heard that line in the theatre, i stood up and clapped and cheered.
The Blind Side was a movie about a big black kid who get adopted by a white family, finds out he can be a good offensive tackle and plays major college ball and is drafted by the Baltimore Ravens. The term blind side refers to the back of a QB. For a right handed QB, it's protected by the Left Tackle and vice versa for a lefty QB. For a while, and it changed the economics of drafting and of football in general, the Left Tackle was the most prized, highest paid position in football. It was a reaction that directly resulted from the havoc that Lawrence Taylor could unleash. He was so destructive that he changed the way teams were structured in an effort to stop him, and players like him.
7:49 No one player consistently stopped him. And he was fast too, a freak of nature. He'd intercept a ball and just take off. He is in the NFL Hall of Fame and the Giants retired his number. After retirement, he continued to have drug problems and run ins with the law but has been quiet for the past few years.
Thanks pushpak. That’s crazy and understandably a Hall of Famer!
Yeah, I think age finally slowed him down and mellowed him out. He seems kinda relaxed and jovial in recent interviews.
"He'd intercept a ball and just take off"
let's not go crazy....he was without question the greatest defensive player....a true monster and quantum leap forward.... but he only actually did what you said TWICE in his entire great career, and what you said is just too melodramatic. as if nobody else did that. EVERY lb or dB just "takes off" after intercepting a ball, to try to score if they are in a position to do so.
199 career regular season and playoff games -
only 10 total pics
only 3 tds
total return yards = 168
97 of those yards came on 1 great int vs the lions in his 2nd season....he intercepted a pass in the flat at the nyg 3 yard line on the run....he had 97 yards of open space in front of him and nobody near him.... so of course he took off. that did not happen again till 4 years later when he picked off Joe Montana in the playoffs, who threw it right to him in the flat and he took it back for clear sailing 34 yards for the td.
his remaining 8 ints totaled just 37 yards & 1 td.
(goog search ' Lawrence Taylor Highlights - Interceptions')
"No one player consistently stopped him."
very true... but that is because nobody knew how to handle a new quantum leap edge rusher. running backs were always used to pick up blitzing lbs up to 1981...but they could not handle him. he forced the advent of a completely new prototype of olineman, the blindside left tackle, as well as needing new blocking schemes. but make no mistake he COULD be stopped....and was frequently held without sacks (though certainly he got tons of pressures and hurries)
Even in his legendary mvp 20.5 sack 1986 regular season, he had no sacks in 7 of the 16 games....and in the three playoff games he had zero sacks.
he was a force of nature...but he could be stopped even in his peak years.
@@USCFlash Yeah, no shit Sherlock, now quit being a smartass. Plus, even IF LT can be stopped, it's usually when he's being double-teamed or even triple-teamed at that, but still not consistently no matter the blocking scheme.
Anthony Munoz whoop LT ass
Taylor was 6'3 and 240 LBs . With his abilities Taylor created a new hybrid Line Backer position, the edge LB . Half Def End and half traditional Line Backer.
That’s mad. Thank you for the comment Robert!
Playing edge isn't difficult and you don't have to be smart to play the position. Beside he was on cocaine
@@tsmar9939 it's not difficult, but it's not easy either.
255 lbs when he matured. 240 lbs out of college
A major part of LT’s success was his knowledge of the game, his own assignments, his teammates as well as the opposing offense. No clue how playing edge (which wasn’t a term when LT played) doesn’t require you to be smart lol. If you can’t run or pass on someone getting triple teamed that’s more than athletic ability
The QB Theismann was a leading quarterback at the time, and a Super Bowl champion. And just like THAT his career as a player ended and his career as a TV commentator began 😂
😂😂
One player that was the toughest before Lawrence Taylor was a middle linebacker named "Dick Butkus". He played for the Chicago Bears and is probably the hardest tackler ever. You guys should eventually do a reaction to his career.
Thanks for the comment Aregua! Also added Dick Butkus to our list! Think he may have already been there 😅
The great Deacon Jones of the Rams “Fearsome Foursome” once said of Butkus, “when he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery not the hospital”. He also has an annual award in his honor for the best line-backers at the top 3 levels, High School, College and Professional.
Please watch Butkus videos!
Check out the Selmon brothers from Oklahoma University. They basically did the same thing as LT but on the college level.
@@DNReacts Yes, Butkus. Absolutely!
