Why Lawrence Taylor Often Showed Up at Phil Simms' House Early in the Morning | The Dan Patrick Show
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- Chris Simms takes a trip down memory lane and recalls some of his favorite Lawrence Taylor stories from his childhood.
I miss watching him play. Anyone who didn't see him play during his career, missed out. He was unreal.
FLORIDA GATOR, I missed out 🤦♂️
IAM knot going to lie I watched Derrick Thomas's whole career and I just UA-cam Lawrence Taylor and LT was a super beast.....
Sadly I missed out, I have to UA-cam his highlights to see that he was a different breed
I feel lucky to have watched him play. He could single handedly take over a game. LT changed the game.
He wad a baaaad man!!!
LT is the 🐐 hands down! This is coming from a lifelong Cowboys fan! There will never, ever be anyone like him! He was on another stratosphere!
I can proudly say I seen Lawrence Taylor play from the 82 season and on,what a pleasure to watch him play every week.he was absolutely incredible.
My exact thoughts too, an absolute gift.
I miss the old NFL where LT could lay out the QB and be applauded for it by his peers instead of being buried in a sea of yellow flags.
ME 2, back in the 70s and 80s they played real football in the NFL. I have not been a fan of pro football sense, college football is better anyway especially in the SEC.
"Like a crazed dog"
I like seeing QBs playing.
@@stitchman8661 seriously its so dumb when a top team loses its winning season cus the quarterback got mauled. the game sucks when both teams or 1 team has a bum quarterback. Also we cant have EVERY SINGLE nfl player getting CTE after they retire thats bullshit, they are people not animals.
@@gladiatorwheeliecool3097 Well said.
O Lord L.T never worked out, could u imagine what he would of done. I'm eagles fan and feared giants week twice a year for every L.T game. Man is the greatest
I'm a Cowboys fan, and feel like I have finally found some common ground with an Eagles fan... I think I'm gonna puke.
I am a Cowboys fan too. “Say it isn’t so” that we have commonality about anything...
Im a giants fan and hate everyone in this conversation! Lol. Im sure ur good guys! Friendly hate!
I'm a Giants fan and to hear Eagles and Cowboys fans give props to the LT led team means something. It means he was the best. Right now being a Giants fan I fear that the Girl Scouts might be joining the NFC East.
@@Johnnyrocks34 I'm a Auburn fan.
One night a few of my friends and I were searching for a bar that was open on Thanksgiving night. We found the The Bench, a go-go bar near Giants stadium. As we walked in we saw this big guy dancing on stage with one of the girls. It was none other than LT, but it seemed like it was literally only a few hours after he intercepted the pass against Lions, at Detroit and ran it 90 plus yards for the game winning TD.
There were only a few people in the place so we got a chance to talk to him for a while. He told us as soon as the plane landed he went straight there. It was like talking to someone you’ve already known for years. The most pleasant & friendly person.
Over the years I’d run into him at least a dozen times. He loved being with people and was extremely social. As others have said it was a gift watching him throughout his career.
Lawrence rocked the entire Giants Stadium like no other Giant. Greatest football player I ever saw.
Watching LT was awesome! I am so glad I had the opportunity to watch the greatest LB play live. It was unlike anything you will ever see again.
I got the game-day offer of a free ticket to go see the Giants-Lions Thanksgiving game in '82 at the Silverdome, where LT picked off a bad pass and ran it back 97 yards for the game's only TD. He had already taken the game over, single-handedly prior to this point. There's a few UA-cam videos around in tribute, we watched from about three rows behind the Lions bench. I believe.
Lawrence Taylor is the GOAT in football history.
I’ve been a Giants fan since the early 1960’s. When LT came on the scene in 1981 the Giants were one of the worst teams in football. If I remember correctly they hadn’t made the playoffs in over 10 years. LT immediately transformed the Giants into a winner. LT burst on the scene and won not only the NFL Defensive Rookie of the year award he also was named NFL Defensive Player of the year. He played the game with total reckless abandon and in addition to his obvious playmaking ability his intensity rubbed off on his teammates. He rejuvenated the careers of Harry Carson and Brad Van Pelt two star linebackers with the Giants who had played for years and years on losing teams. As a rookie he also played special teams and it was incredible to watch him play the outside gunner position on punt coverage teams. He was virtually unblockable and he would fly down field and blow up blockers along the way and then smash the punt returner to the ground. He was awesome to watch especially in the early years because no one had ever seen anybody like him. The first time I heard him interviewed in rookie minicamp a reporter asked LT what made him special, what was the strength of his game. LT replied simply “ I love to hit, when I played at North Carolina we used to get so fired up in practice that we had had to be careful not to hit people in the cafeteria.” That was LT - he was born to play linebacker.
