Monty Coleman: The Unsung Redskins Legend | NFL Career, Legacy & Coaching Journey

Moore To Consider: Welcome to another edition of Moore to consider. I'm doing another show Washington Redskins history as it relates to one particular Washington Redskins player. and I'm very saddened by his passing back in February, February 6th, of this year. I did a show related to the death of Sonny Jurgensen and my memories of him. see in the background pictures with Lombardi, the picture that I also have my first ticket from it. DC stadium game before it was named RFK in 1968. Sonny was my hero. He passed away at the age of 91 he was a rookie with the Philadelphia Eagles. Sonny Jurgensen was in 1957. year that this player that I want to talk about today and say how much he meant to me as a fan was born in 1957. So Sonny lived to be 91, this gentleman lived to be 68. And I was shocked to hear the news. I'll just be honest with you because he was a big part of the Joe Gibbs 1.0 run from 1981 to 1992, a member of all four Super Bowl teams of the Joe Gibbs era and has three Super Bowl rings for winning it. Monty Leon Coleman, born 4 November, 1957, died April 26, 2026. I have done so many shows recently. did a front, I did a show with my friend, Todd Young. We recently posted, I just did a uniform history and the one with Todd, did on the top 10 redskins of all time guy on exit said, I think these are the top 10 in franchise history. And we talked about that and Coleman came up when I talked about uniforms, Coleman came up. I've told a lot of stories recently about Monte Coleman and then I'm on one of the platforms somewhere. And I see that he passed away and. One of the things that stood out about him was the tremendous shape that he was in, just what kind of physical athlete he was. And he was drafted in 1979, another Bobby Beathard genius pick. He's an 11th round pick, 289th overall, 1979 from central Arkansas. To my knowledge, he was the first and only player ever drafted out of that college, or at least at that point. It's an N-A-I-A school in in Arkansas. He did not play high school football. Didn't play high school football, goes to college and plays three years at safety and then moves to linebacker. He had 22 career interceptions in college and he had eight interceptions in a single season. So when I see him as a rookie in 1979, when Jack Pardee is the coach, I see this guy and I'm like, wow, that guy's put together or he looks fast. And I hear the story that his first campus rookie year, he runs a four, four, five, 40. Back then four or five was a wide receiver speed guy. So he's playing linebacker and he's running as fast as many running backs or wide receivers would at the time. So that's interesting. Four, four, five. and I'm guessing here he might've played in the two 20 range. So again, he's a guy that's. converting from safety to linebacker his senior year in college and now coming into the league. And he's drafted in the 11th round and many may say, no, there's only seventh round. There's only seven rounds. Back in the sixties, I think it pushed 40 rounds or in the thirties because at that time with the lack of scouting expertise. and I've heard scouts, I've seen documentaries where, where players or front office people, general manager types said, You kind of get the street and Smith football journal and look and say, okay, who are the top college or look at the college publications, who are the top college players? Then you saw, okay, who came out as all American? You know who the Heisman trophy winner and everybody's got the same people on their boards. And of the things too, back when it was 12 teams and then 14 teams, and then eventually 16 teams in the late sixties in the NFL before the merger. And it goes to 26. But, but during that time when it's 16, you could be the 17th overall pick and you were a second rounder. You were 17th overall, um, because there was only 16 teams. So by the time Monty Coleman is drafted in the 11th round in 1979, I'm going to say league is up to 28 teams at that time. I believe that's what it was. Yeah. Cause it would have been expansion, the Buccaneers, um, in Seattle. I think would have been the expansion from the 26. It was 26 in 1970 when they did the merger. 