What I find funny is that people always mention *stickum* when talking about Lester Hayes, but if you watch those highlights, Lester was always in *perfect* position to make a play on the ball. Stickum has nothing to do with coverage skills which many overlook. Hayes was a master at getting between the receiver and the ball. No one has ever done it better, maybe as good, but not better! Footnote: Jerry Rice got drafted in 85' and admitted to using stickum when it had already been banned 4 years, but no one faults him for that.

@Nhamp2000

6 ай бұрын

Exactly. If it was stickum, everyone would have used it. The facts were simple; Lester was a bad ass cover corner, people stopped challenging him (for good reason), and he was the last of the true Jedis, back when the Raiders were a football team, and not a marketing gimmick. He should've been in the HOF long ago.

@bassplayer8815

3 ай бұрын

I think he didn't even use it by this point as well

Put him in the HOF

Lester Hayes is a true OAKLAND RAIDER! Played with Jack Tatum as well! One of my favorite players ever! Belongs in the Hall of Fame YESTERDAY! 37 BABY!

@jeremiahrose4681

2 ай бұрын

So true

I'm a 50+ yr Raider. My fav Lester feat was after his post 80SB interview , which he had a bad stutter, he tackled that too and was glorious in SB83 interviews.

I have been a chiefs fan for years, I love watching great football players no matter what team they play on, he was the best in the NFL, should of been a first ballot hall of famer, put him in the hall !!!!!!!!

I remember when the Raiders drafted him that’s when the Raiders were the Raiders🏆🏆🏆 them days are long gone

I'm a Broncos fan, but I'll give credit where it's due. Lester deserves to be in the HOF. He was awesome. You had to know where he was on the field when he played.

MR. LESTER HAYES SHOULD BE NOMINATED TO BE 100% PLACED IN THE NFL HALL OF FAME !! STARTING TODAY !!! PUT HIM IN NOW !!!

@daviddorsey8754

15 күн бұрын

Starting Yesterday!

Browns fan, but my favorite team was the 1983 Raiders. They got Haynes that year. Stickem or not, "The Judge" was a beast.

@nikosuavesworldofsportsmusic

9 ай бұрын

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@carlsweeklyhulupicks

7 ай бұрын

Haynes, Hayes and McElroy in the middle @ safety great secondary! Maybe the best ever?

@JAWrightonline

5 ай бұрын

​@@carlsweeklyhulupicksDon't forget Mike Davis, RIP. He completed the Mistake by the Lake in the 1980 Cleveland playoff game.

@dirtyjersey4672

15 күн бұрын

@@carlsweeklyhulupicksJack Tatum the “assassin” was no joke! That whole team was stacked!

One of the very best cornerbacks all time!

The Judge should be Hall of Fame. I enjoy his CB style & his charisma despite having speaking issue at times. He played the game of cornerbacks at the top. Notice they made it seem like Hayes wasn All pros level CB after the stick em banned

Lester the Molester and Mike Haynes, the best cornerback tandem in NFL history. They both belong in the HOF.

That youngsters is how you play bump and run. Forget cover two and 2 deep zone coverages, bump and run/man to man is the real deal!! I noticed that Hayes never did any hand fighting after he made his initial bump. This left his hands in prime position to make the interception. A great player who should be in the Hall Of Fame.

True HOFer!!!

HOF please!

Mr. Stickmmm!!😎Legend

This was Deion Sanders idol. I don't need to ask him. I KNOW HE WAS, YOU ASK HIM. FACTS!

@williampenn3766

2 ай бұрын

Watching these old highlights of Lester Hayes, just adds to my list of Heroes

One thing I don't understand is that I have never heard Deoin Sanders give credit to Lester Hayes. Lester is the original shutdown cornerback.

@DeepH2Ov1

7 ай бұрын

@hassanabdur-rahman. Actually Deoin was asked once who he patterened his game after and he said "Lester Hayes". I think he was on NFL network at the time just starting out, but I do remember him saying that.

@hassanabdur-rahman1559

7 ай бұрын

@@DeepH2Ov1 thanks for the information. I have always wondered if he admired him.

