Teams represented (25): 49ers (7): Gene Washington, Jerry Rice x6 Colts (5): Roger Carr, Marvin Harrison x2, Reggie Wayne, T.Y. Hilton Rams (5): Henry Ellard, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt x2, Cooper Kupp Cardinals (4): Roy Green, J.T. Smith, Rob Moore, David Boston Eagles (3): Harold Jackson, Harold Carmichael, Mike Quick Falcons (3): Alfred Jenkins, Julio Jones x2 Cowboys (2): Drew Pearson, Michael Irvin Seahawks (2): Steve Largent x2 Chargers (2): John Jefferson, Wes Chandler Packers (2): Sterling Sharpe, Antonio Freeman Panthers (2): Muhsin Muhammad, Steve Smith Texans (2): Andre Johnson x2 Lions (2): Calvin Johnson x2 Steelers (2): Antonio Brown x2 Chiefs (1): Otis Taylor Raiders (1): Cliff Branch Oilers/Titans (1): Ken Burrough Jets (1): Wesley Walker Bengals (1): Chad Johnson Broncos (1): Brandon Lloyd Browns (1): Josh Gordon Saints (1): Michael Thomas Bills (1): Stefon Diggs Vikings (1): Justin Jefferson Dolphins (1): Tyreek Hill Teams not represented (7): Patriots, Ravens, Jaguars, Giants, Commanders, Bears, Buccaneers
@DJonesIsKing I said 1990 might have been RICE'S finest season, not the greatest ever. The greatest of all time is probably 2007 randy moss, 2002 marvin harrison, or 2021 cooper kupp
R.I.P to the legendary Hall Of Famer WR Cliff Branch one of the most if not the fastest WR in the 1970's with the Raiders winning all 3 Super Bowl Championships🙏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽 2:40
Harold Jackson and Harold Carmichael were teammates for a couple years, and in 73 when Carmichael led in receiving yards, Jackson (who was traded for Roman Gabriel) led in receiving touchdowns for the Rams.
Eagles were one of the few teams in the late 60s and 70s that focused on the passing game. Hawkins, Jackson, Zimmerman, and Carmichael. Defense was really bad, however, until Vermeil came.
Jerry Rice is without any doubt the most legendary wide receiver throughout the entire history of the National Football League! No other receiver makes a legend out of him!
@@tesstickles1280 Jerry's best statistical season was in 1995. The back up was throwing him the ball 50% of the time because Steve Young got injured. He made Rich Gannon an MVP by putting up 1200 yards at age 40. Enough with this Randy Moss BS.
@@tesstickles1280His 2 best seasons he had neither! He played with 7 different QB’s in 87 when he set the td record. And had Grbac half the 95 season when he set the yardage record!
@@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212And he played with 7 different QBs in 87! When he set the td record. So his 2 best seasons statistically? He had neither QB the majority!
@@fortynights1513Ellard is a borderline HoFer but no way does Jackson deserve to be in. He just doesn't have HoF numbers for a wideout, even one from the 1960's
Everything I'm saying is then @1&2 # 2&3 in most categories yet not on list shows level of competition became greater in new millennium with dudes flashing for a year Sept Megatron and a.b.
3:24 - 3:28 Bro, that was so damn cold. "Hey, you want this? Too bad!" It's still wild to me that a wide receiver has yet to win a league MVP or have 2,000 yards in a season.
The wide receiver talent is so deep in this league. There are so many guys on this list that have been forgotten or people never even heard of. League leaders completely overlooked.
THIS is precisely why I laugh at 98% of the "fans" and sports media who pretend that Rice is the only WR who mattered. Guys like Roy "Jet Stream" Green, Isaac Bruce, Sterling Sharpe, Andre Reed (who didn't even appear on the list), Wes Chandler, etc were FANTASTIC....but get overlooked and forgotten by the casual fans
He's no Cris Carter, but Brandon Lloyd has some of the best hands of all time. Criminally under-appreciated. His highlight reels hold up against anyone as far as spectacular catches go!
The WR Mount Rushmore is Steve Largent, Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, and Don Hutson...because Jerry Rice is the entire mountain. THE GOAT OF GOATS. #Flash80
It's crazy that the league leading numbers are TE numbers nowdays, 57 catches for 1100-ish yards, and the number of years Rice was featured, that's dominance- they know you're coming and you still torch 'em.
I loved seeing those 1997 Rob Moore highlights. Although his career stats don't showcase it, I always thought Rob Moore was good enough to be considered a No. 1 WR.