Yeah, he was very intimidating. In a very early football video game, Tecmo Bowl playing as him was basically a “cheat code” and he would even block kicks. The only offensive player that could beat him was Bo Jackson, the other player/cheat code in the game
In Tecmo Super Bowl he was just as good even though it was easier to pass than in the original. Receivers would make contested catches, and there were fewer interceptions.
Thurman Thomas was OP too.
Bo Jackson couldn’t be tackled
Yeah Bo, Walter Peyton, and Jerry Rice were the unstoppable ones in that game. I remember playing that as a kid as the Bears and just hoping to outscore the Raiders since stopping Bo was so unlikely.
I forgot LT was a beast on that game. Bavarro was a problem too with that unstoppable curl pass.
I remember 10 years back at a Giants game and our defense was playing like shit, and there was a guy in the crowd yelling "Someone get Taylor a dimebag!!! Our defense can't stop shit! Suit him up!!"
What made LT great was that his ability caused the way the entire sport was managed on the field, not only were defenses now looking at his attacking style, but offenses had the reinvent their plays to account for him, he really changed the game single handedly..
Joe Gibbs invented the two tight end offense mainly to deal with 3-4 defenses and LT in particular.
No one ever got the better of Lawrence Taylor. Impossible!
I recently watched a Giants game from the '86 season and was very surprised how often he wasn't used as a pass rusher but dropped into coverage. Just imagine his sack numbers of he was rushing every single pass play.
Lawrence Taylor was a gamechanger in the sense that he was the prototype for a new type of linebacker. It's an influence that is still felt today. When teams spend high draft picks on 'edge rushers' they are looking for a Lawrence Taylor.
Growing up on Long Island in the 80's I got to watch him every Sunday on TV. He was a beast! At the time the Giants had the best linebackers in the NFL with Taylor, Reasons, Banks, and Carson. With those great players the Giants could run a 3-4 defense (3 linemen and 4 linebackers), and cause so much havoc. The 80's Giants hardly had to score because they gave up so little points. Their strategy was defense and time management.
Thanks Jim. This is great info. We haven’t seen anything much of the Giants yet. Hopefully we maybe get to see a video of their 80s team in action some day
Those were the glory years of the NFC East....Parcells, Simms, LT, Banks, Bavaro, with Madden & Summerall doing the games on CBS!
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I met Bavaro,Joe Morris and Jim Burt as a middle school kid in Hawaii when they came over for the pro bowl.
That Gary Reasons hit against Denver 😳
Yea I wasn't even alive in the eighties but I know a lot of NFL history from it's one hundred plus year history and I definitely know that the eighties and early nineties Giants defenses are considered some of the best ever mostly because of their linebackers back then.
@@ModeloLoveMeLongTime Folks talk about the Saints 'Dome Patrol' (Rickey Jackson, Sam Mills, Vaughn Johnson,Pat Swilling). Shoot, we had the Big Blue Wrecking Crew (LT, Reasons, Harry Carson & Carl Banks). In the early part of the 80s (before Reasons & Banks), it was LT, Brad Van Pelt, Brian Kelly & Carson. They set the foundation for what followed.
There was no one that got the better of Taylor alone, no one. They started out by trying to block him with a running back, LOL, didn't work. They tried putting a tight end on him, didn't work. Then they put a tackle on him, also didn't work. Then they started double teaming him with the tackle and the guard, also didn't work "many times". He's even beaten triple teams at times. The guy was an absolute freak of a player and in my opinion was the greatest individual player in NFL history. When a single defensive player changes the way entire offenses play the game, that tells you all you need to know. I mean that is 1 out of 11 players on the defensive side of the ball we are talking about. And what wasn't even covered or talked about in this video was his speed. He was one of the fastest players in the league. He routinely ran down running backs from behind to make tackles behind the line of scrimmage. And if he ever recovered a fumble or intercepted a pass and had some open field in front of him to run with, he was gone. No one was catching him. Again, the guy was a freak of nature. Super strong, quick off the snap, could run as fast as anyone out there, and had the passion and aggression unmatched by anyone is the league. All of those things together put him in a category all alone. I'm just thankful I was able to grow up watching him live.
15+ years ago or so, LT was my neighbor on the same floor of my condo building here in Miami Beach. He was actually a really nice and polite neighbor, but boy was he a huge man!
