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it's funny when people make the Moss 07 argument for most dominant season but don't even acknowledge that Jerry did this in ONLY 12 GAMES!
there's only one non kicker in the top 50 point scorers of all time and it's Jerry Rice. you can't make this stuff up because people wouldn't believe you. video game numbers. unwavering commitment to improvement. absolute legend. easily one of the greatest football players of all time. hands down the greatest wr of all time.
Until Tom Brady won his last few Super Bowls, I considered Jerry Rice the best player ever hands-down. Even now Brady and Rice are like 1A and 1B. Longevity, individual accolades, team accomplishments… I can’t fathom there ever being a WR like Jerry Rice. He was 2nd Team All-Pro at 40 years old. If he hadn’t blown out his knee at 35, his achievements would be even greater. There’s simply no one like him.
@@logicaldude3611 I couldn’t agree more but you also have to consider Jim brown, Lawrence Taylor, deion sanders, and Reggie white as well which along with Rice and Brady are the best players of all time
@@logicaldude3611 true I’m surprised tho Rice never won any MVPs or SBMVPs but his records are wild and accolades impressive he’s great that’s forsure I’ll put Rice over Montana and he’ll be 2nd and Joe 3rd Tom 1st
I honestly think jerry is the goat but i wonder what randy moss wouldve put up in that era with montana and young and that defense. Sheesh randy moss is the 2nd best all time behind rice but if he had 2 hall of fame QBs he may be number 1.
@@Channel-23s super bowl XXIII, SB MVP was Rice
Put this in context on how great/dominate Jerry Rice was.. he made the pro bowl in his 20's 30's and 40's..
Reggie White had 21 sacks in 12 games in 1987 as well.
If the minister of defense had the opportunity to play a full season in '87, he would of set the single season sack so high his record would've been as impossible to beat as many of Rice's receiving marks.
wow - never considered that, Reggie on the Eagles was the finest ever.
Reggie was a beast, second best defensive player of all time in my book.
Watching him and Montana was such a joy growing up. Rice was just unreal.
Greatest WR of all time! Thanks for the upload NFL Throwback!
Greatest football player ever
Moss
Greatest football player.
He should have been the MVP that year.
Fun fact: John Elway won MVP this year and had 19 PASSING TDs. It really should have gone to Rice.
Montana and Rice split the votes so neither won MVP.
I think it’s also the fact that without Elway, Denver wins like 4-5 games. The 49ers were stacked everywhere. The #1 defense, Joe Montana, an excellent OL, and Bill Walsh.
@@lzv6990 Yeah but 23 touchdowns for a receiver is insane. Especially when it is 4 more than Elway got.
@@TurtleMarathon1465 Absolutely Incredible
@@lzv6990 nun of that has anything to do with rice he caught 23 4 more than Elway not to mention the next closest had like 10 or 11 that’s absurd what he did
Quite simply, the greatest football player that ever lived. Full stop. No one was as dominant, for as long, in a position that usually has diminishing returns with advancing age, as Jerry Rice. You could split his career in half and have two Hall of Fame careers. You could make him your #1 receiver at 23 or at 40. No one else has remotely SNIFFED his production, longevity, durability, or completeness as a wide receiver. And it didn't matter who the QB was. Yeah, he had Montana, Young, and later Gannon, but he also had Kemp, Moroski, Bono, Grbac, and Mirer and still produced. 22 touchdowns receiving in 12 games in 1987 is so absurd...it's like a hitter hitting .425 in today's game or an NHL wing scoring 95 goals. He would've legitimately had 27 or 28 receiving touchdowns in a full season.
Completely agree. That's the thing, too. He's best known for having passes thrown by Montana and Young, but he also dominated with a bunch of non-Pro Bowl/MVP QBs. Having been elite for so long, back when rules were still more physical and didn't overtly favor the offense, at such a physical role, is incredible. The greatest football player of all-time talk is always subjective, but I think he's the greatest football player, too.
Considering his position, value and accolades he is pretty easily the greatest ever. The problem is the impact of a great QB is still> a legendary receiver. It's not a fair conversation
Greatest WR for sure but greatest at ANY position? Don't know that he was better than Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor or Tom Brady at their positions but still a top 5 no doubt.
@@dexterwestin3747 23 td's in 12 games in 1987. Elway won the MVP with 19 passing Td's that year. Jerry was a 2nd team all pro at 40. He also was top 3 in MVP voting FOUR times. His nickname is literally 'the greatest of all time'. He's 40tds and 5,000 receiving yard clear of anyone else in a league that has become much more pass happy with an even longer season. He also has the 3 super bowls
@@OpaqueNihilist I agree that he is the greatest WR ever and he deserved the MVP over Elway for that amazing season but a better overall player than LT or Brady?
