Dan Marino's last professional game was the worst final game of all time | The Worst 

we want jon bois

I love you too, Will

So when are you guys going to fire this nerd that does the SB Nation now and hire back the other guy? This dude is weaksauce.

You mean #yolt, right? At least if you're the Pyrenean ibex.

SB Nation Is that future NFL Commissioner Will Buikema?

Jose Maldonado career touchdowns and yards only count in the regular season. Sorry to destroy the perfect moment lol

if only that were true....those numbers are just for the regular season

Tristan MacLeod just did.😊

that makes more sense.. the "420 like the sex number" graphic made no sense at all

Nice

Baker Mayweather it isn’t that hard after a while, I’ve ran about 3600 yards as Barry or bo (can’t remember lol)

Baker Mayweather I threw for 9,000 with Warren Moon

It was so long ago I honestly don't remember total season stats. I know I'd have the most frustrating games where'd I'd be winning 107-0 and then fumble a punt return and they'd take it in for a TD, ruining my shutout and boy would that steam me! But those NES controllers back then...those things could take a beating. I do not lie or exaggerate when I say that I have put holes in drywall swinging them by the cord to smash into the wall and I have stomped on the controller hard enough to leave a serious depression in the linoleum but not a scratch on the controller.

best game ever

I threw a 1000 yard 10 TD game with Steve Young in one of the 90s Madden

I'm not a Dolphins fan, but I was a Dan Marino fan. I respected what he did for the game. I sincerely felt bad for him going out like this.

@M Question: Why does a soccer fan care about trying to state this on a US football forum? Here is the truth soccer guy. As much as I respect the game of international soccer, I don't care much about it. It doesn't dominate my time. And I don't invest in it as much. When Team USA men's team plays, I support them. We all know that the US Men's Team is no where near on par with the other countries. And I repeat this again, we don't care. I don't see US fans crying a river when the men's team gets eliminated. The US Women's Team on the other hand: We own the world in that department because the woman's team is the best! But I'll be honest, I'm a bit disappointed when they lose, but my heart is most likely not broken up about it. Personally, I'll take US football over Intl. Football if I'm given a choice. And I'm a basketball fan first.

@M stfu

Dolphins are 10-6 though

phins fan, they never will. most pathetic franchise in nfl history. move them to a different city so i won't feel so bad about not being loyal to them jfc

But it sure was hilarious to watch

His hand would have hurt more if he had a ring.

mariomasta LOL

Ouch

Yeah, the exasperated "Jesus..." and the hands up like "Whoa, cowboy" were just really painful to watch. Ha ha! Poor guy. I met him once when he came on a talk show I used to work on. He was a really nice guy and certainly didn't pound the table and say "Goddamn it!" Of course, that was in like 2015, so he's had time to practice.

AmericanNohbuddy ™ and they will be 14-2 this year

Sampsun Martenson more like 10-6 or 11-5

Yeah, they were; both of their losses were against Tennessee. Guess who they faced in the Conference Finals? :P

McJohnson coincidence? I think not (Titans fan)

Nah, no coincidence; the Titans were just the only team that knew exactly how to beat the Jaguars. :P

small victories.

Given enough quarters they would've won

Lol.

@@kieferculligan4029 Just bout 35 give or take.

They would have won if only they could have played 27 quarters.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uo7pEm0RKUM.html - can catch the Primetime highlights for anyone who wants to re-watch!!

Nick Currie he was so happy to get away from the jets

It's 1999

rock n roll nobody wants to be with the Jets lmao

The Cabba right.. that's why he was so happy

Belichick cracks joke every year if you actually knew him

GrantH I saw it live. The full version wasn't pretty.

GrantH I literally cried because this was Marino's last ride and the whole team just laid a goose egg.

Surprised you lived to talk about it.

I saw this game with my best friend who was a Jet fan. He was quite satisfied with the result.

He still got to retire with millions of dollars in his late 30's or early 40's. Not the worst way to go

AKay It's his own fault. He chose not to come back for another season.

I probably would have felt more sympathy if he had played for my team but what can you do? Also there's how his fans would crap on other QBs for not having his numbers...

Brandon Armi man I was 20 years old. And I just knew Dan would play another season because of this loss. He really disappointed me by retiring after losing a PLAYOFF game like this

There were some chemistry problems I think between Jimmy Johnson and Dan Marino. It was hard to put a finger on it. Jimmy Johnson almost wanted to quit before the 1999 season started. There were high expectations for the Dolphins to get to the Super Bowl that year. That devastating loss to the Jags took so much air out of both JJ and Dangerous Dan. I wasn't too much surprised when both of them retired after that loss. That was a humiliating way to go for both of them.

