Michael Strahan Shares Wild Lawrence Taylor Stories From Their Time Playing Together | ALL THE SMOKE

[@mikekupidlowski1514]

LT is the greatest player of all time watching him was unbelievable oh and they didn't count sacks in his first year so

[@kgcane5195]

Lifelong Cowboys fan and I can say LT is hands down the 🐐 on defense! He is on the Mount Rushmore of football!

[@stacislainsbury1093]

Even at age 7 and I started watching football, I knew LT was the greatest. My Dad liked other teams but as soon as I saw LT, I knew there was nobody like him.

[@josephvanhorn5347]

Lawrence Taylor is the best football player in history. I've never seen anything like it. He played the position that teams value the least and he still took games over like no one else.

[@mooseclamps]

yep. he invented a position on the field. which is the pass rushing / disrupting OLB/DE. changed the game

[@starwarsfannumber]

Funny lt himself said Reggie white was and he was scared of him to ray Lewis

[@starwarsfannumber]

@@mooseclamps bullshit it's callrd the mike and Sam linebacker Steelers made famous 3 4 look how many teams use it now dumdass not even blelichc

[@Ynkno]

Least?

[@josephvanhorn5347]

@@JohnnySack16 Better at breaking tablets and throwing a temper tantrum.

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

Actually LT is right he is the leader in sacks they didn't count his rookie year sacks because it was 1981 and they didn't start doing it until 1982, but he has 142 sacks VS Strahan's 141.5 Look up the stats.

[@TL2354]

His is the leader? Talk like a human

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

@@TL2354 autocorrect did that was in a hurry didn't notice. How are you doing today?

[@eincan1313]

You are 100% correct. LT had 9.5 sacks in ‘81 which were not counted as sacks were not an official stat until ‘82. He is the all-time Giants leader technically. Great career from Strahan as well.

[@nostalgicgamer1363]

@@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee he is miserable I bet

[@Johnnyrocks34]

@@TL2354 bit harsh. We re texting on phones. I love the grammar police. Snob

[@petedog9581]

LT bought me a beer when the Giants were in town for a joint practice with the Browns in 1992. He was really polite and appreciated that everyone was not asking for autographs and such. It was crazy that like 20 NFL players were mingling with the peeps and nobody really cared. Everybody just drank at the bar like any other Saturday night. It would be way different now, with annoying cellphones and everyone trying to get selfies. The players prolly wouldn't even entertain doing that now.

[@blizzt2390]

The fact Michael just got over being intimidated by LT just adds to his legacy lol I could only imagine

[@Careerender]

Watched Michael’s whole career. I remember this young pup still wet behind the ears getting his first sack his rookie year. Who would have thought there would be 140.5 more sacks to go. Phenomenal player.

[@curiouslymavismade]

LT was a savage. Straight beast.

[@darrylwoodbury]

LT was unstoppable during his playing days. They had to change the game because of him. I had the opportunity to meet him during a football camp when I was a kid and after doing some drills, I walked off the field with him and talked to him. It was the coolest thing ever. He was nice to me. I was already a Giants fan, but I became a mega Giants fan because of that moment. I'm still a huge Giants fan to this day and that unforgettable moment happened 30+ years ago.

[@dickwilliams4333]

That's so cool brother. L T was a speeding train looking to collide with the quarter back.

[@cashmerej9665]

Stra was one of the best ends in the NFL. When he played the end he'd never let anyone get that corner on a run or pass. He played it to perfection. You see these other players try to make highlight reels running in leaving the corner open for whatever. Michael played the position spot on.

[@dantesinfernopurgatory7826]

LT elevated the Giants defense and the team from the moment he was drafted in 1981. Giants became a playoff team that year.

[@InvestBetter.]

Those 4 years sound like what college is SUPPOSED to be Those 4 years get you ready to prosper for the rest of your professional life

[@QuietStorm3757]

LT was a Natural Freak, UNSTOPPABLE, & The NFL DEFENSIVE PLAYER GOAT!

