Bledsoe & Marino EPIC Opening Day Duel! (Patriots vs. Dolphins, 1994) 

Phillip, I agree... probably the greatest pure-passer ever. Marino was as good as they come... too bad he ran into Montana and the 9ers or he would have had a ring...

Bledsoe is a good bridge QB at best He is so trash compared to Brady

@@causeoriginal8627 Bledsoe was equivalent to Stafford

You guys are comical. The NFL became a "passing league" after 2004 when the rule changes set in. Marino has the best arm ever and Bledsoe was actually a good QB

Hey man DON SHULA was a great HC but the one mistake he made during Marino and FINS return to glory in the 90's was this,He just could not let go of the one F'N guy wrecking the DOLPHINS and MARINO'S chance at another SB appearance and if u are a die hard FIN fan at that time then u probably know who I'm talking about!!yep,TOM OLIVIDOTTI their DC!!They had the pcs,just didnt have the guy to get them their!!between 90-95,those squads were loaded with good to very good players AND yes on BOTH sides of the ball!!They had a LB'r capable of double digit sacks EVERY yr if he was used right!!BRYAN COX was very underrated and a spark plug !!TIM BOWENS was a BEAST,PERIOD!!another VERY UNDERRATED PLAYER!!TROY VINCENT was a good corner who could have been GREAT but STILL ranks in top 5 CB's in MIAMI history,give or take a couple spots but definately in our top 10!!SS LOUIS OLIVER was a solid,hard hitting play maker that held that position down nicely!!I liked DG but I always thought he coulda played better,but not a bad player,but nothing special either and DE coulda been upgraded cuz COLEMAN kinda sucked and not sure if OFFERDAHL was still playing much into the 90's but boy was he GOOD,probably put him right behind ZACH THOMAS!!so there was definately a decent D and EVERY yr waiting for this guy to lose his job and NOPE!!SHULAS loyalty and STUBBORNESS ruined DAN MARINOS shot for at the very least,gettin back to the SB And really we can say 90-95 with the exclusion of 93 for MARINO's injury,they had a legit shot at gettin back there and with THAT D in both 92 and 94 probably woulda got one for him,but it was ALWAYS same ol D that would collapse in the 2nd half of the season and i f2ff would then be MARINO,MARINO,MARINO,its a shame,not more fans realize just how close DAN and our FINS got to not only getting there but a decent shot at winning a SB!!

That quick release is legendary. You could be a D lineman smelling his jersey up close and he will move his arm from his side and throw a 50 yard frozen rope before you could lay your first finger on him. Closest quick release I've seen is maybe Peyton Manning? but he had more wind up

The release is impressive but so is the accuracy and arm strength. The pass at 5:24 is just crazy. 40 yards on a line all the receiver had to do was put his arms out and it was right in the bread basket lol

@@beetertruk88 you're preaching to the choir. I could go on and on about his arm strength and accuracy but I just wanted to mention one thing I saw that you don't really ever see which is that quick release. I could see some folks who never saw Marino play try to argue about Rodgers arm strength and Bradys accuracy over Marino for example. yada yada yada. I would just laugh if any one tries to compare Marinos quick release to anyone before or after him.

@Craig Adams Just tell them Marino threw 48 TD's and 5084yds in 1984 and that would be like 62 TD's and 6000yds nowadays. Also it took 23 years for someone to break that TD mark.

Nobody would have broken Marino's records if they had to play under the same rules he did oh my imagine Marino playing under today's rules were everything is pass interference he would absolutely destroy the nfl.

Robert Edwards was sad he was gonna replace curtis Martin

@@ericsigersmith2831 Edwards looked great. I think he injured himself playing football in the Hawaiian sands when he made the Pro Bowl.

T.Glenn,L.Milloy...Bruschi,McGinnest

Same, just to watch the great Dan Marino do his thing.

This season was pretty much the start of the change in fortunes. Kraft came in to save the team from being moved to St Louis, the Patriots finished 10-6 to make the playoffs losing to Belichicks Browns and would go on to make it again in 1996 (making the super bowl),97, and 1998 then the rest is history

Because a star was born in Drew Bledsoe, and another in Ben Coates.

I like rewatching Super Bowl 52 tbh, talk about a shootout.. Eagles may have won, but that was Tom's greatest offensive performance in any Super Bowl he has played.