10 AFL teams and the 16 teams from the NFL making 26. went 13 and 13. Cleveland, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh switched from the NFL to the AFC, you know, about the merger. So by the time Monty Coleman's in, think it's 28 teams selecting. Yeah, I'm pretty sure of that too because 1983 when Darryl Green's the 28th overall pick, Washington had just won the Superbowl. We're picking in the last spot. Marino went 27. He went right before Darrell Green. So it was 28 teams picking. So my point is to be an ⁓ rounder. Well, to finish up on that point. back in the sixties when they drafted so many players, they just bring them all to camp. weren't the roster limitations into camp. There wasn't as much structure. On what you could do in camp, you could bring guys on off the street, whatever you were going to do and you just cut them. You cut them loose after a period of time. So you more drafted people because of whatever word of mouth information. And again, I'm, there were telephones then. So if you were a guy that played in the league and you coached at UCLA and you got somebody, you know, in Chicago with the bears and you played college with them and you know, the guys. Out on the West coast and you go, Hey, what's the real story on this Jim Smith guy? Oh he can play. Yeah. I think, you know, what kind of pick he goes, I'd get him before the seventh round because somebody is going to take him. I'm sure those kinds of conversations happen. So you're getting your, you're kind of getting your scouting in from some college coach. You maybe had some, you know, um, deep experience, play a little bit in the league or know something. It's always a phone. You can pick up the phone and call. Well, now you have all these crazy scouting sources. You have a combine. And you have seven rounds. so now guys can sign that eighth round guy, if that's what he is, that guy just outside the draft can go sign as a free agent. So you still bring in a number of players and you cut people. But back in the sixties, you drafted tons. And that's why you see people, gosh, not the top of my head. I don't even want to say what round, but Chris Hamburger was a very late round pick that made hall of fame for the Washington Redskins. And he wasn't drafted higher. In large part because he was light. was 6'2", but he might've weighed 215 pounds playing outside linebacker. And he played kind of in that weight range throughout his career and played like 14 seasons and made a bunch of pro balls and eventually got named to the hall of fame. Coleman in 79 is still kind of an outlier, you know, what exactly are we getting here? An undersized linebacker maybe in weight. He finished his career as listed in the football references, 242. He finished at 242 and he was again a weight room guy. And on the weight room guy, I'm going to repeat the story. I've told it a few times as a college baseball coach. I'm at a camp. I think it was 12 years ago. I met this camp 12 years ago and we sat around and tell stories. We're sitting there watching, you know, scrimmages or watching guys work out, run, throw, hit, do whatever. making notes on these guys for potential college scholarships, whatever we're doing is in recruiting. And we tell stories and there's this one kid and he talks about he's from Arkansas and he played at this school. And I don't even know how, and I don't even really remember how the went this direction. But he said, you know, there's a, there's a coach down the hall, football coach. And that guy's the strongest human being I've ever seen. He's stronger than anybody on the football team. And a lot of guys told me, know, guys down the hall were like, yeah, he played in the league. He played in the NFL. And the more he talks, I'm finally like, are you talking about Monte Coleman? And he goes, yeah. How did you know that? And I'm like, I'm a Redskins fan. He played 16 years. He goes, was he that good? And I go, yeah, he was really good. Played 16 years, kept getting a job, the job. But he's on down the hallway from him. given the fact, Monty Coleman passed away at the age of 68. And I'm talking probably 12 or so years ago. He's mid fifties at the time. And he goes, dude. For a guy in his mid fifties, I've never seen anybody put together like this. He's in the weight room throwing stuff around, throwing weights around. Well, that was always him. That was, he was that kind of player. I heard about the legendary workout routines he had. ⁓ he was that guy. Now, given the fact he was a low body fat, guy that, ⁓ a lot of muscle. He got injured a lot in the kind of pulled muscle. hamstring pulls, that kind of thing like that. So it kind of limited his starting time in the NFL. But he played the 16 years, he became more of a specialist guy. He became more of a third down linebacker. He could run like the wind so he could, you know, say the 4-4-5 when he gets there. And he maintained an incredible amount of speed to play linebacker at that level. So he could keep up with any tight end. A lot of times he could run with wide receivers and running back. So he could, he was a coverage guy, but he was also, he had ⁓ his career. ⁓ He had 49 and a half sacks. So that's, that's a great career. but I'm getting into the fact, I mentioned earlier the safety time, played three years of safety before playing linebacker after not playing in high school. Had the 22 career interceptions, including an eight interception season. He's drafted by the Redskins and he's one of the guys that, I don't