DN Reacts:. This is a great video for a reaction to Lawrence Taylor. Y'all had a great reaction. But what I notice a lot of times people don't follow up this video by watching an interview with Lawrence Taylor. This video only shows LT as pretty much an animal. Whichever interview on RUclips you choose will allow you to see the man that is Lawrence Taylor. Plus I've never seen a interview of LT that wasn't entertaining.
Thank you for the comment and support, really appreciate it! Thanks for this, I’ve added to our list, would love to watch more LT!
Non stop motor, fearless, mean, vicious and tenacious toward opposing QBs...... And he scared the shi......... out of EVERYONE he faced
As a Giants fan, it was a privilege to go watch him play. His talent and tenacity had no equal. It was easy to find him on the field because that was where the action was.
Quick story; The Giants went to play in Los Angeles so naturally Taylor went partying the night before the game. He brought a teammate with him and his teammate was so hungover that he was completely useless. Taylor was his usual self. The head coach was so pissed off at his teammate that the coach threw him off the team on the spot. The coach wouldn't even let him on the plane to get back home!
That’s crazy Dean! Just goes to show. I’d have been that teammate getting thrown off the bus. Hangovers are my enemy!
Just met LT in Atlanta for coaching at his family foundation football camp. Its crazy from seeing videos about him to standing infront of him and talking to him.
He was the sickest defensive player ever and I was lucky enough to see him when I was a young fan. Of course there were games where the offense was able to contain him to a point. He might get his tackles, but the the other team won and there aren't going to be youtube videos where some offensive lineman with the help of a tight end protected a QB long enough to complete a pass. Worst part as a Giants fan was where he said if he took care of himself and actually trained he could have been so much better. Clearly a freak of nature with his natural talent.
As a NY Giants fan I saw Lawrence Taylor play every single game of his career. He was hands down one of the greatest defensive, if not THE greatest of all time. I'm not exaggerating when I say that. He would strike fear into the opposing quarterbacks, because they knew with his size and speed he was unstoppable.
6:39 I watched that game where he ended Joe Theisman's career. The play happened so fast that you didn't realize what you had just seen. Then they showed the replay over... and over... and over... and over.
The Giants also had playing on the opposite side a guy named Carl Banks who was just as big, but not quite as fast.
He was that dude, his play alone could intimidate anyone straight savage (also the last defensive player to win NFL MVP that was for the 1986 season) jus could not stop him.
Greatest NFL player of all time. He had grown men professional athletes scared shitless of him.
It was an honor and a privilege to have been able to have been in Giants Stadium to watch LT play in person as many times as I got to. On the field he was WAY ahead of his time and dominated the game like nobody else before him. He is what every linebacker in the league today wants to be! EVERY great linebacker that came after him emulated him in one way or another.
I'm a Tarheel fan...where LT went to college...I'm also an eagles fan & watched him destroy Jaws everytime we played...in his HOF speech he thanked Jaws for helping him get there😭...Him & the eagles Reggie White is the constant debate over who was truly more dominant...
I remember Randall getting the better of LT a few times that felt great. It only felt great because of all the times LT crushed us.
I just commented that I want to see this video, such an icon and such a legend. So excited to watch!
John Randle has a really good story. A literal rags to riches story. “He aspired to be a garbage man, didn’t get drafted and then became the highest paid defensive player in NFL history” (at the time)
Take your time guys, a lot of great players over the years in the toughest league in the world.
The QB whose leg was snapped is Joe Theismann. That injury ended his career.
i started following the Giants in 86..not cos that was a year they were gd but cos i saw LT..stayed with them ever since between the bad and the Gd yrs...never seen a player like him again!!!!
Another unic player was The Minister Of Defense, Reggie White. He played hard but after he knocked you down he helped you up. After a while other players started helping up their opponents. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers
He sounds like a great guy!
@@DNReacts”The Minister of Defense” b/c he actually was an ordained minister in the Evangelical Church
The entire defensive line of the 80s Giants was legendary. Leonard Marshall, Harry Carson, Jim Burt, LT. They were one of the best defensive units to ever play the game. Leonard Marshall’s stats were almost as good as LTs
Actually, the most intimidating player was Dick Butkus. One of the greatest middle linebackers ever.
Added him to the list Lonewolf!
