15 years this video has been up.....and I still come back to watch it. He should have won the Heisman in '01. Superman!!! TRRW!!! HOF '22!!!

You know you're a badass when they put in a rule just because of how you play! Roy "Horse-collar" Williams Loved watching RW play! Great Vid LAS.

Roy Williams was an axe-murderer straight up when he played for OU ! Man, I miss watching him on Saturdays.

This man literally never missed a tackle.

God this was posted when Roy was in his prime insane piece of history here

The true beast mode, love ya Superman!

As a dallas fan im giving Roy this year to prove himself back to his old form. I cant even remember the last time he made a big play. Roy better be ballin' this year

Roy was a freak at OU. Unstoppable!!

OU will play for another national championship this year. Thanks Roy for being part of the defense to turn the program around. GO SOONERS!!!!!!!

he is the hardest hitting DB in the NFL

Absolute BEAST!

Roy Williams came in the game as a big hitter and a great wrap up tackler. As far as stats goes, Roy Williams wins.

Roy Williams is perhaps the most disruptive defensive player in NCAA history. Was a freak of nature ~ plain f'n awesome. BOOMER SOONER

he is also one of the top 3 safetys in the league man

one of the BEST open field tacklers. I just wish he were better in the secondary...

Jesus. A great saftey? Thats a freaking understatement.

At 2:42 the running back was Texas A&M's Farmer (last name),that was his 1st and only carry of the game.Roy put him out on one hit,if you watch the last of the play you can see him(Farmer) react to the pain.

roy williams is a beast

He was a beast!

Now you know!! Mr. Williams, that is.

I AGREE! he is definitely the hardest hitting d.b. in the league! hell, maybe even the hardest of all time only ronnie lott and jack tatum are in the same league as roy!

Speak English, please. The value of a strong safety is in his ability to make open-field tackles, something I think Roy Williams, who played in the dominant conference, proved he was more than capable of, as he continues to do so in the league.

roy was a sick boi in college

nothing that the boys love more than wasting their time on roy williams'

he is a hybrid blended between a lb and a ss

He's one of the best players at safety when stopping the run, and he's below average in coverage. The problem is the system has changed quite a bit lately and they've been asking him to do more coverage. When Darren Woodson was there he could creep up into the box and he was a pro bowl caliber player. Not as much anymore. Also, the reason that you haven't heard his name much this year is he's played very little due to breaking his arm, and then rebreaking it soon after he returned.

comments about roy being a lb are so right on point. I mean Dat was the mlb at the time. Roy weighed more than him in college. lol. dat and roy would have been a nice option.

I can agree with you on some of those points. I remember them saying that he would get taken out in 3rd down situations cause offenses would single him out knowing he was the weak point. I think i posted that last comment prior to him breaking his arm though

wow when he was good at football

You are right. Im a Cowboys fan too and he has became a big liability to us. Everybody knows when you need a big play to go deep down the middle and test Roy Williams. Nickel LB would be perfect for him.

dat boy cold

wasting? what the hell do you mean, he's been doing good as a safety. He is perfect for a safety position, he's probably one of the best ss player out there, and he was a safety when he was with the sooners. So that means the cowboys would have a good reason to put him as a safety.

best safety in the league

He may have been a Hall of Famer in a different era. Although, some of the Pro Bowls he made weren't deserved.

whats the song called and whos it by, for my high light reel

I heard they renamed the old texas stadium roof after Roy Williams because it didn't cover anything :o)

what rule about what tackle?

yeah true, but this was in college, when he won the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP and their defense allowed like 98.3 total yards a game!!!!!!!!

I need to hear that again in this age “ there is a great safety #38 for the sooners

RUN STOPPER!!

wats the song called?

now dallas has two roy williams

btw, bad ass video. Thanks for sharing! Peep 2:32. Sick ass tackle right there.

damn dident notice how much he goes fo the legs befor

Probably so. I'm not sure when he broke it the first time, I just know he hasn't played very much at all this year.

Oh i get the simile alright. I like the Cowboys from way back when they had Deion but at the same time i won't be blind to the fact that offenses go right at him in a passing situation. Hell, i haven't even heard Roy's name during a game this year. He's an ok player that they tried to make into a superstar, which he's not

lets focus on the new Roy Williams who hopefully will have a ridiculous year this year.