know that anybody actually, I think I do. think George Blanda played, I know he played in 1949. He did play in the fifties. He played in the sixties and he did play in the seventies. So he played in four different decades. Bonnie Coleman's one of the few guys to played in three different decades. There's some guys and you know, usually let's face it. You have to catch that end of one decade to have the best shot. Sonny Jurgensen played in the fifties, sixties and seventies. So he played in three and he started in 57. And made it to 74 and Monte Coleman started in 79 and made it to 1994. So he played for the Redskins in parts of three decades, seventies, eighties and nineties. He's on the all time list of games played as a Redskin. Coleman ranks currently second with 217 games. Dale Green's one. Dale Green played 20 seasons as a cornerback, a five foot eight, 180 some pound cornerback. So that's amazing in itself to play 20 seasons is insane and to do it as a cornerback. Um, it's something really special. Monty Coleman is one of only three men to have played at least 16 seasons with the franchise. Now I've mentioned before, Sonny Jurgensen, again, 18 years in the league, 11 with Washington, seven with Philadelphia. So there are some people that played long careers, maybe finished in Washington, split time, but to play for just the Washington Redskins, there's Daryl Green at 20, two guys at 16. One of them is Sammy Ball in the Hall of Fame. Sammy Ball is playing in a different era. 1961 is the year they went to 14 games. Sammy Ball had long since retired from the game. He played from 37 to 52. So he's out of football by the time they go to 14 games. And Monte Coleman comes in in 79, where in 78 they'd just gone to 16 games a season. So he does play in longer seasons and he plays 217 games, second only to Darryl Green. Semiball also played in 16 seasons, but he played at a different time. He played at a time where they didn't play as many games. Some other special things about the career, highlights and awards for Monty Coleman, three times Superbowl champion in He was the NFL combined tackle leader, special teams, defense. he made the 70 greatest Redskins when they did the 70th anniversary team, 80 made the 80 when they did the 90, he made the 90. 2015, he was named to the Washington risk and his ring of fame in the then FedEx stadium. So it's a really wonderful career. Three touchdowns, 17 interceptions. One of them you can find on YouTube was a really special play. had an interception return for touchdown in against the Cowboys. They're beating up on the Cowboys pretty good. And he intercepts the pass and like the wind. I don't know, 35, 40 yards, he scores. And you watch it on films like that, I I could really run. He ran, he opened up. I want to say, Oh gosh, I'll get the playoff game wrong, but I know they ran a reverse with him to open up a playoff game. And I'm trying to remember it was 83 against the 49ers in the NFC championship game, or whether it was the week before against the Rams, when they blew out the Rams. I think it was in. I think it was in the 49er game, but I just remember this one where they opened the game, kicked to a returner. That returner starts kind of rolling to one direction, hands the ball to Monty Coleman and he takes it like 50 yards. So, you know, it was a special design play for special teams for him to get the ball. But he did things like that because once you saw him run, I he ran like the best of tight end running back type of speed that you'd see at 6'2 and probably 2'30, 2'35 ish by that time. after his career was over as a player, he was employed at the university of Arkansas, Pine Bluff as a linebacker coach, and he was team chaplain. The other thing I say about the Washington Redskins players of the era that coach would, or with coach Gibbs. Coach Gibbs is very outspoken Christian. Talks about his faith a lot. He wasn't always that guy. He talks about, I've heard the stories when he was in ⁓ San state or when he was in college. Used to go into a lot of bars in San Diego and beat up Marines. They said he'd get into fights with everybody and did a lot of heavy drinking, I think. I think there was some alcohol use or whatever, but when he found Jesus, he changed his life. I've heard players say they'd never seen a person get that mad sometimes in a locker room situation, like at halftime and break things and never curse. say he was the most amazing guy when he'd get upset and not curse. He'd just, dang it, or whatever he would say, but he wouldn't curse. Interesting number of players that played long time for Gibbs that went into the ministry, did a lot of charitable work, just really good, solid citizen types. And Monty Coleman was definitely one of those types of men. So he goes to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. He's the linebacker coach from 03 to 05, defensive coordinator 06 and 07, and he's the head coach 08 to 2017. On December 8th, 2012, Coleman coached the Arkansas Pine Bluff to a Southwestern athletic conference championship game by, championship by defeating Jackson State 24-21. the same year they won the historically black colleges and universities national championship in 2012 with a 10 and two record. Coleman lived in Pine Bluff, Arkansas with his wife, Yvette, their three children, his son, had two stints each playing with the. Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Chargers. So again, Monty Coleman, special player, kind of had to be from Washington to totally get it. Another guy that I made a lot of noise about the other day that I think of him almost like one of these other spitting image type of guys from that era. Don Warren was drafted the same year. Don Warren finished in 92. Don Warren played on all those same teams. Don Warren was a tight end also picked by Beathard in the fourth round. So Donnie Warren is just absolute Washington Redskins. Perfection. He's a third offensive tackle type of guy, you know, six, four, two 50 ish, two 45, I guess he catch a pass every once in a while. It wasn't like he wasn't athletic, but he was a blocker. He was a motion guy, not as much. Well, not as much motion because the motion guys, um, Nick Giacuino, I coached against a few years ago in his summer league in baseball. After playing pro football, Nick Giacuino went into, think, coaching division one baseball for 29 years. So I got a chance to coach against him, talk to him. I mean, when I saw his name that summer, I'm like, this gotta be the same guy. And it was, he has sometimes been referred to as the first H back in NFL history. So a little bit of the history, you know, your standard issue, T formation, pro set. Five offensive linemen, tackle, guard, center, guard, tackle across the line. Put a tight end down. Tight end has to cover the tackle. He's eligible. Guy playing back off of the tight end is an eligible receiver. The split in on the other side has to cover the tackle. So you have seven people always on the line and two of them are eligible for passes. Five interior linemen are not eligible. You can run an unbalanced line. There's all kinds of things you can do, but that's your standard issue offensive set with two. people in the backfield with the quarterback running back fullback, you know, you could go I formation, you know, you could split the backs, whatever was pro football. That's what since Sid Luckman and George house with the 40 bears go into the T formation quarterback under center directly taken snap that history is kind of led to that formation that set. we get to eighties and the risk is the running. playing two games a year with the Giants and Joe Gibbs' first season was Lawrence Taylor's first season. I've seen all the documentaries, you've heard all this. They're like, we got to figure out a way to stop this guy. you take a back in backfield with the running back and you try to intercept Lawrence Taylor coming in on a blitz, you lose. He just the running back into the quarterback. So they tried different things and then eventually they're like, okay, You got one guy in the backfield is going to get the ball on a running play. There's not a lot of deception. There is deception. You can fake the one back, give to the other. You can have them crisscross. You can have all kinds of things going on in the backfield, but one of them is going to carry it. One of them is not. One can block and all that. So they go to this too tight end set. And my first memory of it, it's always somebody opposite Don Warren's the other guy. And it was Rick Walker early. Rick Walker that I love 1982 when they were in the Superbowl. It's Rick Walker. It's Didier. does a lot of this motion stuff and he is a pass catching threat. mean, eventually by 86, when he's playing with Schrader, they got him split out. They have him playing like a wide receiver, but he's of those guys. During the strike replacement team, they picked up this one guy and now I'm totally at a loss. He made the team on the second half. ⁓ They eventually him. They did a really good job in that position. I should have never brought his name up without thinking what his name is. But do remember one of the replacement guys ended up playing and staying and playing past Dennis Woodbury for whatever reason. remember that he was a defensive back that did the same thing, played with the strike team and then got actually up to play. Now on that strike team too in 1987, a lot of people were like, ⁓ my gosh, where did these guys all come from? ⁓ And I the movie, Replacements with Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves was ⁓ basically in large part based on the Redskins. call them the Washington Federals or I don't know, that was the USFL team. I don't know what the hell they called them in