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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Why Kevin believes Sonny Jurgensen is Washington's GOAT QB

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

2.9.26, Kevin Sheehan discusses why he believes Sonny Jurgensen is the greatest quarterback in Redskins/Commanders history.

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0:00.0

There was so much reaction to Sonny Jurgensen's passing on Friday.

0:06.8

And, you know, it happened while we were on the air.

0:10.2

And it was nice to get a chance to take some calls, but it was even nicer to hear from Joe and to hear from so many different people who came on.

0:20.4

Ernie Bauer came on my podcast later that day.

0:23.1

Ernie was a close friend of Sonny's.

0:26.0

So many of you followed up.

0:28.1

I mean, I spent some time on Saturday just going through a lot of the emails and a lot

0:33.2

of the tweets that you set because, you know, this for a certain age of, you know, Skins fan,

0:41.1

this hit hard. I got this from Daniel. Daniel wrote, we both lived the same Sunny experience,

0:47.6

Kevin. Thanks for remembering him the way you did. I think you missed something, though.

0:52.2

Sunny still holds the record for touchdowns in a season for our team.

0:56.2

You mentioned the Eagles record, but didn't mention the record he holds for our team.

1:02.5

No quarterback, including your guy, Cousins, has ever thrown more than Sonny's 31 in 1967.

1:10.8

You're 100% right, Daniel. I did not mention that. I should have.

1:14.6

I knew that. I think what I did, you know, as we were sitting here on the air and even after the show,

1:21.7

one of the things that I don't think I had ever spent a lot of time looking at was his Philadelphia career,

1:26.8

which, you know,

1:28.0

Eagles fans loved Sunny too. They didn't want Sunny to be traded. There are people in Philadelphia

1:34.3

that revered Sunny of a certain age and got the same kind of experience. Sunny's first year

1:42.2

starting in 61 in Philadelphia, he set the NFL record for

1:47.0

yards passing in a season. Now, it was the first year of a 14-game schedule. They had played

1:52.6

12 previous to that. He tied the NFL record with 32 touchdown passes, and I did emphasize

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