Every generation has a few guys that stand above their contemporaries. LT was one of them. He just played the game at a different level than everyone else. His combination of speed and power was unreal.
LT is the greatest linebacker of all time! He transformed the Giants and defenses forever!
He is probably the best defensive player of all time.
@@Slowhand871 He may well have been the greatest football player of all time.
I wanted to "like" this comment, but out of respect for LT, I will leave it at 56 lol
@@bigl4201 Now it's at 58 (Carl Banks)!
I've never seen anyone play like Lawrence Taylor. He was a machine. I was lucky enough to to see him play many times at Giants stadium
LT was put on this earth to be the best defensive game changer ever🙌
Remember too..they didn't pass 60 times a game like today. He had half the opportunities for sacks.
Very good point
Considering that most of his sacks are considered clean by this era he'd definitely would have racked up a sack record. He probably would have had some syrup sacks too
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Sacks alone aren't why LT is considered the greatest defensive player of alltime.
LT had range all over the field, could chase down RBs, TEs and some WRs from behind, forced fumbles, was a great run stopper, etc.
People forget about LT's total game. Getting sacks was just a fraction of why he was so great.
When your OLBer is beating safeties downfield to make tackles, that's freakish.
yeah but today they don't hold on to the ball very long either. The quick passing game has taken over running plays for lots of teams.
That's a great point imagine how many SACKS HE would had with 60 + chances at the quarterback a game
The other day I watched " pardon the interruption" and Steve Young was interviewed by Tony and Mike. Steve talked for a minute about game changing players. He said Reggie White and LT were two guys that just couldn't be blocked by one person. so teams had to plan a strategy to deal with these men which changes the whole offense. And even then those two guys managed to get their licks in.
I have also watched Steve Young get asked about TEAMS that gave the Niners the MOST TROUBLE and he heemmed and haawed until he was PRESSED and FINALLY ADMITTED that THE NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS gave them their MOST FORMIDABLE Competition. You could TELL he HATED ADMITTING THAT FACT.
Nope. For Steve Young the team he hated was Dallas.
The Giants almost had Reggie White also. Could you possibly imagine that Defense? Reggie with LT, Harry Carson, Carl Banks, Leonard Marshall, George Martin, etc.
@@TommyBombadillio When White went to Green Bay, he completely changed the dynamic of that team. As good as Favre and their other players were (and they were stacked), I don’t think they’d’ve won a SB without him.
@@ramsfire Nice story, bro
As a Bear fan, I have to say there has been no one like LT. Best defensive player ever, IMHO.
Loved the NY GIANTS! Those 1980s teams were fantastic! 1990 NFC Championship is the greatest football game I ever watched!
Greatest LB EVER !!!! LT 👊💥
LT was like an incredibly fast and strong athlete playing against a pop warner football team. He terrorized opposing teams. They tried every trick in the book to neutralize him, but we're rarely successful. Mack is closer to Carl Banks than LT.
I’m a Cowboys fan and I’m not ashamed to say. Lawrence Taylor is the greatest defensive player ever.
Imagine how much you respect Bill to show up to his team meetings in handcuffs!
I hate the Giants, but is there a more "paul bunyon-esk" livinh athlete than LT? He is literally a living legend
Hate is such a harsh word Mr Reynolds. Only reason why I say this is because I'm a Giants fan. All the way from Hawaii... Be happy😊
Got to be a Dallas fan
Jim Brown. That's the whole list.
@Jim Watson I'd put Payton third, after Brown and Sanders. He was VERY good, but he didn't break the game in the same way they did.
The closest NFL player would have been Bo Jackson. And LT would have been the only NFL man to have stopped Bo Jackson.
The best outside defensive end to ever play football. Period. And yes his intuitiveness and speed at the snap of the ball was off the f-king chain. There will NEVER be another player even remotely close to the level of Lawrence Taylor. Ever.
