1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Barry continues his lists: August 4th, 10:25am

Episode Date: August 4, 2022

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You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought to you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Oh, my goodness gracious. Welcome back, one-on-one Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. This segment in our guest brought to you by Ambition Electric. And a quote from this player says this, I dislike every man I play against because he's standing between me and all pro.

between me and my paycheck. Barry Thompson is with us. Mark has found a clip, and it is an exceptional mark, if you would, please. We got Bob the first day, and no one knows, you know, Bob Brown. They don't know him personally. They just know his reputation.

He walks out of the locker room and he walks all the way up to the other end, you know, where the gold post is iron. He hits a goal post with his form, not a goal pole. I'm going to go, crack, and the whole goalpost was right down. My whole guy, I mean, all the guys are looking like that. You know, and then they didn't know what to call them.

You know, Bob, really said, they said, they said, Mr. They called Mr. Brown. Turn around, walked off the field. That's so much former Husker, Robert Stanford Brown. He said, what do you call him? Mr. Yeah. Those, those, when you go back and talk to defensive and offensive and offensive

alignment from that period of football. They have so many stories, like, already done of them for the old coach to tell you stories for days about crazy. The crazy guys that play for the bears at a certain time, the Vikings,

right? What was it? Eller and Page and those guys, they have wild, they all have these wild, wild stories of how they kind of existed. And, man, it hadn't been a fun,

I mean, football's fun anyway, but we play with those characters. Hey, before we jump to the defensive side, I want to give props to two offensive players. Okay. Ten Brown receiver. Fair. And Rich Gannon can go, he's not the other two, but his body of work should not go unnotice. That's all fair. That's all fair.

Within this, within some of the stuff that's what was said, so there's John Madden talking about Bob Brown. And then there's, then he said, that Bob Brown told him that if he hit you with his forearm, he could take a quarter out of you. And by that, he met if he laid up on you one time, you weren't going to play well again until the next quarter. Like if he, and then Bob Brown tells the story. I played for Mark.

He says, yeah, I like to take my forearm and hit a player right below where the shoulder pads in because there's a nice little meaty place right below the, right below the pad. No, no, that was their game. very. I mean, you know, now it's all horror, but that was, it was that's how they thought about the game. And they were, in that period of time,

thought as, you know, being intimidators and all that stuff and the Raider mystique. But, you know, for a period of time, that's what's real. I think where they lost it is that that kind of stuff went up in the stands at a certain period of time, and it wasn't on the football field. I think now they're getting

back to, it's more on the football field than it is on the stands and putting it together in big. It's going to be fun. Well, the style of play was different, the style of blocking, of course, because now it's hand engagement, hand fighting, whereas back in that day,

you couldn't use your hands, and this was, hey, I'm just going to take these big arms, and I'm going to pop you in the ribs and see whether you're willing to be committed to getting through it. And at Bob Brown back of the day, it's 6'6 and 280 pounds. And Madden said,

that he, you know, his forearms look like legs. So when he, you know, and if he's taking that dance of, hey, I'm, if you raise your hands higher than, than I do, I'm going to put these forearms in your ribs. Let's see how committed to playing you really are. Right. And just for some of the younger listeners, understanding why that was such a tactic is because at that period of time when he's playing, the head slap was legal. One of the first things I was taught when I was starting young football,

the bobcats and bear cats and Arlington, they put me a defensive end. My dad took me aside and says, okay, when he's down, the first thing you do, you take your right hand, and you slap him as hard as you can in the head. So the head slap, that was a counter. If you wanted to head slap him.

Yep. So, what do you want to do, Cowboy? Well, we were tied. hit him in the earhole. Right. Hit him in the earhole. And you were taught wherever the head goes, the body goes. So that's how it's going on.

Just to show you how much the game has evolved, back then that was how it was played. And now, you know, you don't do stuff like that. You don't even attack a center when he's, you know, down, which is the game's still physical, still violent, but, you know, we're a little smarter about safety. Well, it's the push of all that things. Okay, so we've covered the offensive side.

of the Raiders. We have this lineup, led by Al Davis and John Madden. We're going to alternate between Kenny Stabler and Jim Plunkett. We're going to use Bo and Marcus Allen in a two-back offense with Dave Casper and Todd Christensen sometimes. Sometimes we're going to put Bolit in a cough. Sometimes it's Tim Brown. Sometimes it's this week's honorary in four-receivers, right, four-set that we'll put in this week's honorary for the Hall of Fame and Cliff Brands, right? So you can move folks around and do your thing. That offensive line, Bob Brown on one anchor, and I don't know, let's say, I guess it's Archelle on the other side. I don't know.

Yeah, Steve, A, Steve Winooski is another guy. Wuzniewski is another guy, right? Monsigar. Right? So we know that you're not getting pressure on them, and they can run when they want, they can do what they want. Now, after they score, you've got to put dudes on the field to make plays. And you need to stop folks. Okay.

You can go three front, four front. We're okay. Guys up front. I would imagine that number 75 is the guy you start with. Yeah, but I'm going to start them back in. Okay. Okay. That was one of the things that Raiders did.