@@greysonG10 Brady should have won Superbowl MVP even in the loss

You got that right! Even the Jimmy Johnson era logo and unis are far better than the current uniforms. PLEASE change them back, especially since it appears Miami is on the way back to winning ways.

@@tombstone1111 Lol not this year they aren't, better luck next year.

Yeah because their current uniforms and logo, suck.

Watched this on TV in Miami?

Jim lampley does only boxing. Well, he did football, also.

@@hectorlopez1069 Probably because he gets that HBO/Showtime money now!

Willie McGuiness a rookie!

He was real slow though

@@ericsigersmith2831 okay and still was a great qb brady slow also

@@telisahampton8135 Bledsoe had a habit of holding onto the ball too long which resulted in him getting sacked alot. He was basically a statue in the pocket. Brady is slow too, yes. But he pretty much atleast move and has a quicker release time

@@ultimatebeing2348 that true but he did lead new England to two Superbowl before Brady came along even tho lost both he had a great coach bill parcells

@@telisahampton8135 cap, he only led them to one superbowl in 1996, Bledsoe was on the patriots from 93-01 [i think] It was not bledsoe who led them to the superbowl in 85, it was someone else

Marino could've came back in 2000 for the Dolphins, but after that embarrassing loss to the Jaguars that's when he decided to quit. And the sad part about that 2000 season, the Dolphins had a top 5 defense that season and it continued till at least 2002 under Dave Wannstatt.

@@BSmokeyGaming That's true but Marino was cooked, in 99 he had an atrocious season and lot of Dolphins fans want him benched. Marino deserved a ring but back in the 80's he never had a decent defense and in the 90's he never had a decent running game.

I watched plenty of Marino in the 90's. Guy was the real deal. A shame he ran into those early 90's Bills team.

those people dont understand that rings are given to great teams not necessarily great players. Montana beat Marino when Montana had the better team in the 84 season and Marino beat Montana when he had the better team in the 94 season.

@Brian Mcminn It's kinda hard to argue that these days when most folks never even saw him play live. It was hard back then with Montana but to me there was only 1 Marino and there may never be another

It good to see the NFL from the past.

Domes ruined the NFL

Should have shown it last year when the pats did play the Vikings

That game is uploaded here on youtube just look up pats vs vikings 94

King Kong Aint Got Shit On Me I know I’ve watched it but it’s not as good as the league itself posting it, which draws huge attention

Yeah, the "Fox Box". Critics called it a stupid idea and said it would never work

As a Dolphins fan living in MA, I got to see Bledsoe a bit. Great QB, but even better guy. But my Patriots friends would say who ever had such an incredible season in only their 2nd year? I'd smile and say, don't look up Dan's stats from '84....

Marino:im about to end this man whole career

That throw was amazing!

I was going to say the same. What a throw!!!

How does he move so nimbly with such huge balls of steel?

Who ?....

I believe he was better than the next guy. He got shelved.

Absolutely. Drew was fire every bit the franchise guy you want. Coates was borderline unstoppable. After ‘97 the whole franchise became a comedy of errors. Parcells bailed, they made some of the stupidest personnel decisions I’ve ever seen couldn’t draft for shit. Whole team just fell apart. They squandered away Bledsoe’s prime years. He shoulda gone down as one of the best he had the tools to do it.

$100 million contract tells the story

Yes agree

Domes ruined the nfl

Great times.

More physical

Ha!!

@The Green Pill Mindset Actually fantasy football did indeed exist back then. It's been a thing since 1987. Now go take your pill.

@The Green Pill Mindset Pill time

@The Green Pill Mindset Your pathetic, ridiculous comments say everything we need to know about you.

@@brianfitzsimmons6074 Draft Kings is vastly different than the early 90's era fantasy football.

It was his Achilles tendon, but yes, I felt the same way. Even watching this today, 25 years later, I had to stifle some anxiety about him reinjuring himself. I spent half this video watching his footwork to make sure he was ok. What a weird feeling. I miss being this emotionally invested in the Dolphins.

@@robpreston5692 Marino had already had a couple of knee surgeries by this point too.

@@bjchit could hardly walk. Hence why they used so much shotgun.

