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I met Dan Marino in a Starbucks in Weston, FL and I knew he didn't like being recognized in public so i just gave him a knowing smile and he winked back at me and it made my year. Legend.
@@angelvalle9963 Really? From what I’ve seen he’s one of the nicest people outside of football that the league has produced. He funded the construction of a children’s hospital and seemed to genuinely love doing charity events and interacting with special needs kids. Maybe he was just having a rough day.
Four back-to-back Super Bowl appearances and all ended in losses. • Regular Season record: 13-3 (1st AFC East) Super Bowl XXV - New York Giants - Score: 19-20 (1990-91 season) • Regular Season record: 13-3 (1st AFC East) Super Bowl XXVI - Washington Redskins - Score: 37-24 (1991-92 season) • Regular Season record: 11-5 (2nd AFC East) Super Bowl XXXVII - Dallas Cowboys - Score: 52-17 (1992-93 season) • Regular Season record: 12-4 (1st AFC East) Super Bowl XXVII - Dallas Cowboys - Score: 30-13 (1993-94 season) {*Hall of Famers from those teams: Coach Marv Levy, Jim Kelly, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, James Lofton, etc.}
@TheWhiteWhale I think they were still the second-best team in 91', but I think both the Cowboys and 49ers were better in 92-93'. The Giants played a near-perfect game to win SB XXV, but credit where credit is due. The Bills just weren't as sharp that night as in previous weeks. They also weren't used to the physicality of the Giants.
Not even Marino showing up at the start of the 2nd half could save the Dolphins in that Super Bowl. The highlight of that 2nd half though was that random dude beating up Swoop the Eagle on the sideline!
I was a huge football fan during the 80's through the mid 90's. Both Don Shula and Jimmy Johnson tried to help out Dan by developing a running game. I just didn't pan out. Dan had the same problem John Elway had: namely he had to carry the team. Fortunately for John, Denver got Tyrell Davis and a good defense and he won two rings. Dan, no such luck.
David Woody was Qb & they Rb Tony Nathan how was good RB but not GREAT, 1981 1982 Miami D Teams did have a little success but Qb 2) Don Strock was a big help too.
100% Put Tom Brady on any of those teams Dan was there, and he doesn’t win one either. It takes a TEAM to win a Super Bowl and Brady has always a stacked deck. Much like Montana and the 49ers.
Dan Marino is the classic example of the fact that it takes more than just a great quarterback to win the Super bowl. Super bowls are won by TEAMS, not players only.
Totally agree with you. One player or the QB isn't responsible for fumbling on the kick off, or the QB is not responisible for giving up 30+ points, or the defense holds the other team to 10 points but their own offense only scores 3, etc. Football is the ultimate team sport where all 11 players on the field has to do their job in order for something to work out. One player miss their assignment can be lethal. Great teams win champion and not a single player.
Word... TB12 is the best example. One of the reasons he takes pay cuts is because he knows exactly that. If the Bucs don’t have all those replacement lineman and weapons on offense and defense they don’t win it.. and you need a whole lot of luck.
This is why I’m so sick of people saying that Tom Brady is the only reason that the Patriots were a dynasty and that Bill Belichick was not a good coach.
@@wakawaka1976 , I wholeheartedly agree. Brady was on the bench screaming like a 10 year old girl on Malcolm Butler’s interception. Clutch field goals, a pick, and defense was the key in four or five of those SB wins.
@Harry Engel I agree with what you're saying, but I think there's a enough to talk about to make it interesting, especially between the Lions' struggles at QB (specifically with Scott Mitchell), and the rise of the Green Bay Packers after 1992. Plus, I don't know anyone that's tired of talking about Barry Sanders.
@@avet4521 No Im saying the year the Heaters broke on the Chargers side in cincy cost the Chargers the superbowl because Dan Fouts would of beat Joe Montana in the superbowl
I remember the Marino years well, the owners of the Dolphins never really tried to build a contender around Marino. Had Marino played for The Cowboys or even the 49ers he might have become the greatest of all time. But the Dolphins ownership, never tried to give him a team ready to contend for the Superbowl.
They had a defense called the Killer Bees, and 2 great wide receivers Clayton and Duper. He had a solid team. They went 14-2 in 84. What do you mean they weren't ready? They just played a better team in the SB
Exactly Frank, one man does not a Superbowl make. The Dolphins probably had one or two years with a descent defense durning his career, and throughout the rest of his career the defense was a complete joke. Aside from Dan, the offense didn't fare much better, boasting nothing more than a couple solid receivers throughout the entirety of his career. Marino never had a good running back to work with at all and besides Duper and Clayton, no other household names on the team during his time there, period. So, one's gotta hand it to the man to accomplish all that he did in spite it all.
@@dnasty312 0:52 He didn’t win a title because he never had a consistently good and dependable Running Back. PERIOD. End of story. I watched the entire thing unfold. The same was true for JOHN ELWAY, until he got Terrell Davis. If not for Terrell Davis, you could make the same video about John Elway. Terry Bradshaw had Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, Bob Griese had Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, Joe Montana had Roger Craig and Tom Rathman, Joe Theismann had John Riggins, Jim Plunkett had Marcus Allen, and Dan Marino didn’t have anybody who consistently came through. It cost him 2 or 3 Super Bowl Titles.
@@troyhaskins6107 0:52 He didn’t win a title because he never had a consistently good and dependable Running Back. PERIOD. End of story. I watched the entire thing unfold. The same was true for JOHN ELWAY, until he got Terrell Davis. If not for Terrell Davis, you could make the same video about John Elway. Terry Bradshaw had Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, Bob Griese had Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, Joe Montana had Roger Craig and Tom Rathman, Joe Theismann had John Riggins, Jim Plunkett had Marcus Allen, and Dan Marino didn’t have anybody who consistently came through. It cost him 2 or 3 Super Bowl Titles.
I watched NFL Network's biography on Marino, and they ask him directly about never winning a Super Bowl. Marino, not wanting to lie because he's an awesome guy like that....gets rather emotional when reflecting. He was holding back tears. He admits that of course he wishes he had won a Super Bowl, and he's well aware of the blemish. Marino's mother was also interviewed and she was even more candid. She made it sound like it is something that weighs on him, constantly. I could not help but just feel absolutely horrible for Marino after watching that. Football is a team sport. I don't think Marino's career should be diminished because of no Super Bowl ring. The same as Jim Kelly with the Bills.
On a CBS pre-game show years ago Boomer Esiason said something about a quarterback not wanting end up not winning a Super Bowl like Dan Marino...while Dan Marino was sitting next to him. Marino just looked at him and asked "and how many Super Bowls did *you* win?"
It just sucks. And for some reason I watched this video thinking it would bring me some peace of mind about it. I started watching football in 94 and I had no idea it would be the last great Marino season.
I actually think they did a pretty bad job relating how good he really was. He destroyed records at the time and they stood until the likes of Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Drew Brees came along in a 2010's era that saw an absolute explosion in the use of the shotgun formation, yards, and attempts per game. Not too mention many QB and WR friendly rule changes. Marino also played opposite maybe the 10 OR 20 greatest pass rushers of all time during his career. Guys like Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, Bruce Smith, John Randle, Derrick Thomas, Chris Doleman, and Clyde Simmons. Scary AF.