@@DNReacts NFL Films has a great episode you can find about the Top 10 Most Feared Tacklers. ruclips.net/video/1Zwq7m4Mba4/видео.html
Thank you for the link, appreciate it. We’ve had problems with NFL Films in the past but about time we gave them another go.
Not only was Theismans leg broken, it ended his career.
If you want to see someone getting at least to even standing, check John Riggins and the Redskins against Taylor's Giants. Taylor played from 1981 to 1993, the Redskins won the championship in 1983, 1988, and 1992. They played the Giants twice a year, every year, in the regular season. They also may have played a third game in the playoffs - but I'd have to check. John Riggins and the left tackle Joe Jacoby are two of the hall of fame players that were on that Redskins team.
LT was responsible for ending the career of Washington Redskins' QB, Joe Theisman in what is probably the most gruesome injury in NFL history. Theisman suffered a compound leg fracture when he was sacked by LT. It was so bad, even LT was visibly shaken by it after the play. You couldn't see it happen during the play, but the reverse angle replay showed the fracture occured as LT came down on the leg as he was tackling him. Players on the field said they could audibly hear the bones break.
As with most highlight films, he was the greatest, but he didn't do this on every play. He was just that intimidating and caused the offense serious concerns. There really wasn't any offensive linemen that could contain I'm, but many teams did double team the man to try to reduce his effect his play on the field. Great video guys.
Thanks Mark. Appreciate the comment and support!
LT also had one of the best smack talk lines ever. Once, after sacking Boomer Esiasan, LT looked down at Esiasan, shook his head, and said "Son, y'all gotta do better than this." Just straight demoralizing!
LT is the best player ever in the NFL (imo). You could put him on any team, in any era, and he'd still be the most dominate player on the field every game.
I once met members of the Buffalo Bills in person. They were massive, frightening dudes. Thurman Thomas, Cornelius Bennet and Bruce Smith.
Extremely large individuals.
Although they didn't play in the league at the same time, Dick Butkus was just as notorious on the field. Old school badass
What a LEGEND. He is the reason I signed up to play football... and it got me into college many years later.
I'm guessing you didn't sign up to play QB.
It was a thing of beauty watching that man play the games.
Most offenses were thrown off before the snap because they were always looking to see if LT was on the field. The most brutal hit he ever gave a QB was that hit in Theismann.
I always enjoyed KTO's player dives.
Watching a couple of British blokes react to some of the best players in the NFL is wildly entertaining! And yes, LT was on BEASTMODE 100% of the time on the field. I got to see his play live coming up and his intimidation factor alone was something to behold. I can’t wait for the Moss video. You’re going to learn why anytime a WR posterizes a DB it’s called “getting Mossed”.
Love the video and you guys should do Earl Campbell 🤩
Thank you for the comment Cathmhaoil, appreciate the support. Also, added Earl to our list!
@@DNReacts YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I once bumped into Lawrence Taylor and his club in New Jersey. When I say I bumped into him I do mean bumped into him and he turned around and stared me down, me not knowing who I was about to get into a fight with stood there and stared him down. Lawrence just smiled at me and turned around and walked off. My buddy Dave grabbed me by my arm and drugged me off! Calling me an idiot saying " Do you know who the F_CK that was? "That's Lawrence Taylor!!!"....Lmao!!!!
6' 3" 252. There will NEVER be another like him. Besides the way he played, no one and I mean no one could ever play hurt the way he did and still dominate the game, on several occasions !! The best football player I've ever seen...
Anthony Munoz was a beast for the Cincinnati Bengals. He held his own with Mr Taylor
I was wondering this very thing. If there was any lineman who could with regularity, it was probably Anthony Munoz.
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Taylor played a role as a football player in the movie "Any given Sunday" It is an excellent movie about professional football that has a sh't ton of famous players and actors. Al Pacino plays the coach! Check it out.
Absolutely the best defensive player ever. Idk if highlights can truly show his dominance. He single handely ruined offenses. Even running away from him wasnt safe enough. He had freakish athleticism mixed with a insane mind for the game. The mental aspect is rarely spoke about but he knew the game in and out.
One of my favorite players growing up.
Best play I ever saw from LT was when the OT blocked LT passed the QB and LT grabbed the QB by the back of his shirt with his left hand and threw the QB down. All this happened as LT was being blocked by the OT.
Growing up as a Cowboy fan we dreaded seeing him on the field.