It was actually eight. Young got hurt multiple times that year in games he didn’t start. Just like how Rice led the league in 1986 with Joe Montana having to contemplate retirement and catching passes from Jeff Kemp and Mike Moroski 1/2 the year. Didn’t matter who the QB was, he produced. The juvenile Moss nuthuggers are like Bron Stan’s having to make childish excuses as to why their guy isn’t on the level of the actual 🐐.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot2Young didn’t play in the bulk of eight games in 95? I thought it was five. That just makes me wonder how well Rice and that 95 Niners team could’ve done if Young is healthy the entire year. It makes me wonder if Rice could’ve gotten another two receptions and three touchdowns and won the triple crown. Maybe he put up 1,900 yards or possibly even closer to where Calvin Johnson ended up in 2012. And maybe the 49ers win the games they lost to New Orleans and Carolina and go 13-3, dodge Green Bay and repeat.
It was a pleasure to watch Antonio Brown's career before he lost his head. To do the things he did (on the field) as an undersized, late round receiver was simply extraordinary 👌
It's absolutely amazing and real awesome at the same time to see a Wide Receiver like Cliff Branch wearing #21 it gives you SPEED like a 99 overall speed 2:55
Tyreek Hill really dominated last season with 1,799 yards…The Dolphins are a fast paced offense with him in the lineup. Michael Thomas made history by catching 150 passes with a single-season record that season. Marvin Harrison Sr. was a pass-catching machine with 143 catches in one season.
@@EricStuder89 heck yeah!!! He's the only player and wideout to have over 1300 yards in 6 consecutive seasons; not even Jerry Rice accomplish that feat
Crazy how Drew Pearson can be the receiving yardage leader in 1977 in the entire league with only 870 yards. Just shows you how much the passing game has evolved.
@@fortynights1513 That were not as physically dominant or skilled as todays defense. Take any team from the '70's and put them against a modern team and they would get crushed by multiple touchdowns. Heck I would put my money on most modern major college teams dominating any team from the 1970's NFL.
@@jennyanydots2389I don’t doubt that, but the fact remains, five teams in 1977 had a defense that allowed less than 200 points in 14 games, and we have to go to 15th to find a defense that allowed even 17 points per game rounded up. Not that today’s defenders aren’t as good, if the rules were the same today as then, they’d probably have an even bigger impact than they do, but I’d say there was a good group of defenders in 77 too.
@@fortynights1513 I really don't think so. They were using basic concepts, facing basic offenses and none of them were doing the kind of things to gain a physical advantage players are doing today. The best defense of 77 would probably be toward the bottom if not at the very bottom today... the offensive linemen are a lot heavier and way more athletic... QBs would never see real pressure and those O lineman will manhandle any d line from that era if they decided to run the ball. NFL teams from 40+ years ago are not comparable. Maybe some individuals are but, probably a lot fewer than we think... unless we juice them up and put them on full time modern training schedules starting freshman year in high school.
It was the last season before the Mel Blount rule was implemented, and there were a lot of good defenses that year. There were five teams that allowed under 200 points, and ultimately 14 that allowed 16.4 points per game or less.
Not hard to believe. Still a 14 game season un 1978. Not a very evolved passing game just yet. I saw Randy Moss throw a box of newborn puppies into a Taco Bell dumpster two sundays ago.
That’s precisely why the passing game got opened up the following year with the abolition of the Mel Blount “chuck” rule. Guys could contact you all the way down the field before 1978. Passing game has evolved three times…there’s the Don Hutson era to 1977, 1978 to 2003, and 2004 to the present. It is much easier to pass and catch now than it was 50 years ago.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot2 Guys were contacting the youngsters all the way off the field as well. They should probably make a rule against beefin' them kids toilet rings out.
@@jennyanydots2389it was actually a very evolved passing game by '77, as the 60s showed in both the NFL and AFL. What happened in '77 was that the Mel Blount rule hadn't been created yet, and several great defenses dominated pass offenses that particular year
In the 1970s, for receiver to gain over 1000 yards in a season was no less than special. The identity for most teams was still to run first, and the rules that were in place were not over protective for the QB or Wr, like today. And up until 1978, it wasn’t even a full 16 game schedule yet.
Shows how the game and level of competition changed after rice took the league by surprise every team tried to get a great wr1 to try and replicate SF success yet 2 of the most dominate teams after the 90s have few "superstar" receivers. Moss and t.o. not being on here is crazy though Megatron probably could have had every record if didn't retire early dude dominated
Big ups to Andre Johnson and Calvin Johnson for league leading numbers in back to back years. But ain't nobody touching my man Rice. A back to back then a few years later 3 straight!!! Didn't think he'd be the only guy in the last 50 years to lead the league in receiving yards more than twice.