The most impressive thing about Marino that rarely gets talked about, but was the primary reason for his "quick release," was how fast he could read a defense. His footwork was also very underrated. He wasn't a "scrambler" per se, but his movement in the pocket was a major reason why he was able to avoid sacks..it wasn't just his line.
Same with Brady with the pocket presence and getting the ball out fast. People don't get you don't need to run around, just slight steps in the pocket can give you plenty or time to find a read.
If he had these amazing, impressive skills then where did they go during playoff time? Of the 18 he played, he only had 5 games over a 100 passer rating and 3 of those were with 30 or less passing attempts. He had 12 postseason games with over 30 passing attempts, and in 8 of those his passer rating falls to below 80. Where did his defensive reading skills go to in those 8 critical games?
@@RurbanWalker Yes, PER SE..as in Marino was not a "running" QB, or particularly good at scrambling outside the pocket, and he would probably be the first to admit that. But within the pocket he was slippery..especially early in his career before he wrecked his knees. Marino was very deft at moving his feet WITHIN THE POCKET. His low sack totals weren't just due to his O line. It's one of the reasons why it was so dangerous to blitz him (as the Bears found out rather rudely in their lone loss in 85).
@@roland7584 Gee, the 43 other players on his team couldn't have had anything to do with that..or the fact that Miami never had a decent running game. John Elway got embarrassed in his first three super bowls but won his last two. The difference came down to two words: Terrell and Davis.
I'd also say that Barry Sanders and Megatron deserve a video, but you could sum up the reason why they never won a title in seven words: They both played for the Detroit Lions.
Saw Dan the Man at Miami airport and was shocked that he had no one with him. So I went up to him to shake his hand and asked for a pic and he gladly said yes. Best sports moment of my life on meeting my héroe……he was also so buzzed lol.
Marino is the best example, out of several good examples, of how a top tier player cannot always be measured by rings. Dude is near the top of every stat category and he played in a totally different league than we have now. Very violent and not pass-happy. Arguably, with modern rules and play calling he might be at the top of all those record books still. But no rings. You point to rings, you’re pointing to the defense and the running backs and the line and the receiving corps and coaching staff and the training staff and the GM… it’s not just a QB.
He's also proof that one man can't do it alone. A great QB might keep you in the playoffs on a consistent basis on his own but it takes a team to win a championship.
if if if if..... stop overrated turtle Marino, he always choked in playoffs makes dumb interceptions, he chokes in 1992 AFC championship game in Joe Ruby stadium against the bills, please stop, he wasnt that good. and he was a lazy turtle who never worked in athleticism
if if if if..... stop overrated turtle Marino, he always choked in playoffs makes dumb interceptions, he chokes in 1992 AFC championship game in Joe Ruby stadium against the bills, please stop, he wasnt that good. and he was a lazy turtle who never worked in athleticism
Zack The Chargers are the only team with the #1 offense and defense to not know not win a Super Bowl but not make the playoffs. He in no way should he blamed for the years of bad special teams and ownership
Dan Marino had the best throwing motion and mechanics, with a perfect release. The best Dolphins team in the 90s that should have won the Super Bowl could not beat the Buffalo Bills.
@@douglasdixon524 WOW!!! All respect to Dan Marino but you are not being real. If he couldn't beat the Bills, how was he gonna win the Super Bowl. Losing or not, going to the SUPER BOWL FOUR TIMES IN A ROW IS AWESOME#BILLSMAFIA..... P.S We will win when we go this time!!!😉
As a saints fan born and raised in New Orleans I'm so grateful that our saints under Drew Brees won their one and only Superbowl in the 2009 season or else this documentary could be about him as well.
Don't forget the refs STEALING that game from the Saints to get the Rams into the super bowl just after they moved to the LA (for the TV market share, I guess)
Right? That'd be good he was always close those browns chiefs and chargers teams were good ones. He was always known for being too conservative and too focused on clock control.
Marino, like Elway during the same period, were undone by the lack of running game around them, making them and the passing game the sole focus of defenses. Fortunately for Elway, Mike Shanahan and Terrell Davis came along
YES. Let me say it again - YES! Go back to the Miami Dolphins undefeated season which they capped off by winning the Superbowl. Do the names Csonka, Kiick, and Morris sound familiar? Of course. They had 3 great running backs Poor Dan had to work with the likes of Lorenzo Hampton, Troy Stradford , and Sammie Smith. Not exactly Hall of Famers. Hell, not even Pro Bowlers. Dan was forced to throw the ball 50 times a game. Everyone knew what was coming. It's a tribute to Dan's skill that he won as many games as he did. He deserved better. And Francois point about Elway is very well taken. As good as he was, Elway never won a Superbowl until he had Terrell Davis. All of a sudden Elway didn't have to carry the team on his back A Joe Namath quote says it all - "A quarterback's best friend is a good running game."
FALSE! Marino apologists make this claim all the time. But what do the FACTS say? Fact check: Marino was drafted by a team that rode its run game to the Super Bowl woth David Woodley at quarterback.
@@jackcarraway4707 That's an absurd and stupid non-sequitur. The Dolphins running game being good before Marino arrived doesn't mean it was good while he was there. And it wasn't. Starting in Marino's rookie year (1983), here's where the Dolphins ranked in yards/rushing attempt: 23rd, 16th, 18th, 4th, 10th, 23rd, 28th, 26th, 21st, 20th, 26th, 10th, 23rd, 21st, 30th, 30th, and 28th. That's three top 10 finishes in 17 seasons, with an average ranking of 21st. And they were that ineffective on a rate basis even though opposing defenses likely spent the bulk of their preparation on the Dolphins' passing game. That, to state the blindingly obvious, is very not good.
@@moedoe188 you clearly didn't watch football then. Or have any Google skills. This is a team sport u don't win the superbowl with a amazing team with "clutch" players all around. Btw Most people can't name a single dolphins receiver, or defensive player. Especially in the second half of his career 🤔 what u think that means
This is one of the best videos about Dan Marino's NFL playoff career that has ever been made! One day they'll make a real documentary movie about him as well?
@@murray1978 Doc Rivers screwed T-Mac. Duncan was going to join the Magic along with Grant Hill and T-Mac, but Duncan was told by Doc that significant others were not allowed to ride on the team plane and that did not sit well with his wife who wanted to stay in San Antonio.
22 years later and the Miami Dolphins still are desperately looking for the "Marino replacement". That's how good he was and how important he was to the sports psychy of South Florida.
Hope they dont neglect a solid RB like they did during Dan's run otherwise they won't be getting a Chip no time soon. Solid QB & RB is how you stay a PO contender
They will never replace Dan Marino ever! They should just focus on creating a team or looking for whatever great talent there is that they can get, they owe Miami fans for all of their team management mistakes and I would say not shaping a dynasty around Dan Marino, instead they usually had one of the worst defenses in the league and Marino and whoever carry the offense...
In 1982, the year before Marino arrived, the Dolphins had the third best rushing offense in the NFL, including the league's 2nd leading rusher in Andra Franklin. The lack of running game was down to Shula being so enamored with Marino that he overused him to the exclusion of any other facet of their offense.