@kendrickjones3115

3 ай бұрын

Remember, Deion wore #37 with the Baltimore Ravens, "NUFF SAID"!!!

@jarvisharris7187

3 ай бұрын

Deion is another version of Lester

@mjn3544

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but you guys forget that as much as I love Lester, (been a fan since 1960 and that's not a typo), the real shut down cornerback and the best ever was Willie Brown. He invented the bump and run and was so feared by teams that they rarely tested him. One year opposing QBs only tested Willie a total of 5 times that entire year and he intercepted 3 of the passes.

Hayes's brothers corner backs made that defensive good. So the defensive line do there job on the run, good defensive team, that destroyed Eagles and Redskins in Super Bowl, that actually won that victory.

I got the feeling, bubble gum cards, the living room, stripling.

Lester Hayes should be in the H of F

The Football HOF will never have any credibility until Lester the Molester is inducted...

@hassanabdur-rahman1559

9 ай бұрын

They also need to induct Roger Craig as well.

Decade

This question is me being legitimately serious....I wonder how many of those 13 picks in 1980 were because he was using stickum (Banned in 1981)?

@actionA06

9 ай бұрын

You answered your own question, it wasn't banned until 81 , thus anyone could use it in the league.

@JL-ec1by

9 ай бұрын

It's probably a lot. But he had 13 picks that year and another 5 in the playoffs. QBs didn't challenge him much afterward.

There's not one hall of fame cornerback that Hayes can't match

The RAIDERS are always being overlooked for the HOF The aholes that leave the RAIDERS out

Very poor editing and hardy a tribute to one of the very best

@nflxfiles

2 күн бұрын

Very poor comment and you misspelled "hardly".

@quotemenot7520

2 күн бұрын

@@nflxfiles Very poor reply and that would be "misspelt"

@nflxfiles

Күн бұрын

@@quotemenot7520 Go back to bed

@quotemenot7520

Күн бұрын

@@nflxfiles Eejit

Total Epitome of Thug Criminal Behavior learned from Jack Tatum. Mel Blount was rough for the Steelers....and the Pass defense shift is credited to his roughness, but he never decapitated or ended a Players season or Career. Raider fans......any of you remember Darryl Stingley? Raiders were ABSOLUTE THUGS in that Era. Old Man Willie Brown did it right, Lester should have gone to JAIL!

@elizabethdavila8833

8 ай бұрын

You're just mad because RAIDERS started doing what had been done to them for years. WA WA WA

@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238

8 ай бұрын

@@elizabethdavila8833 Nope.....name another defensive Back who ended someone's career And Paralyzed him? By the way.....if Jack Tatum had done a legal move and just Tackled Frenchy Fuqua, instead of streaking in to blow him up.. the Steelers Immaculate Reception Never Happens.....How Many Super Bowls for Raiders in the 70's? How many for the Steelers? Played in the same Conference. Suck it!

@DeepH2Ov1

7 ай бұрын

@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238, Jack Tatum hit Stingley in that preseason game in Oakland where he was paralyzed. Lester wasn't even in the league in 74', he didn't get drafted until 77'! Lester was not known as a fierce hitter, he was a dayum good tackler and physical though. Like him or not, his coverage skills were bar none. And by the way, the Raiders were no more rougher than anyone else in the 70's. That era was just hard nosed football and trust me, the Steelers were no choir boys, don't fool yourself. They use to work Cliff Branch over which is how the whole Lynn Swann thing started. And let's be clear, it was George Atkinson that knocked Swann out of games 2 times, not Tatum. Get it right!!!!!

@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238

7 ай бұрын

@@DeepH2Ov1 oK you accurately defined the " Criminal Element" that HOF Coach Chuck Noll first notified the NFL. The Steeler were heavily penalized......Motion, Offsides, illegal procedure, and some holding, or illegal Man downfield.

@richardmontgomery1749

2 ай бұрын

Lester Hayes wasn't a dirty player. Minus the stick-um which ALOT OF PLAYERS then were using, he was never the type who was out for blood or to start a fight. You just hate him because of what team he played for