Wow, that season was insane, most TD recepcions and total touchdowns in a single season, and in the 80s, defintley the best wide reciver in NFL history
Greatest football player oat. Argue with a wall
Nope I agree
The best to ever play the game 💯
Rice really should have won MVP this season. All you need to say is 22tds in 12 games. If he played a full season he was on pace for 86 receptions 1400 yards and 29tds
The closest any WR ever came to winning league MVP by the way 🐐
Actually calvin Johnson could and should have won it
So should Jerry
@@robertpreciado1274 He said THE CLOSEST, not the only deserving. JFC man...try comprehension. Rice finished 2nd in the vote to Elway and was only six points behind from splitting it. No other WR has been that close in the VOTING. Rice also finished 2nd in 1995 but it was a landslide for Brett Favre. He also finished 3rd twice.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 calvin broke jerry rice’s record nimrod for most receiving yards in a season and was mossing three defenders left and right so my words were fully in context for what the other guy said maybe you should not focus on the votes because they are bogus not all the voters even played a snap in the league but by his peers he should have won it hands down dickface
and Cooper Kupp with Megatron
What a treat. Thanks for spotlighting Jerry Rice's incredible 1987 season. In 2007 when Randy Moss "broke" the TD record, a large contingent of folks just seemed to gloss over the fact that Rice had the record in 12 games. Actually he had 23 total TDs as a receiver in 12 games compared to Moss' 22 in 16 games. As a 49ers fan that kind of irked me a bit at the time, but now it's whatever. Jerry Rice's season stands on it's own accord as being remarkable regardless.
Goat
He definitely would of had 30 or more in a full 16 game schedule
23 TDs in 12 games = 1.92
In a 17 game season that’s 32 TDs.
@@Terror832 ya that record would probably be close to un-breakable
I think he was hurt and that is why only 12 games . The season was 15 that year and they also lost in the first round of the playoffs to Minnesota .
@@mafia_dave32 this is the year the players went on strike that’s why they didn’t play a full season
@@Terror832 crazy enough I think LT got 31-32 in a season aka 16 games but for Rice has little to no room for error
The 🐐. Just the catches he could make while taking those hits over the middle for yac or going deep double covered and still beating them is just unreal. When the GOAT corner Deion Sanders hated going against you the most, yeah, you the 🐐
Deion neva hated on Jerry
It was an absurd that they gave Elway the MVP award. Rice's 1987 was insane, he's the greatest 49er
The NFL had an unhealthy obsession with John Elway for a long time.
To think he didn't win mvp but the redskins kicker did lol
@@logicaldude3611 most overrated player in NFL history was John Elway, without a doubt.
Goat for a reason at the receiver position!
Game speed, not combine speed. Clutch regimen and game mindset. Almost 20 years in the game, catching a SB TD in 2002, having started in playing in 1985! There have been more impressive specimens, Moss, Megatron, etc, but Rice is the true GOAT.
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Over 1/3 of his catches that year ended in a touchdown... That's hard to do in Madden on easy mode
My favorite stat?!?! Joe Montana threw 31 tds in 1987 and Jerry Rice caught 22 of them!!!
The NFL officially looks at the 87 season as 15 games. Rice played in 12 games because he didn’t cross the picket line and play in the scab games. This was the strike year’s.
Maybe the greatest to ever touch a football
GOAT reciever did it all without gloves too
I noticed he ain't wearing the gloves that Nike makes the ball stick to your hands. GOAT
im impressed by how accurate montana is.
This is the most impressive WR season ever. I don’t think this will be replicated or surpassed
Agreed.
Give Justin Jefferson an elite qb like Montana or young and I think he could achieve a season like this
Unbelievable he is the goat at that position. Can you imagine what he would do in a 17 game season? Unbelievable.
He would've broken 30 tds, unreal
@@ethansprague2005 definitely
The crazy thing is Jerry did this in 12 games. Imagine what he could've done in 16.
Why does 1987 feel like 20-25 years ago and not THIRTY SIX years ago? Maybe that’s just how it is as you get older.
Greatest football player of all time. Period
Facts
1:24 That is just pure anticipation, Montana lets go of the ball before Rice enters his break let alone exits it.... perfect throw.. rice knows exactly where to be and it's 6'' ahead of his hands...
I hope Dak can get some of that in the WCO
I’ve been waiting on someone to upload all of his touchdowns from ‘87 into one video. Thanks so much. Rice is the GOAT.
Jerry the GOAT!
Rice Rice Baby
0:56 Jerry Rice avoided that big bone crushing hit
You can't buy those instincts at Target.
That’s an underrated part of his game. He knew how to manage contact and had great conditioning to run routes all dag
Reminds me of how he bounced off Atwater in SB 24 and scored his first of 3 tds in the game.
Truly one of the greatest Wide receivers of All Time , thank u NFL throwback !!!