Here is a medical journal on the effect of head injuries in NFL football players... Also, you should already know this; but, the NFL did (finally) change the policy on concussions received by players. If you haven't noticed, now when a player receives a concussion, they can only return if Medical Doctors say they can play, this is different then previous years when players would return the next play. They changed this because of the large amount of former players suffering from diseases...cnt...

they meant the field. roy williams was never a coverage safety. look where he is most of the time: helping out at the line of scrimmage. he's a run-support safety, not a coverage safety.

lol ya but who won that game with OU and UT? they just showed all the plays that were for him

Was Rocky Marciano overrated when they said that he fights with his strength than with his mind? You really don't get the simile but that's ok. He is rated the way that he should be rated. He might have no coverage at all but if the receiver knows that Roy is where he would catch the ball, its just as good as a coverage safety because the receiver would hesitate and consequently not catch the ball.

You mean the QB who's started for a little more than 2 years, yet's widely considered around the league as a top 10 qb? I don't see what that has to do with Roy Williams, but whatever.

Roy Williams is a bad son of a _____... Can't believe you would say Roy Williams isn't a true hitter... he's one of if not the most fierce dude in the NFL and damn sure was at Oklahoma. The point is he gets the job done, AND he will lay a Fn hit to anyone. BETTER than Sean Taylor

Except to the BCS national championship, at least we lose to ranked teams, unlike USC losing to unranked teams two years in a row.

His game didn't change? Please explain to me how the secondary is any different in a 3-4 compared to a 4-3? I'll wait... I'm not expecting a response, so with that said, the front 7 scheme changed had nothing to do with his lackluster performance in the secondary. He lost his drive, that's what happened. And it's a damn shame, because he was my favorite player for several years.

wasn't he a linebacker in college too?

Hindsight is always 20-20. Roy looked like the next best safety since Ronnie Lott his first few years in the league. Besides, I think Reed is a bit overrated. In hingsight, I would've rather had Brian Westbrook who was picked in the 3rd round. Or perhaps James Harrison, who went undrafted in the 2002 draft.

GO SOONERS!

He is still great, he just needs to work on his coverage. He will improve dont worry.

Im with you. strictly a box safety

That's because he would horse collar them and break thier ankles. You have to love a player who is so dirty they make a rule specifically because of him.

ah right, run stopper would be a better term for his job.

What i hate about this tape is that almost all his "spectacular" hits are hits aimed for the knees:S

So coaches are never wrong, huh? I can't possibly be right while they're wrong?

gangster

It is legal in college??? Unlike most people, he will win a championship at all three levels High School State champions Oklahoma sooners baby!!! 2000(allowed only 2 points in the BCs title game) and the Dallas Cowboys(2007 super bowl champions coming up later this year!)

@nietstedoen so?

I'm not worthy !!!

ROY CAN HIT...But has the covering ability of a lineman

You mean the game in Seattle, after he led the team down the field and inevitably dropped a slick ball as a holder, which has nothing to do with his ability to quarterback a team? If so, he's no longer the holder. Or the game versus the Giants, in which the Dallas O-line played absolutely atrociously in the 2nd half? No QB is going to succeed if only given a second or two to pass the ball. Not to mention, we completely abandoned the run after half time, so he had to do it all.

he keeps trying to break their legs.

lol I saw like a crapload of uncalled horsecollar. He's a solid tackler though.

If you think so. Next year, I'll be in Med school... What will you be doing?

Most of those hits came from him playing close to the line in the box...the Cowboys need to use him like more of a linebacker than a safety...he can't cover and is always trailing WRs, thats why he always horsecollars.

can't remember the last time williams was able to cover anyone.. don't wear collars around the guy.

roy lost his game due to what i belive coaching changes and diffrent expectation from him. he is not a cover guy he is the guy who hammers and forces fumbles. with newman being one of the top corner roy should never stay deep like 20 yards. he should be clouse to line and knock people out! 2 late now cowboys released him. hopfully he find a good home and system that works with his game.

@makram85 careers get ended that way.It's much more fun to see somebody flying because of a hit to his upperbody. Then your showing that your man enough to take it head on

horse collar. he broke musa smith and terell owens legs. its when you drag someone down from behind by the shoulder pads, your cleats get caught and snap! there goes your leg. i like roy williams and all but for a big hitter he chops and lunges alot.