I’m 😮😮😊
I am a Washington Football Team fan. Was 18 when i settled in DC where Monday mornings was either good or bad depending on if we won or not. We hated LT. We loved LT. He was simply the greatest football player ever.
thats a great point he makes at the end about how LT wasnt built up to be 6'3 250, he was naturally 250 and a freak athelete
Here's the thing.
Write down all the positions for an all time nfl team.
Then go to fill in the names
I'm guessing everyone would go straight to olb first and write the name......Lawrence taylor.
It's the biggest no brainer for a position out there.
Every other one can be debated.
Nobody would argue with that one though
🤣🤣🤣 You're absofuckinglutely right!!!
Tied with Jerry Rice.
@@siler7 🤔🤔 naw, you can debate on Rice
@@flyt4880 Get professional help.
@@siler7 You go QB first. Personally, I take Aaron Rodgers. He has been on teams that are lesser than many of the great QBs but the dude can literally do anything at QB. He can make any throw and he can run like a champ.
Could you imagine IF LT worked out and had a training regimen like the players of today... O DEAR GOD!!!
I am extremely thankful I grew up at the exact time L.T started his career. NOBODY LIKE HIM.
It’s LT then everyone else
absolutely!
I got Butkus. None of the physical gifts Lawrence had but easily the most feared defensive player in NFL history.
Ron DeMorris no indeed. Butkus always worked hard, showed up for team meetings, gave 100% all the time.
@@haroldfloyd5518 offenses didn’t change because of Butkus. The league didn’t make a sack official because of Butkus
@@haroldfloyd5518 Butkus was a MLB in a 4-3, LT was an OLB in a 3-4. They each played the LB position in a much different way.
I'm not old enough to be able to claim I saw Gale Sayers or Jim Brown play, but I got to see LT play. In my (humble) opinion: Lawrence Taylor is the pure greatest football player I've ever seen. And I grew up in Western PA in the 1970's so I got to watch the Steelers all those years. I saw LT play with a "dead" arm one time, ala Hershel Walker. He couldn't do anything with the arm (dislocated shoulder maybe?). He still fended off blocks and made tackles and I think he even got a sack... all with one functional arm. One of the only defensive players I've ever seen that could literally take over a game (he single handedly beat the Detroit Lions one year, scoring the Giants' only TD on a 100 yd pick-6.)
I remember watching a game and Phil Simms was doing the color commentary.
LaDainian Tomlinson was playing. I can’t remember what team he was on; the Chargers. Anyway, every time Simms would make a reference to him, he would always say “LaDainian Tomlinson.“
Eventually, I realized he was not calling him “LT” for a reason.
LT would literally take over a game all by himself, no one has ever done that.
It always appeared like they fast forwarded the footage of LT when he was playing. Everyone else on the field was playing at a much slower speed.
Lawrence Taylor changed the game of football. He is the greatest defensive player in history. And no one is even close.
I agree no one is closed but the second greatest defensive player would have to be the athletic freaky Deion Sanders.
The FPV Life Deion was great and he took one player out of a game. But guys like LT affected 2/3/4 players on offense. You needed at least 2 to block them and the qb and rb had anxiety attacks thinking about have to climb that pocket and help block. There’s no corner ever that could have that kind of impact on a team. But yes, Deion May be the best athlete at corner ever. Best athlete overall, i gotta go with Bo.
You can’t even imagine how much of a legend LT was in the New York New Jersey area back in the ’80s
LT is the greatest NFL player of All
Absolutely!!
Top 5 not best 1 rice 2 brown 3 brady 4 reggie white 5 lt
@@salvatoresgobbo3307 he's the only one ever get another player paid,,, that played another position
@@salvatoresgobbo3307 You're entitled to your opinion but I've seen all of those players play and while they're all great, first ballot HOFers, I got LT no. 1.
Vontae Mack was no slouch either
If you Look at LTs high light films he played hard and mean but was not a dirty player much respect one of the greatest of all time!!
I gotta say, if I'm picking my all-time Ever Team L.T. would be the first defensive player.
LT in his prime was indescribable.
Lawrence Taylor is the GOAT
My dad met Phil Simms a couple times at the gym in the nineties. Said he couldn't have been any nicer.
LT was smart, tough, fast, and could hit harder than anyone on the field. He changed the game on both sides of the ball. LT is the best NFL player of all-time.
Dun no that would be Jerry Rice!
Von Miller, Khalil Mac, TJ Watt...none of these guys are even CLOSE to Lawrence Taylor.