Greatest WR of All Time 🐐
I was born and raised in Berkeley.
Jerry Rice shook my hand as a little kid and I watch him and Bo Jackson run every single man down to account.
Rice had and still has the best hands in football.
The absolute best position player in the NFL of all time.
Growin up there and seeing these two play as a kid gave my all I ever needed to know.
Jerry rice was really a different species
im a Broncos fan and love me some Elway, but how did he win league MVP that year over Rice? This was the GOAT receiver season IMO (better than Randy in 2007, Megatron in 2012, and Kupp in 2021)
I think because Montana and Rice were so amazing in 1987 that they took each others votes and it led to Elway getting an undeserved MVP
Imagine if he played today!
Yo Montana out there throwing some dots
Remember when "Washed up Jerry Rice" went to Oakland for his age 39 and 40 seasons and mopped the floor with guys half his age?🙂
I was just thinking the other day about this, glad you guys posted this
G.O.A.T.E.D.
Jerry Rice The G.O.A.T 🐐🏉🏈
I'm fully convinced Jerry Rice could suit up today and be a top 10 WR
if his family didn't convince him to retire in 06 I'm pretty sure he'd still be playing today!
Jerry Rice the greatest wide receiver in NFL history no doubt about it like a tremendously terrific awesome a one of a kind masterpiece of his position not even by a longshot he's one of those players that every NFL teams wish or could dream of having on your roster just to to the super bowl and when you do make sure you see #80 to come through in the clutch just asked Montana and Young they know it that's for sure but either way there will never ever ever ever be another Jerry Rice nobody he's earned my Respect to be real here #80 is a trustworthy number to throw the ball to him and let him do what he does best 👌🏾👍🏾✊🏾
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Arguably the greatest receiver in NFL history. There’s nothing I can say about that
Wtfff he the best ever!!!!
Their is no argument
Who would be the arguments lol
No argument, whatsoever.
Watching that play agianst the Packers was unreal two guys on pace with him at the 50 yard line when he catches the ball, and then two in front not a single one comes even close to tackling him.
22 receiving touchdowns is absolutely insane, if he were to play 4 more games he probably would’ve had at least 24-27. Moss broke or tied the record but in 15-16 games. That is no where near as incredible as it was because of the games played and also bc of how players played back then. Receiver was tougher, back then playing defense was easier and now it’s the opposite with all the rules that favor the offense
This man is the GOAT!
There was alot of amazing feats in this strike shortened 1987 season... Reggie White also had a league best 21 sacks that year... & he missed like 4 games due to the labor dispute 😯
The '87 season is one of the main things I'd bring up if i'm debating greatest WR of all time. (and it'd be a strong one for greatest player ever as well) To me, Jerry Rice is the standard for every WR ever and it's a high one. If you can have even just the work ethic he had you'll be playing in this league for YEARS.
The 1987 season was also full of non NFL players filling rosters due to a strike....
@@erinnarmstrong993 I'd take that at face value except most of those scabs didn't play once the regular players came back.
Put your team colors down for a moment ...Rice is all time
Rice out here cooking dudes
He’s had so many game where caught scored 3 touchdowns throughout his career.
The precision on his routes...
Jerry is a walking highlight in real life, imagine all the years of him playing! sheesh! Go Niners!
🐐 WR
That’s what I’m talking about, give some respect to the goat
Need more of these! Imagine if there wasn’t a strike during that season possibly 25 TDs which is absurd
A lot has been made of Rice's slow 4/40 time at the combine (reportedly 4.58 sec). But few people point out that it had rained for days before the combine and so the ground was muddy and sloppy. Every player had poor times.
Of course they don't. Anyone who watched Jerry knows that his explosiveness always jumped off the screen. That poor 40 time is overstated like you said. Keyshawn Johnson ran a better 40 time than Terrell Owens😅😅. Nuff said!!!
23 touchdown on 23 different routes it looked like. Randy moss highlights are mostly deep balls...Jerry really scored every which way
I love Elway, but it's kind of nuts that he won MVP in 1987 and Jerry Rice didn't. We might need to have a wide receiver to catch 22+ touchdowns on a team that has three or more different starting quarterbacks over the course of a season before we ever see a wideout win league MVP.
The greatest season a WR has ever had
Interesting that in the top 2 WR seasons for touchdowns (Rice and Moss), neither won the SB that year. In fact, both of their teams had the league's best record. The Niners had a bye but lost their first playoff game to a Vikings team that had 5 less wins during the season. This was the season the Redskins stomped Denver with Doug Williams throwing all over them.
Also, another thing about the 1987 MVP race is that while John Elway won MVP, he didn't make 1st-Team All Pro at QB. It went to Joe Montana. I wonder if that's ever happened in another season.