He gets overlooked because he played 40+ years ago and for teams that aren’t really talked about much. Jackson did however retire second in career receiving yards, and top ten in receptions and receiving touchdowns, had the most of each in the decade of the 70’s, and did so without a prime Hall of Fame quarterback. Also had more yards per reception than a few Hall of Fame receivers of his generation (including Branch and Carmichael who were also in this video). Doesn’t have the playoff career most Hall of Fame receivers did in his time, but he also never played with a prime Hall of Fame quarterback. I’d say Harold Jackson belongs in Canton, but that’s just me.
@@ervinghenderson4780There is this mentality among older Hall of Fame voters that if you put up a lot of yardage receiving, it’s because your team was trailing and the stats were in garbage time. But it doesn’t automatically mean the player couldn’t contribute to a successful team, and in Jackson’s case, he never played in a Super Bowl, but he was a part of a number of top five offenses in Los Angeles and New England.
Honestly, about 10 of these season really shocked me. Brandon Lloyd, Musin Muhammad, Rob Moore, David Boston, Josh Gordon, TY Hilton. All excellent players but never would expected being a league leader.
Mike Vick led the league in animal abuse charges... no one saw it coming. Maybe the dawgs but they were too scared to say anything. Livin' off Mike's food stock too lazy to get a real job. Dawgs are the lowest of all the lord's creatures on earth.
Alot of those guys quickly became the 2nd or 3rd best receivers on their own teams A lot of that might have to to with better players on better teams sitting out the last few games of the seasons while other teams are either fighting to get a spot or are stat padding
@@DanSalma-q5i Musin Muhammad was legitimately good, he just happened to get stuck playing with the Chicago Bears for half his career... being the #1 wr on the bears generally means you won't be remembered as one even if you deserve to be.
@@jennyanydots2389 agreed. And I’m sure he had trash QBs as well. Brandon Lloyd was know to make a few acrobatic caches a game never would’ve thought he was a league leader. I had him in fantasy 2012 and all he could do was catch 7 yd comeback. Boston was a beast for a minute.
Notice, the commentator mentions names not mentioned here - Jerry Rice breakes . . . James Lofton's receiving record. I can think of Bucs Wr Mark Carrier, who had 1422 yards in 1989. Pittsburgh Steelers Wr John Stallworth had 1395 yards in 1984, where Lynn Swann never had more than a 1000 yards in his career!
Steve Largent was real fantastic fascinating of a Wide Receiver like no other while he was in Seattle he truly was a great player no doubt about it he reminds me of Wayne Corbett 5:00
As a Steelers fan I wish we had a excellent true Wide Receiver in Jerry Rice I mean what more can you say about this man? Jerry Rice is the real deal who fitted the bill in the NFL 12:57
@@EricStuder89True but if Warner Faluk Bruce Pace and Vermil can be in the Hall Of Fame put Torry BigGame Holt in there because they've been known as The Greatest Show On Turf in 1999 for a reason
How great was Jerry Rice? He was so great that you never were amazed at what he did year after year in 3 different decades. For him it looked as the most matter-of-factly thing on a football field to be so far and above any wide receiver, and there are more than a few hall-of-fame wide receivers who played in his time who entered the league after him and left before him. When he made the great catches, put up the numbers he did, and broke the all-time career records, you just said, "He's Jerry Rice, did you ever expect him to do anything less?"
Most people don't realize that Steve Largent led the NFL in receiving yds. twice! And he did this with Zorn and Krieg as his Q.B. they weren't bad but just think what he could've done with Montana and Young as his Q.B.
John Facenda doing NFL highlights from the 70s, man… makes me nostalgic for an era I wasn’t alive for.
that's actually called Anemoia - nostalgia for a time you've never known
Mussin Muhammad and Steve Smith, underrated duo. But man, I'm glad i witnessed Andre Johnson and Calvin Johnson 😂😂
Calvin manages a Taco Bell near me.
Cris Carter and randy moss. Randall Cunningham as qb.
@@jennyanydots2389cap
Yep
03 was the year I became a Panthers fan ... def a great duo ....