Roy Williams is a decent tackler but is horrible in coverage, though at first he was decent at coverage, and usually safties are actually good cover guys, not to mention Roy Williams is only 27 so i wouldn't exactly say he's old. He's middle aged for NFL players, but not old.

i hate it how he (looks to me like) he keeps grabbing people from the back collar..didn't he break peoples ACL because of that? (when he was in the NFL)

where else would u put him? linebacker?????? that would be foolish cuz we have linebackers at dallas and not saftey's and definitely not corner, he would get burned all the time

He flies at 2:27

you stole the start bit of writing from an ed reed video

@igotsachubby now i can work with that, but don;t try to be so hostile if you try to prove a point. it's a really bad habit. but a lot of people told you that if i have to believe the comments on your page.

Everyone knows Ed Reed is the best but dawkins and williams are aiight

@igotsachubby says a guy that likes to make movies about his drunk friends, listen buddy if you think upperbody is only your head than you must have fallen on it when you were little. hits leading with the head and aiming for the head is illigal, so what you talking bout? i don;t think you know what you are talking about, i understand man. hey i respect that you are not so smart, you can;t do anything about it

ahh yea....that was the thing. horsecollaring

@igotsachubby that has nothing to do with it. again you're such a random person. but if you wanna know, i study psychology

Concussion in professional football: morphology of brain injuries in the NFL Authors:Hamberger A; Viano DC; Säljö A; Bolouri H Address:Institute of Biomedicine,University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden Source:Neurosurgery [Neurosurgery] 2009 Jun; Vol. 64 (6), pp. 1174-82 Publication Type:Journal Article; Research Support Country of Publication:United States NLM ID:7802914 Publication Model:Print Cited:Internet ISSN:1524-4040(Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0148396X NLM ISO Neurosurgery Subsets: MEDLINE

Have you ever even WATCHED him? I think not. He misses almost every tackle he attempts...gets dragged/driven backwards on the ones he does manage to "make." He's an absolute non-factor around the line of scrimmage. He makes Pro Bowls because of his reputation from his early years.

I don't care if I sound or act hostile, you said something stupid and I called you on it. And instead of either, changing your mind, or admitting you were wrong, you decided to stand by your really dumb conviction and become even more hostile than I was. Now, admit it. Really, I just like hearing that I'm right.

Roy Williams is to Rocky Marciano as Darren Sharper is to Muhammad Ali... Get the simile? Roy overcompensates his lack of coverage speed by showing his presence in the secondary and that is a fact. Rocky overcompensate his lack of boxing skill due to brute strength and that is also a fact. At the end of the day, who has no loss in their record? That's right...

High Def ? hello !

he didnt forget what made him good. the cowboys forgot. they tried to make him fill woodson's shoes. roy was a ss for a reason: he was killer on run support, big hits in the underneath routes & a good extra blitzer. the 'boys never took the time to find a competent FS to balance out Roy. As sad as it is to say it, the 'Boys failed Roy. Now they have Sensabaugh, so it's a slight improvement, but they don't have Roy anymore.

WOW I can't believe u would say better than sean taylor, watch Taylor's highlight videos and u tell me who you'd be more scared of. Please look at all of williams' hits in this video he dives at people's thighs, he plays like a big corner making shoestring tackles, u dont see that very much out of taylor.

its a bogus rule? WOW. Look at the way McNabb got bent back. It could of been alot worse than it was. Just like facemasks, some are bad as others...

Hardest tackling Storng Safety in football. Try to say otherwise... Not so great in coverage but most SS aren't. The free safety is more coverage.

i have to say that he isnt the best because of his coverage...bute bdtoole05 has aleready said that the most ss arent good in coverage and theres a little diffrent between a ss and a fs not very much but a little...may he woul be better if he woul weight 50 pounds more and play as a olb but who knew

What difference does it make if I've played football or not? Your statement is so cliche that I can't even figure out why I'm responding in the first place.

how many strong safeties can actually cover effectively in the league. hardly a few. even so, he averages three picks a season which is pretty good for a SS in the NFL. but yeah, keep watching espn armchair warrior. haha