4531. World One sports by line USA And here's host. And good to have you with us for this hour of Sports Byline Well we're going to be talking some football with 2 gentlemen that I know pretty well the 1st one standing by is Herm Edwards former head coach of not only the Jets but also the Kansas City Chiefs and that was after he was a defensive back in the n.f.l. For 10 seasons 9 of those a Philadelphia under coach for me you know and I have so much respect for anybody that can play pro football and never miss a game in 9 seasons and that's exactly what Herm Edwards did being that with the Eagles and he remained active with the team for 135 consecutive regular season games until being cut by then incoming coach Buddy Ryan and when he walked off the field for the last time he had 33 career interceptions that 2nd in Eagles history he did play in a Super Bowl was back in 1981 Super Bowl 15 and is one I covered it was down in New Orleans between the open Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles and of course the Eagles lost that game to the Raiders and he was also involved in a play the. Other good friend of mine John McVeigh who was the general manager of the San Francisco 49 er's was involved in a cost him his job when he was the coach with the New York Giants because he returned Giants quarterback Joe Pa shard 6 Bumble for a touchdown in Philadelphia's miracle when in the middle lands all the Giants needed to do was take a knee and the game was over with by. Instead they decided to hand it off to the running back and it popped up in the air and it was intercepted then by Herm Edwards he returned it for a touchdown he played his college ball i Cal Berkeley but his senior year was played at San Diego State and on the personal side very interesting back story on Herm Edwards he grew up in an interracial household and his mother is German father African-American and his dad was an Army sergeant and I've always found that kids get cam from come from military families are always interesting because they seem to be a little bit more adaptable since they've been moving around a lot then right after that Brant Jones is going to join us he played 10 years as a tight end all for the San Francisco $49.00 er's and he was a 5th round pick by Pittsburgh and was way by the Steelers after a car accident signed with the 40 niners as a free agent and he was in the playoffs 10 times in his career he had 60 receptions 5 touchdowns and of course you want to number of Super Bowls playing with the 40 niners and he played his college ball at Santa Clara something they don't play at Santa Clara anymore so it's football talk this hour on Sports Byline in Herm Edwards coming your way next on American sports talk show. 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And you know I was a guy in high school that never missed a game never missed a practice the same way through college and professional football and I always you have an obligation really when you enter that huddle that those guys to the left and to the right of you they can trust you and you're going to be available and I was told players that it's one thing to have talent it's another thing to be coachable But really the key is be available. You grew up down in Monterey your dad was a military man a master sergeant I was in a military family Ronnie lot of other people that I've known as well Ray Allens another that come to mind and we've had a chance to talk all of us about it and there's something different about growing up in a military family can you put your finger on it well I think you have instant structure then obviously your ability to adapt because you're going to military family you're moving a lot as you know I mean the place to place and you have to be you have to be adaptable to situations and people and I think sometimes that can help you I mean this is a world multicultural and when you're part of military that's to deal and I think you understand about our country you know how important that I have always said this probably the most important thing for me when I started playing football was to do to make sure I stood there on that line very quiet the national anthem came about because I understood that our freedoms in this great country are not free the other thing and correct me if you think I'm wrong but I think that those of us that came out of a military type of environment do not believe in labels in other words you've got enlisted officers are listed men and then you've got officers and everything but they're all on the same team and I think that's something that's a little bit different than what you'd find normally in society where you make a great point and I think that also helps you understand that we are a big team and no difference forts and I think that's why it's so easy for guys that have been with a military background to understand important in their role on the team and you know there's rank and file and there's orders and all those things and there's a sense that there's leadership involved in it and you know that with the teams only as good as everyone willing to. Be a part of it and do their job you came out of the University of California and San Diego State where you played your college football and then you were free agent and Carl Peterson really played a part in your life in the early going did me yeah you really didn't coach for me well we go all the way back. High school they actually recruited me to u.c.l.a. And didn't work out Cal was a little bit heavier on recruiting but they were closer to what I had I just had a my destination was I will