25 Players in 25 Years: Nate Tice on Nos. 11-8

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32:47I ain't going to bite you. I'm just going to hurt you. And Smith finds Moss for the first down and more. There goes Randy Moss down the sideline. Randy Moss on Monday night. What else is new? Goldfeffer looking for Randy Moss. Touchdown. Unbelievable. With one hand. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Randy Moss. Moss flanked wide to the right for a long count. Now Brady takes. Brady looks. Brady throws. Touchdown. Touchdown. Randy Moss wide open at the near side of the end zone. Finishing there with a go-ahead touchdown with under three minutes to go in what I would say was the greatest drive of Tom Brady's career.

33:30And yet it never gets remembered because something called the helmet catch happened a few minutes later in a game where they had no answers. It made so much sense in that 2007 season that it was Randy Moss that puts them over the top. Man, that that whole clip just brings back all the memories like Tirico on Monday Night Football. That was fun. Gus Johnson is in the mix. Randy Moss over Darrell Rivas. And then obviously his days with the Vikings. Nate well you were you were a ball boy back in the day what was going on what was your experience with with the Randy Moss era uh it warped my perception on NFL athletes and athletes in general for my entire life oh yeah this is normal you know this is this is just what you see every day uh and then realizing as I've gotten older that I might again might not see that ever again just like when we're talking about Gronk talking about unicorns talking about once in a lifetime athletes like that's randy moss to me uh like he i mean he's all of six four could legitimately run a four three you know people say below that but legitimately a four three um the greatest hands ever the greatest ball skills ever um also another guy that's a football genius um believe it or not like really is uh as far as just body positioning and understand know, coverages like really, really advanced level and just, just the package of all of it.

34:53And also just, again, age is actually okay for a minute with the 49ers where he almost had like a Vince Carter late career where he was kind of his athleticism, let it be okay, you know, for a minute. But when you talk about that seven year dominance, you know, it's almost like Shaq, like you, it's just one of the, I actually, when you told me the guys that we're going to talk about, I thought we're going to be a, maybe a chunk higher because this guy was included of Randy Moss because I just, I don't think it's just, he's just the once in a lifetime type player to me. I know I have some biases with that, but I think anyone that watched him and see, don't just watch a game, one game in that kind of Oh two to Oh five era.

35:31Oh four era in Minnesota, really 99. Oh, 98 to Oh four. Yeah. Yeah. But really when the Randy ratio kind of started and just watch him kind of take over 2003, watch them against the Packers in 2003 and you'll just watch a drive where it's like the that first clip you guys had and that was 2003 as well as Gus Farad threw him the ball against the 49ers and even on that play we we talk about certain players change the league as far as scheme and everything Lawrence Taylor is the famous example Randy Moss is the same like the proliferation of cover two also helped that the NFL FC Central featured the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but cover two became more it happened more league-wide because teams go well that's how we have to stop Randy Moss.

36:12Otherwise, it's singled up automatic touchdown. But you watch that first play. It's Gus Farad, backup quarterback, launching a ball against cover two, which should be impossible. It should be double cover two guys with him with a safety that should be over the top of him. And he's passed him. So talk about math changers, just guys that break the space-time continuum of football. That was Randy Moss. And I stand by it. It's the greatest athlete I'll probably ever see in my life. I love it. I'm glad you're pushing back that he should be even higher. I think I sent you a text at one point when I was like, would I be crazy to have Megatron over Randy Moss?

36:49Cause, and you were like, I got short with you. You were just mad. I had Moss even lower. I had him 12 for, okay. I will defend myself at least in terms of why he's not even higher. And at this point they're all just so good that you're not including 98. You're splitting hairs. Yeah. You don't count 98. The best. That's fair. Rookie season of all time by, I think for the era, in terms of, you know, the fact that he was, because Pukunakua's numbers are crazy, but for the era, right, to get MVP votes. He was third in the MVP that year, Randy Moss. He led the league in touchdowns as a rookie wide receiver.

