We have an epidemic on television. Let me tell
you what, if you change a channel and watch
other football shows, you're gonna see a lot of
quarterbacks. It's just how it happens. The quarterbacks
like to talk about plays and how they play and
about the game. This is not that kind of
show. This week we have a lot of defensive
backs in the studio here, so you gotta play
to your audience, right? We have, I
have put together a list of my personal favorite.
You really have to contextualize this for the people at
home who are gonna throw things at the TV.
You see my personal list of top 5 picks pick
sixes in NFL playoff history. Now when I do
top 5 lists, Nick, I feel like you
can speak to this. I don't like to pick
things from Super Bowl 11 or Super Bowl 4.
I was not alive. I have not seen the
game tape. I'm not gonna put those things on
the list, and if somebody is more power to
you, you're an NFL historian, but I'm not
gonna speak to something that happened when I wasn't born
, all right, so we're gonna take him with
the most recent. Top 5 pick 6s in playoff
history. We're going to start with number 5.
Logan, you're going to see Logan Ryan, are
you number 5? No, you're not. Seahawks
Malcolm Smith and his 69 yard pick 6 in Super
Bowl 48. You called it a layoff. This
is a lopsided win for the Seahawks' defense only allowed
just over 300 yards for a Peyton Manning led offense
in the Denver Broncos and. Honestly, the failed
dunk over the goalpost was my favorite part of this
play. Malcolm Smith would become the Super Bowl MVP
. Cliff Avril got the hand on Manning, a
wobbly ball. Malcolm Smith came down with it and
it was a 69 yard pick 6 to cap.
I know he cleared it. He cleared it.
Uh, that was from uh Super Bowl back in
February of 2014. You remember this play? Where
were you for this play? Home, I lost
the AFC championship to the Broncos, so I was
watching. This is this is prime Legion of Boom
days, right? And they give my guy Malcolm
Butler a lot of slack for being like, you
know, a one play wonder. Malcolm Butler went
all pro after his pick. Malcolm Smith right here
, I didn't, this guy is literally a one
game wonder in, in this sense. Super MVP
, our most random super MVP we ever had,
but shout out to him. Everyone played great on
defense. It couldn't went to anybody but Malcolm Smith
capitalized, took it home. Yeah, no,
I was actually in training camp with them. I
got cut from this team. I went to Jack
, uh, Seattle, but, but just being
there during the, during the training camp, I
just knew like this team was gonna go to the
Super Bowl. And so to see Malcolm do this
, I mean someone who wasn't Harold as one of
the top players, this is, this is what
Pete Carro does. He's able to train his whole
entire team to compete. What year was what year
was 20132014 February 14, the 13th. I was
playing Pop Warner. I was 12 years. I
was at the. I was I was not at
the. I was I was 12 years old and
I was on my couch watching this game and I
thought it was gonna be a better game, but
I was like by that time I was like,
bro, the Seahawks are blowing the Broncos out the
water, um. I don't really like the fact
that he was a loaf of bread that he caught
. Um, I think you need to go get
it, but I gotta see the rest of the
list. Oh, you're a pick 6 purist.
I see. OK, good to know. Let's
see what you think about number 4 and the fact
that one of our teammates this week is the number
4 spot. It's Logan Ryan's 9 yard pick 6
from the 2019 AFC wild card game. Tom Brady
, did he hate you after this play because was
this not his final pass completed just to the wrong
team as a New England Patriot? Nick will say
that was a loaf of bread, but people do
say that this pick ended a dynasty here and and
people, no, not me, and people I
have seen have said this pick sent Tom Brady to
the Bucks who then won a Super Bowl next year
, so but. You know, obviously former Patriot
there playing against my old team in the playoffs,
vengeance, best served cold, you know, and
, um, Tom's Tom's a great sport. Tom
DM'ed me after that game and said, you know
, great player, whatever. On that, on
that play right there, I'm in the middle of
the field. We're in a kind of a victory
defense formation. Tom has the ball down 1 point
. I don't care how much time's on the clock
when Tom Brady has the ball last in the game
, you, you worry and we, we practice
scenario a lot and I'm, I'm just kind of
a free runner here and just I get to read
his eyes because I know him well and I'm,
I'm. Right spot, right time, and that's
the last time Tom Brady donned a Patriot uniform 20
year career. Um, the greatest ever do it
I know exactly where he got that from. Now
I realize that Nick Cross is gonna hate my list
because I feel like all my balls are up for
grabs for the DBs and for the safeties. I
don't think that's, I think that one's different though
. I think I think I think a tip you
have to have more, you know, reflexes and
stuff like that to be able to go get it
. Alright, let's take you all the way back
to 2000. I was 11 years old and I
do remember this game, 2000 AFC divisional game.