@@jrsmith1998, Jimmy Johnson never really wanted Marino to begin with. He wanted to rebuild the team and draft a younger QB. But he knew the ownership and the fans would never stand for it. He was not going to be the coach that cut, traded or benched Dan Marino in Miami. In the beginning it seemed like it was a match made in Heaven. They even had that "Boys of Summer" Sports Illustrated cover with the two of them embraced and laughing. But it was all short lived. Johnson wanted to focus more on the running game, something Marino was never a big fan of. Also, with Marino's limited speed and mobility, his attempts at play action weren't exactly pretty. This is a man who up until Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had never had a 1,000 yard rusher. He had always won games with his arm. Asking a man like this to change everything he knew this late in his career was not something that was going to work. Anyway, this nightmare of a game happens and Johnson resigns. Dave Wannstedt is named Head Coach. He makes it clear very early on that the starting job does not belong to Marino, but that he would have to compete for it. This, I believe, was a major factor in Marino's retirement decision. Going into his 18th season he would be expected to compete for a job that was his for 17 seasons prior. Marino had also suffered a serious injury (I believe a nerve injury in his throwing shoulder) that he never recovered from that season. I believe in his first game back from surgery he had thrown 5 interceptions against Dallas. You could tell for the rest of the season that he wasn't himself and wasn't making the same strong throws. Despite all of this, I still as a 17 year old kid and the biggest Marino fan around, wanted him to come back. But looking back I think it was probably for the best that he didn't. He was actually offered a starting job by Dennis Green with the Vikings. Imagine Dan Marino with a young Randy Moss along with Chris Carter and Robert Smith in the backfield. That would have been insane. Marino reportedly said he didn't want to leave his family and go to Minnesota for training camp. Green told him he could stay home and they would come down and work with him there. Green basically offered him everything he possibly could. But I think Marino realized that with his age and his injuries, playing on the artificial turf in Minnesota would not have been good for him. God, I would have loved to have seen him play there though. Anyway, apologies for the long rant. I won't watch this video because its too depressing for me!

Definitely the last time he tried to crack a joke to the media.

@@williamsanders2348 he is surprisingly energetic during the nationally televised pro-am golf tourney's. Get him out of his coaching element, I'm sure he's a pretty cool guy.

I think the last time he smiled was the Doug Flutie drop kick

Until he trolled the Jets on MNF with flags

@@daniellarsen889 No - just get him out of the room with the New England media. They're the problem, not him.

M Tiba that's true but I lose to my brother in madden by throwing three interceptions straight

The 24-0 is a click. Gotta give up the sticks at 21-0.

Yep. Judging by his reaction as an analyst the game console would have gone through the wall.

Matt Pizzano unless you’re the Texans

If it were madden though it’s way easier to make a comeback lol

It was everyone. Not gonna single out coach.

Shula's bad drafting started in the mid-80s. Have a look. It's really sad.

TheSacko Marino would not let them draft a QB. So there was no a smooth transition from his retirement. Hs plagued the Dolphins organization for years

@@TrevWILL79 .... i don't like to read your comment but now that i think about it & see Marino's personality off the field, i gotta agree.... his pride stood in the way of other potential QB's... Marino felt he "owned Miami" & Shula totally agreed, it was like ," this is our team whether we win or not... everybody loves us"... idiots.

Boo Ya actually you two are both wrong so u can't agree to something that isn't factual. Marino wanted to play in 2000, Wandstead didn't want him to and he had no relationship with the organization anymore so he retired because prideful that he played for one franchise his whole career

Still not as bad as the Patriots going 1-1 against the Giants and 17-0 against the rest of the NFL.

That's pretty crazy

and then lost the super bowl

McJohnson Tennessee stole our playbook

Don't forget that great superbowl ending too 😊

SuperBoomshack And they demolished it 10 years ago. Could this be a curse?

DJ Trankilo it's never been the same since they moved

+SuperBoomshack Since 1974 sea of hands game. Bob Griese was something. 45 yrs of royal dissapointments. Only undefeated team in NFL history 1972. Even Dolphin uniforms are ugly now.

Snake Oiler 12 yeah, it's pretty sad but at least they have super bowl wins. A lot of the teams have zero.