37:23It was just stuff that you'd never seen before. So that doesn't count. And then he has the pop-up seasons, Nate. He has the four first-team All-Pros, but I'm only counting three. But in terms of the breadth of, as, you know, the entire career, It was like a little less in the other guys at other positions, not even at wide receiver, because ultimately Randy Moss is my highest receiver on this list. I thought they're incredible excellence at the very top. Plus they added like a sprinkling of a little, a few more extra years, but that I'm just splitting hairs. You're making me talk negatively about Randy Moss.

37:57This is preposterous. He's in the top 10. We're in the top 10. I know it's so tough with all this and I get it. And I, again, when I, I know what I saw. It's one of those. Just the highlight reel moment. Not even, oh man, now you're just making me go down memory lane. I mean, just the lateral play against the Broncos. You know, to Mo Williams. Again, just the football genius to him, the sports genius. There's a play, this would have been 0-4 against the Saints. And I want to say it was Sunday night. It was Sunday or Monday night. And Dante Culpepper throws it 60 yards into the back corner of the end zone.

38:35And again, it was Randy Moss beating cover two on a third and like 15. And just talk about math breakers of Dante throwing as far as he could. Randy running by everybody and catches in the very, very corner of the end zone. It's one of my favorite throws and catches ever. But he made that on the regular. Like he did those like on a week to week basis where it was just truly highlights. I mean, I mean, I mean, anyone that owned them in fantasy, even the odds, it would be like he would have games where even if he got taken out of the game, right, they would find a way for him to score in the red zone or something because he was another fade guy.

39:05that was dominant on fades where he would have games where it'd be like four catches, 22 yards, two touchdowns, you know, like he would have like random games like that. Like, look it up. Uh, Oh, three week one Cowboys. He had a game like that. I love that you're pulling all of these just totally out of thin air. Exactly. No, but it's, it's, it's really just one of those players. Again, I don't think we'll see that combination of traits. Um, we might see big and fast guys that can run some routes. we might see guys that can catch everything and be fast but maybe at 510 it's just that combination of size speed ball skills all rare um and one of my you know if you want a neutral party um i said this in the draft process because we're talking about travis hunter because i said travis hunter's ball skills are like a mini randy moss is that uh bobby bowden said that you know uh that deon Sanders was his parameter for athleticism.

39:59And he said, Randy Moss is a bigger Deion Sanders. And that, I mean, come on. That's really what we're talking about here. But yeah, probably my favorite player ever. Probably will never be topped. And I got to see a lot of cool things watching him in practice and games up close and personal. There's so much about that I could dig into. Well, first, I do want to point out because I was talking about how he didn't stack as many dominant seasons. Let's not get it like carried away. He's fourth all time in receiving yards and he's second in touchdowns. Like he has the cumulative counting stats. He's second in a hundred yard receiving game.

40:37He's third in like thousand yard season. So he, Karen stinks. Cause he's second in the home run. He has all of those numbers too. So I love what you said about how he changed the game. And that I think is important. If we're going to put a player this high, when he got to new England, Bill Belichick tells that story and they're going through how things are going to go different. And Randy is just like, well, yeah, but you're not going to face any single high anymore. That's gone. You couldn't watch film. Everyone got to play them differently. Right. He's like, don't worry about how we're going to handle those defenses.

41:11And Belichick often said how Randy Moss taught him more than almost any other player he's ever coached. He said, certainly the smartest receiver he's ever coached and one of the smartest players overall, and that they kept adding different kind of two-way goes into an option routes into how he ran because he could handle that. And a lot of the time, a lot of his touchdowns you saw were like he's coming inside and then he breaks back out to the corner. And that was all like intelligence and him and Tom Brady, two geniuses being on the same page. And if we want to get into just like numbers again, they combine for the greatest season ever between a quarterback and a wide receiver.

41:57Let's let's check out a clip. Third down and 10 for the Patriots at their own. Thirty five. Direct snap to Brady stands in the pocket, fires it to the right, down the right sideline and caught at the 2015. 15, 10, 5. Touchdown, Patriots. Tom Brady to Randy Moss. And they each have set NFL records on the go-ahead touchdown. 65-yard bomb. Brady to Moss. For Tom Brady, touchdown pass number 50. An NFL record. For Randy Moss, touchdown reception number 23. An NFL record. One play. Bang, bang. They both set NFL records. It is really crazy to think about that because Ty Warren, or who was it that grabbed Eli Manning's jersey and couldn't get him to the ground on that play.