Since the Dolphins last won the Super Bowl in 1973 it seemed they petered out overall. They should’ve beaten Washington in 1982 though as they were favored
@@RYMAN1321 82 was lost because of garbage quarterback play that left their defense on the field for too long. They corrected that problem but then they let the defense go to seed after 84 and it never did make a full recovery to what it was in the early days with Shula.
having been a long time dolphin fan i've spent a lot of time thinking about marino. the best explanation i can come with is that he was so talented that his team won 4 or so games every year that they had no business winning, which resulted in the team having worse draft picks and tougher schedules.
Schedules are already predetermined for the most part. That has nothing to do with it. If they had a tough schedule it was merely a coincidence or they had other good teams in their division year in, and year out.
@@shawnchristianson324 - Wrong. While 8 of your 16 games were against your division rivals, the other 8 were based on your record and the records of your opponents from the previous year. Prior to the realignment of 2002: 1st place finisher: played 1st and 2nd in one division, 1st and 3rd in the other 2nd place finisher: played 2nd and 4th in one division, 1st and 2nd in the other 3rd place finisher: played 1st and 3rd in one division, 3rd and 5th in the other 4th place finisher: played 4th and 5th in one division, 2nd and 4th in the other 5th place finisher: played 3rd and 5th in one division, 4th and 5th in the other There were similar rules for the non conference games as well. This is why you are wrong, as Miami would player tougher schedules regularly than if they had otherwise lost more games.
@@michaelthorpe1869 What? You're telling me Shula was coaching for at least a decade after the game had passed him by? And their GMs never got the hang of free agency? How can this be, they had the undefeated season in which they beat TWO whole teams with a winning record in the 14 game season.
The Dolphins of the late 80s were very similar to the Saints team of 2014-2016. Both teams had potent offenses that ranked near the top of the league and quarterbacks who were setting one record after another but their defenses ranked near or at the bottom. For this reason, both teams were not playoff contenders during those periods.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I don't think that's true. In Peyton's 14 seasons with the Colts, the team made the playoffs 11 times, won a Super Bowl and made it to another. How can this compare to the Dolphins of the late 80s?
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 Believe me. The Colts had a magnificent offense, but their D was as porous as cheese cloth. With Manning's PO blues, had the '06 D not played with equal magnificence for 3 of those 4 PO games he'd have 0 SBs at Indy. Go check their D stats for the Manning years.
@Sonny Jim they couldn't run the ball at all. Teams thinking they can TOTALLY abandon the run will damn near never win Chips. Gotta pass,playaction and RUN the ball to keep defense off-balance not just throw 4 quarters straight
@@krambone You do know about Kurt Warner and the Rams in '99? His Defense gave up 37 pts. in that 1st playoff game so Warner threw 5 TD passes and led his team to a 49-37 win. He had no running game in all 3 playoff games that year. Kurt ended with over 1,000 yds. passing in those 3 games while his backs ended with around 100 yds. for those 3 games.
It’s pretty well known that Marino and the Dolphins gave the ‘85 Bears their only loss. I would have liked to see a rematch in the SB and I’ll never understand how the Patriots beat the Dolphins in the AFC Championship.
People only focus on the QB matchup in the '85 AFC Championship but the Pats were very talented beyond the...wonky QB battle. They had 2 first team All Pro guys: Andre Tippett at outside linebacker and especially John Hannah, one of the greatest guards of all time. Indeed, before the Brady/Belichick era, Hannah was hands down the best player in Pats history To SB's point on Miami's porous run defense, throwing that defense against a top offensive line, that was a huge mismatch. Pats had ~250 yds on the ground and were top 5 in rushing attempts. Combine it with subpar throwing weather? On paper it seems like a confusing win, the team with Marino lost to the team with Tony freakin Eason, but the stats of the game make sense
The Patriots had a better team overall and a very good running game that decimated Miami's defense. Miami's biggest issue during Marino's tenure was the run game on both sides of the ball. They just couldn't figure it out.
When I watch highlights of any great QB, they look like the best to ever play. When I watch Marino highlights, I don't know how anyone could possibly be better.
@@joshdude273 warren threw as many interceptions as he did tds damn near even with the defensive rules of today he not doing what Rodgers did Rodgers had 50k passing yards with 412tds to 89int you don’t just become that efficient because of new rules
I watched Dan play in that era, and in my opinion, He was and still is the very best all around quarterback of all time. I have always been a Chicago Bears fan, and back in the 85 season, I still have nightmares of Dan and the Mark brothers tearing up that Bears secondary. I always wondered what that Super Bowl would have been if the Bears would have faced off again against Dan and the Dolphins.
I always thought Dans lack of mobility exposed him during the playoffs. Montana Aikmen Young Elway all had the legs to get them 1st downs. Montana threw 100s TDs outside the pocket.
if if if if..... stop overrated turtle Marino, he always choked in playoffs makes dumb interceptions, he chokes in 1992 AFC championship game in Joe Ruby stadium against the bills, please stop, he wasnt that good. and he was a lazy turtle who never worked in athleticism
I still remember that 4th qt comeback against the colts where he pulled an audible despite not being allowed to by JJ, where he identified an opening prior to snapping and completed a deep pass instead. It was hard to argue with the results lol... they’d go on to win that one.
Marino is one of my all-time favs. As a Pitt fan, I always thought he seemed to really struggle in poor weather. Almost all his poor games were in rain and/or snow. I think it affected his amazing release. Still, if my Steelers had drafted him, they likely win at least 2 Super Bowls. Heartbreaking.
This entire episode was beautifully written, but that last minute is POWERFUL. I grew up in South Florida and Dan Marino was football. He brought in a lot of the ride or die fans that are around today. Really miss these days.
I was just wondering where the Dan Marino untitled was and here it is! Now, I have been asking for years to please make a rewinder of the 1991 World Series! One of the best of all time with tons of memorable moments. not to mention the storyline of both teams being the worst the year before and the start of the Braves dominance in the 90s
I remember that Dolphins-Jags playoff game vividly: The sprinklers came on in the endzone! Even the announcers couldn't contain their laughter! Dan the Man is another one of those legends (Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Calvin Johnson, Barry Sanders) to retire without a ring. Sad, man.
Barkley and Ewing have a much better excuse though. The only chances they really had were the 2 years when Jordan took some time off and The Dream took care of that. Outside of that, they had the Lakers, Celtics, Pistons, and Jordan to contend with. I would love to see someone interview defensive coordinators and defensive players from Marino's era to see if they picked up on something that Marino did at the line when it was a running play. It seems nearly impossible that for almost 2 decades not one running back could really do anything while he was there.
Marino was a great QB with strong arm, not very mobile, but mobile enough. Great WRs, but really never great RBs. Defense was usually Miami's weaknesses. His early years, Miami owned the AFC East and only had to worry about the NY Jets. Mid-late '80s. Occasionally the Indy Colts and NE Pats. They loss to a very good SF team in the Super Bowl in 1984 The next year they were favored to get back to the Super Bowl but were upset by the Patriots in the playoffs. Then during most of Marino's peak years, the late '80s - mid '90s. Bad timing! The Buffalo Bills became very good. Much more complete team (offense, defense, special teams). The Bills own the AFC East from the late '80s - mid '90s and were elite. Miami could never get over the hump in the playoffs and normally were outed by the Bills. The Bills owned Miami during those years . By the late '90s/early '00s the Bills and Dolphins both got a little older and faded a little. Younger teams like the Patriots, Colts and Jets got better those teams started winning the AFC East. The Dolphins and Bills window had closed by the early '00s
Yes running game sucked and defense not very good at all vs the better offenses in the league at that team. Also their coaches needed some new blood. Just bad luck on another team he gets his superbowl.