Teams represented (25):
49ers (7): Gene Washington, Jerry Rice x6
Colts (5): Roger Carr, Marvin Harrison x2, Reggie Wayne, T.Y. Hilton
Rams (5): Henry Ellard, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt x2, Cooper Kupp
Cardinals (4): Roy Green, J.T. Smith, Rob Moore, David Boston
Eagles (3): Harold Jackson, Harold Carmichael, Mike Quick
Falcons (3): Alfred Jenkins, Julio Jones x2
Cowboys (2): Drew Pearson, Michael Irvin
Seahawks (2): Steve Largent x2
Chargers (2): John Jefferson, Wes Chandler
Packers (2): Sterling Sharpe, Antonio Freeman
Panthers (2): Muhsin Muhammad, Steve Smith
Texans (2): Andre Johnson x2
Lions (2): Calvin Johnson x2
Steelers (2): Antonio Brown x2
Chiefs (1): Otis Taylor
Raiders (1): Cliff Branch
Oilers/Titans (1): Ken Burrough
Jets (1): Wesley Walker
Bengals (1): Chad Johnson
Broncos (1): Brandon Lloyd
Browns (1): Josh Gordon
Saints (1): Michael Thomas
Bills (1): Stefon Diggs
Vikings (1): Justin Jefferson
Dolphins (1): Tyreek Hill
Teams not represented (7):
Patriots, Ravens, Jaguars, Giants, Commanders, Bears, Buccaneers
This should be pinned
Jerry Rice 6x.. every other TEAM - 5 or fewer.. Damn Jerry!
OMG!! Randy Moss07 season with New England didn't make the cut ? DAMN!!!! Not a critique. Just surprised!!!
Nice breakdown. Thanks for this!!
Talk about an out of nowhere, flare up season for Brandon Lloyd in 2010 when he was 29. That was his ONLY 1,000 season and Pro Bowl year.
Crazy how many times Jerry Rice dominates this list. Simply the best. 💯
He definitely dominated in his time but moss t.o. and tron top 3 ( stick um and level of competition)
Rice is # 4
@@TylerSmith-vz3ch 😂😂😂
@@TylerSmith-vz3ch Hey, thanks for letting us know your opinion is worthless.
@TylerSmith-vz3ch Level of competition in the NFL in the 80's and 90's are you serious m.Say you know nothing about football without saying it
Jerry Rice's 1990 season might've been his finest. Led the nfl in catches, yards, and touchdowns. Triple crown for the team of the 80s
1995. Should’ve been MVP that year. 122/1848/15 is absolute insanity. And he was 33.
I think Cooper Kupp is arguably better. More yards, triple crown, plus Super Bowl MVP. But again it's just arguable. Not a certainty
@@DJonesIsKingwe're talking about jerry rice, not cooper kupp
@Fireyninjadog I understand that. You said he had the best season ever, and I brought up Kupp as alternate to that answer
@DJonesIsKing I said 1990 might have been RICE'S finest season, not the greatest ever. The greatest of all time is probably 2007 randy moss, 2002 marvin harrison, or 2021 cooper kupp
R.I.P to the legendary Hall Of Famer WR Cliff Branch one of the most if not the fastest WR in the 1970's with the Raiders winning all 3 Super Bowl Championships🙏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽 2:40
Andre Johnson was such an incredible player to watch as a kid. He was everything to the texans when i was a kid
Harold Jackson and Harold Carmichael were teammates for a couple years, and in 73 when Carmichael led in receiving yards, Jackson (who was traded for Roman Gabriel) led in receiving touchdowns for the Rams.
Eagles were one of the few teams in the late 60s and 70s that focused on the passing game.
Hawkins, Jackson, Zimmerman, and Carmichael.
Defense was really bad, however, until Vermeil came.
Growing up a Raider fan I saw Steve Largent twice a year make crazy catches!
It must have been extremely disappointing when Jerry Rice actually got you to the Superbowl and Randy Moss got you nowhere.
Most Raiders fans don't know how to use a computer let alone log onto the interwebs. Well done.
@@jennyanydots2389 sadly your mom didn’t know how to swallow or keep a Planned Parenthood appointment
Hopefully yall can do these vids for the defensive stats too, this is great
Sack leaders would be interesting
@@fortynights1513As would tackles and interceptions.
TFL Leaders and PD Leaders
Jerry Rice is without any doubt the most legendary wide receiver throughout the entire history of the National Football League! No other receiver makes a legend out of him!
Jerry had Montana and Young his whole career. So many WR's did not have that greatness throwing to them.
@@tesstickles1280 Jerry's best statistical season was in 1995. The back up was throwing him the ball 50% of the time because Steve Young got injured. He made Rich Gannon an MVP by putting up 1200 yards at age 40. Enough with this Randy Moss BS.
Best player ever!
@@tesstickles1280His 2 best seasons he had neither! He played with 7 different QB’s in 87 when he set the td record. And had Grbac half the 95 season when he set the yardage record!