42:46Like if he, if they're able to do that, if the Patriots defense comes up big with that lead against the giants, then Randy Moss breaks the all time record in receiving touchdowns on a game winning, like huge long touchdown to go 17 and O to end the regular season. And they were losing that game. It was the right, it was like week 17 and it was, it was in the fourth quarter and he breaks that network. It was a big special NFL network. Yes, it was. It was a big spot for NFL Network and Brian Gumbel, I believe, at the time. And so that's what he does in the regular season. And then he finishes that season out by winning the Super Bowl, by catching the game-winning touchdown with under three minutes left.

43:29And it's crazy how much differently we would remember just that season, as magical and as memorable as it is, if their defense just finishes out that play. But there were so many moments like that, and you brought up a bunch of them already. I love it. I mean, it's not a coincidence. He was on the two teams that set the point record, scoring record, 98 Vikings, and then 07 Patriots. He was a big reason for that. No, all the memories, and again, that covered two stories, the one I always come back to. And that Belichick, I was so cool for me to hear the Belichick version of that and the Patriots version of that because that's what I would hear Scott Linehan and my dad talking about in Minnesota.

44:12was that they couldn't use film from previous weeks because nobody was playing cover two every snap. And if you look, again, the gravity of this, there's a couple of receivers that get this now. Justin Jefferson, which is fun, another Viking gets this treatment as well. But if you look too, as those Vikings teams had awesome run games is because, and that is something, again, changing the math. So it's just not only his stats, it's how he made everyone else's lives easier. if you're drawing double coverage that means everyone else gets singled up jermaine wiggins had his career year with with randy moss in minnesota yeah former patriot as well yes was there some meldy more uh randy moss they were kind of like the two twin towers though they were setting each other up i feel like and then nate burleson in there uh yeah no but no yeah meldy more no but that was actually a big because that would they would get sorry i'm just you're just making me rant now but it's uh they would get all the cover too and the running back would be iso'd up on like some big linebacker with a neck roll so they had all these receiving running backs that were able to just when ontario smith was the other guy that would just win these one-on-ones it would just be cheating you know just little one-on-one matchups because randy moss was taking so much coverage yeah but let's look at one more fun highlight from uh the vikings era which is remembered uh for a variety of reasons

45:33Moss. Randy Moss is in for a touchdown. Oh, Al Harris playing off, bit up on the route, and Randy Moss without even really being able to run as he shoots the moon to the fans here in Green Bay. That is a disgusting act by Randy Moss, and it's unfortunate that we had that on our air live. That is disgusting by Randy Moss. let's get back to the play Randy great job by the way by Chris and Troy what a booth by the way Joe Buck Chris Collinsworth and Troy Aikman Collinsworth just rips out shoot the moon in the middle of a sentence very naturally Buck cuts him off and then Troy you could tell the disdained Troy's voice was kind of like calm down buddy and was like alright let's get back to the play what a moment.

46:23Troy's right Troy's right that wasn't called in the huddle it was a it was a run play and once again the packers had ran man coverage and they and it was just a signal from pepper cold pepper to randy and if you even watch on it they're not pass blocking everyone's run blocking and so he just skirts out to the right and just throws it but yeah again math changer and that was on the high ankle sprain as well yeah so shooting them and then that's also god you're just making me just rattle off this is like nostalgia for me so you also notice the afro Yeah. That was Kelly Campbell, Nate Burleson, Randy, a couple other guys, Jermaine Wiggins, and the Afros stood for America's finest receivers on Sunday.

47:04Oh. Or Saturday, because there's a game they play on Saturday. Yeah, just a little aughts. I love that. I can just... What was it like for a little Nate Tice there? Yes, for listeners that aren't aware, your father, Mike, coached the team from 2001 to 2005. A lot of offense in that time. carnival teams uh yeah a lot a lot of points and again that's what i thought was normal i thought playing in a dome was normal uh i grew up in the kingdom in the metrodome so those were the yeah i thought that was the i thought multi-use stadiums was normal as well um but yeah no but it was it was awesome i got to see a lot of cool players a lot of cool offenses a very fun division too um and very fun period of the nfl we've talked about this off air but it was a it was just a when I went to 32 teams, it was right when my dad became a full-time head coach in 2002.