I want to go to Cal Berkeley I mean I visit the campus many a time and love the atmosphere and end up going there but at the end as coach real said what we got together anyway later on it worked out great what is the approach to playing pro football if you're a free agent as compared if you've been drafted in the 1st 2nd or 3rd round Well I think every day you feel like you have something to prove to play would a chip on your shoulders your whole career you really do because you feel like you know I I beat the odds another day and when you're not drafted obviously in the National Football League My came out for grounds and there was some reason for that I was a double transfer and some people label me maybe a little bit hard to coach you know and that type of stuff so I get all that but I think the thing that I realized every day. It was could be my last day and I played that way and I competed that way and you know when you when you look at it I was a rookie and started as a rookie I mean I never like you said earlier I never missed a snap and never missed a practice you know I've known Dick Vermeil for a long time through my friendship with the late Bill Walsh and I always found him very interesting what was it that made him so unique as a coach do you think well I think he was like like military families and there was some discipline tool you had to understand that there was structure he treated everyone fairly too and there was a commitment you had to make if you're going to make his football team you want smart tough guys and guys that believed in team you know he didn't believe in the big ego guys you know he believes in to have everyone understand that we're all here equal place you saw we say we're all green all green and it was live with them Billy Reid said yeah I want to bring team you know. We had to last with that one and you're also a descendant of the Tony Dungy coaching tree in another room and be Marty Schottenheimer What a day each teach you. Well Marty here you know as you know Marty was a teacher and so he was very you know he was very disciplined as well he had a routine he believed in the details and so I bought into all that and Tony. Who we met in 1977 in the in the in the college All-Star games and that's where we 1st met and we've been friends ever since and we had similar attitudes about how we wanted to coach him in what we were going to try to do if we ever came head coaches and the one thing we both agreed on exists if we can make them better men good football players and that was kind of our marching orders when we became head coaches you came off the west coast but you go to Philadelphia and you know the reputation of Philadelphia and their sports fans was a kind of jarring to the senses for you well yeah the passion you get you know because you sit on the West Coast it's a little bit different you know living on the West Coast and obviously both of these you walk into that stadium and you know I grew up believe it or not one of my 1st post football games was the Dallas game when they play in keys or had a preseason game and they had some tickets to the neighbor down the street invited bunch kids grow up with me we went there in the Keys are walked and there's the Dallas Cowboys you know Calvin Hill was a rookie and I fell in love with Dallas Cowboys so I was happy came to Dallas Cowboy thing that he made it worse all the way through high school in college you know all the sudden you go Philadelphia about the 2nd day of practice you start figure this thing out to be a cowboys fan field if you're not good. What do you think pro football was going to be like Herman what did it turn out to be similar to or different from what you thought you know what Ron It was everything I thought it was it was the fact that it was it was the it was the highest level that you could ever accomplish but I never understood until you get out in the way from how difficult it really is you know one percent of all the guys in college football be professional football players right suspects is about 3.6 years which you know 90 percent of all the players never play in the Super Bowl but it was very competitive and the thing you learn right away from college and pro they don't graduate you have to take someone's job and it's a profession if you're going to be good at it you've got to be willing to sacrifice some things and I was all in and I mean this is something I want to do with the young kids special football player and I put everything I had into it because I wanted to tell myself this if I wasn't good enough I couldn't blame anybody it says I want good and I was going to make the excuse why I should have done this should have done that but I had a marvelous time I really did I enjoyed it I enjoyed the practice I enjoyed the preparation the games take care of yourself but all the little things you gotta do to be a professional football player I bought into all that stuff I was born in Washington d.c. Spent a little bit of the time as my father traveled around the world and in the Maryland area in the Air Force but I also started as a sportscaster in that town and I don't think at that particular moment when I was born and kind of grew up and was aware of what was happening around me in sports that there was a better conference for rivalries than what you all found in the n.f.c. East you had the Giants against the Eagles you had the Eagles against the Redskins the Dallas Cowboys against the Giants What was it that made those rivalry so intense and so good very physical and don't forget about the St Louis car that's right. And you know