BRENT WILLE i have heard that along with there is a santeria curse put on the team

Actually, they weren't. In their inaugural season of 1976 they were in the NFC West while the Bucs were in the AFC West. True story.

@@Rockhound6165 That's wrong lol up until 2002 the seattle seahawks were in the AFC central and the tampa bay buccaneers were in the nfc central. In 2002 they added a 4th division to both conferences and realigned them. That's when seattle moved to the NFC

William Yeager Sorry Mr. Yeager, but Studa Baker is correct. They switched conferences after 1976, the first season for both of them. Buccaneers started in the AFC and switched to the NFC in 1977, where they remain today. The Seahawks started in the NFC in 1976, then moved to the AFC in 1977 where they remained until 2001 when they switched back to the NFC in 2002 as part of realignment.

@@wtyeager um, really dude? I guess you don't have Google on your computer to look up the 1976 NFL Season? Congratulations for making yourself look like a smacked ass with your little 'lol' when you are 100% wrong. Next time go to this site before looking stupider: www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1976/

@@Rockhound6165 You are wrong my friend. Seahawks started out in the NFC West, Buc's in the AFC West, then they switched in 77. They were like that until the NFL realigned in the early 2000's. I wish the Seahawk's were still in the AFC West. They had quite the rivalry with the Raiders.

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Winner

Bruh

He is a murderer

Wasnt his last game so that failed

he would of been fired by 1994 if They didnt Literally R @ pe the Vikings

@@raggamuffin2682 Jimmy's issue was like most coaches who won alot throughout their careers They never adjust to their new players he assumed that his I formation would just work and when you don't have the same talent on the oline the running game will get nowhere And funny enough once Dave Wannstedt got their , the running game got better and the defense was always dominate during his run their until the 2-14 year

Me me me

To be fair Brees basically broke his entire body a few months before.

Wish it didn’t have to be him 😔

The Masoko I’ve had many dreams that they brought Dan back and he does well in his later years. Like I keep saying Dan made a few mistakes, but the offensive line and defense was weak. I would love to see an analysis of what really happened that day. Considering they had a great game a weak before, what happened to the team? At least Dan made sure it wasn’t a shut out with his TD pass. He was one of the greatest and I miss seeing him play. So many other blow outs too with other teams. What happens to the team that loses that blowout? It would make an interesting study.

@@ericsilberstein667 ....I dunno man, I watched that game and while the offensive line wasn't like great or anything, they certainly weren't in the lower half of the league's lines. He just straight up laid an egg, played very poorly, it was as if there was something wrong with his arm to be honest... He also was clearly quite immobile by that point as well, and that certainly didn't help either. His play essentially sapped all of the rest of the love Jimmy Johnson had for coaching the game right out of him...

SeGa32xXx He was definitely hurt that year, but every time I watch the highlights I see the issues came from the entire team. Most scores were scored on their defense. This explains quite a lot. Dan Marino didn’t lose the game. The entire team did. The great Jason Taylor talks about how everyone collapsed. miamiherald.typepad.com/dolphins_in_depth/2009/12/editors-note-the-following-post-contains-material-not-suited-for-dolphins-fans-with-weak-stomachs-fragile-dispositions-or.html

*you're

Aside from 2008 and 2016 the Dolphins have been an irrelevant joke since this game.

danzyl u are a fake Dolphin fan. Go someplace else. We don’t need u.

Be nice of the Dolphins and Bills could provide some resistance to the Cheatriots.

danzyl Dan didn’t lose that game. The entire team clocked out before they got started. Dan made a few mistakes, but the offensive line was weak and the defense did even less. We had some good years after that, but no QB as great as Dan or coach as Don Shula. Add a lousy owner...

Well, I guess the laces were out. Wait, is it in or-

Don't look now, but the Milwaukee Brewers are now an NL team.

Funny thing is that the Seahawks were an NFC team before they were an AFC team before they returned to the NFC...

@@sce2aux464 and the buccaneers were an AFC team before moving to the NFC

Colts use to be in the AFC East with the Miami Dolphins.

@@RenaldyCalixte - After they had been an old NFL team, Coastal conference. And an All America Football Conference team before that. Actually, they started their history as the Miami Seahawks...

His HOF career helped him deal with this

It is pretty awesome as a Jags fan. Pretty much all downhill from here. F**ing Titans...

Nah. Not really. Never liked Marino.

Naw as a Jets fan this was penance for the fake spike.

I only remember this game because of the one field goal that barely made it over the crossbar lol

I feel like the jags fans even had to be like "damn, this is how we win?"