47:56And that felt like a transitioning of errors, you know, and then probably another will transition after that. But like right at that point in time, it was defenses were changing, offenses were changing, getting a little bit more wide open again there. You know, it wasn't just as run heavy. So I thought it was a very cool time period. It was very fun though, but those Minnesota teams were a little wild, a little wild, you know, like, you know, lax character rules was the money ball. The love boat was involved and that play we just saw actually inspired. I had forgotten this, that that was the play that inspired the famous quote from Randy Moss when they asked him in the parking lot how he was going to pay for the fine.

48:40Straight cash, homie. Let's go to our next player. Number eight, Ray Lewis. Good protection. Intercepted by Ray Lewis. And Lewis is on his way. He's going to go for a touchdown. Oh my. You know, he is the best tackler in the league. As far as I'm concerned, when he gets his hands on you, you can forget it. You are going down. When I step on the field, the reason I'm on the field is to prove to the people that I'm the best. You know, when you talk about a middle linebacker, when I step on the field, I want to make sure when I walk off it, you know you just see me. Here's Lewis playing on special teams.

49:22Oh, I tell you, that's worse than a boom. That's one that loosens your teeth. This is your entertainment. God put me here to give y 'all entertainment. Ray Lewis, the highest off-ball linebacker on this list. We had Luke Keekly there at 14, but ultimately Ray gets the top spot. All-time tackler, seven first-team All-Pros, which is just outrageous. He kind of had that peak early in his career, and then he tacked on this period from 08, 09, like 10, where he suddenly was popping off again. Two Defensive Player of the Year votes. Very few players in NFL history have ever gotten that. Two more seasons, by the way, where he got some MVP votes.

50:05Three more where he got Defensive Player of the Year votes. So for a long time, Ray Lewis was looked at like not just at the best at his position, but as just one of the best players in the NFL. What what stands out to you first when you think about Ray Lewis? Kind of like the first modern linebacker as far as coverage, blitzing, run ability was big enough to stop the run as well. Can run sideline to sideline, but also has the intelligence and just understanding, you know, defensive calls. as well. Kind of that total package. I feel like before that, because of what the NFL was, it was so run heavy, you know, some run and shoot stuff was coming around, but most linebackers had the neck roll.

50:48There were big thumpers that had to take on fullbacks. Ray Lewis felt like a linebacker that was meant to cover single back offenses. And maybe there's others in this era, but he was like, okay, this is the prototype that everyone else is chasing. And then again, And another guy that it's where is it the scheme? It's where the scheme and the player unlock each other, where he is helping the scheme out because he can do so much. He can cover. That's the thing that stands out to me. I just keep coming back to is that he could cover like Derek Brooks would be another linebacker like this at this time that was like, okay, this is a coverage linebacker that can, but also do other things.

51:24But Ray Lewis was thick enough to stop a guy right at the line of scrimmage as well and live in the box as well. wasn't just a big stiff. So that's where we're talking about these needle movers, game changers, math changers, whatever you want to say. And Ray Lewis felt like the new prototype for the 2000s when he was kind of hitting his prime. And even though he hit it maybe a year or two before the aughts, but really just once he was into the 2000s, it's like he was the dude at that position. I love you starting with that point because when I went back to kind of read about Lewis's career as part of doing this and talk about his career, more than one player kind of pointed that out exactly, Nate, that he almost straddled two eras.

52:10So if you think about the peak of Ray Lewis's career, and he might not be in the top 10 or might not even be on this list if it hadn't worked out that that year where he wins Defensive Player of the Year and wins the Super Bowl MVP, which is just something that's like an all-time year that happened to be 2000. So he just made the cutoff. But if you think about how great he was then in the beginning part of this career, who is he shutting down? He's shutting down Jerome Bettis and Eddie George and Fred Taylor. Like those matchups against Eddie George were epic. And that was what made him great.