this was a physical division I mean it was like Ok and it didn't matter what the what the records were and rid of football was different when we grew up obviously you know the runner the runner was the guy I mean it was a running back it was physical football at the line of scrimmage. The rules were a little bit different and you knew that when you played in the end of season you could survive but you came out of that division and you survived it when you got into the playoffs you had a chance to get to the big game because the division was so difficult was there a particular game in all of those rivalries that sticks out in your mind Herman's you think back on it now. Well that was you know I think when you when you're rookie year when you 1st obviously walk into the venue's in Washington was one in fact that you remember the old stadium old r f k r f k Yep You know I mean I walked into this place and my rookie year how. He's sitting there and you go or look at look at this garbage you know and then you get the old tumeric you know Sonny was you know those guys were still around you know and he was at the end of his career and you seen these guys on television and you walk in there and all of a sudden you know it seems like. It's the crowd why don't pop us you know it's all it's own when you walk out of that dugout that dark tunnel right and you come up there you know you get up there and you go do that to me and the 1st thing I realized was that they had that song you know Hail to the Redskins fight Colby see this they score touchdowns almost in the band stars plan they start this war chant that's. What. We're talking football with Herm Edwards former head coach of the New York Jets and also the Kansas City Chiefs but also he was in the National Football League as a fine defensive back for 10 seasons 9 with Philadelphia and he is 2nd in Eagles history with 33 career interceptions he played in Super Bowl 15 against the Raiders we'll talk a little bit about that as we continue across the country and around the world on Sports Byline. 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You know what I'm talking about then Cowboys Well you know as I said you know they were the best team in that division that you had to go through Dallas if you're going to win the division and when you think about it we did for all of them actually we did fall in the cowboys and we became the team and then from there the Giants were the team and then after that it was Washington so that division really was ruled by the Cowboys and you're talking about Roger Stahl back My Booky year my couple 1st couple of years and Danny White took over they had an acceptable Tom Landry was an excellent Hall of Fame coach you. But I really enjoyed watching coach in and respected him more as a man than the even a coach for what he stood for so they want to think of a team with a star on the side of their head you know I can remember Drew Pearson and you know Tony Dorsett came out with me and they had Randy White they had to call Joe They had him on that they had they had the rules school football and they were stars you know they we are as you say Andrew one of these is a well reasoned had a hole in the roof and in Dallas stadium was because the good lord like the Cowboys and I said well let's call them you goals you know they had open every quarter and so. They could keep all those days and you know that brings up the fact that they were called America's team and I think that a lot of players around the league resented that how did you guys react to it well you know they want to Cavil I mean they were his cattle like they were they were Hollywood that's what they were you know and you know what they were good too I mean say what you want they were a good football team boy I mean how many Super Bowls we watched when Dallas Cowboys Atlanta Pittsburgh States you know it seemed like that was kind of the game that was going to go blends well all the time you had to go through Dallas in the n.f.c. And a.f.c. Side of it and only have the side of it was going through Pittsburgh in those days you know so it was just it was it was fun playing those teams like a room play the Pittsburgh Steelers. You know Terry Bradshaw Lynn Swann Franco Harris No guys like me are playing those guys we beat them and then we'd be just as I said you kidding me so when you grow up on the West Coast and you see these these teams in and you watch these players and then they all of a sudden you know years go by going to high school in college and all of a sudden some of these guys are still in the league you know run maybe one of the most poignant moments for me. Was when I actually played against Joe name when he was with the Rams remember he was the Rams and I was Joe name at the 1968 and I lived on the peninsula out there in Monterey at the 2 side we were on a Super Bowl and I remember him winning that he put his finger in walking away and Joe named. Well sure enough my rookie year we're playing the Rams don't name my 1st n.f.l. Interception because Jonah was like Are you kidding me you just at the tell me this fall. You did get a bite at the apple in playing in the Super Bowl of a Super Bowl 15 I remember that was one of the earlier ones that I covered and it was won by the Oakland Raiders but it was always said the Dick Vermeil worked you guys too hard in preparation you know Super Bowl week and it really took something out of your legs What's the truth and well I think obviously pick one about a little bit different than the Raiders I don't want to take anything away from because they were a 5 football