They didn't start with, but they wondered when they would make their runs, corners that they could leave one-on-one. So before anybody else grabbed them, so I'm getting Lester Hays and I'm getting Mike Hayes back there. What do you do with Charles Woodson? Charles, I'm going to use them. Charles. I can move from safety.

Okay. Okay. I move safe. But you can't have all the safeties. Why not? Why can't have Tatum and Atkinson? Well, you can't have Tatum and Atkinson because I know you want you, you need gang gang.

Wait a second. You didn't say there. was a salary cap. I can rotate. Oh, I'm just listening to you as you just gather assets, kind, sir. Yes. Yes.

Yes. So you just didn't say any rules. You just said, who my God? These are my God. Let me, let me tell the listeners what Barry Thompson's trying to do here. So he's going to line up with Lester Hayes and Michael Haynes,

who shut down the Smurfs in the Super Bowl at the highest level ever. And then he's going to steal and sneak Charles Woodson in there as a nickel, as a nickel back that he can use wherever he wants to use. And he's going to put Jack Tatum and George Ackington in the back to knock people out and not take their helmets off? Yeah, I can move one of them up to play outside linebacker for I need to. What's wrong with you? You got Ron Martin and outside linebacker.

I keep all happy. He's creating a two-deep, all right? Yeah, what left and he's the reapply to stick him, and he's got sit-out for a player. when they throw the flag on him. You can't play the entire game. You've got to get a breather. Yeah, he's got to, yeah, he's got to replace stick him.

Him and blow him and Carl. Charles can return some punts. He can do that too. Well, him and, yeah, you want, so let me get this straight. You want Charles Woodson and Tim Brown to return punts for you. Well, you know, Tim's a little tired. I mean, might have a long offensive drive. Look, with that offense, they're never going to have a long drive.

Like, never. I need bodies for camp. I need bodies for camp. Who are those linebackers? Who are those linebackers? Go Rod Martin, Ted Hendricks, Villapiano, I think we already mentioned them. So, like, in there that it's been pre-stab.

Probably missing long. Well, Matt Mill and I would throw Matt Maloney. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry, yes. Yeah, you know, if you're going to get rings, you've got to throw Matt-Millan in there. And if we're talking about defense, we should, I started with the defensive backs, but Ray God, a great defensive weapon.

Ray God. Great guy. That's not even fair. Yeah. But, I mean, I get one punter, right? Well, I'm surprised you didn't ask for Reggie Roby, too. Well, you know, Shane Leckler's all right. And then I've got to have a job, you know, anyway.

So back now, let's go up front. Who are those thumpers? Who are the gang leaders up front? The guys who don't even play defense with a helmet, they're just wearing black bandanas and face black. Like, there's house. There's Howie, there's Matusac, there's La La La Zado. Just line them up.

Jokingly, I called it a gang. But listen, the three you just rattled off, that's a gang. Yeah. Have you ever heard of Matusac story? Matusac went to Tulane. Yeah. And he had this crazy girlfriend. One day, I think Matus took told the story.

He was, she got, he was out late doing something and another. And so she got after him in a car and was chasing. and he was running and he jumped into like a cemetery thing and he saved and she drove the car into the cemetery oh my and you know of course Oakland police at that time you know police would kind of you know take care of a little minor things like that minor things like that they told yeah they told two x they will take you but you got to get rid of girlfriend you got to break up you got yeah you got to break up brother this too much yeah oh man okay so we we've got we've got You know, Howie, Toos, Alzado.

You know, you can flex and set the edge with Hendrix if you decide to. Who was the other tall? Well, don't remember. Don't forget Greg Towson. He was pretty productive. You know who we forgot? You know who we forgot? The alien.

The alien. Otisistra? Yes, sir. Yes. Right? Yeah. Right. University of Mars.

What was he called? University of Mars, right? Because he didn't go to college, right? Right. Right. Yeah. Well, he went to, yeah. So they got him from Columbus High School, I believe.

And they asked him where he went to school. He said the University of March or something like that. Right, right. So he went from high school. His story was because he went from high school to the Marines. And then after leaving the military at 22, he was working at a meat packing plant. played semi-pro football. They found him playing semi-pro football in the area for what was then the racers.

He actually played in Virginia for the Norfolk Neptunes of the Continental Football League. Remember that? There we go. We sent a bunch of dudes. Like, we know a bunch of dudes from the Norfolk Neptunes. And then the Raiders picked him up. And then they asked him, said, where are you from during a Monday night football telecast? They would do these shots, right?

of this player from so-and-so, this place from so-and-so, and he originally put up there U.S. Mars, which Marine Corps, but he took that and said, no, I'm from the University of Mars. There we go. And after retired, he became a wrestler for a while. Yes, he was in a tag team with Michael Hayes from the Freebirds, and they won the titles by beating.

Jimmy Snooka and partner. Right? So Yeah, Otis Sistrunk from the University of Mars. That's I'm telling you, man, there was a day and age of characters in football. I'm sure they're in locker rooms now, but man, if they had NIL when those guys were around and social media, oh my God. Oh, my goodness gracious.