[@patrickcrabtree3162]

He was a natural linebacker for sure. Had the eye for the ball. Could anticipate next move very well

[@lbowsk]

I wished I watched more Giants games when LT was playing. He was amazing.

[@luciousthomas6141]

When people talk about the greatest defenses they always talk about the Steel Curtain, 85 Bears, 2000 Ravens but they never mention the 80's Giants. They the only team I watched that could stifle my Montana and Rice Niners. THE ONLY TEAM! I will never forget that 7-6 Monday Night Game and I will never forget that NFC Championship either!

[@optimus2g]

7-3, not 7-6.

[@luciousthomas6141]

@@optimus2g Thank You I stand corrected. Wow the next day I actually cut that headline out of the newspaper and then took it to school the following day after that for current events on that Wednesday and presented it in front of the class. I guess as you get older your memory ain't what it used to be. I was witness and thanks for the correction!

[@molejason]

The 77 Falcons should be getting some love.

[@Michael-dj9zq]

You forgot to mention the 72 Dolphins They were perfect and didn’t lose a game No name defense Marino beat the 85 bears which happened to be their only loss

[@tallrobshortpants7190]

The morning after that 7-3 game, I had a pop quiz in my Western Civ class. I just wrote my name on a piece of paper and handed it in blank. When the prof ask why, I said, “I’m too pissed off to think clearly.” Gimme a 0.

[@brianj4090]

Strahan is one of my all time favs. Such a nice guy but a monster on the field. Makes me think of Reggie White.

[@johngalt9737]

I am so happy to see Matt Barnes do well, always liked him. Nice kid from Del Campo High School who became a pro athlete. He is suchba good interviewer too

[@jasondownsnet]

Great interview.

[@EBBE-uf2wp]

LT is/was the greatest player I ever watched. Changed the NFL.

[@bdr5150]

LT is the reason i like the Giants. When my brother and I were kids and would stay with my dad on the weekend, we would watch the games before he took us back to our Moms. All i remember was this guy in blue that was faster than everyone else and cause so many problems for other teams. After i found out he was LT, I couldnt like anyone else as a favorite player growing up as a kid. I didnt know about the off field issues when i was that young. I just watched him play and was in awe

[@Stevesautopartsify]

LT personality took at least 2 Super Rings from my 49ers!! He was that good!

[@RedSeaConsulting]

Much respect for LT. In ‘96 I moved my family to Pleasanton, CA where my son played on Joe & Mike Madden’s Freshman Team. On a Sunday afternoon we watched LT and later I took Robert and Mike DiMaggio Joe’s great nephew), and their friends to a park where we played. LT was Robert’s favorite and studied LT’s moves. They went undefeated that year and my son had more sacks than the team combined. Mrs. Madden sponsored a lunch-party for them. Sadly, six years later my son was killed but LT was always his favorite NFL player!

[@107uptown]

The meeting naps resonate with me. You have to be accepted top down as THEE MAN to get away with that.

[@littlethuggie]

LT actually has 142 sacks to Strahan's 141.5

[@ericmcgowan1993]

LT is greatest defender of all time 👑

[@derekbrown4696]

In my opinion LT is the first defensive rock star type player. If there is no LT, then there is no Prime Time and defensive players are still kind of in the background of the media and all. I feel like LT was the first real star on defense. There were dozens of great players before him. But making the defense something you have to watch. That feeling you have that was normally reserved for an offensive player. Yeah, LT is that guy. Game changer, league changer.

[@slimpickens01]

Playing Super Tecmo Bowl 2 LT is the only player out of the whole game who can consistently block field goals.

[@clash5j]

Strahan was a great player, but LT is not only in the argument of greatest Defensive players ever, but as one of the greatest Football players ever.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

LT is a good man. That’s why ppl accept the bad situations that he got into at times. He should’ve never been prosecuted for that thing with the young lady because she truly hustled him. Again, LT is a good man.