Been a long time for both teams. Miami last won a SB back in the '70s. While the Bills last won a championship (AFL) back in the '60s, Pre-SB years. Some day it will happen for both teams.
And Turtle Marino always throw dumb interceptions in important games 1992 AFC championship in Miami, and loss to Buffalo because Turtle Marino was in control
Nick Foles, Jeff Hostetler, Doug Williams and Brad Johnson each have one as well. I’m kind of iffy about Jim Plunkett as well but some might toss him in the category of middling NFL QBs who managed to win a title as a starter, or in his case two rings.
Dolphins were not beating the Bills 2 times in one year back then. It was only the hatred the two teams had for each other that allowed the Dolphins to even compete. The Bills were better everywhere than the Dolphins except qb.
It wasn't just Marino's injury that sunk them, it was Mitchell also getting hurt and most of the D as well. Add on top of that a brutal 3-game stretch that saw them face the Giants, Bills and Steelers (all playoff teams that season) and then the Chargers who literally always beat them in San Diego at that time.
I'm a Bills fan but always admired how great Marino was. Whether it was Marino's fault or not, in the NFL (even now but especially back then) if you can't run, you can't win. Same reason Elway didn't get a ring till he got TD
I disagree. John Elway was always an athlete. It just that Denver discovered Terrell Davis along with getting the complimentary pieces to boot. But make no mistake about it. John was the center piece of that team and the owner at the time made sure he had one last shot at it. And he got the ring ✌️
Yeah Denver had a subpar running game for most of Elway's career but it was the defense that really stank up the field in Elway's early Super Bowl loses. In 86 he kept them in the game until the third quarter before the Denver did fell apart and got some very unlucky breaks (The Bavaro TD pass comes to mind) In 87 by all rights they shouldn't have even been there since Cleveland had that game won before the "fumble". And once again it was the defense that just got completely torched by Washington and a no name running back that had one great moment and a journeyman quarterback that got hot at just the right moment. By the time Davis arrived in Denver they had also done a lot to fix their problems on the defensive side of the ball as well and it made an enormous difference in those two Super Bow victories in the 90s. You have to have some offense but you absolutely can not win a championship with a substandard defense. Which brings us to the Bills who by all rights should have at least beaten New York, since that team had a great defense and offense. The loss to Washington was equally shocking. However the loss to Dallas wasn't surprising because they really ran into a buzz saw on both sides of the game when they played those Cowboys teams.
Even though I was born the same year he was inducted into the HOF, Marino is still my favourite player of all time and the fact that he never won a Super Bowl still really hurts
@@fivehundrediq5212 they didn't have rush defense. Its damn near no team that you can find in SB era that won Chip 🏆 that didn't have neither run/Rush offense or run/Rush defense.
@@krambone They didn’t have a rush defense because they had to spend all their draft picks and cap money on having a great offensive line because Dan unfortunately became increasingly immobile
He never had a running game or a defense. It was always hey Dan we are down again can you go win this game for us. Look at how many QBs they have had since he left. Should prove it right there.
I grew up a huge Dolphins fanatic and watched the Fins since Shula's arrival in '70 through Dan's retirement in 2000. From my vantage point the 70's perfect teams were built like magic with hall of famers signed as free agents and low cost trades and some key high draft picks. Those teams were loaded with talent and with Shula pushing them you ended up with three SB's in a row and the perfect '72 season. After that the Dolphins came close several times but other AFC teams just had more talent when we had very good teams (Bills for their run as examples) and the Dolphins with Dan always had a chance to win so our record was always good so we never got blue chip draft picks and there were always teams that had been down and then rebuilt with blue chip draft talent (The Patriots before Belicheck had like seven 1st round draft picks on their team at one point). With Shula's solid coaching and Dan under center we never drafted high and the couple times we did they either got hurt early in their career or were flops.
Me too. I was 10. They had a team built to beat Pittsburgh the next week. The only other time I got so frustrated was when they held the lead for the entire game vs the Colts in 2009 only to let Peyton drive and win it.
All of his peers? We know Joe Montana said it, but Joe knows what counts in any game, and that's winning, and winning championships, but stroking a retired guy's ego because he never won one, is just being nice.
@@kylesawkon4074 He could throw the ball, but he couldn't win and his position is the most important on the field. In his own era, other talented qb's won and he didn't. The QB position is about being a leader and making all those around you better than they are. Marino couldn't do that. The list of excuses why he didn't win goes on and on and on.
@@toomuchdiponmychips Almost nobody around him? Give me a break. He had 2 Hall of Fame coaches. Are you discrediting their long history of their coaching greatness? Both were winners without him. Was Marino talented? Sure he was. In one of the most important positions in all of sports where leading comes first, could he do that and win? Surely he couldn't. Everything is used as an excuse for why he didn't win without ever pointing to the one factor (him) that caused them not to.
The reason why Dan never won a ring is perfectly summed up by this fun fact: he threw 44 TD passes for a team that finished 8-8. He had no running game and, more importantly, terrible defenses. That isn't a problem against bad teams in the regular season, where Dan could turn the game into a shootout. But you don't get to play bad teams in the playoffs, and that's where the Dolphins' weaknesses would get exposed. His team was just never good enough to get it done. The best team he had was the '84 team, but no one was going to deny the '84 49ers. And even if he'd somehow miraculously carried one of those early 90s teams past the Bills and into the Super Bowl, they'd have gotten blasted by the NFC rep. It's no accident that the NFC champion won the Super Bowl every single year of Marino's prime.
@G BLICKY Or the Giants. I think that 1990 might have been the best of those early 90s Dolphins teams. And while the Giants were a bad matchup for the Bills, they would have been an even worse matchup for the Dolphins.
The NFC teams were so much more physical and better on defense in those years. The Giants, the Bears, The Redskins, the 49ers. Everyone remembers the niners offense but that defense was extremely physical with Ronnie Lott and company. The Giants, Redskins and Bears were so intimidating. It seemed like the Raiders were the only AFC team with that kind of physical play but they were slowly fading after 1983. By the early 90's it was the cowboys and niners alone. Those top NFC teams just DOMINATED the line of scrimmage in those days. That's really what undid the Bills and the Broncos in those SB losses. The Bills in particular were loaded with talent (more than any previous AFC champion in those years) but always got beat at the line of scrimmage in those SB's. The Broncos were not as talented as the Bills but had John Elway in his prime. Good enough to win the AFC 3 times, but got destroyed at the line of scrimmage in the SB.
@@marcoslaureano5562 The Bills did not have an "awesome" defense. They had a few great players but as a unit they weren't as good as the NFC teams. Their Super Bowl teams ranked 14th, 16th, 10th, and 9th in defensive DVOA. By some of the more basic stats they ranked even worse than that.