52:48And then when you start to think about the back half of his career, it really was the versatility and the coverage. So many of his best plays, when you're looking at his highlights, are just fooling quarterbacks, making quarterbacks look stupid. And I think that that gets lost when you talk about Ray Lewis. Mike Nolan was one of his coaches, Nate, and he mentioned that he was Lawrence Taylor's coach. And this is a hot take, but Mike Nolan said he thinks Ray Lewis is the best defensive player ever because the difference is there was no escaping him. You could not run away from him. You could have Lawrence Taylor on the edge or other great edge defenders ever.

53:29But there was no play where you could escape kind of the matrix of Ray Lewis, whether it was run left, run center, run right, pass left, pass center, pass right. Obviously, you can throw it over the top of his head. But it's true in a way that he impacted the game on a down-to-down basis like few other defensive players. When the kind of West Coast offense went from, you know, it went from just Bill Walsh, or Bill Walsh was the proliferator of it, to like more commonplace in the 90s. Really, the crux of the passing game of the West Coast offense is get these big linebackers on an island against our fast running backs and make them cover over and over and over.

54:11And oh, wow. All of a sudden, we all have these receiving backs making all these catches. It's great. That's where Ray Lewis kind of like, stop that. Like where it's just like, that doesn't become just a clear advantage. If you, the common theme, I think just getting through all these guys, And this is when we're talking about these needle movers is these are the guys that create matchups. They create wins no matter who they go against, which is the sign of a great player. Even when you're scouting a guy, it usually is. What can they do consistently? Who can they beat consistently? Not every time, just consistently.

54:40And Ray Lewis or these elite guys that we're talking about, it's like, well, it doesn't matter the matchup. They're winning consistently. And that's the sign of a great player. and I was just even as you as you were saying his first year or the first year of this millennium 2000 you know Ray Lewis was listed like 235 I think he came into the league at the other all pro linebackers are like Jeremiah Trotter Jeremiah Trotter is listed at 262 okay so just talk about the other guys of this era Sam Cowart for the Bills listed at 248 Stephen Boyd of the Lions listed at 247, six foot 247. So all these like just hammerheads, big guys, big bodies.

55:23Ray Lewis was athletic, but like I, your point was perfect. He bridged the two errors. That was this time period. That was the late nineties into the two thousands, which was bridging eye formation, early West coast stuff. Now getting into a little bit more spread, more single back stuff throughout the league, more two tight ends, more three receivers, but it's a linebacker that can stay on the field all three downs it was so commonplace at this time period to have the true true because remember two defenses were signaling to go true this is our base down defense and this is our late down defense our nickel defense you know nickel wasn't as common as it was now but back then it was linebackers would just fully get swapped off where it was like okay this is like and now that becomes such a tell that offenses are like oh we'll pick on that we know which looks you're getting to but ray lewis felt like one of these linebackers where it was like i can be on the look I could be on the field no matter what like Mike Nolan's alluding to like he can just impact the game in all those ways so yeah it's just all these it's so much fun to talk about all these guys because I feel like I'm I'm repeating myself a little bit but that's what these guys were well yeah we're at this part of the list especially and they're they're the best at their very positions they help change the position and you think about him too he's the only player and it's a weird stat for him because I mentioned how he's like the all-time leading tackler and everything.

56:40He's the only player in NFL history with 40 sacks and 30 interceptions. You don't necessarily think of him like first as a blitzer or in coverage, although I think you should in coverage, but to combine those sort of big plays at multiple levels. And yeah, he got drafted in 96. So it's tricky. Like him and Ogden, Ogden in the end didn't make this list because his best part of his career was early. And Ray Lewis did make two second-team All-Pros, even got some defensive player of the year votes before 2000 and a first-team All-Pro. But even after 2000, it's another five or six first teams and another second team, and he's just racking up plays.

57:21And to me, he kind of defines that position. It's a position where it's a tough spot to make, for instance, the NFL 100 all-time team. and he was an obvious guy to be on it. Let's listen to Bill Belichick actually as part of that NFL 100 broadcast. You could play the run. You could play the pass. You could blitz.