@@thesentinelsfootballchanne3212And he played with 7 different QBs in 87! When he set the td record. So his 2 best seasons statistically? He had neither QB the majority!
Henry Ellard belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Ellard and Harold Jackson both belong among those who aren’t in in my opinion.
@@fortynights1513Ellard is a borderline HoFer but no way does Jackson deserve to be in. He just doesn't have HoF numbers for a wideout, even one from the 1960's
Henry won't get in until he admits the truth about tower 7.
@@jennyanydots2389 controlled demolition
@@jennyanydots2389what do that mean?
Kinda crazy that arguably the two best receivers of the 00’s, Moss and TO, never led the league in receiving yards.
Everything I'm saying is then @1&2 # 2&3 in most categories yet not on list shows level of competition became greater in new millennium with dudes flashing for a year Sept Megatron and a.b.
Even crazier, not a single patriot WR led either. Yet they won Hella super bowls lol. Defense wins championship
@@WebesmackinbassThey’ve had some well rounded cores, not as many dominated by one player.
STERLING SHARPE NEEDS TO BE IN THE HALL OF FAME!!!!
Absolutely he does he really do please don't keep him waiting
Short career- would have been for sure
I’d agree
3:24 - 3:28 Bro, that was so damn cold. "Hey, you want this? Too bad!"
It's still wild to me that a wide receiver has yet to win a league MVP or have 2,000 yards in a season.
Burroughs always had that energy from what I've seen. He a Funny dude
With all the passing these days and 17 games, I’m sure 2k is just around the corner
Calvin Johnson was a heartbeat away from 2k
Cooper kupp should've won but nfl as usual gave it to qb
Shout out to Neil Lomax one of the forgotten and underappreciated quarterbacks of the 1980s!!
@@swrcomswrcom5306 he was slanging
The wide receiver talent is so deep in this league. There are so many guys on this list that have been forgotten or people never even heard of. League leaders completely overlooked.
THIS is precisely why I laugh at 98% of the "fans" and sports media who pretend that Rice is the only WR who mattered. Guys like Roy "Jet Stream" Green, Isaac Bruce, Sterling Sharpe, Andre Reed (who didn't even appear on the list), Wes Chandler, etc were FANTASTIC....but get overlooked and forgotten by the casual fans
He's no Cris Carter, but Brandon Lloyd has some of the best hands of all time. Criminally under-appreciated. His highlight reels hold up against anyone as far as spectacular catches go!
Brandon Lloyd so underrated. He made some really tough catches wherever he played ✌️
Like those eagles' white helmets with the green wings!
The WR Mount Rushmore is Steve Largent, Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, and Don Hutson...because Jerry Rice is the entire mountain. THE GOAT OF GOATS. #Flash80
youre crazy to think fitzgerald doesnt belong on wr rushmore
Some overlooked Cardinal receivers on here
Right?! What a great history lesson.
I got Fitz at # 5 after moss t.o. tron, rice and boldin around 15
For sure I can't believe I don't even remember Rob Moore
always a good day when NFL Throwback posts something like this... their mini doc's are fire
It's crazy that the league leading numbers are TE numbers nowdays, 57 catches for 1100-ish yards, and the number of years Rice was featured, that's dominance- they know you're coming and you still torch 'em.
I loved seeing those 1997 Rob Moore highlights. Although his career stats don't showcase it, I always thought Rob Moore was good enough to be considered a No. 1 WR.
Thank you! How about sack leaders and tackling leaders also?
Surprising number of Cardinals in the 80s and 90s. Neil Lomax and Jake Plummer: Hall of Very Good.
Really enjoyed seeing some of my old favorites from when I started watching.
Muhsin and Steve so underrated together 🔥
Loved Mike Quick as a player. He's also really good as an analyst on the Eagles radio broadcast
There’s Jerry Rice and there’s everyone else. Period. The 🐐
Great clips!!!! Great players!!! Some highlights!
One of my earliest memories as an Eagles fan is Harold Carmichael running down the sidelines with those huge strides.
Watching this video, it seems like Cliff Branch easily could've played in the current era. Man had SPEED speed!
Your UA-cam Channel Is My Favorite NFL Throwback
Jerry Rice 1995 was a great year in particular because he played with Elvis Grbac for four or five games instead of Young.
Grbac was probably like just throw it to Jerry.
Also many receivers had high yardage totals that year. Jerry stood alone at the top though.
@@augustineirigoyen4400They also didn’t have much of a running game and TO wasn’t drafted yet.