the movie, but it was kind of based on that replacement team thing where the NFL players went on strike. And where I'm going with this is a lot of the guys that played his replacement had been in camps that year. They're the guys that get cut and some guys that had careers in the NFL already, not. the greatest of careers, or they got called back like, you want to give it another shot? Cause we need players. But it wasn't like they were literally taking guys off the street without any knowledge of experience of playing a high level of college football or maybe playing NFL football or having been in camp. So there were guys that Washington brought back that they cut during camp. I mean, when you're starting to put together a team, you know, I've seen the interviews with Bobby Beathard when they were trying to do it in 10 days, like 10 days, we got to make a team. anyway. McEwen, think was, I'm pretty sure McEwen was the name of that guy that was on the, on the replacement team there. And yeah, then we get into a member Anthony Jones played at some Anthony Jones, big physical guy that, that, that played tight end. You get to the backside of, of, of Gibbs, 1.0 Todd Middleton was a guy, was Ron Middleton. Ron Middleton was a guy that, the tight end position, but all during that time, or the guy that was playing tight end. Not the roving guy so much or the H-back type or whatever they called it. It was Don Warren. So Don Warren, Bonnie Coleman go 14 and 16 seasons. guy, Raleigh McKenzie drafted like the 10th round. Played 16 seasons. He's the starting left guard by the time the 91 season when they go back and give up only nine sacks and the line is now Jim picked up in the Jay Schrader trade. So it's Lachey, it's Raleigh McKenzie, Jeff Bostic still the center. And the right guard at that time was Mark Loretta, also drafted late. I think he's the only player at that time or maybe ever that was born in Alaska and he went to I think is where he went to school, but he's from Alaska. Bobby Beathard finds him in like the 10th round and he starts at guard, goes through some injury issues and stuff, leaves Washington and goes to Denver and wins two more Super Bowls with John Elway. And then the right tackle was the left tackle all those years, Joe Jacoby, that they just moved over to the right side when Lachey got there and they went another Superbowl. So I say all that to say there were just guys that fit the system. Beathard found them. I think Gibbs put out a blueprint too. Like, this is the kind of guy I want. This is the character guy I want. Well, often said that they're like, what did you want number one? And he goes, I wanted character and I wanted guys with character. This is an often quoted thing. And he goes, Intelligence was at the top, really speed and athleticism were somewhere further down. And I think he meant that. I think, I think he meant that. I think there were players that played for the Washington Redskins that may not have, I say this may not have been guys who could just, you know, universally go to any place and play. However, the Monty Coleman's, the Darryl greens, some of these guys that Washington had. Really broke the Dexter Manley. I mentioned Dexter Manley was a four or five, 40 his first year in camp, 230 probably then he played it to 66, 65 later. um, Mann was another one. Charles Mann was like really a low body fat guy playing defensive end that must've been crazy strong. And then on the other side, Dave Butts was huge and was still really athletic and very athletic for a guy six, seven, 300 pounds. So even though the risk is, think sometimes are looked at as a dollar of misfit toys that their, their toys fit their system. They had freakish athletes. had a bunch of guys. I remember Marcus cook was the guy they drafted a defensive lineman that they thought about putting a linebacker at six five and two 60 and probably two 75 when he was playing defensive line. He was a freak show. He could run and was a big guy. So there's a lot of guys that came through that system. remember, but I mean, every other fan out there, you know, of any other teams, like, ⁓ yeah, we had a guy like that too, Stan Jones or whatever his name is. We had guys like that too, but it did seem like Washington never really got, it didn't get pushed around size wise. with the hogs being a 282 pound line average at that time in 1982, which was totally unheard of. Now everybody in the league, including the smallest centers, 305 pounds, think everybody's 300 up now, which was unheard of in the eighties. It's 40 years ago. So it's been a long time. things have changed. another great honor for Monte Coleman was he made the all Madden team in 1993. I've mentioned this before. I really think players back then wanted to be in the, on the all Madden team more than they wanted to be in the pro bowl. And great thing about, um, the whole Madden and