I saw Lawrence Taylor as a college senior at North Carolina when they came to Lubbock, TX to play my Texas Tech Red Raiders. Truly one of the best I ever saw play in Lubbock against my team. What is really something about Taylor however, is that he says when he thinks of the best defensive player of all time, he does not think of himself. He thinks of Reggie White. He is worth a look also.
If you are video game guys, I'd highly recommend trying to get a hold of a copy of the latest Madden game you can find for your console of choice. Not sure how accessible it would be in the UK, but few things have taught me more over the years about how play calling and execution work than that series. Loving following your journey so far, hope you continue to enjoy!
New York Giants fan here, and someone who watch Lawrence Taylor's entire career. Not only was Taylor the GREATEST defensive player of all time, he fundamentally changed the way football was played!!! Of the field, Taylor had his demons, but on the field - simply the greatest.
Funny, when the Giants drafted him, most Giant fans were upset as the ONLY position that the Giants were strong at was Linebacker, and needed players at every other position. Needless to say, Taylor proved Giant fans wrong.
No rush for the other videos! Y’all doing great
Thank you for the support Fabreeze!
There was not only a player but essentially a type of player that emerged almost purely to deal with Lawrence Taylor: The modern Left Tackle. Players like Bubba Smith(before he ate himself out of a job) a truly massive man, with long arms and very quick feat. The most extreme version of this type of Player was Jonathan Ogden, though he entered the League two years after LT retired. LT's tenure in the NFL coincided with Free Agency arriving in the NFL, players like Will Wolford who became the first serious Left Tackle on Free agency got a then massive 6.75 million dollar deal just because he could stop LT one on one.
Derrick Thomas. Right there with LT in talent. They were different in approach to the game but both could totally wreck an offense and QB. Both one of a kind players. Just glad I lived in a time when both these guys played.
Derrick was good but only one LT
Watch the 1999 Rams. Greatest show on turf. The season was amazing. Great job guys. Keep it up.
LT. What a legend
I was a Giants fan before Taylor. When Taylor & Bill Parcells (& Bill Belichek) came along, it was football-heaven. The Northeast-appropriate[bad weather] smashmouth-football approach [You'll get that terminology, eventually] actually worked, & was a joy to watch. :)
Btw, I wasn't LT, but towards the end of my senior year, I found out that my teammates were afraid to block me, when an argument broke out in practice [punt team] , as to who was going to be the one to try to block me, & they kept shifting positions, so as to avoid me....... THAT felt good ;) :PPPPP
LT was the Greatest Player to ever step on a Football field, and still is. There will never be another one.......
Great video guys.
Thank you, appreciate the support!
Met LT many times, cool dude but f'ing nuts!
Monster... Lawrence Taylor was a truly terrifying player.
My husband (as a teenager) and father-in-law were at the redskins vs giants game when LT broke Theismann’s leg. Ended his hall-of-fame career. I still can’t watch it.
There ia a segment from the NFL 100 show from a couple of years ago, his D Coord was on the show and had some great stories.
It was the 80s also. LT's antics wouldn't be tolerated today. He was totally intriguing.
Yes, John Ayers of the great San Francisco 49'ers kept LT from sacking Joe Montana. Ayers matched up very well against LT. LT once said he hated playing against the kind of offense the 49'ers ran. I'm a huge 49er fan and I used to brag about how our offense line was the only one that could neutralize LT. Great video, and I was watching that MNF game when LT broke Theismanns leg.
Thank you Mark
Nobody EVER got the better of LT. No one! I watched every game he played and he was never overplayed. They'd put 2-3 guys on him without success. Dominant.
The history behind Joe Thiesmans injury is weird when you think about the fact that the exact same injury happened to Washingtons QB a few years ago on the same yard line of the same side of the field, both injuries happened on November 18th, my birthday, both caused by the only 3 time defensive players of the year playing against a backup left tackle when the starting probowl tackle was out with injury, I think they both happened at the same time of day and the same time of the game too
Just discovered your videos today; really enjoy them! I have subscribed.
Somebody you should watch is Devin Hester. Special teams player, specialized in returning kickoffs. Super talented!
LT was a man among boys. He had that rare gift of making everyone else look slow.