It was actually eight. Young got hurt multiple times that year in games he didn’t start. Just like how Rice led the league in 1986 with Joe Montana having to contemplate retirement and catching passes from Jeff Kemp and Mike Moroski 1/2 the year. Didn’t matter who the QB was, he produced. The juvenile Moss nuthuggers are like Bron Stan’s having to make childish excuses as to why their guy isn’t on the level of the actual 🐐.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot2Young didn’t play in the bulk of eight games in 95? I thought it was five.
That just makes me wonder how well Rice and that 95 Niners team could’ve done if Young is healthy the entire year.
It makes me wonder if Rice could’ve gotten another two receptions and three touchdowns and won the triple crown.
Maybe he put up 1,900 yards or possibly even closer to where Calvin Johnson ended up in 2012.
And maybe the 49ers win the games they lost to New Orleans and Carolina and go 13-3, dodge Green Bay and repeat.
Matt Stafford got his hands all over this list low key.
Underrated QB
My personal favorites were Sterling and David "Muscle Beach" Boston
It was a pleasure to watch Antonio Brown's career before he lost his head. To do the things he did (on the field) as an undersized, late round receiver was simply extraordinary 👌
The fact Otis Taylor still isnt in the Hall of Fame is straight up a crime
Drew Pearson Mr.Clutch #88 was so incredible player who caught the famous Hail Mary pass from Roger Staubach vs Minnesota in 1975 4:08
12 Gordon of the Browns is a sad story! Just could not get his game right after that great season!
Videos like are a reminder to us of just how tragic it was that Calvin Johnson (and also Matt Stafford) spent/wasted careers at the Lions.
It's absolutely amazing and real awesome at the same time to see a Wide Receiver like Cliff Branch wearing #21 it gives you SPEED like a 99 overall speed 2:55
Wes Chandler was real something for all the Chargers Fans 6:40
Tyreek Hill really dominated last season with 1,799 yards…The Dolphins are a fast paced offense with him in the lineup. Michael Thomas made history by catching 150 passes with a single-season record that season. Marvin Harrison Sr. was a pass-catching machine with 143 catches in one season.
Yeah beat CeeDee by 50yrds
CeeDee also had a productive season as well. Nobody could stop him either
All Of These WR Are Awesome 👌 👏 👍
How Torry Holt is still not in the hall of fame, is what I want to know!
Exactly. His 2006 TD catch vs the Seahawks still blows my mind 🤯
@@EricStuder89 heck yeah!!! He's the only player and wideout to have over 1300 yards in 6 consecutive seasons; not even Jerry Rice accomplish that feat
Some real legends on this reel....and some underrated guys too. Thanks for these cool videos!
Crazy how Drew Pearson can be the receiving yardage leader in 1977 in the entire league with only 870 yards. Just shows you how much the passing game has evolved.
Chud comment. I beet my dawg after reading this.
There were also some very good defenses then.
@@fortynights1513 That were not as physically dominant or skilled as todays defense. Take any team from the '70's and put them against a modern team and they would get crushed by multiple touchdowns. Heck I would put my money on most modern major college teams dominating any team from the 1970's NFL.
@@jennyanydots2389I don’t doubt that, but the fact remains, five teams in 1977 had a defense that allowed less than 200 points in 14 games, and we have to go to 15th to find a defense that allowed even 17 points per game rounded up.
Not that today’s defenders aren’t as good, if the rules were the same today as then, they’d probably have an even bigger impact than they do, but I’d say there was a good group of defenders in 77 too.
@@fortynights1513 I really don't think so. They were using basic concepts, facing basic offenses and none of them were doing the kind of things to gain a physical advantage players are doing today. The best defense of 77 would probably be toward the bottom if not at the very bottom today... the offensive linemen are a lot heavier and way more athletic... QBs would never see real pressure and those O lineman will manhandle any d line from that era if they decided to run the ball. NFL teams from 40+ years ago are not comparable. Maybe some individuals are but, probably a lot fewer than we think... unless we juice them up and put them on full time modern training schedules starting freshman year in high school.
Do they even do the team summaries like the use to? I used to like watching them in the late 90s early 2000s
Are you talking about NFL Yearbook or something else?
@@-WitchKingofAngmar yea I think so
Salute to all of these amazing wide receivers
A lot of excellent players, and a few who are overlooked too.
@@fortynights1513 indeed
For Jerry Rice to lead this category 6xs in his career... how can he NOT be the GOAT for WRs...
So funny to see all these Cardinals leading the league in receiving...and not one of them was Larry Fitzgerald 😂
28:09 dude sounds like high pitched Paul Heyman lol
Hard to believe nobody gained 1,000 yds. in the 1977 season. And there wasn't even a strike that season.