team that was jump rockets in the realm of scenes and then and obviously coach for as was coaching the football team and we had beat them earlier in the season they came to Philly tight football I think was 17 or something like that in fact talk about 6 or 7 times and we thought we had a pretty good football team we went down there and we handled our business a little bit different than the Raiders I knew we were in trouble when on Monday night or Tuesday night we get there and I turn the television on we're in there looking for a point books especially in you know but not a 10 o'clock at night you know watch and look at all the stuff I turn moves on you don't the Raiders are downtown on purpose you're going to be in trouble. I got to share a story with you and that was the fact that I was down there of course covering it and I would lie all data comes up to me says Let's go out and I said what it's after curfew he said I must go out you know so we go out and it's about 2 o'clock in the morning and we come back and here comes coach down the steps and he says you know you're out after the curfew and he said yeah and he said Ron couldn't sleep and we went out looking for a glass of warm milk. That's the way those guys approached the Super Bowl. They were Do they were new and they had they had a fantastic football team and you know was their day they did a great job Ron Martin you know had a good day you know they just you know we had a chance here before the half I can remember it. We got a penalty call and Harrell scored test out the client against a scorer and it didn't happen in the 2nd half they made a couple big plays and that was it you know but they they they want it and they deserve it when it didn't and I'm glad it got back in Finally one another when you get to a level with the Rams obviously. Ok what it's quite it's quite a journey. When you think about what goes into maybe getting to a Super Bowl is that said 90 percent of all players never play in it and when I look back at it now you say Super Bowl 15 go boys they run they wouldn't even if there was no high definition I'm surprised that caller is now. You have to shake my hand I go was a long time ago speaking of playing a you executed a play that cost a man is job coaching jobs John McVeigh and I have talked about it many times he was the head coach of course with the Giants and it's called the miracle win in the Meadowlands Did you anticipate that how did you approach that play you know it's like anything else you always hear coaches that you've been which has never over you know you're sitting were actually shaking hands a plate fire and then the colt are comes out and they're kind of gotten that little bit of a victory formation but then at that point timer on the quarterback you know he really didn't take a knee took a knee but there was nobody behind the quarterback and that they had taken one of the fight broke out of a couple plays prior so they got to run the ball and it was huge in the hadal and it was a by standoff obviously Coach our window blocked because he thought they were taking an 8 and that didn't transpired all all he all strong. And I was able scoop it up and running and you know my running in and. The ironic thing about the story Ron is that what it indicates on the sidelines imagine dickheads that turned away from the deal companies selling off as we like it one will play and the players start to run off the bench and he's looking and he grabs one the guy said or you guys go and he said Coach Herm just scored some money turn around Alderney and don't you never saw . You become the head coach of course but the Jets and again later on with the Kansas City Chiefs and I know Frank Robinson I talked with him about how hard it was to become a manager doing sense that it was maybe a little bit more difficult for you because Frank Robinson and you both had a standard by which you prepared for a game by which you played for the game and not everybody always does that was that something that was a little bit difficult for you to deal with when you did become a coach in the n.f.l. Head coach Well I think you don't say anything else Ron you know you always prepare to do it then when the job comes comes about then there's there's the 5 things that you know what no one told me about the fact. That or come across but does I did notice and I had a good mentor obviously Tony Dungy I was the assistant head coach travel 5 years attorney so I understood it but I think when you when you sit in an office and you close that door as everyone's congratulating you got to make decisions a lot of. You go wow this is a this is a powerful job you know and you want to do what's best for the 2 Minutes thing I learned Tony this is the most or he said It's real simple he said Whatever you decide to do he said you better make sure you believe it because if you believe it they'll believe it was adults many body else this is your football team since you can gather information don't make decisions on emotion make decisions on what's. You know what's the right thing for the ball team should always remember that he was right you know and that's how I try to do it now when you go to New York that's that's right like there's no doubt about it I followed coach car sales you know Coach Parcells let me go took over for year and build me a nice note I grew it was in my desk he says whatever you do he says when you deal with the media he said look I'm in the eye and you set the agenda don't let them set the agenda for you you said I always remembered that we only have a couple minutes left how about Kansas