To this day I’ve never seen a QB with a release as quick as Marino’s. The Dolphins’ lack of defense was inexcusable, but their lack of running game is somewhat on the shoulders of Marino. It was an open secret that he wanted to pass all the time. Even if he had Dickerson I think he would’ve preferred to air it out as much as possible. He & Shula believed in his right arm a bit too much.
I don't think they even had a general manager in the 80s. It was basically Shula and he was terrible at it. It could've been his coaching too. 87 would've been a good time for a coaching change.
Excellent vid! I remember 1983's QB draft and as a life-long Broncos fan, I always appreciated Marino's excellence and besting of Elway in most meetings. Marino doesn't need the Lomardi trophy to be labeled a top three QB in NFL history.
Please make one of Barry Sanders. Outside of Marino, he was my first thought when this series started. He was one of the greatest running backs who not only ended his career early but deserved so much better of a team to end it with.
@@dnice2000 by far. And a native of my home state as well. I dreamed of different ways to trade for him and bring him to KC so he could play closer to home. But he was definitely the greatest RB.
@@rustyreese4006 I'd look again. Barry Sanders is my favorite running back, but he's far from the best if you mean how much a player's play helps their team win.
I think that he was *one of* the best because he was so talented, but Sanders has a trait which a lot of great players who never won titles have: half of his carries went for 30 yards, the other half for a loss. It doesn't always show up in his stats, but one of the reasons why some running backs play in a way that is conducive to winning is because of their consistent ability to pick up yards while running the clock. Barry Sanders did not do this. Look up the drop in odds of a team scoring a TD when they take a QB sack versus not. It's about 17% when not and 9% when they do. RBs getting tackled deep behind the line have a similar effect.
@@christianc.christian5025 you do realize offensive line matters right? His offensive line was never good... there are a TON of runs where he got hit immediately after taking the handoff.... Emmitt Smith never had that issue (had one of the greatest olines ever) and he never ran for 2,000 in a season like Sanders.
@G BLICKY how do you really know? Maybe, but maybe not. Remember the rules back then applied to all QBs. Yet QBs like Montana, Elway, Aikman, Plunkett, Young, Favre, & Warner, were able to win 1 or more rings under the same rules as DM. The new rules giving the QB & WR more protection did account for higher numbers in the passing game. But both teams benefitted as well. There is 1 winner & 1 loser in every game. That never changed. Passing yardage, points, TD passes, increased in recent times, but wins & losses is the key. The QBs with rings, yesterday's Montana, Elway, Aikman, Bradshaw, Staubach, etc., always brought their A game to the playoffs. They did not always post the highest numbers, but found a way to win. Likewise today's Brady, Big Ben, Manning bros, Brees, Rodgers, Mahomes, etc., somehow find a way to win. Mahomes was pretty lame through 50 minutes of the last SB, but pulled it out when he needed to. DM was 8-10 in the post-season. Not terrible, but not really that good either. I watched DM through his whole career. His post-season performance was not that good. Against a really good defense he & his team struggled. DM was great for sure. But I just didn't see enough great play in his playoff games.
@@thewalruswasjason101 but no rings. As a fan, I want my team to be Champs. Whether our QB throws for 6,000, 4,000, or 3,000 yards, 60, 40, or 30 TDs, doesn't concern me. I want rings, period. In today's rules, Montana, Elway, Young, Bradshaw, Aikman, Graham, etc., would post bigger numbers as well. But they would also win rings today.
@@ofenomeno1381 lol calm down, it's a joke besides you know I'm right. You got grown men rolling on the field acting like they're hurt. The only sport where grown men fall on the ground and roll around trying to sell their pain lmao.
Being a life long Dolphins fan it's difficult to see things any other way when concerning Dan Marino, however I always found it somewhat flattering that when the subject of your favorite football team came up, no matter what team the others in the conversation backed, they'd always speak of Marino with such adoration and enthusiasm. It was like every football fan in the world was a fan of Marino. Winning season or losing season, Super Bowl ring or not, I've never talked to a person who's eyes didn't light up when speaking of Marino. He was not an "underdog", he was a player who's ability and talent transcended the game itself and was probably viewed by most as being an individual master of an art form more than a showpiece member of a legendary squad. Another name that was spoken with the same universal adoration was Barry Sanders.
I'm a Bears fan and I remember the pounding they gave to us in 1985, and still, Marino is one of my favorites players. He always seemed to carry himself with a lot of class, win or lose. It is a shame he didn't win one, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he was an outstanding QB.
Crazy draft Elway 5 Super Bowls. Kelly 4 Super Bowls. Marino 1 Super Bowl. Eason 1 Super Bowl. 11 Super Bowls out of 1 class. The win percentage is not good but the NFC back then was so powerful. I remember as a kid hoping the AFC would win just 1! I was a Broncos fan and would have loved to see any AFC team win it. Amazing memories watching these guys play!
@Harry Engel I'd call it more the fact that Jones is the greediest man in football who can't stand having anyone else take credit for Dallas' success, forgetting in the process that there are people better qualified for the jobs he wants done. As well, Dallas has been a magnet for mercurial, volatile personalities and people who are as inconsistent as they are talented ever since Jones got in charge. Sometimes it works, but he honestly hasn't gotten the balance of volatile and brilliant right since 1995.
@Harry Engel Jerry's an egomaniac, not stupid. His bad moves aren't quite as meme-worthy of those done by the front office of The Artists Formerly Known As The Washington Redskins. The Cowboys are more akin to a dog owned by a person who has no idea how to train them rather than just a straight-up joke. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they misbehave, but they'll never reach what they could be unless their owner stops seeing them as just something nice to have around and starts taking them to obedience classes.
Okay here's the reason why the bells of lost 4 Super Bowls in a row we ran into great teams and also our starting quarterback Jim Kelly partied like he was a careful one actress in The Hangover Zach Galifianakis character
The greatest QB to never win a Super Bowl. Not a Dolphins fan. But I respected Marino's game a lot. The man deserved so much more with all of his accolades in his career.
As a Jets fan living in Florida ; Dan Marino was a constant thorn in my side. However, his talent and will to win won my respect. I'm a huge fan and enjoyed the rivalry.
I would honestly say, that the fact that he DIDN'T win a super bowl is infinitely more memorable than winning just one. He will be remembered for all of football history rather than a singular game of a great season. Good video, laces out Dan.
There is a part of me that wishes Marino made it to the SB in 85 just to see if he could have repeated that performance against the Bears. I think ultimately the Bears would have won as they were destined to win that game but if there was any team that might have made them work for it, it was Miami. That quick release of Marino's was the perfect antidote for the 46 defense.
It’s not as if the Dolphins were atop of the league during these years. Far as I can remember, these Dolphins teams were always somewhere along the 5-10 spot of teams. They had big holes, namely defense and running.
The interesting aspect about Don Shula and the Dolphins is in the way he coached the Miami to three straight AFC championships, winning back to back Super Bowls behind a running game consisting of two half backs of Kiick and Mercury Morris and hall of fame Fullback Larry Csonka, but then he failed in giving Dan Marino a running back.
Dan’s cameo in the movie Little Nicky was the best. Dan: “I can’t stand retirement. C’mon just let me win one super bowl” Devil: “in exchange for eternal damnation of your soul? You’re much too nice a guy to make me do that to you, Dan.” Dan: “you did it for Namath!” Devil: “yes, well, Joe was coming here anyway.” Dan: “this sucks! I’m gonna go to the super bowl as an announcer, and I’ll win myself an Emmy!” Devil: “that’s the spirit!” Little Nicky: “you’re a good devil, dad.” Devil: “...and I also happen to be a jets fan.”