It was the last season before the Mel Blount rule was implemented, and there were a lot of good defenses that year.
There were five teams that allowed under 200 points, and ultimately 14 that allowed 16.4 points per game or less.
Not hard to believe. Still a 14 game season un 1978. Not a very evolved passing game just yet. I saw Randy Moss throw a box of newborn puppies into a Taco Bell dumpster two sundays ago.
That’s precisely why the passing game got opened up the following year with the abolition of the Mel Blount “chuck” rule. Guys could contact you all the way down the field before 1978. Passing game has evolved three times…there’s the Don Hutson era to 1977, 1978 to 2003, and 2004 to the present. It is much easier to pass and catch now than it was 50 years ago.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot2 Guys were contacting the youngsters all the way off the field as well. They should probably make a rule against beefin' them kids toilet rings out.
@@jennyanydots2389it was actually a very evolved passing game by '77, as the 60s showed in both the NFL and AFL. What happened in '77 was that the Mel Blount rule hadn't been created yet, and several great defenses dominated pass offenses that particular year
In the 1970s, for receiver to gain over 1000 yards in a season was no less than special. The identity for most teams was still to run first, and the rules that were in place were not over protective for the QB or Wr, like today. And up until 1978, it wasn’t even a full 16 game schedule yet.
2010 Brandon Lloyd and 2013 Josh Gordon. You just had to be there 🥹
Great quality video from the 1970s!!
Surprising Randy Moss, and Terrell Owens never led the league in receiving yards.
Right?! Yet they are in the Top 5 in all kinds of receiving numbers.
Shows how the game and level of competition changed after rice took the league by surprise every team tried to get a great wr1 to try and replicate SF success yet 2 of the most dominate teams after the 90s have few "superstar" receivers. Moss and t.o. not being on here is crazy though Megatron probably could have had every record if didn't retire early dude dominated
@@TylerSmith-vz3chThe Patriots I presume are one of those dominant teams and who else were you thinking of?
28:47 you can clearly see him let Kup get by.
Moss, TO, Fitz, CC and DaVante Adams never made this list...
Don Hudson is the one responsible for paying the way for all of Wide Receivers we see in the NFL from then to right now period
Hutson. If you’re going to try and sound smart, at least get the man’s name right.
It is an absolute travesty Torry Holt is not in the hall of fame. Definitely one of the best WRs of that era.
Cliff Branch caught a 99 yard touchdown pass from Jim Plunkett 3:06
Neil Lomax is one of the most underrated QBs in NFL history.
Too bad he was gang graped to deaf in prison in 1982
Randy Moss or TO never led the league receiving yards. Had no clue
Big ups to Andre Johnson and Calvin Johnson for league leading numbers in back to back years.
But ain't nobody touching my man Rice.
A back to back then a few years later 3 straight!!! Didn't think he'd be the only guy in the last 50 years to lead the league in receiving yards more than twice.
Fun fact Roger Carr is Derek Carr and David Carr’s father
They could have used him as a receiver
Wrong Roger Carr lmao. That isn’t their dad
Sucks Cliff Branch made the hall after he died!
Harold Jackson is criminally underrated
He gets overlooked because he played 40+ years ago and for teams that aren’t really talked about much.
Jackson did however retire second in career receiving yards, and top ten in receptions and receiving touchdowns, had the most of each in the decade of the 70’s, and did so without a prime Hall of Fame quarterback. Also had more yards per reception than a few Hall of Fame receivers of his generation (including Branch and Carmichael who were also in this video).
Doesn’t have the playoff career most Hall of Fame receivers did in his time, but he also never played with a prime Hall of Fame quarterback.
I’d say Harold Jackson belongs in Canton, but that’s just me.
@@fortynights1513 it took forever for Carmichael to make the HOF
@@ervinghenderson4780There is this mentality among older Hall of Fame voters that if you put up a lot of yardage receiving, it’s because your team was trailing and the stats were in garbage time.
But it doesn’t automatically mean the player couldn’t contribute to a successful team, and in Jackson’s case, he never played in a Super Bowl, but he was a part of a number of top five offenses in Los Angeles and New England.
1:38 9.4 speed sounds like a Patriot to me! 😂
1100 in 1970 is equivalent to 1900 now idc what anyone says
Honestly, about 10 of these season really shocked me. Brandon Lloyd, Musin Muhammad, Rob Moore, David Boston, Josh Gordon, TY Hilton. All excellent players but never would expected being a league leader.
Mike Vick led the league in animal abuse charges... no one saw it coming. Maybe the dawgs but they were too scared to say anything. Livin' off Mike's food stock too lazy to get a real job. Dawgs are the lowest of all the lord's creatures on earth.