City that's a different atmosphere there yeah I loved it there Ron I was there twice I was fortunate to be on Marty Staff early with Bill coward Tony Dungy drawn on that staff and then left and went to Temple Tony and then came back with call in those guys came we had got traded actually some New York got traded to Kansas City and 1st year we got in the playoffs and we were in a rebuilding mode and I will say this 'd one of the finest owners to ever own a franchise in any sport was the great Lamar Hunt. You would run you know and I mean sports and the family is tremendous and it was it was wonderful I enjoyed it I was there you know obviously we didn't win the games of the last year of my 1st year we got to play also but then we played a bunch of rookies and I'm not going to go through all that didn't really matter but great great organization great family it was good to come back to Kansas City you know my 1st in a field job coming back when I retired was with the Kansas City Chiefs so I ended my career there and I was so now I'm working for the worldwide leader and you know how that works. We've got 30 seconds left but when you think back on your long career both as a coach and as a player as well is there a moment that's kind of ingrained in Herm Edwards mind. I think the thing that that that that I've always said is that I was fortunate enough to be in this league and planted that shield and coaches that she opened 30 years and hopefully I did it with integrity and I made the game better and the players better for playing under me as a coach and I made my team better by being a great teammate and those are the 2 things that cherish the most firm I got to tell you were not only good on the field but you were classy in the game and off the field as well over the years in which I've had conversations with you I've always found them inspirational and I appreciate you giving us a little bit of time here on Sports Byline Take care my friend you do the same and I know we'll be talking again Ron thank you buddy you got it Herm Edwards with us again the former head coach of the jets and Kansas City Chiefs will play 10 seasons in the National Football League 9 of those with Philadelphia and he went to the Super Bowl but didn't win it we continue on Sports Byline. 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Brant Jones joins us on Sports Byline played 10 years as a tight end in the National Football League and all chant in a San Francisco 40 diners uniform and if you take a look at his career the thing that jumped out at me is that he averaged 12 and a half yards per catch something that usually tight ends did not do back then he was a 5th round pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers and he played his college ball at Santa Clara you know Brett I was reading through the notes and I noticed that your dad was selected in the 1st 21st round by the Oakland Raiders in the old a.f.l. And in the 20th round by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the n.f.l. Back in 1961 tell me a little bit about his football experience in pro football Well you know he was a heck of a quarterback for San Jose State here in in the Bay Area and was drafted back then . By 2 teams. Certainly you can't have that nowadays but he had a whopping $750.00 signing bonus with the Raiders and he said he was livin it up and he court his hamstring really bad camp he was a quarterback and back then that was usually unless you were the 1st round pick that was assigned and so he ended up. Being released and he went into coaching and so he could always so the heck out of the ball Ron want to me to be a quarterback and when I was 8 I could throw the ball 40 yards and I thought I was going to be the next Johnny Unitas and until I got on to my 1st youth football team and the head coach's son was the quarterback so I became a wide receiver. Well those early days like did he talk about a much about what the style of play and also the the athletes that were playing pro football then you know he did he he thought there were just a great bunch of guys and guys that really played for the love of the game you weren't making millions all the guys had jobs in the offseason and there were quite a lot of quality athletes wanting to play the game back before it was you know really under the national spotlight so there were it was relatively early on in the in the world of professional football and he just thought an awful lot about the folks and thought so much he loved the game so much he he went into coaching and like father like son Brant you followed him and played football at Santa Clara University in the Bay Area that no longer has football and but you had a pretty good coach down there did you not yet we had a legendary Pat Malley and he passed away Ron my senior year of cancer and to this day he had has made an impact on the lives of so many guys but he changed my career I really want to Santa Clara to play baseball coach Malaga me a chance to play football as well I was I was a wide receiver tall and lanky and they put me in the weight room and set a good jump to tight end and they gave me an opportunity to to learn the position and learn more about the game and and was fortunate by the time I got out of school to be drafted by the Steelers and so he's coached Mally if it wasn't for him I wouldn't never got that opportunity to play well you know 49 or fan or your Raider fan when you're growing up so Ron it was much more of a Raider fan in fact the 40 niners were struggling kind of in the seventy's outside of 72 when I was growing up and other than John