[@TheLuscious]

You don’t wake up the second best NFL player ever from a nap. Still the greatest NFL player I’ve ever seen.

[@WizzRacing]

Lawrence Taylor has one mind set.. Don't let anyone show you up. And he made sure the other teams understood it. As he was Relentless. Ruthless and Tough...

[@Nick-fc9xy]

Strahan was so good

[@AnthonyScarpa-er3sq]

You know your very well respected and great when you have a coach like Bill Parcells that leaves you alone because of how great you are on the football field.. You will never see another Lawrence Taylor ever again he was the GOAT best linebacker ever

[@jbx.7995]

Strahan is a 1st class act.. believe it..really

[@oldstudbuck3583]

That was excellent

[@mobbcreep956]

Lmao Strah got him. "I aint tell you to do the drugs "

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

Yeah but that ain't why, they didn't count sacks his rookie year he would of had 142 to Strahan's 141.5

[@97F350]

One LT story

[@GB-rv8im]

I got more respect for LT when I saw his reaction after breaking Joe Thiesman leg. He showed his big heart...

[@Lehmann108]

LT felt so bad about that because he knew the leg was really fucked and that was Joe's career.

[@GB-rv8im]

@@Lehmann108 I was there at the time and we were hoping for a switch at QB. We got it but in a shocking way. LT basically used his own leg to snap joe's and it was UGLY. LT was just freaked out!

[@higher_pwr8178]

The first I heard of this Michael guy was as a host on some TV morning show.

[@Humble_Legend]

I didnt know they even played together

[@brianmiddleton1002]

"I didn't tell you to do the drugs man" 😂😂😂😂

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

Of course LT went 100 MPH, he was loaded up on ya yo!!!

[@SasukeUchihax]

😂

[@Billyoutz]

I forget the year when the Giants played the Saints and Mr. Taylor dislocated his shoulder and set an example for ALL of us by demonstrating the power of WILL, the Determination of “True Grit, The Toughness of a body, the Mental capacity of Durability, the Gladiator Courage DO or DIE, and down to Earth PURE Guts that only we Human's possess. I've experienced a dislocated shoulder and CAN NOT imagine the discomfort this man experienced.

[@barryfaecher]

I have been a Giants fan since 1958 and watched every game even blacked out ones(other than the 4 years I was in the service). Recently I heard Troy Aikman say Micah Parsons was better than LT,so I went back and looked at old tapes of Lt,Derrick Thomas,Von Miller and Parsons. That is the order I would rank them!!

[@SOSchangedme]

LT IS the all-time Giants sacks leader according to every stat list out there. They must have amended it...

[@JK-br1mu]

Sharing his memories from the 2 seconds he played with LT.

[@eddiehilbert2211]

A LT Biopic would be crazy

[@BillCagney]

I looked, he is ahead in career sacks.... You are right.

[@paulmysliborski4832]

Taylor was the best defensive player in NFL history. No questions. He struck terror into 300lb offensive linemen, and Offensive coordinators. But Strahan was a straight-up animal that could change a game on his own as well. Very few Offensive Tackles could handle him without holding, and he shut the run game down with the same ferocity that LT did. If LT's rookie year sacks were counted, he'd have 142. But without cutting hairs, how impressive is a true "hand in the dirt " defensive end matching LT's sacks? Micheal Strahan is on the Mount Rushmore of NY Giants, ALL time.

[@omni-man4624]

First, thing about LT was the strip.sack technique...No one.before him did that!...

[@stevelyons2001]

Lawrence Taylor was a Freak Hybrid Player!! Him Ray Lewis,Dick Butkas and Jack Lambert were Defensive Ends so fast and violent they had to list them as Linebackers!!! LT could have played Safety he was so fast💪💪💪

[@peterpellechia5985]

Those 4 games were not the only games lt missed that werent due to injury.he missed 10 games due to 2 strikes!

[@Stantonthestandardstanding]

LT didn't need to be awake for the meetings, he already knew what to do. LT was straight scary.

