Steve Young
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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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And so the game's changing and the slide needs to change because it's actually, it can be weaponized by a quarterback. You're seeing Patrick Mahomes, not the slide particularly, but the go out of bounds fake and then come back or the pump fakes or all the stuff that they're doing to abuse defenses. Defenses are really under duress from the NFL by making the rule change for safety.
And so it feels like And the slide, I never slid. If you can get a quote, any clip of me sliding, it'd be a mistake if I did. Because I always felt like just what you just said, it's dangerous. You get yourself hit in the face. And plus, referees always...
reduce where you slid like whenever I would I guess I have slid because I know I've done it and they and then all of a sudden it was for a first down and then now I'm a half a yard behind I'm like what are you talking about like I slid to make the first down and they're like no you slid back it's like I learned sliding the the The mentality of it is they don't give you the yards, so forget it.
I'm not going to do it anymore. Does your mom live with you? What is going on? That's Max.
He doesn't care? Yeah, he didn't care at all. He just walked right in front of the camera. That was crazy. That was a freaking boring story. I don't need to – No, that was nuts. Like I fell asleep and forgot you guys were live. Max, do you have any questions for Steve? Look, let's go to the slide. You got to change the slide. I was wondering.
Yeah, can you stream it into the dead mic, bro?
No, but I think the game, it's unfair for defenses today because you've got Lamar Jackson out there sliding.
you know you guys these guys are i mean these are super super capable people so they put themselves in a bind so what happened with shazir is that he's go they're taught to go when someone slides that you go to hit them to take them down because they're such a threat today because their prototype is to come out and start gaining those free yards out there but then just fly over the top of them go to hit them and if they slide just fly over the top but that's even hard to do so i i think
I don't know. I think sliding's – to make sliding safe for quarterbacks is impossible, so get rid of it.
And it's going to get worse and worse as the more mobile, more dynamic of a runner coming out of the pocket the quarterback is, the less – the slide was invented for people who couldn't run. You're now out of your element. You're in a very dangerous, you're now in the jungle now without any weapons. And you're like, how can we get you to safety?
So the slide was for people who didn't know what they were doing out there. That's just not the case anymore. So the slide is a... The actual – the rule for the slide is for a time that's gone now. The prototype is not the pocket.
You know, you have to be a sophisticated passer to do the job, but the idea that nobody can go get those yards with their legs, those days are over, so the slide is – the slide is – It's not part of the game today, shouldn't it?
No room. Yeah. With no space. With no – like that's the thing. The game was – you had to make space as an offense. There was no – people were launching all over the place. Defenders were flying. You couldn't run slip screens. You couldn't – there were no cheap yards. Now, people say, oh, you ran a lot of slants for cheap yards. But tactically, we out –
you know, we were quicker to the punch in some ways, but it wasn't like, you know, the game was not the game today. So you make a great point. Jerry Rice, every once in a while, you run into somebody like Michael Jordan, who is supreme talent with supreme work ethic, like blue collar over my dead body every day. It's, you know, and I think there's,
And I think in a person's psyche, what happens is there's a fear that even though I'm amazing at something, I have this fear that I can't get rid of that someone's going to take my job. And I swear to you, I think Michael Jordan was driven by that, even though it's like he's the greatest ever. And Jerry Rice was driven by the same thing.
Until the day he retired, he thought someone was going to take his job.
So he lived in a state of... I'm not going to say fear because it's the wrong word, but anxiety that I need to go to work. And so I'll give you one quick story. We won the Super Bowl against the Chargers, come home, do the parade down Market Street. The buses pick everyone up from the Market Street, go down to the facility in Santa Clara, drop everyone off.
The coach makes a speech because he just won the Super Bowl. Hey, see you later. See you at the first OTA in April. And, you know, goodbye. So everybody is like, it's like a,
derby like to get out of there everyone's gone so the next day no one's no one's gonna go to no one's gonna go down there tomorrow right but i'm single i got nothing to do i'm gonna go down clean up my locker i don't know so i go down there nobody's there and i'm and the doors are locked but i know there's a 24-hour guard that's there all the time so i'm banging on the door banger funny comes like bro what are you doing here i'm like i don't know i cleaned the locker i want to you know
Big hot dog, I don't know, just something. And I go out to the fields, you know, the 49er facility is still there, same thing. Go out the back of the locker room and there's the fields. I look out and freaking Jerry Rice is out back in the corner. And I can't hardly see that it's him at first. I'm like, who's that freaking crazy man out there in the corner running?
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