Brody and Gene Washington we weren't putting together a premier team all the time and I hate to. Say it kills me to say this but my favorite team was the Dallas Cowboys so until I don the red and gold and then I switched to hating them the most and so it was quite a turnaround from going up but Roger Staubach was a guy that I admired I loved those old cowboy teams and Tom Landry and so going up fall on them and and then having the opportunity to play for another legend and Bill Walsh was pretty special indicated you were drafted by the Steelers in 1960 came in the 5th round but you ended up and I'm going to this say this tongue in cheek you ended up with a 40 niners by accident did you know. I was actually speaking to somebody about it earlier this morning they said how did you go from Pittsburgh December Cisco and got drafted by the Steelers they had told me that I was gonna be there tied into the future and 2 weeks later I got hit by a drunk driver here in the Bay Area 2 head on collision herniated a disc in my neck and the Steelers put me on the injured reserve and then they just lost patience with me the doctor felt it would be a 6 month recovery process and they didn't think they wanted to to waste that big money that $70000.00 contract that I had so they released me and I came to the 49 ers as a free agent back when free agent was a bad connotation that meant nobody wanted you and so we went to training camp with 130 guys and I just had to fight and scratch my way onto the roster and you know you mentioned about Bill Walsh you know what was your 1st impression of him tell me what you saw when you met him for the 1st time well he's a commanding presence and you know his nickname was the genius. He was unlike most football coaches because there was a level of sophistication you could have thought that he was a college professor and so his awareness and his attention to detail and his nuanced approach to the game. In and of itself was so spectacular and every little detail of the way a game is played I'd like to tell the story recently it seems like there's so much sloppiness in the n.f.l. In terms of time management and 2 minute drills we had a 4 hour meeting my 1st training camp on the 2 minute drill we had 5 pages of hand outs and we went over meticulously how what type of plays will call who can call time outs where we are on the field what how we want to get when we want to get a bounce when we want to try to keep going how to use the middle of the field and just precisely bringing out the highlights of the appropriate way to run the 2 minute drill we practice it all the time and it won us one Super Bowl and tons of games in the 4th quarter when would we were backed up or we had to you know go a good way on the field with limited time and so we became a fish you know out of the 2 minute drill that's just one of the things that Bill Walsh would bring to the table of course I got to know him as the play by play announcer for Stanford when he was down there the 1st time and I will never forget a game that we were playing when the fullback was the tight end where the tight end was somewhere else I mean he had formations that I could not believe it kind of revolutionized the sport but I mentioned a little bit earlier about the 12 and a half yards that was an exception for tight ends at that time what did he develop in you and how to use that tight end as a weapon you don't know one of the things that Bill was spectacular with was creating matchups and I think that he realized that I was an old wide receiver and the advantage to going against a linebacker our safety we could probably get some good one on one match ups or certainly in zone coverage. We could utilize some of the dead spots in the field and so I think that he felt like we could create some more plays down the field for for myself and that was it was a spectacular feeling to realize that this guy that's one of the legends in professional football was designing plays for me I can remember. My from my 1st year starting and we were going to do a game and and he was he was telling Jerry Rice Hey Jerry I need you to clear this because we need to get Brant down the seam here on this route and I'm thinking he's telling Jerry Rice to run down the field as a decoys so we can get me open and it was kind of my eyes were wide open and being a young player it was so special and so we did try to attack more down the field from that tight end position and it was it was really the early stages of the position becoming a serious weapon and nowadays you know if you don't have a good tight end you're struggling I made this statement before Brett and I know you're going to agree with me and I said that one of the strengths of what Bill Walsh created with the $49.00 ers is that while Bill was a strong personality he created a locker room in which the veterans or significant players if somebody did something wrong Bill didn't correct him it would be the player Ronnie Lott It would be Roger Craig they would go to the players whoa wait a minute we don't do it this way here and that's something that is very unique How did that come about you know it's interesting Ron because I wasn't there for the beginning but but really built probably started stablish in that his 1st year as coach and then with that $981.00 draft class and he had Ronnie Lott and Dwight Hicks and Eric right and all these guys coming in and subsequently you know Joe Montana was already there and he started developing and then there was Dwight Clark . And then Roger Craig came in 84 with those guys did. In Ronny I think was the key because