[@jonathanriojas2177]

Coach your glad you had not a coach your glad you have... good quote .

[@hulksmash54]

LT and MJ could party and gamble all night, golf all day and dominate on game day. Some people are born with different motors than the rest of us.

[@williammarrara7490]

Chiraq had the fridge..NY had da coke machine.

[@legitballin1986]

You win 🤣. He stayed on the Colombian breakfast

[@Michael-dj9zq]

You should be far more concerned about your grammar

[@sylpascale7673]

I hate it when they try to compare other defenders to LT, Belichick said it best, no one is in LTs league and that's coming from a coach who has seen it all. I am so glad I got to see LT play, he was ferocious and opposing QBs were terrified when they played the Giants.

[@GeorgeFitness-yo8bl]

Michael you couldn't hold LT's jock!

[@lifeisgood5698]

They didn't fear Strahan like LT was feared

[@overdafalls26]

Hey Barnes try to look interested when interviewing your guests.

[@Petequinn741]

LT changed the way defense was played.

[@morrisseythompson8213]

LT MONSTER HUNTER OF NFL SACKS.

[@tommybrown187]

Nowadays they don’t give you 4 years to grow as a player

[@beaujac311]

Until 2010 NFL rosters were 45 players. The 53 player roster has been since then.

[@fullmetal1766]

Unless your a white rookie quarterback

[@now1more]

Michael got a gift from Brett yo get the record. LT is the greatest of all time at the linebacker position! LT, Tom Brady, Ronnie Lott, The Fridge, who else?

[@jaydrains2247]

The best teachers tell it like it is .. no need to sugar coat it .. if your doing something wrong I will tell you .. ok honey ( wife ) LoL

[@makzee19]

I'm surprised at his honesty about Taylor.

[@svtinker]

Being the greatest is about being a leader on and off the field. Ask Lance Armstrong.

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

That's stupid.itsmy personal life OFF the field got nothing to do with the game

[@jimmorrison3830]

He shouldn't be throwing L.T's name out there with the drugs. No When to lock it up.. Lt greatest football player.Ever

[@davidalexander6500]

Wow… How many people are just realizing they played together?

[@danharkins5673]

Dick Butkus was the goat. Know disrespect to LT but I watched both there careers.

[@jerryward9417]

LT not perfect, but the best football player ever

[@csnide6702]

clickbait --- one LT story .....

[@manko717]

You talking about Stratham, who beat up his girlfriend?

[@junserafin5241]

Not sure how it is now, but after LT retired NOBODY would wear 56 on any team, ANY TEAM because they didn't want to be compared to LT. That was his number, people were scared to wear it. Respect had something to do with it, but it wasn't all. And that's the only players number which that happened to. Then I think it was some years later you would see a 56 somewhere- maybe from a guy that didn't know better. It's as if 56 was tacitly and silently prohibited.

[@MrNaturalSez]

Buddy Ryan cut Cris Carter... but Cris was not LT (no one is). Imagine Bill Parcells cutting LT and the San Francisco 49ers acquire LT's rights for $1.00.

[@1972mrkleen]

Ask Joe Theisman who scares him more 🤔

[@omni-man4624]

He shouldn't have the single season sack record...Was given the last one!

[@siler7]

Wild not found.

[@gskessingerable]

LT does have the most sacks for the Giants. Strahan is delusional.

[@johns8653]

Gamespeed=Crack

[@gregoryevans8179]

I heard a story about Taylor sleeping in a meeting, coach called him out he got up and went over everything that had been discussed without missing anything.

[@jamal111]

Lol and then went back to sleep, that’s a great story.

[@garylewis9558]

I don't know how good LT would have been without the cocaine. Sad will never know

[@Bmerciful]

Mike you played weak side you so should be the sack leader😅😅😅

[@jamal111]

So did Reggie white, Jack Youngblood, deacon Jones and howie long

[@dylanmartino7975]

As a giants Fan I’m embarrassed of LT dude was smoking crack all day. Now here me out LT was smoking crack with no work Ethic at all but was able to dominate the League we’re even bill said he was the greatest Defensive player of all time

[@tcoast1161]

Coke, not crack. But still the point you made is still valid. He was doing a decent drug, and is the greatest defensive played of all time.

