Steve Young
speaker
1,298 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Jul
Steve Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was lost.
It looked like he was lost.
1,000%. Max, 100%. I can't agree with you more. It's the signal in tough times and tough situations. That team, you know, it's hard in locker rooms. I was in Tampa. I understand losing locker rooms. The players are not losers, but the losing locker room is tough to overcome.
And so if you can show signs, smoke signals again, that you know what you're doing and I can figure it out, that is warrior work. That is – Patrick Mahomes does not have to do that work anymore. Josh Allen does not have to do that work anymore. But in many ways, Bryce is doing that work.
The problem is, is you don't have 32 great places for quarterbacks to make that judgment. You have to glean through, you have to recognize, like if you're in San Francisco and you're struggling, you got problems. It couldn't be a better place. Jimmy Garoppolo takes a team to the Super Bowl here and then can't find a job.
So like there's places where, you know, if you go down and see a Sean McVay and struggle at quarterback, the guy that understands and innovative mind and how he calls plays and the understands position, then that's about you. You know what I mean? So if they, if the Rams drafted or the 49ers drafted a young quarterback, like Trey Lansing can't do it.
That's a, that's a sign of, that's not a, that's not a, that's not a situation problem. That's a you problem. Right. And so, uh, But then there's a lot of places where you go and you can't know that. They get drafted a young quarterback to try to be great, and it's not a great place for quarterbacks, and it's not necessarily a you problem.
And I think that people who understand the position, who have built organizations to make sure that they make the quarterback as profitable as possible, have now the reps to know when somebody is – not going to get there or like Sam Darnold, like there's something here and we can, we can work with it.
And so I, I just, I think until there's 32 teams like that, we're going to have to glean through where it is and what it is. Like if someone gets drafted by the jets this year and they haven't fixed anything, then it can't be harder. I mean, I feel for Aaron Rogers because it's so interesting that he's, he's, he was, he was, developed in an age of more sophistication.
The job that he had 15 years ago is so much harder than it is today. Today's game, as Tom Brady describes, the flats are open, the middle of the field is unpatrolled, and no one can hit me. It's an amazing time to play quarterback. And Aaron was... you know, learn the game and are very much more sophisticated.
And so he should be dominating as Tom dominated as, you know, as Matthew Stafford is dominating anyone that's hung around long enough to know in a sophisticated time should be dominating. That's how tough it is. And for the jets to go be good. Yeah. And granted he's lost some mobility and everything else, but that's when, you know, someplace they they've got to, they don't understand the position.
Yeah. And it makes it super hard.
If you track Bill Walsh to Andy Reid, and then you track Andy Reid through Mike Shanahan, there's a way that they look at the world. They look at the coaching world as abundant. In other words, whatever I know, I want you to know. So they're unafraid to share.
where so many trees of court of coaches they don't share anything good luck to you bro i got my proprietary knowledge you know to hell with you and and it has doesn't have that abundant spirit so what i'm what what i'm trying to describe you fundamentally is if you're from the bill walls tree you've been taught to share like i'm open and then also i'm because of that and i seek like i i i like abundance in the in the spirit of how i coach you can have everything i have
Because I'm not staying here. Whatever I have today is not what I'm going to be tomorrow. I reinvent myself. Look at Andy Reid. He's 67 years old, freaking reinventing himself every week. Never stuck. Never thinks, oh, I used to do it, and it works great, and I'm just going to keep calling plays from 2015 because that was when I was great. That's half the league today.
But why is San Francisco great? Why Kyle great? It's because he's come from a place of, like, look, who's come out of his shop? Mike McDaniel. Like, who's come out of the Shanahan tree, let alone, you know what I mean? Like, because they're, it's like, have everything I got because I'm not staying here. This week against the Rams, watch Sean and Kyle go at it.
They've been saving stuff so that they can – because they empty the tank when they play each other. The plays, the cool stuff they do, and it's a short week, so they're going to be under real duress to get in all the cool stuff they want to get in because they're not going to – who you knew me yesterday is not who I'm going to be tomorrow.
And I think Andy does that, and that's why it's – as a quarterback, you're trusted – I believe that you can, I'll call plays that are very aggressive and you protect me. Quarterback, you protect me. It puts a quarterback in a position of great empowerment and like faith. And then I'm going to call plays that make it really easy for you and really hard on defenses.
And I've seen that from Kyle from the beginning. He takes the job of quarterback and makes it as easy as possible and as complex as possible for the defense and then calls plays in combination to just shame them. Like, you think you can play that defense and get away with it? I'm going to pound you. And a lot of guys talk about it on Wednesday. They actually don't call the plays on Sundays.
The first member, I was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, uh, Uh, Ray Perkins had come in as a head coach, told me he hates lefties and scramblers. You're out of here. Called me and said, I was traded the San Francisco card. I mean, the San Carlos Cardinals, I had made a relationship with the owner, Hugh Cobra house. No one else really knew him. And I he'd sit over in a corner. I go talk to him.
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