They sure as hell had the quarterback. But my problem is that John Elway didn’t have that much more than Dan Marino. But yet went to 5 Super Bowls. So what’s up wit dat!!!
@James Simmons 2000 Finals, 1998 ECF, and 2004 ECF were the closest he ever came. You could make a case that if the “Malace at the Palace“ never happened, the Pacers with Artest could’ve really challenged the Pistons and Spurs in his final season for a title. Cause that fight just destroyed their whole season!
The opposite of a Dan Marino: failed and choked when it mattered (especially vs the 1999 Knicks), despite having those stacked (literally the only team example, aside the HOFers Bulls of course, in the 90s that wasn't a star or a duo star alone in bad teams) Pacers teams and for both the 90s and 2000s decades as well. Especially those Rik Smits, Mark Jackson, prime Jalen Rose, Davis boys coached by Larry Bird teams, carrying his single digit points Games. And despite getting all the calls from the refs, that Hollywood Miller (some original flopping in there).
It’s kind of sad how history is favorable to the guys who won in the end than the guys like Dan Marino and Dan Fouts who had all the talent in the world to be great but either by a cruel twist of fate or just running into better organized teams they never are able to take their teams further than where they ended up. Really it’s just a case of somebody has to win and someone has to lose but sometimes it’s unfair but then again life isn’t fair as well.
A lot of factors went into this. Bad luck, timing. Defense gave up 34 points a game and over 200 yds rushing in Marino's 10 playoff losses. But the main problem was Don Shula. He failed to put a team together and Joe Robbie was a tightwad. Shula drafted one bust after another (with an occasional nice player but no game changer). He passed on Thurman Thomas, Emmitt Smith, Charles Haley, Terrell Davis, Shannon Sharpe, Steve Atwater, Issac Bruce, and many others. No innovation on offense. Same pro set with no intention on establishing a run game. Why not let Marino run a west coast offense, or a variation of it. Run and shoot. K gun. Something!!!
'85 hurts most. Literally dropped it against the Pats in the championship game, who were in turn humiliated by the Bears in SB20, it wasn't even a contest. 'Fins only team to beat them in regular season in the classic game at the Orange Bowl. Fins v Bears could have been the best superbowl ever, whichever team won it. After 85, I could never get why Shula couldn't seem to put together a decent defence, after all his previous success had been based on elite defences.
Marino never had a strong running game to compliment his passing game! He was one of the Very Best Quarterbacks in the NFL, probably in the top 3! He was one-of-a-kind! Off the field, he is AN INCREDIBLE HUMAN BEING! So down to earth and friendly! Met him once, couldn’t meet a nicer guy!
From the time Marino was 25 to when he was 32, his prime years, the Dolphins missed the playoffs 6 of those 8 years (5 of 7 if you don't want to count the year he missed most of with injury).
Marino's career reinforces the fact that offense wins games, but defense wins championships. He never had a good enough D to win against good playoff teams. Not a big Marino fan, but i do feel bad that someone that great could never win the big game. If he had a good enough defense' i feel like he would have won multiple Super Bowls without a doubt.
Two words: Michael Jordan.
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Dang MJ taking everyone's championships
Do one on Philip Rivers
Can y’all do a rewind of Argentina- England (1986 World Cup)?
@A Champion alex caruso > LeBum
I met Dan Marino in a Starbucks in Weston, FL and I knew he didn't like being recognized in public so i just gave him a knowing smile and he winked back at me and it made my year. Legend.
He hated fans hes was a jerkoff a buddy of mine asked him for a autograph and he told him buy tickets to a game . Lol my buddy was so embarrassed.
@@angelvalle9963 Really? From what I’ve seen he’s one of the nicest people outside of football that the league has produced. He funded the construction of a children’s hospital and seemed to genuinely love doing charity events and interacting with special needs kids. Maybe he was just having a rough day.
I went to Pitt with Marino and I saw him weekly around campus. He was always a nice guy when you talked to him. Very humble.
Your cool
@@sol1120
Yeah I’ve heard he’s guilty of infidelity. Never said he was perfect.
Speaking of Jim Kelly why don't we see why HE didn't win a ring
i think we greatly owe buffalo a positive video before we do that, we've only (re)delivered them heartbreak
@@SecretBaseSBN 35-3 Rewinder? Or Tyler Boyd?
Four back-to-back Super Bowl appearances and all ended in losses.
• Regular Season record: 13-3 (1st AFC East)
Super Bowl XXV - New York Giants - Score: 19-20 (1990-91 season)
• Regular Season record: 13-3 (1st AFC East)
Super Bowl XXVI - Washington Redskins - Score: 37-24 (1991-92 season)
• Regular Season record: 11-5 (2nd AFC East)
Super Bowl XXXVII - Dallas Cowboys - Score: 52-17 (1992-93 season)
• Regular Season record: 12-4 (1st AFC East)
Super Bowl XXVII - Dallas Cowboys - Score: 30-13 (1993-94 season)
{*Hall of Famers from those teams: Coach Marv Levy, Jim Kelly, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, James Lofton, etc.}
@TheWhiteWhale , I agree they were the better team when they matched up with the Giants. The NFC was dominant those years! 👏🏾🏈
@TheWhiteWhale I think they were still the second-best team in 91', but I think both the Cowboys and 49ers were better in 92-93'. The Giants played a near-perfect game to win SB XXV, but credit where credit is due. The Bills just weren't as sharp that night as in previous weeks. They also weren't used to the physicality of the Giants.
Personally I don’t think Dan ever got over being kidnapped by Lois Einhorn, really affected his play.
"The laces were *IN* "!
Not even Marino showing up at the start of the 2nd half could save the Dolphins in that Super Bowl.
The highlight of that 2nd half though was that random dude beating up Swoop the Eagle on the sideline!
Don't you mean Ray Finkle?
@@Three60Mafia "Einhorn is Finkle"
Ace should've given him some of that gum
I was a huge football fan during the 80's through the mid 90's. Both Don Shula and Jimmy Johnson tried to help out Dan by developing a running game. I just didn't pan out. Dan had the same problem John Elway had: namely he had to carry the team. Fortunately for John, Denver got Tyrell Davis and a good defense and he won two rings. Dan, no such luck.
very well said
@Acepaul: Exactly. Very well stated.
David Woody was Qb & they Rb Tony Nathan how was good RB but not GREAT, 1981 1982 Miami D Teams did have a little success but Qb 2) Don Strock was a big help too.
100%
Put Tom Brady on any of those teams Dan was there, and he doesn’t win one either. It takes a TEAM to win a Super Bowl and Brady has always a stacked deck. Much like Montana and the 49ers.
John won 5 AFC Championships
Dan Marino is the classic example of the fact that it takes more than just a great quarterback to win the Super bowl. Super bowls are won by TEAMS, not players only.
Totally agree with you. One player or the QB isn't responsible for fumbling on the kick off, or the QB is not responisible for giving up 30+ points, or the defense holds the other team to 10 points but their own offense only scores 3, etc. Football is the ultimate team sport where all 11 players on the field has to do their job in order for something to work out. One player miss their assignment can be lethal. Great teams win champion and not a single player.