Alot of those guys quickly became the 2nd or 3rd best receivers on their own teams
A lot of that might have to to with better players on better teams sitting out the last few games of the seasons while other teams are either fighting to get a spot or are stat padding
@@DanSalma-q5i Musin Muhammad was legitimately good, he just happened to get stuck playing with the Chicago Bears for half his career... being the #1 wr on the bears generally means you won't be remembered as one even if you deserve to be.
@@jennyanydots2389 agreed. And I’m sure he had trash QBs as well. Brandon Lloyd was know to make a few acrobatic caches a game never would’ve thought he was a league leader. I had him in fantasy 2012 and all he could do was catch 7 yd comeback. Boston was a beast for a minute.
@@XavierCoolDude What I remember most about David Boston are his biceps... that dude was jacked.
Wild that neither Randy Moss nor T.O are on here
I discovered J.T. Smith a few weeks ago(I watch old football games on youtube. In fact, I watch shows about the beginning of football back in 1867!)
Notice, the commentator mentions names not mentioned here - Jerry Rice breakes . . . James Lofton's receiving record. I can think of Bucs Wr Mark Carrier, who had 1422 yards in 1989. Pittsburgh Steelers Wr John Stallworth had 1395 yards in 1984, where Lynn Swann never had more than a 1000 yards in his career!
Randy Moss never had more receiving yards in a single season!
Brandon Lloyd - one season
Larry Fitzgerald didn't get mentioned(didn't have a season with the most receiving yards)!
Vid idea top rushing back from every team
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Imagine if a WR today copy Ken Burroughs taunt 3:27, it would be all over social media.
Remember when Jerry Rice showed his batwing on MNF?
Love this vid.. honestly Shocking only 1 Raider on here ,, thought Time Brown or Fred Biletnikoff would’ve made it! Salute Cliff Branch tho 🫡☠️
Biletnikoff, Branch, and Casper, what a receiving corps
@@fortynights1513 legendary !..
Team instantly thought of Jerry Rice and Randy Moss.⬇️
I thought of Calvin and kupp 😂
I’m kinda amazed Moss never led in receiving yards.
Steve Largent was real fantastic fascinating of a Wide Receiver like no other while he was in Seattle he truly was a great player no doubt about it he reminds me of Wayne Corbett 5:00
As a Steelers fan I wish we had a excellent true Wide Receiver in Jerry Rice I mean what more can you say about this man? Jerry Rice is the real deal who fitted the bill in the NFL 12:57
Man i hope more wide outs wear number 80 again
Don’t forget…. Cooper Kupp had best WR season in NFL history.
He was elite 🔥
and now he's not as relevant :/
He did? To me Jerry Rice did in 87.
@@kevinuchiha6830Absolutely
Wish he was never injury prone 😢
Video 3 of asking for all time teams for each franchise
Isaac Bruce was one of the most underrated if not the most amazing Receivers to have ever grace the football field 14:24
Well said, very overlooked (even on his own team with Faulk, Holt, or Hakim also being stellar)
@@EricStuder89True but if Warner Faluk Bruce Pace and Vermil can be in the Hall Of Fame put Torry BigGame Holt in there because they've been known as The Greatest Show On Turf in 1999 for a reason
That's crazy that Randy Moss, T.O. and Cris Carter ain't even on here lol
Got an idea nfl throwback. Please make a list with the ultimate team for every franchice. The best player on each position
Somebody probably mentioned this already...this would have been better with context involved. Such as how many games played or receptions.
Bro... What kind a monster Jerry Rice was? Jesus
How great was Jerry Rice? He was so great that you never were amazed at what he did year after year in 3 different decades. For him it looked as the most matter-of-factly thing on a football field to be so far and above any wide receiver, and there are more than a few hall-of-fame wide receivers who played in his time who entered the league after him and left before him. When he made the great catches, put up the numbers he did, and broke the all-time career records, you just said, "He's Jerry Rice, did you ever expect him to do anything less?"
Lance Alwoth had the greatest year. 1600 yards in 14 games.
Mike evans getting the lead next season
Why didn’t we get this any sooner?
Crazy how Tyreek is only on here once but he’s supposed to be Jerry Rice’s successor lol
Most people don't realize that Steve Largent led the NFL in receiving yds.
twice! And he did this with Zorn and Krieg as his Q.B. they weren't bad but just think what he could've done with Montana and Young as his Q.B.
Jerry Rice, man… Legendary
Please do DPOY every year since 1970 (or inception)
Wow what a great video...❤
There's only one Jerry Rice 10:55