Because montana was the better qb that year but elway was more valuable to his team. Mvp
"Montana to Rice" - it's etched in our heads
In 12 games is Krazy
To put this year in proper perspective for Jerry Rice. Jerry Rice had more touchdowns than 4 NFL teams.
I still can’t believe the 49ers went one and done in the playoffs that year to the 8-7 Vikings no less
Amazing that they recovered to win back to back Superbowls because that was a gutwrenching, devastating loss.
My Popz is a huge fan of the 49ers and he loves Joe Montana & Jerry Rice. He still argues with me to this day that Joe is better than Brady and Rice is more talented than Moss or MegaTron.
Gotta love this good ole sports debates with your old man‼️😂
He played barehanded for this season and I believe a lot of his career,
So for people to talk about stick em gloves with him is a travesty
He grew up catching bricks thrown to him by his father
Not to mention his route running, separation, positioning on the field, run after the catch. The best player ever
He did not play barehanded most of his career. How could you know about his brick catching background and not know that he wore gloves full time from late 88 on?? And the stickum was to be used on barehands, not gloves.
UPI NAMED OL'🐐👑JERRY RICE#80 NFL 🏈 MVP FOR THE 1987 SEASON .. HE'S THE BEST PLAYER IN NFL 🏈 HISTORY .. ALONG WITH JIM BROWN#32 .. AND REGGIE WHITE#92 ..
No MVP for this season is mental.
I never realized Steve Young filled in for Joe for part of this season - I think it's so cool Jerry set the record and both of his favorite guys got to share in it. Just crazy to think he only caught 65 passes to do that - only 65 chances to score 22 times is unreal. He literally caught a TD once every 3 balls. Nobody else will come close to that - that Randy Moss bullshit was stat padding and took him 16 games, not 12, in an era of soft defense. It should be removed as a record as far as I'm concerned or asterisked. Jerry is the king!
I agree with everything except 07 being soft defensively. It didnt become really soft till 2011. You still had super physical teams in 2007 such as the Ravens, Steelers, Jags, Titans, Bears etc..you could still play defense then. Case in point, how the NYG shut down the record setting Patriots and neutralized Moss. Also 2007 was the same year Peyton Manning threw 6 ints in one game. That wouldnt happen to someone that elite in a defensively soft era.
If you're going to do this then do Emmitt's +20 TD seasons, since he has 2
And he did it with no gloves 🧤!
And Elway was MVP wtf every news and journalist gave MVP to Jerry except AP wow and if it was 16 games he would have LT record let that sink in!!!!!
Imagine if there was no strike in '87 what would Rice Numbers would have been like!!!!!
Yea he did burn so many and yup the QBs were on point as well
1987: the year of the Cabbage Patch 😆
I wish we can see video of the routes he ran so we can see how he sets up his catches
“Once I break down his cushion, I can do whatever I want to him.” You’ll never find a better, more competitive route runner. He has this uncanny way of setting a guy up and then knowing the exact moment that he had the guy beat.
God bless you guys Always keep God first
It was 22 TDs in 12 game's actually Moss holds the record for 23 TDs in a season
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Rice's records and numbers become even more staggering when you think about how there were so fewer passing plays called back then, even by the 49ers. He wasn't getting 15 targets a game like star receivers today. Not to mention how the DBs could basically tackle him and not get called for pass interference.
Your first point was excellent, but your 2nd point is false. Pass interference/illegal contact had long been established by the late 80's. That era was far from the 60s and 70's.
Alot of you should look up the season of 1987
The most popular rice since Uncle Ben
Fun Fact Rice only connected with Montana for 13 of his 22 tds. Which is the most he’s ever connected with Joe. He caught 8 of his 22 tds from Steve Young who only played in 4 games that year. And the most Tds Rice has ever connected with Young in a single season was still only just 15. Which wouldn’t even rank top 5 for most TDs connected with one WR in a single season. Not even more than the most TDs connected with a TE in a single season. So this season not only has the strongest case for being the best WR season individually but even with 2 hall of fame QBs throwing to him you still can’t make a valid argument that Rice was that much more of a benefactor of one Great QB than a lot of other WRs were in their best years.
Moss and Gronk had all of their 23 and 17 tds come from Brady in 07 and 11
Adams had all of his 18 tds from Rodgers in 18
Clayton had all of his 18 tds from Marino in 84
Sharpe had all of his 18 tds from Favre in 94
Carter had all of his 17 tds from Moon in 95
The fact he didn’t win mvp that year was one of the stupidest decisions in nfl history.
Somehow, a qb who didn't even make 1st team all pro won mvp over this fantastic season from the best wide receiver to ever play
It was the most talented qb to ever play in his prime tho, so it happens
@@NeverSober8008 nah. Montana was the best qb in football that year, and kosar was the afc's best qb
12 games
Boy Montana sure could pass.
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