I’d have to say, the ‘85 win against the bears was his SB! Think about it! The greatest team ever was beaten by the ultimate gun slinger! That to me was his SB ring!

Sports 311 he also happened to be a former patriot who was on the pats when they were a dumpster fire lol. He actually scored their only TD in the 46-10 Bears super bowl

Irving Fryar should be in the HOF

Old man river

John beck byu?

One of them for sure but you absolutely have to have at least one ring to be considered the GOAT. I wish he would've won one, just like I wish Kelly had or Malone and Stockton in the NBA. I truly believe that had Jimmy Johnson came to Miami in 88-89 instead of Dallas, Marino would've had 2 rings. Shula ignored the running game and the defense. JJ built one of the best defenses in the NFL with Miami but Marino was over the hill by the time JJ took over in Miami.

I remember when they didnt even win a game for like a season and a half before Parcells. Things have changed quite a bit

Now the pats are trash again. Hahaha 😂😂😂

@Rick James The pats still suck. What happened?

@@damanithegoat9653 top of the afc loser, what poverty franchise do you fanboy for??

@@conner24316 Lol the pats suck and haven’t made the playoffs in nearly 3 years. Stay mad 🤡

Many teams have had dozens of starting QBs since 1994. This is 25 years ago and Bledsoe and Brady have been the only starting QBs(sans injuries) for the Patriots. Packers are the only other similar team with Favre/Rodgers.

Only the narrative kept Drew from being in the HOF. He brought a sad sack 1 win, franchise, (that was moving to St Louis), to the Super Bowl in only his fourth year. This was his sophomore season. When Drew retired, he was in the top 5-10 in every major QB category. Robbed of HOF. Mac Jones has nothing on this guy.. BTW, Ben Coates was a God when catching a ball down the middle was deadly. I'd take him and his durability (with today's rules) over Gronk, and I love Gronk.

I always liked Bledsoe more than Brady.

@@trhansen3244 Bledsoe was the reason I became a Pat's fan...

"Accepted " he's the fucking goat and a shit ton better than Bledsoe. Come on

​@@trhansen3244You're delusional. Brady is light years better

@@josephayers7395 Bledsoe had swagger

2018?

And we still didn't win jack

Now we do(:

Now they do

Well we 10-6 now

That stadium used to be electric when Marino was there. Hasnt seen that kind of electricity for almost 20 years

@@Dashoost no reason for us to be excited about these teams. Have only had incompetent management for over 20 years. Damn I miss the good old days!

Forgotten? Everybody remembers this game.

“The GOAT"? Not quite. He's definitely a top 5 or top 10, though.

Marino is the GOAT at the QB position, ring, most rings, or no ring

Tyler Mittan elaborate on how Brady isn’t the GOAT please

@@Tyler-hf4uc Agreed. Only New Englanders and today's recency biased media say Brady is the quintessential GOAT. Over the Pats current dynasty? There's been far too much cheating and far too much blatant league and referee favoritism. Most unbiased, older die hard NFL fans have the opinion that some of their past successes were grossly undeserved. To be honest...half of their 6 rings are tainted. All this said....Brady should still definitely be considered TOP 5-10. In my eyes he still isn't close to Montana, Elway or Manning. All 3 of these all time great's accomplishments cannot be questioned.

I'm sure every Patriots fan would love to see Drew Bledsoe in the Hall of Fame; however, outside of New England, he is known mainly as the guy Tom Brady replaced.

The Undertaker. Guy hit like a wrecking ball.

GregzVR actually mark bávaro was gronk before gronk

@@jalos012 | Bavaro never played for the Patriots. GregzVR meant Gronk being the best Patriot Tight End since Coates.

Been a long time. I miss the OB

Long ago, in a galaxy, far, far, away...

They good again now

@@johncorbin5332 Indeed they were, at least offensively. This is the type of game you just automatically expect Miami to choke away at the end. If not for that Coates fumble, NE likely would've won.

Bandwagon fans

It just shows they are bandwagoners

Yeah we called them the Olphins

And they played in the same division of late 80s/90s Bills and 00's Pats

For no reason at all I'm humming the old school Monday Night Raw theme to myself

You ain't the only one

After this year it won't be a thing anymore with the Raiders moving back to LA. With that the last dirt infield stadium goes with it

We all do

Good eye!

They did have the roughing the passer rule but not the ones from today