[@dylanmartino7975]

@@tcoast1161 he was super human what more can we say bro 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ I mean if bill belicheck the greatest coach of all time that won’t even tolerate you being late by 1 min said he was the greatest player he ever coached etc. you know the dude must of been impressive. But again as a giants fan I’m actually embarrassed of him because he was such a nuisance as a person. It’s like the dude put no effort into being that monster he was just that guy. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@victorlopez2143]

'with no work Ethic at all' ??? Strahan stated he practiced at 100 MPH ??? That's not work Ethic ?? Really- All players should practice HARD all of the time..That's why he is the greatest...

[@jamal111]

Lol LT had zero work ethic, this comes from his own mouth. It didn’t matter because he was so dominant he didnt need practice, or sleep for that matter (unless I’m meetings).

[@dylanmartino7975]

@@jamal111 makes no sense I don’t understand how can bill say he was the best player he ever seen or coached because he played with so many great players including Tom Brady. It sucks because I know he was only that good because he was black

[@shephusted2714]

ms tough love lesson - coaches have to be psychological chameleons - be tough and then praise when you win and foster teamwork, cooperation - much like ms breakin to good morning america - when he is there and not out partying after counseling and coping with being a human #rorshaq test

[@jacksonrob08]

First , he says that LT was his guy. Then says that he didn't tell him to do them drugs. Great friend to bring this up!

[@superman85301]

You don’t rip on your old friends or classmates?

[@dantesinfernopurgatory7826]

In Jersey, we bust each others stones on a daily basis. That's part of the friendship.

[@Michael-dj9zq]

Great point I thought the same thing Typical douche bag move

[@jacksonrob08]

@@dantesinfernopurgatory7826 I'm very sure that your friends wouldn't bring up your drug issues in a interview. Especially when no one was even talking about drugs in the first place.

[@littlethuggie]

@@jacksonrob08 this is the moment you'll look back on as when you realized you were a homosexual

[@cardcomm91]

Watch The Dimming on climate engineering

[@mikebelnap3079]

The dude in the hoodie looks like George Floyd?

[@stevenboykin7255]

I said the same thing to when they were shown in a picture together. Swear up and down they're related. George Floyd was that guy's sacrifice 😳 to keep in the lime light.

[@RellyRell-ud3iz]

Lmao the dude in the hoodie tho 😂 u must’ve never watch this podcast

[@flexonnembixthh7679]

@@stevenboykin7255 most likely I remember when dude died dude came outta no whea n said they was they was from da same hood n ppl used to call em twins

[@T59-j7k]

Love LT but he was jacked on coke is why he went wide open at practice

[@frankfrega1302]

Do you actually believe LT was the only player doing coke back in that era??? C'mon be realistic tons of other players were doing it LT gets the spotlight cuz he was so great

[@None-bd2rp]

Had to throw in that he did drugs we as blacks have no respect for each other

[@StevenEvens7125]

I'm sorry... is it just me? LT and Mike never played together... tf?

[@cesarcotto3351]

They should have shared the 93 season together then LT left in the 94 season ,

[@seanin1990]

Mandela Effect. They played together for 16 seasons

[@peterpellechia5985]

Strahans rookie year was lts last

[@stonedstansmith]

Research is hard for you isn’t it?

[@peterpellechia5985]

@@stonedstansmith wtf are you talking about!!!

[@johnpetty9310]

I personally don't know of any other player (at LT's position)that had a WHOLE STADIUM .... CHANTING HIS INITIALS : 🏈🏟 LT LT LT LT LT LT LT !!!! ....... GO BIG BLU !!!!

[@jonlundgren562]

You play like you practice.

[@youthsoftballfitness1996]

Dum again

[@BIG_Z_69]

I guess anyone can have a podcast these days….