summer all relationship. If you want to see something that's really a tearjerker, um, really emotional, but really beautiful to watch. with all the emotion laden aspect to it is, the eulogy that John Madden gives to Pat Sumerall. says, basically we've had to say goodbye three times. When we left CBS, we didn't know what was going to happen. They went to Fox, they left, or Madden moved on to go to Monday Night Football. And he's like, Pat, is third time I've had to say goodbye. And this is the hardest because it's at his funeral. and Sumerall had admitted that. He was a little bit miffed by CBS when they took him away from, or took Tom Brookshire away. Tom Brookshire was a defensive back for the Eagles and a great personality. And he got a little trouble about some things I think he said on the air and it kind of led to him either getting the B game or of out. He was on the outs with CBS. And then Madden leaves Oakland Raiders after winning the Super Bowl and he kind of walks into this CBS thing and doesn't really know what's happening. He says that he didn't, he didn't really know. And then he did his own thing. He became himself, which is always the best way to go. Don't, I mean, you can, you can look if you're somebody on TV doing, and this is just my opinion, but I think anybody that's really good will tell you this. You can try to be the scripted somebody you saw on TV and try to be them, or you can be yourself. And John Madden was clearly being himself and being himself made a huge fan base love him. The All Madden team came up, I want to say mid eighties. I want to say Thanksgiving game. They started to do the Turkey thing. They gave a, you know, a Turkey drumstick to whoever the best player. And it became a tradition, you know, your home for Thanksgiving senior folks and all turn on the football game. You got John Madden and Pat Summerall and you probably have a really good game. Detroit's in it. Then it became the Cowboys were always in it, but there was some history there and it was usually a good game. And it became multiple games. But it was a thing Thanksgiving day to watch these guys. I believe, you know, that being generally week so in November, that was the time that they would release this team. Remember Gary Clark made a few of those. But it got to be the tough guy award thing. Basically, if you're a tough guy, you could be a kicker, punter, anybody that was tough in a certain situation, you could be an all maddened player. And again, I think that meant more to the players. than I think sometimes it did to make the pro ball. Cause the pro ball was like, back when the players were, and I remember I've said this before, Dexter Manley used to be asked, Hey, you were second in the league in sacks or somewhere up near the top. You never make the pro ball. And he's like, yeah, it's because I beat the hell out of that offensive lineman. And then I tell him how bad he is when I sacked the quarterback. He doesn't like me. Other defensive ends, he beats them on the sack. And then the defensive end goes, Hey, offensive lineman, that was almost a great block you threw on me as I beat you to the quarterback, but Hey, you're really good. And he votes for that guy. Cause I talk smack and this guy doesn't. So I'm not liked. is. I think maybe there's some truth to that. think, I think there was probably some truth to that where some guys were kind of black ball from the, if you get to, if you get the players voting for it, they're going to be just as much, I don't like that guy, but I like this guy better. on the voting, but for the All Madden team, I don't know. Did Madden have a team of people? he saw. When Madden passed away the other year too, another thing, I'm going tell another Lawrence Taylor story. I don't know if anybody saw this. They did this whole special, I think it was the NFL network on the life of John Madden. And at the beginning of it, it up with Lawrence Taylor sitting there in a chair. And he's like, I came home one day, my daughter's like, hey, somebody in the NFL just called. And they want you to do something. He's like, I don't care what they, you know, who's called and he goes, what do they want? Something about John Madden. He goes, I'm on it. It was so moving. He's like, ⁓ John Madden, John Madden. It's about John Madden. Then I'm on it because that man identified me as the greatest player on defense and all this. When I was a kid, when I first came in the league and I always loved that man because he made me feel that I could be special or was special. And it's like, how neat is that? know, cause Madden did Madden looked at. LT, early in the career. That dude's different. That's the guy. And it meant the world to Lawrence Taylor, which those kinds of stories I think are always so great. So the All Madden team was a thing. Monty Coleman made it. Monty Coleman was selected by Washington Tony magazine