I was at a game and saw lt in a jaguar convertible get driven into the tunnel like 1/2 hr before kickoff drinking a beer he didnt make pre game warm ups but had a great game also used to see him a training camp eating ice cream while the other guys were out in field training he was just a natural
He wasn't just an edge rusher. He played the run great and chased running backs from the opposite side of the field. He also dropped back in coverage and intercepted passes; the most famous was his interception against the 49ers in the 1986 playoffs off of Joe Montana. Jerry Rice was behind LT but was too far back to reach him.
LT a true legend
In Bill Bellichick's biography, "The Education of a Coach", Bellichick remembers LT coming into a team film session late handcuffed to a chair.
Belichick
Nah. LT wasn't late for the meeting, it simply started early 😉
No. LT created TWO positions.
1. Edge rushing LB
2. H-Back
Two TE sets
He also elevated the importance of left tackle too.
LT Goat 🐐 the story’s is crazy
I think it was Russ Grimm who said the Redskins were absolutely blown away upon first playing against him stunned that someone so big was as fast as he was. He was unlike anything most playing OL had seen in those days.
I never knew the opposite of working out was cocaine, lmao.
Well it kind of is, from a certain perspective.
😂🤣👍🏽🤙🏽
Dan always looks like the the old grandpa in his slippers!! Love it.
Lawrence Taylor's absolutely the best defender the NFL has ever seen
LT was crazy. Flat out crazy!
"Having fun upstairs."
🤣😄💀
Lifelong Cowboys fan and I can honestly say LT is not only the best defensive player ever but he might be the greatest football player ever (Jim Brown was before my time).
I give it to Jerry Rice offensive player. Best defensive players LT and Reggie White
I think the NFL top 100 has it right...Rice, Brown, then Taylor. It gets VERY crowded at the top.
He's the best I ever saw and my dad, who watched Jim Brown play, always said he was the best until LT came along.
@@TheJMSESQ Plausible. At that level, it gets really hard to say one is greater than the other.
all he had to do was make someone else pee in his cup
He was ridiculous and best I ever saw. Best player in a great system with Parcells as head coach and Billichek as d coordinator haha wow!
LT is the greatest football player PERIOD
Have to agree. Lawrence Taylor was the truth. Period.
best i ever saw
Remember in the 2000's when the NFL was referring to RB LaDainian Tomlinson as "L.T" ....Wtf glad thats over
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LT is the mike tyson of football...he scared the shit out of people ....and loved his blow
Lawrence Taylor was and still is a physical specimen...
A rare defensive player you had to game plan for, period. Would completely terrorize QB's from the first snap. Imagine if he had the weight training, nutrition of today? My god.
Weight training and Nutrition? Nah imagine if he wasn't smoking crack
W/all of the scientific and medical advances of today's game....LT would still be on the golf course during the day and in the night clubs all night...but he would also still dominate.
Yep. He didn't workout at all. He partied hard and still destroyed the league. lol
imagine if he consumed twice the amount of product before games and halftime. mi'gods!!!!
@@bird718 Imagine if you actually knew what the hell you were talking about
How awesome was the handcuff story...
The greatest football player ever. If I’m starting a team, I want LT on D and Walter Payton on O!
Any NFC East team in the 1980s outside of the Giants regret when. Giants and LT came to town. As a skins fan he was the numero uno problem twice a year
Chris is still a football whiz kid...and has the Josh Allen bandwagon loaded up..love listening to him..
LT the best!
49ers had a tight end named John Frank that held LT to like half a tackle and 0 sacks for the game. Frank then retired early to pursue a career in medicine.
He probably needed medicine after performance like that!
@@mccalljeff Niners had a great season considering some major injuries. I think they overachieved to be honest with you. The only reason you never heard of John Frank is because he retired early and because you know nothing about football obviously.
@@mccalljeff And the 49ers went farther than your team.
@@mccalljeff Yeah, I believe you. lol
@@mccalljeff Great, because no one believes you lol.
Remember, the 49ers instituted the one leg back on all tackles, which is standard throughout the NFL today, because Lawrence Taylor was too fast for them. Only Mel Blount changed the league more with the no hitting the receivers afrer 5 yards, which is called the Mel Blount rule.
2 game changers that played football like football was meant to be played
I'd add night train lane for the face mask also
But you could undercut Blount and Lambert. Nobody couldn’t do it to LT.