And then he was, yeah, they were, they, he won his ring with the, when they beat the Vikings. But also you're talking about a defensive lineman with three interceptions. Yeah. From the middle of the field. By the way, in my secondary, we're not going to get old man Willie Brown. Old man Willie, right? One of the great plays.

I might need them coming off the day. One of the great plays in NFL and Super Bowl history. And one of the great calls, right? The Raiders call was top line. Again, we're talking to Barry Thompson. We're celebrating because it's football season. There's NFL football tonight, the Jaguars versus. The Raiders, I wanted, because we have Barry, and he's efficient in the language,

we talk Raiders and we talk NFL football as we set ourselves up. You do need a kicker. You have a punter. You need a kicker. Are we taking the legend, or are we going European? We're going European, man. That did kick the crap out of all. You're going to take, you're going to take Yankowski over Blanda.

Blaine can play a complete quarterback for you. Janikowski can't do it. I know. Seabass can't do that for you, man. Got me two seasons. Seabas can't do that for you. Well, no, I can take them both. See, that's...

No, no, no, no, they do this. When they didn't have a cap, didn't they have a long kickoff kicker and the short kicker? Yes. Yes. Okay. I got them both. Yeah, it's from the text line.

Barry Thompson is a cheat code. A living cheat code. So all fair, all fair. fair. Through this thing, Barry, we're at that point now. Guys are at camp. You know, there's a hundred stories, but the question is the focus, and I want to focus on quarterbacks because I want your opinion on the guys who are going to be the faces of the league this year.

Now, I'm going to ask you to forecast which five quarterbacks will tell the story of this NFL season. So at the end of the season, what five quarterbacks are you going to whose faces are going to show up that will tell us how this season went? I think the usual suspects, I mean, but I'm going to throw a wild card in there because I just think it's been such a mess. I think Deshaun Watson. That, you know, it's not the direction you're going with that question, but I just, like, how that ever, situation ever happened. So that, and then potentially, and I've never, I don't think I've rooted this hard for anybody that, you know, wasn't a Raider.

I'm rooting so hard for Baker Macias. Yeah. I don't know what kind of bad person he was that he got traded for this mess. So I'm really hoping that he is one of the faces that tells a story about this season. Then, of course, there's Brady. There's Mahomes. you got Josh Allen And you got the guys that have stepped up

And said their thing And of course if I got car Right I expect him to be in there And you got Herbert, right But you only get five You only get five Cheeco We're pressing

But let me Let me man in that five Because The other The other You know, Baker's kind of out there And here's another

Interesting story Is James Winston I don't You know I see silly stuff with him On Instagram but for some reason, for some reason, the saints kind of believe in him. And so if he performs to the level that they seem to be believe in him and committed to him,

he could be one of his faces and remove one of the others. So five and five A, you know what I mean? I'll say this, right? So we'll have the quarterbacks in this pool, like the faces that will define the season. I'm going to do the same thing with coaching. The same thing with coaches. What five coaches will tell the story of this NFL season once we're done with? I'm a pick Harbaugh, the Raven.

Okay. Because I just think, you know, organizationally, they're kind of set up to do something. And, you know, he would be the one to lead them through that. And, you know, their changes that they've had in the front office, Tomlin. You know, how they kind of – Belichick had a year to kind of regroup. right he's been through this little set that kind of got the quarterback that maybe they want

you know the Patriots have a way of adding different pieces that nobody really pays attention to set's three another coached out there that would really you know like you'd be kind of surprised what they did is dolphins have made some moves haven't they that that's the space I was going to go to right

yeah the dolphins would be that would be a story and then if I'm running from my guy Baker then the coach there, that would be a story, too. But getting that together, it seems kind of discombobulated right now to pull it together. Those would be ones that I would keep an eye on. It is a push to the season. And by the way, just for – I know you've got very experienced and intelligent audience.

But those first four games, I don't get too excited about that. We've been through that mess where somebody new and new change and they go through four games and they're three and one, you didn't think they'd be three and one. Wait to that fifth and six games going on, because once the take gets around to the other defensive coordinator's, then they start to take away what it is that you were doing that was successful. And then the response has to be, okay, we can make this move.

And what happens with a lot of these teams with these new systems and new starts is they don't have another move. And so you see a team that gets off the 3-1 start, and all of a sudden, seventh game, they're sitting there, you know, maybe they're upside down, they're 4 and 3. Right? Now they're trying to get even and stuff like that. And then they start telling you how tough their conferences.

So be excited for your teams, especially teams we talked about, but really watch them in games, you know, 5, 6, 7, or 8. Where are they at the halfway mark? they're seven and one, they're six and two. You know, then, you know, tell stories. But those would be the ones that I would kind of focus on. It's going to be fun again tonight is the launch.

It's the kickoff. It's the celebration of some of the greats ever. Cliff Brandt being one of those and a story that, you know, several stories for Cliff Brandt to be told long overdue, one of the great deep threats in the history of the league. We'll toward the break. We'll come back. We'll close out this hour with Barry Thompson.

A couple of things we need to take care of. And then table setting for this season. I mean, it's preseason, the Hall of Fame game tonight on TV. It's football season. We'll celebrate more when we come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.