57:45You had great instincts, could handle the defense. You knew your team well. You knew what they could do. And you certainly knew the opponents well and you knew how to defend what they tried to do. So it's obvious that your preparation paid off. Let me deal with the pump and go. That's why I'm sitting so high on that. But he got to play that. Remember, we're playing Brady. It's a chess match. What? What? What? What? Yeah. What? I hate it playing against you. I hate it playing against you. That was Ray Lewis and Tom Brady in that second to last clip there going, what, what, back and forth to each other.

58:24and Belichick, who loves to include himself in the history, because he should, points out to Ray Lewis in that conversation. And they're looking at each other in the eyes. I mean, it is intense as he's telling him what a great player is. He points out that actually Belichick made the trade for the extra first the year before he got fired in Cleveland. So they had that extra first sitting there because of Bill Belichick. He was not around to see them take Ray Lewis. And that is an amazing just crossing of paths. It would have been cool to see Belichick, Coach Ray Lewis. But the other side of that is because of Bill Belichick, they're in position to take Jonathan Ogden.

59:04Right, right. I will speak for Belichick here. And because of Art Modell, they were in position. As Belichick likes to point out, it's not great for your season when you announce the team is moving halfway through the year. and you got fans ripping up seats. It's not great. Mike Singletary had a quote when I was looking up too, and he coached Ray Lewis. I don't know if you remember that, that he was a position coach back then. And I love it when all-time greats give up the flowers to other similar ones. And Singletary says, yeah, I see the comparison. Like he always got compared to Singletary, but he's like, Ray is better.

59:45And he said he thought Ray is better physically and mentally. and Shannon Sharp had a quote, and I think this has to be said when talking about Ray Lewis, he thought he's the greatest leader in the history of team sports. Rod Woodson said, who had been around and been on a lot of different teams too, said, I've never been a teammate with someone that was such a giant force of personality that he truly dragged all of us with him. And when he's talking about us, he's talking about Hall of Fame guys like himself, that he's never been around someone that was able to like just collectively bring up the energy of every single person around him.

1:00:27And I think that is part of the reason why I put him here. That sort of consistency over a career like that, give him a little extra, bump him up a few spots. Yeah, I don't want to have Moss over him, but the eye. Yeah, I know you would. This is what I'm going to do now, Nate. Every single rest of the guy on the list, I'm going to be like, should I have put Randy Moss over him? Like maybe, maybe I agree with you, Either way, I got to see who comes in higher. I got it. And then I'll probably be like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's a lot of quarterbacks. We have a lot of quarterbacks. Yeah. And I totally get that.

1:00:59No. And Ray Lewis, too. I know we're talking about pros and 2000s. It's like he's he's the you like he's the he epitomizes Miami as well. Just that competitive nature as well. But yeah, I'm glad he brought that up. The leadership stuff as well. Like that has to be said. And again, epitomizes what that Ravens defense, which I. is always going to be in my brain as like what I thought was the more most fearful, scariest defenses. Those 2000s Ravens defenses. Those are the ones in my brain as they are the bar. 2000 Ravens is the best defense of the best of my lifetime. I mean, dominant. They snuffed out everybody.

1:01:35It was just it was it was ridiculous. It was a different era in a way. And they helped. I think I think some of the rule changes were partly because of like how good the Ravens and the Bucks following them up were. But yeah, they are the absolute best. And so I love having Ray Lewis as a representative for them. Nate, you did it. I hope your daughter has not woken up from her nap yet. And I appreciate you taking the time to take a trip down memory lane. Thank you, buddy. This was fun. Thank you for letting me rant. I felt like a comedian getting the red light during the Randy Moss segment no not at all I could I could keep going flashing it to me what I found with this is like I could do a whole episode I could do a whole episode on Randy Moss or any of these guys it's unbelievable he's Paul Bunyan that's kind of how it goes but thank you for having me always fun Greg our next episode will be the fifth edition of NFL Daily's 25 players in 25 years and we will be joined by the legendary play-by-play announcer, Kevin Harlan.

1:02:41He will help us cover players seven through four, and hopefully somewhere, Nate Tice will be listening and being angry that Randy Moss wasn't ranked over them.

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