The point was he was never anywhere near a Marino

32playaplay he said “inferior” you say “never” , but in fact Marino was the inferior QB in this game and the final years of his career! I’m just saying Brunell was a Pro Bowler that year and he said “inferior” and lumped Brunell and Fiedler in the same. Fiedler was the inferior qb not Brunell!

He was average. He never put more than 23 TD Passes in a season, he was under 20 TD Passes a year, so he was average, at best.

Andew70 lmao he had 48 in a season ?? Which broke a record that was in the 30’s ??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Brunell Here is his stats, he never threw 30 .. www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrunMa00.htm and he only threw for 4,000 plus yards... Once... he was average.

Possibly Drew Brees Edit: But Drew gets extra hurt points for his loss being to Tom Brady

When a guy reaches the cliff and falls off, the plummet is fast and ugly.

Yep. Jimmy Johnson. So committed to running and then basically forced Dan to win games with 3rd and long situations

The Turnovers didn't help.

If Dan Were On The Broncos He'd Have 2 Super Bowl Rings Like His Cohort Elway

I remember that game. 20 - 0, Cowboys. It was brutal.

I think Marino threw them 5 interceptions just to get back at Jimmy Johnson for destroying his career in the end !

​@@futuregohan4837😂😂😂😂 comparing Turtle Marino with John Elway, who always knows how to win playoffs games

For sure looked like on purpose

Or perhaps "the worst statistical team to ever make the finals in any sport".

Worst Super Bowl is easy. Super Bowl V. Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13. 11 turnovers, 2 missed field goals, a missed extra point, and the Colts only touchdown was scored by deflecting off of one Colt and two Cowboys. It was so bad that it's the only Super Bowl where the MVP was from the losing team (Cowboys LB Chuck Howley).

2007 cavs is the worst team to make the finals

Anthony Kernich 2000-01 76ers... AI, Dikembe Mutombo, and not much else...

To be fair to them, they won 56 games and 1 game in the finals.

I don't think Brees could beat Marino having 4 turnovers, barely any completions, getting blown out 62-7, playing so bad his hall of fame coach retired, and getting benched in the 2nd half

@@jasontodd6747 good point, may have overreacted a bit there, it just felt like brees had more to play for and has performed so well in games like this before, but you’re definitely right, hard to top that kind of embarrassment

fr he was pretty muc the exact same as marino with that noodle arm he was lucky he had that defense.

To be fair though, he had no feeling in his fingertips, nerve damage messed up one of the greatest arms of all time

At least that forces people to remember that it's a team game. People too often act like the SB record of a QB is only due to his own performance.

Payback for being let down by his defense at times, his D won him a second super bowl. He could barely through past the line of scrimmage his last year.

But he didn't got whopped 62-7

Shut up

Just one more thing that made it that much more sad.

2007 has to be the one for that, absolutely garbage final, boring as hell

Wasn't that when Alfredsson shot at Niedermayer early in the series?

THANK YOU

What do you expect, it’s Gary Bettman

It's gotta be 2011 Canucks-Bruins.

My brother was a huge Dan Marino fan sadly he passed away in 96 but hell or high water he supported him

He's GOAT for being a disappointment

Carried them to what? Mediocrity?

actually no one gets what they deserve there is no destiny what bullshit sb nation if everyone gets what they deserved humanity is going extinct too like that creature or sb nation is getting taken off youtube

Ｙｕｎｇ Ｖｕｌｐｉｘ it should have just been "life isn't fair, and we get what we get"

I was puzzled by it. Also wondering Dan had done wrong, unless you fault him for not retiring earlier.

And the Steelers (his hometown team) and he also declined (this was something he mentioned when the NFL network had the "Pa quarterback legends" special

Only he didn't get blown out

@@spinner9057 Brees had a better supporting cadt

Well, the problem was during Marino's tenure as a Dolphin they lacked a run game. That's pretty much why he bowed out in the Super Bowl because there wasn't a Csonka to run up the middle to open up the pass when 49ers shut down the pass. Jimmy should've tried to trade up in the draft for a top tier RB prospect if he was determined to run the ball. I also think Dolphins receiving core left a lot to be desired, too.