as the Washington Tony of the year in 1996. Arkansas sports sports, Arkansas sports hall of fame, 1998, as I mentioned earlier, one of the 70th 70 greatest Redskins. He won the Elijah pits. And I remember Elijah pits playing in the NFL. He won that award named for the Conway Arkansas native in the Green Bay Packer legend. for an app for his athletic lifetime achievement, Conway's athletic lifetime achievement from Conway, Arkansas, Washington, Riscans ring of fame, December 20th, 2015. Now I want to close on, I don't spend a lot of time. I don't spend a lot of time on X and, You know, sometimes I react to some things or I have the account that I have related to this channel. And every once in a while I will, get something about, know, somebody put four pictures up. It's still Montana's John L. Wade, Dan Murray, from the eighties, who would you take? You know, Steve Young and I always take Montana. I will, you know, who are the top four of whatever. I'll get into those sometimes just to get people's responses. But I want to read this. It's saying it's coming from the. is the Joe Gibbs official statement on the passing of Monty Coleman. Monty meant so much to Washington community. He was a fan favorite. He played his entire 16 year career with us and only Darryl Green played in more games in franchise history. He was key part of all of our Super Bowl teams. He was really respected by his teammates, leading by example through his preparation and his workout routines. He really had a tremendous work ethic. He applied all of those same qualities into his coaching at University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. But more impressive than all of that is the type of of person that Monte was. He truly was well liked by everyone he came into contact with. We are praying for his wife, Yvette and his children, Joe Gibbs. I wrote, I just in response to that Monte Coleman was and always will be a greatly loved figure. to the DC fan base, loving prayers to Monty's family. God bless Joe Gibbs and his family. Gibbs will always be our most treasured head coach. Monty Coleman was one of the many high character men who played for coach Joe Gibbs. Number 51 represented a very special time in Washington Redskins history. Hail to the Redskins, rest in peace, number 51. So in closing, doing these kinds of shows. I thought about it the other day, the linebackers of that time, Rich Malott passed away a few years ago. Mel Kaufman passed away. Now Monty Coleman's passed away. And really the linebackers that played in that 82 season that I can remember was Neil Alkowitz in the center, in the middle. Middle linebacker from University of Maryland is the only one I think that's surviving of that group to play linebacker. So I'm getting older. We're all getting older. Some of these men are passing away awfully, awfully young though. mean, Mel Kaufman was I think in his fifties and I think Malott was 64 and Bonnie Coleman 68. But again, doing these history shows, I'm telling some history of the Washington Redskins every time I do these shows. Bonnie Coleman is one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen. Again, if we're going to do a Mount Rushmore of Washington Redskins, greatest athletes had ever played. I think it's Sean Taylor. I think it's Darrell Green. Hmm. think it's Monte Coleman. I definitely think Monte Coleman's in that. think Dexter Manley might be in there. know, Sean Taylor, Daryl Green, all of them tend to be on the defensive side of the ball. Champ Bailey might be. I got I got to remove somebody, but Champ Bailey's in that conversation too. So in closing, Monte Coleman, fantastic human being from every, you know, every aspect of being a fan, looking at somebody that you wanted to admire. somebody you want to look up to and his life work would point that out. The fact that he went back into coaching, which is teaching, the fact he was a team chaplain at one point and just the way approached playing in the NFL, what kind of teammate he was, what kind of person he was in the community. God bless him, his family, love Bonnie feel saddened by his death, but Also, I think we were all greatly enriched by his life. And that's what we have to remember. We were greatly enriched by the life of Monty Coleman. It's another kind of sad show we're doing, but also it's a celebration of someone's life who meant a lot to the community, meant a lot to the league and certainly to Washington risk and franchise history. So for all that, God bless you, Monty Coleman, your family. God bless all of you. like and subscribe, share this with others, make comments, tell me other great players that you liked. Tell me what you thought of Monty Coleman. Tell me all the positive things that you can remember about mighty Coleman that you want to include. Once again, this has been more to consider. God bless you all. See you soon. Thanks.