The late great Steve McNair at number 3, Ray
Lewis gets him for a 50 yard pick six,
a true gimme that, run it back. McNair
was leading the Titans down the field for a potential
game tying drive, but this pick 6 by Ray
Lewis gave the Ravens a 24 to 10 shut the
door lead with just over 6 minutes to play,
and they would go on to win this on their
way to beating the Giants in Super Bowl 35.
Yeah, this one somewhat hurt my heart because I
wore 27 in high school because of Eddie George.
Like he is, he is why I wore 27
. I even wore his Adidas Power boots cleats.
I was a big Eddie George fan and he had
that rival with Ray Ray Lewis where they were just
going at it the entire that was their whole career
and for him to go there and just hit that
exclamation point and take that pick and go to the
crib, I mean great play, but man,
I, I was hurt. This was my farthest
one back at number 3 in 2000 and my#2
play is the most recent playoff pick 6 that you
would have seen. It's from a rookie for the
Philadelphia Eagles in Cooper Dejean. This pick 6 was
a part of the Eagles' rout, absolute rout over
the Kansas City Chiefs who were in search of the
back to back to back building of a dynasty,
the way the Patriots have been going. But Cooper
De Jeanne, after having an unreal defensive campaign as
a rookie, capped this thing off. Now some
would say, Oh, Mahomes handed it right to
him, but I think De Jeanne was just in
the right place at the right time and read Mahomes's
eyes well. Nick Cross, that's a young DB
right there. He actually trained with him down in
Arizona right now, so shout out my boy Coop
. Shout out PEP down there, um, but
at the end of the day it was a great
play, you know, he read the quarterback's eyes
and, you know, hats off to the return
, right? You know, he returned in college
, um, did a little bit in the NFL
and to get from, from the, how long
was the return from the 40 all the way to
the end zone and you know, other side of
the field and even at the end, you know
what I'm saying, at the get off me.
So you know what I'm saying, so you know
, shout out to Coop for that, that great
return. I was watching. I was rooting for
him, so. That wasn't he, he read
the quarterback break everything you train to do every day
. All right, exactly. Now the number one
overall play we actually have the TV call for and
could I take you to the beautiful sounds of Al
Michaels and John Madden for my#1 pick 6 in
the postseason in history, and it belongs to this
play. Steelers blitz. Here they come. He
gets it away and it's picked off at the goal
line. There's a flag thrown on the run back
. James Harrison to run it back and Harrison is
past midfield. Harrison going down the sideline. Harrison
still on his feet. Harrison is going to.
to get there, his signal. It's a 100
yard interception return. You know that you have to
protect against James Harrison because he's such a great pass
rusher on that play. He faked like he was
going to rush the passer and he dropped back into
the lane and then made this run unbelievable. I
want to personally apologize to miss Ron Barber on the
list. You got that one. I want to
personally apologize to our friend, friend of the show
, and a man who probably just threw his towel
off the elliptical as he's watching it. Kurt Warner
. You are a colleague of the network. I
am so sorry, but you know that play has
to exist on a list somewhere. 100 yard pick
6 in Super Bowl 43. I know I was
making you sweat with not having that play on there
yet, but. Yeah, that was, I
was like I told you before I said you bet
, you better have this play on there, and
this was it again, just an incredible first of
all, incredible game overall but right here, just
an outstanding run back of everyone running, staying with
him, lead blocking like you can, you can
tell the whole team was like let's get this man
to the end zone. There's RC with the,
I don't know what late block that was, but
yeah, it's a hell of a play, and
I was told he didn't, he was, he
was not. He's supposed to drop out here.
It's not what he's supposed to do. He's supposed
to rush the passer. This is play knowledge.
He knew that they were gonna throw the quick screen
if he did that. He drops out in the
lane and look at Larry Fitzgerald's effort here though.
Larry Fitzgerald's chasing him all the way down. That's
like a 260 pound ball of muscle 100 yards.
That is really tiring for a defensive end to do
, especially as muscular and big as James Harrison.
So shout out to him, man. That is
the. Vintage steel curtain defense right there. Yeah
, that was a that was a great play again
. I was probably 6 years old when this happened
. I was watching from my couch, but at
the time I wasn't very much of a big Pittsburgh
Steelers fan. But for him to go out there
and do that, um, my dog RC throwing
that late block, um, you know, just
a great player overall. I think that changed the
momentum of that game and ultimately they ended up getting
the dub, so. All right, Nick,
what do you think of my list? I think
there's another, um, there's another, there's another
one. Malcolm Smith. I wanna take that one
off the list. There was one, I think
it was 2007, 2008. Seahawks played the Packers
and Matt Hasselbach went out there and said we're gonna
get the ball, drive down to score and instead
he threw a pick sixing the Packers exactly, allowing
the Packers to win the game. So I think
just because of the irony in that statement, I
think that should have made the list somewhere on there --> .