There is no such thing as a “2nd team” it just means you have no loyalty

Jaguars RBs always seem to have career games against the Steelers. Weird.

weakbrainthrombosis yep.

i know this is 2 years ago but the " we get what we deserve" is meant to be a negative statement saying bad things should and will happen to you

I agree that he deserves respect. I think Shula and Marino basically ushered the shotgun snap back into the NFL, also. Imagine the game without it. He was a tremendous talent. I do wonder about his leadership qualities though. I think they may have fallen short of the best quarter backs of all time. Puts him just below Montana, Peyton, Unitas, Tom Brady, and a couple others. Being the best qb to never win a superbowl does give him some recognition and because of this his name will never be forgotten. Whereas plenty of qb who have won superbowls will just slip away from the memory of the common fan.

Thomas Block if you look back at the stats , they rarely had a top 10 defense , not many teams win a super bowl without a good defense and no running game 🤷🏻‍♂️ put Marino in the cowboys offense and take Aikman out.. and then Marino is the goat 🤷🏻‍♂️ just saying

32playaplay, Aikman was also very good and is one of those superbowl winners that is never brought up when talking about the greatest qbs of all time. Whereas Marino usually gets mentioned. I don't necessarily disagree with you, however, it is an unknowable thing, we can't just insert a player into a different team and pretend that we can know precisely what the outcome would be. Heard that same argument all of the time with Barry Sanders. "If he played with Dallas then he would be far better than Emmitt Smith." Well, if he would have played with Dallas then all of the Lions fans that made that declaration wouldn't have liked him anyway. At least not to the same extent. Marino was a great player, whose best comparison is probably Brady. Brady plays for a better organization but Shula was no joke and the Dolphins have a rich history. Still, I think that Brady may have him in the leadership area. Marino was more talented from day one of his career until his mid-thirties when his arm strength lessened while Brady's has remained. I guess the better question is, could Montana or Elway have won a super bowl with the exact same team that Marino led? I sure don't know.

​@@thomasblock1164stop please stop lol, are you comparing Elway and Montana with the Turtle Dan Marino 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣the turtle who always in a big game made a dumb mistakes, i never saw Montana throwing dumb interceptions like the turtle, even Aikman, i preffer Brunell than turtle i cant win a playoff game" Marino, you can ask to any coach if he preffers Turtle Marino rather than Steve Young for example.

​@@juanpabloperez9063That's why all you ever hear about is what Marino did in regular season. Nobody wants to talk about how he usually choked in the playoffs

So his flawless transition was sarcasm?

I know it's a stupid question but this has me very confused

He’s a perfectionist and expects a lot out of himself. You can’t be a great competitor like Dan and not hold yourself to a high standard, even if it’s something silly like saying lines on TV.

The best baseball player ever

Best olympic curling champ ever

you obviously meant to say chad pennington, the greatest qb to ever grace our televisions.

Ryan leaf=GOAT

its hard to argue with that logic...

I would say the Sea of Hands was their worst game. Could have gone to 4 SBs in a row and 3 peated.

The Jaguars were 15-0 against everyone not named the Tennessee Titans that year. They were 0-3 against the Titans. Talk about buzzards luck.

+Life in the 413 Don’t you mean 14-0? If they lost the Titans twice in the regular season that means they went 14-0. As there’s only a 60 game schedule in the regular season since there’s one by week.

TheSSUltimateGoku - I'm sure he's counting this, (the playoff win over the Dolphins), as the 15th total victories that year, regular season and playoffs combined.

All the Jags wins that season excluding the playoff win were teams that didn't finish over .500. Most overrated team of all time.

Fascinating

There are Fans in Jacksonville? You could never tell when they show 30 thousand empty seats.

royal priest don't bite on troll bait he can't even say who his team is at least we are true fans

John McKeon it was ironically Karma for the MLS with holding Kewayne Jones (Trinidad’s best player) from leaving his MLS team when the US players left a week before the game in Colorado. Atlanta FC said they needed him, but the game they said they needed him for, he didn’t even play. Then released him two days before the game versus the US. The US won 2-0 in Colorado. It’s no surprise that Karma would then haunt the US for its biased decision during that game in Colorado with the US losing 2-1 and missing WC.

David NEC Imagine being some nobody named Dave Wannstedt and saying you don't want DAN MARINO as your QB

True, but at least it wasn't this.

his overall numbers were solid in that game. he threw a pick in the 4th quarter though. Game was still in reach. What hurts more is that the Chiefs went 13-3 the following year, and lost to the colts in the playoffs, where they would have probably benefited from montana.

...his 49ers game WAS.

@@chrislangford3014 Why would they have needed Montana if they went 13-3. Your comment makes no sense.

@@dhart8451 cause he’s the 🐐 duh