Word... TB12 is the best example. One of the reasons he takes pay cuts is because he knows exactly that. If the Bucs don’t have all those replacement lineman and weapons on offense and defense they don’t win it.. and you need a whole lot of luck.
This is why I’m so sick of people saying that Tom Brady is the only reason that the Patriots were a dynasty and that Bill Belichick was not a good coach.
Mostly defense
@@wakawaka1976 , I wholeheartedly agree. Brady was on the bench screaming like a 10 year old girl on Malcolm Butler’s interception.
Clutch field goals, a pick, and defense was the key in four or five of those SB wins.
This was the first player I thought of when I thought of the “Untitled” series
@Harry Engel I'd say between Fran Tarkenton and Jim Kelly for me.
B u r n
Barry Sanders for me.
@Harry Engel I agree with what you're saying, but I think there's a enough to talk about to make it interesting, especially between the Lions' struggles at QB (specifically with Scott Mitchell), and the rise of the Green Bay Packers after 1992.
Plus, I don't know anyone that's tired of talking about Barry Sanders.
Of all the players in every sport to never win a title he's the one I felt sorry for the most
Jerry Rice and Joe Montana was many teams BIGGEST road block.
While that's certainly true, Rice was a rookie in 1985 and was still at Mississippi Valley State during the 1984 SuperBowl.
The Bengals with broken Heaters in the AFC Championship Helped the 9ers Big Time. Fouts would of destroyed Montana in the superbowl that year!!
@@salvatoreperez5113 you're attempting to reference the 1981 SuperBowl, Dan Marino/Dolphins played in the 1984 SuperBowl.
@@avet4521 No Im saying the year the Heaters broke on the Chargers side in cincy cost the Chargers the superbowl because Dan Fouts would of beat Joe Montana in the superbowl
@@salvatoreperez5113 Dude the game you're talking about happened in 1981, the SuperBowl referenced in this video occurred in 1984.
I remember the Marino years well, the owners of the Dolphins never really tried to build a contender around Marino. Had Marino played for The Cowboys or even the 49ers he might have become the greatest of all time. But the Dolphins ownership, never tried to give him a team ready to contend for the Superbowl.
Or even his hometown Steelers
They had a defense called the Killer Bees, and 2 great wide receivers Clayton and Duper. He had a solid team. They went 14-2 in 84. What do you mean they weren't ready? They just played a better team in the SB
Exactly Frank, one man does not a Superbowl make. The Dolphins probably had one or two years with a descent defense durning his career, and throughout the rest of his career the defense was a complete joke. Aside from Dan, the offense didn't fare much better, boasting nothing more than a couple solid receivers throughout the entirety of his career. Marino never had a good running back to work with at all and besides Duper and Clayton, no other household names on the team during his time there, period. So, one's gotta hand it to the man to accomplish all that he did in spite it all.
@@dnasty312 0:52 He didn’t win a title because he never had a consistently good and dependable Running Back. PERIOD. End of story. I watched the entire thing unfold. The same was true for JOHN ELWAY, until he got Terrell Davis. If not for Terrell Davis, you could make the same video about John Elway. Terry Bradshaw had Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, Bob Griese had Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, Joe Montana had Roger Craig and Tom Rathman, Joe Theismann had John Riggins, Jim Plunkett had Marcus Allen, and Dan Marino didn’t have anybody who consistently came through. It cost him 2 or 3 Super Bowl Titles.
@@troyhaskins6107 0:52 He didn’t win a title because he never had a consistently good and dependable Running Back. PERIOD. End of story. I watched the entire thing unfold. The same was true for JOHN ELWAY, until he got Terrell Davis. If not for Terrell Davis, you could make the same video about John Elway. Terry Bradshaw had Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, Bob Griese had Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, Joe Montana had Roger Craig and Tom Rathman, Joe Theismann had John Riggins, Jim Plunkett had Marcus Allen, and Dan Marino didn’t have anybody who consistently came through. It cost him 2 or 3 Super Bowl Titles.
I watched NFL Network's biography on Marino, and they ask him directly about never winning a Super Bowl. Marino, not wanting to lie because he's an awesome guy like that....gets rather emotional when reflecting. He was holding back tears. He admits that of course he wishes he had won a Super Bowl, and he's well aware of the blemish.
Marino's mother was also interviewed and she was even more candid. She made it sound like it is something that weighs on him, constantly. I could not help but just feel absolutely horrible for Marino after watching that. Football is a team sport. I don't think Marino's career should be diminished because of no Super Bowl ring. The same as Jim Kelly with the Bills.
On a CBS pre-game show years ago Boomer Esiason said something about a quarterback not wanting end up not winning a Super Bowl like Dan Marino...while Dan Marino was sitting next to him. Marino just looked at him and asked "and how many Super Bowls did *you* win?"
And I 100% agree about Marino and Kelly. They're all time greats even without rings.
@@BiggieTrismegistus What’s Crazy was that Boomer had a run game & a defense
John Elway won 2 rings from that draft year !
Laces out!
Ah, finally I can relive my traumatic 90s childhood of Dan Marino never getting a ring. Thanks Secret Base!
Damn bro That must’ve been painful
@@bigboygeorge678 his last game in 1999 was the infamous 62-7 loss to the Jags. I cried a lot.
@@robertdurie6879 I’m sorry bro that must’ve been frustrating to witness that
It just sucks. And for some reason I watched this video thinking it would bring me some peace of mind about it. I started watching football in 94 and I had no idea it would be the last great Marino season.
@@kjuergens1985 despite the fact he never got a ring, you can’t deny he wasn’t a hell of a quarterback
I’m very sad, but that doesn’t take away from how great Dan truly was. Best pure passer there ever was. He deserved better.
I still remember the first time I’ve seen him. His arm was amazing.
Yeah he was good
Just wasn't clutch
He did bro 🥺
I actually think they did a pretty bad job relating how good he really was. He destroyed records at the time and they stood until the likes of Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Drew Brees came along in a 2010's era that saw an absolute explosion in the use of the shotgun formation, yards, and attempts per game. Not too mention many QB and WR friendly rule changes. Marino also played opposite maybe the 10 OR 20 greatest pass rushers of all time during his career. Guys like Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, Bruce Smith, John Randle, Derrick Thomas, Chris Doleman, and Clyde Simmons. Scary AF.
The most impressive thing about Marino that rarely gets talked about, but was the primary reason for his "quick release," was how fast he could read a defense. His footwork was also very underrated. He wasn't a "scrambler" per se, but his movement in the pocket was a major reason why he was able to avoid sacks..it wasn't just his line.
Same with Brady with the pocket presence and getting the ball out fast.
People don't get you don't need to run around, just slight steps in the pocket can give you plenty or time to find a read.
If he had these amazing, impressive skills then where did they go during playoff time? Of the 18 he played, he only had 5 games over a 100 passer rating and 3 of those were with 30 or less passing attempts. He had 12 postseason games with over 30 passing attempts, and in 8 of those his passer rating falls to below 80. Where did his defensive reading skills go to in those 8 critical games?