Wow he looks so much like his dad.
LT was the greatest football player in history, end of story
I heard stories that after practice, in the pre-season, when all the other players were tired from the two-a-days, LT would try to get a pick-ip basketball game going. Definition of high motor.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
I didn’t know who he was till the moveie Water Boy came out in 98. LT had a small part where he said “Don’t do drugs!” My dad almost shit himself in laughter and I said “Dad, who is that?” He said, “That’s Lawrence Taylor son. The best defensive player to ever play the game.”
"Having fun with a companion" 😂😂😂
LT was the best defense player I have ever seen. I am a Washington fan, so I have no love for the Giants.
it truly was a treat watching LT play.
chris simms seems like a nice kid but wouldve rather had phil simms speak on LT..its very cool tho phil and LT were / are such great friends!..thats when the nfl was great..in the 80's..these days not so much..
There so many plays that Banks and Martin and other Giants made because of Taylor’s presence on the field
Other than Growing up 20 mintutes from Giants Stadium LT is THE Reason i became a Giants fan! #56GOAT
I remember being so annoyed watching LT"s last game because he was still being double teamed!! That is how good he was.
Great point with him mentioning Joe Gibbs and the Redskins.....coach Gibbs KNEW that they had no chance of beating NY if they couldn't get LT blocked.....
Cowboys4Life but by a very wide margin LT is the greatest NFL player that I’ve ever seen. His game had no weaknesses. Watch the tapes. Belichek had LT do everything and line up everywhere. Universally feared all go no show. Could not be stopped
the game today is ruined. qbs today wouldnt last a season back than.or LT wouldnt last a game today because of these rules that ruined the game.
The best football player ever
LT is the greatest defensive player ever. Not even close.
You can compare LT to anyone you want. It's just that LT will come out on top every time.
He was an incredible natural athlete , He did not have the advantages of a weight lifting program, nutritional program, or steroids.. Yet he would still be a dominant player today.
Just imagine LT being part of a disciplined weight lifting and nutrition program. He would have been completely unstoppable.
Edward Gonzales he had the advantages of nutrition and weight training. look at Roger Craig Jerry rice Walter Payton and plenty others. Taylor's wild life style just didn't give him the time to fit it in. although I believed he lifted wieghts
Edward Gonzales. I beileived he lifted weights sometimes but probably not an organized schedule.
He lifted weights
Capybara Crip yeah but not like these workout warriors today. football skill and heart and competitive spirit is more important than looking like Arnold.
He is right that LT changed the position. But I also look at guys like Mel Blount that changed the game. The 5 yd bump rule is entirely because of blount. Infact Lambert kind of changed the middle lb position. Before him the MLB rarely dropped into pass coverage. I think those 3 together changed the game forever.
LT was definitely a generational player
Ask Ron Jaworski! Damn 7 was tough to take those blind side hits
Taylor used to kill him. A guy from Chicage Hartestine destroyed him once as well. Jaworski had the worst drop back and stance ever. He couldn't see the left side of the field. He needed Bill Walsh to show him how to drop back.
You are correct when you say people who didn't get to see Lawrence Taylor play missed out ,linebacker with speed like that at that time was incredible, linebacker IN TODAY'S GAME WITH speed like that would be something also. Lawrence Taylor change the position of linebacker FROM somebody who did what IT SAYS IN THAT POSITION, TO BACK UP THE line ,to somebody who aggressively aggressively pursued the quarterback with malicious intent. Just ask Ron Jaworski and Joe Theismann, 2 of his favorite targets+ any offensive player on the Redskins
LOVE .... LT 💪💪💪
The Compton hat at 1:35 🤣😎
Honestly Belichick is absolutely correct. LT was soooo good you can’t even compare most HOF level players to him.
I'd love to hear some of those stories tho! Lol
The thing about LT is that the professional athlete now is larger, faster, stronger etc.... but you watch highlights of LT and players now look slow and weak. Greatest Defensive football player of all time, not even close.
As a Texas fan, I cannot stand to look at either of these guys.
Shout out to Chris Sims
I was just thinking about stealing LT's Prosche over there.
I saw LT in a bathroom at Mohegan Sun in CT.
We were both standing next to each other at the urinal.
Chris Simms once was a coveted draft pick of Jon Gruden (2003 NFL Draft, 3rd Round) who's currently stockpiling draft picks like a hoarder.