he was the most vocal out of all those guys who started establishing the standard in the standard prior to the Super Bowl was hey we've got a we've got to have a Super Bowl team and they won in $81.00 and that was so spectacular with those guys as young guys that they wanted to keep that standard high and the standard every year that I was there was Super Bowl or bust and what happened is the players started driving each other to work harder you can't just do it by coaches and Bill used to say and I was fortunate to come in and there was you know Roger and Ronnie and door white and Joe and in our lives and Keith foreign horse and Randy Cross and some some great players kena Turner guy MacIntyre And then they built into me hey this is how we work this is how we practice this is how we do things and and Steve Young came in with me and then we pass that on to the next generation and what it did is it created a 20 year span of high standards of the way that you approach the game and Bill used to say the most powerful teams are when the players take over when the players police themselves and establish their own standard and we were fortunate to have guys personalities that experience that very early in Bill's coaching career and then when guys came to the team that was bestowed upon them hey this is the way we do things and it was hey if you didn't fit in. If you couldn't handle it if your work ethic wasn't spectacular if you didn't study your playbook if you didn't know all the plays if you didn't know where to line up you weren't around the San Francisco 49 ers for very long so Bill not only on the field but off the field was looking for a certain type of guy and he was spectacular finding guys that could do that you know most players will tell you they'd like to have one bite at the apple you think of the Buffalo Bills they go to 4 Super Bowls don't win it you went to 3 Super Bowls and won 3 Super Bowls if you look at the 8889 and 94 Super Bowl teams one of those once was which one stands out to you the most Well it's interesting because you know our 88 team was struggling and Ronnie Lott called up a team meeting and told the coaches to give the coaches off the field and you can imagine Ronnie tell Bill to get off the field. And from that moment on we won the rest of our games and was waltzed into the playoffs and had that great victory in the last minute against the Bangles I think our best team we had a few injuries in 88 I think our best team was 89 you know arguably some people think that's the best team ever often civilian defensively across the board we had weapons everywhere 94 was a special year because it was the early years of free agency and so we had the one missing component that we that hurt us a few years losing in the n.f.c. Championship game and I was Deion Sanders and so $94.00 was kind of a team we got Ken Norton from the Cowboys It was kind of a an all star team and that team was remarkably talented Ricky waters at running back and we just couldn't keep it all together or we wouldn't want to couple more but running of the funny thing is looking back I was in 7 n.f.c. Championship games. In my 11 years with the 40 niners and so I lost 4 of those and one of the 3 Super Bowls are spectacular I feel like gosh I could have been 5 or 6 balls so you. You start getting a little grief but you did say a lot of guys would give their right on every one. And I'm not mad that I don't have 5 or 6 rings and we only have about 45 seconds left and I'd be amiss if I didn't ask you about the influence of Eddie to Barlow on those wonderful years well if there's a guy from an ownership perspective and a guy that treats people like family across the board and is truly been the best owner in professional sports it's Eddie to borrow it's a travesty that he's not in the Hall of Fame yet my guess is Ron he's going in this year he's going to be a finalist and if people know anything about sports and a guy that's won 5 Super Bowls and we've seen what the 40 Niners have done since he left. He is an absolute no brainer best owner but there's ever been and he's got a bunch of guys that would go to war with him tomorrow he's that type of guy brand I want to thank you because I got to know you during this period of time being so close to the team and just watching it and I said when he's daughter was getting married I was at the wedding I said you know Joe was standing around I said you know guys this was like Camelot and indeed it was and you were part of that Camelot as well thank you very much for sharing your story your career and also congratulations on your post to n.f.l. Career as well very successful with your company Northgate capital thanks a lot Brant Thanks Ron Appreciate it Brant Jones with us he played his entire 10 year career as a tight end up for the San Francisco 49 er's after being drafted in the 5th round by Pittsburgh out of Santa Clara University his father course tried to make it into pro football but as you heard Brant say got injured so he turned to coaching and he emerged as a starter following the retirement of John Frank on the 49 er's I'm Ron Barr thanks for being a part of sports. This is the athletic club with the best price in town for all your fitness need starting at only $95.00 per month they believe the. Business should be accessible to all they are a locally owned business since 1901. Is located in the Crossroads shopping center on Bell Road next to Safeway and Applebee's with plenty of parking. They offer over 40 pieces of cardio equipment and a full weight room. 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