I grew up in NY and got to see LT play at many home games in the Meadowland. Dude was a force of nature. To answer your question, if anyone stood up to LT and got the better of him? NO. A lot of football players may not be the brightest crayon in the box but nobody was dumb enough to get into LT's and try to intimidate him. He would just laugh if they tried and then he would make them look silly on national tv and in front of the offenders family. LT was stone cold on the field. Amazing athlete. Freak of nature. IMHO
Thanks for the comment Roger. LT certainly sounds like one of a kind! We’ll have to check out more LT videos
@@DNReacts Please do! BTW, my late Paternal grandfather is/was a Brit. Born in Southampton in 1900.
He was not just a freak of nature, he was a force of nature!
Awesome video.
In high school two retired Giants players visited and gave life coaching. They told us about their teammate LT and how crack had made him break into his OWN house and steal his OWN stuff without realizing it. So yes, "Don't smoke crack kids."
You said he was like a shark- well his character in Any Given Sunday was called “Shark” if I recall correctly.
Context can help answer your question: NFC EAST (same division as Giants) Washington Reskins coach Joe Gibbs realized that NO SINGLE player could stop LT, so he reinstated the H back position (a running back stays behind the line to work as another offensive lineman essentially)
So no, not to my knowledge, no one bested LT
The only player who was more feared in the NFL as LT was Dick Butkus. LT was a flatout beast and killer on defense. First Ballot Hall of Famer, quick as hell and strong like a elephant. Ask any New York Giants fan who is their favourite player and 99% will tell you in between 1 second LT ! But you have to watch Butkus too, this dude was electric.
I'm a Giants fan and never saw anyone best LT for an entire game.
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LT is one of only 2 defensive players to ever win the NFL's Most Valuable Player award and the only defensive player to be voted MVP unanimously in 1986. He was, by a wide margin, the most dominant defensive player in history. There have been other guys who were scarier, but no one has ever been that scare and that good. After the Giants won the championship in 1990, his dominance waned. Then in 92' he ruptured his Achilles tendon mid season. He came back in 93' and was good. The giants' defense was again #1 in the league, but LT was not the player he once was. He retired after that season and was a shoe in first ballot hall of fame inductee. I was a linebacker in high school from 86' to 89' and he was my absolute idol.
There was a movie called the Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, and she's narrating because of Lawrence Taylor, there was a need for strong players; in the movie, they adopt this African-American kid who's having trouble in school and a wealthy family, so they give him a tutor, and he does get picked up by the NFL. There was a movie called the Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, and she narrated that because of Lawrence Taylor, there was a need for strong players; in the movie, they adopt this African-American kid who's having trouble What is the true story of Michael Oher?
Michael Oher's story is one of the most inspirational to ever pass through the National Football League. After a childhood of poverty and sheer misery, Oher was adopted by the wealthy Tuohy family, which created the conditions for him to succeed in school and maximize his athletic potential.
I remember watching it years ago! Amazing story!
The Giants lost the game where LT snapped the QB's leg. The injury was so bad it took the wind out of the Giants team.
Well, I just saw this after suggesting you watch him on another video!
Nice reaction. LT is a guy I watched growing up. I've never seen a more dominating player. It's like watching someone like Messi. It may seem to be a stretch to compare the two sports or the skill and vision of someone like Messi to the physicality and violence of NFL football. But they are alike in this way --- you are watching the greatest athletes in the world compete and there is one player who stands out because it seems like he is playing a different game entirely.
There is a really cool LT highlights reel played to Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold". That one will get your blood pumping. There's no comentary in it, but you heare some things Taylor says by being miked up. That man was terrifying.
No one could stop him
That is why the blind side offensive tackle is often the 2nd highest paid player on the team.
I was a Giants fan back then and I was awed by him; he was just so dominant! There was no one who could or would take him on. Even MICHAEL JORDAN feared him during pickup basketball games at North Carolina.
Watch the opening scene of “The Blind Side.”
There’s a reason Left Tackles are typically the second-highest paid NFL players, right behind QBs.
LT seemed scary off the field as well. He was in the Oliver Stone movie Any Given Sunday and he really blurred the lines of real person and fictional character.
The answer is no one ever stopped LT.
LT was a difference maker, hands down the greatest defensive player I've ever seen, despite his shortcomings.
As a linebacker, he was generally going against different blockers or schemes moving around. Idk that any one player ever shut him down. In his time, maybe Larry Allen 1 on 1 or a few of the best linemen, but he’d probably still beat ‘em half the time