Per se? He wasn't a scrambler by any measure. He was absolutely terrible at scrambling even if you were comparing him to HS QBs.
@@RurbanWalker Yes, PER SE..as in Marino was not a "running" QB, or particularly good at scrambling outside the pocket, and he would probably be the first to admit that. But within the pocket he was slippery..especially early in his career before he wrecked his knees. Marino was very deft at moving his feet WITHIN THE POCKET. His low sack totals weren't just due to his O line. It's one of the reasons why it was so dangerous to blitz him (as the Bears found out rather rudely in their lone loss in 85).
@@roland7584 Gee, the 43 other players on his team couldn't have had anything to do with that..or the fact that Miami never had a decent running game. John Elway got embarrassed in his first three super bowls but won his last two. The difference came down to two words: Terrell and Davis.
The one dislike is Lois Einhorn.
Don't you mean Ray Finkle?
I don't watch the NFL at all but i still watched this whole video because I loved Ace Ventura (and Secret Base)
Wouldn't she like it though since Marino didn't win?
Laces out, Dan
Skip Bayless
I blame Ray Finkle.
Finkle is Einhorn
The laces were out
Was going to write the same thing, then decided someone has already done this🤣
@@mickyzzzeee THE LACES WERE IN!
Einhorn is Finkle
Larry Fitzgerald is probably gonna end up here and that makes me sad
maus_gunner even as a cowboys fan. I am rooting for the cardinals to win it all this year, this is his best shot to win a ring in like 5 years.
Blame him never having a QB.
I'd also say that Barry Sanders and Megatron deserve a video, but you could sum up the reason why they never won a title in seven words: They both played for the Detroit Lions.
@@yd856 U know who I’m a fan of and same
@@16ktsgamma kurt warner
Saw Dan the Man at Miami airport and was shocked that he had no one with him. So I went up to him to shake his hand and asked for a pic and he gladly said yes. Best sports moment of my life on meeting my héroe……he was also so buzzed lol.
lol what was he buzzed on
Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooool😊
How is he a hero?
@@ScottSWS-wb8kyhe threw a ball. Nothing is more heroic than that
Marino is the best example, out of several good examples, of how a top tier player cannot always be measured by rings. Dude is near the top of every stat category and he played in a totally different league than we have now. Very violent and not pass-happy. Arguably, with modern rules and play calling he might be at the top of all those record books still. But no rings. You point to rings, you’re pointing to the defense and the running backs and the line and the receiving corps and coaching staff and the training staff and the GM… it’s not just a QB.
And its really not so much the style of play that wins or loses Super Bowls, it’s the amount of turnovers
He's also proof that one man can't do it alone. A great QB might keep you in the playoffs on a consistent basis on his own but it takes a team to win a championship.
if if if if..... stop overrated turtle Marino, he always choked in playoffs makes dumb interceptions, he chokes in 1992 AFC championship game in Joe Ruby stadium against the bills, please stop, he wasnt that good. and he was a lazy turtle who never worked in athleticism
if if if if..... stop overrated turtle Marino, he always choked in playoffs makes dumb interceptions, he chokes in 1992 AFC championship game in Joe Ruby stadium against the bills, please stop, he wasnt that good. and he was a lazy turtle who never worked in athleticism
Iono man. Tom Brady went to the bucs who never won a title before and instantly won them the super bowl. So the QB definitely plays a pretty big role.
See you in 3 years for Phillip Rivers
Chargers look great now with Herbert
@@Wolf813921, what does that have to do with Philip rivers getting an untitled episode
Dan Fouts
Zack The Chargers are the only team with the #1 offense and defense to not know not win a Super Bowl but not make the playoffs. He in no way should he blamed for the years of bad special teams and ownership
Phillip Rivers never won because of Philip Rivers
Dan Marino had the best throwing motion and mechanics, with a perfect release. The best Dolphins team in the 90s that should have won the Super Bowl could not beat the Buffalo Bills.
Up & Out
Bills = Nemisis
Buffalo couldn't pull off the Super Bowl win, 4 losses in a row. They just got in the way to be 4 time losers.
@@douglasdixon524 We've only got a little over a month to go and they'll be 1-4!
@@douglasdixon524 WOW!!! All respect to Dan Marino but you are not being real. If he couldn't beat the Bills, how was he gonna win the Super Bowl. Losing or not, going to the SUPER BOWL FOUR TIMES IN A ROW IS AWESOME#BILLSMAFIA..... P.S We will win when we go this time!!!😉
As a saints fan born and raised in New Orleans I'm so grateful that our saints under Drew Brees won their one and only Superbowl in the 2009 season or else this documentary could be about him as well.
This👆👆👆we blessed saints nation ⚜️
Don't forget the refs STEALING that game from the Saints to get the Rams into the super bowl just after they moved to the LA (for the TV market share, I guess)
I'm surprised they ever won, just a few years prior they were the worst team in the league.
I'm not from there but that was a great season and game. So glad the Saints won one !!
BuT bOuNtY gAte...
Can you do one for Marty Schottenheimer? Feels like there could be a few coaches that could get an untitled video.
Right? That'd be good he was always close those browns chiefs and chargers teams were good ones. He was always known for being too conservative and too focused on clock control.
Definitely one of the great coaches to never win a super bowl. If you wanna see something about him watch urinating trees video about him
Urinatingtree did a video on him
@@noobmaster-wj3qm I saw it but I was hoping these guys could go into more detail
Yes
Marino, like Elway during the same period, were undone by the lack of running game around them, making them and the passing game the sole focus of defenses. Fortunately for Elway, Mike Shanahan and Terrell Davis came along
If Marino had a Terell Davis he would have had 2 SB maybe 3
YES. Let me say it again - YES!
Go back to the Miami Dolphins undefeated season which they capped off by winning the Superbowl. Do the names Csonka, Kiick, and Morris sound familiar? Of course. They had 3 great running backs
Poor Dan had to work with the likes of Lorenzo Hampton, Troy Stradford , and Sammie Smith. Not exactly Hall of Famers. Hell, not even Pro Bowlers. Dan was forced to throw the ball 50 times a game. Everyone knew what was coming. It's a tribute to Dan's skill that he won as many games as he did. He deserved better.
And Francois point about Elway is very well taken. As good as he was, Elway never won a Superbowl until he had Terrell Davis. All of a sudden Elway didn't have to carry the team on his back
A Joe Namath quote says it all - "A quarterback's best friend is a good running game."
Miami PASSED on Emmitt Smith!!
FALSE!
Marino apologists make this claim all the time. But what do the FACTS say?
Fact check: Marino was drafted by a team that rode its run game to the Super Bowl woth David Woodley at quarterback.
@@jackcarraway4707 That's an absurd and stupid non-sequitur. The Dolphins running game being good before Marino arrived doesn't mean it was good while he was there.
And it wasn't. Starting in Marino's rookie year (1983), here's where the Dolphins ranked in yards/rushing attempt: 23rd, 16th, 18th, 4th, 10th, 23rd, 28th, 26th, 21st, 20th, 26th, 10th, 23rd, 21st, 30th, 30th, and 28th.
That's three top 10 finishes in 17 seasons, with an average ranking of 21st. And they were that ineffective on a rate basis even though opposing defenses likely spent the bulk of their preparation on the Dolphins' passing game.
That, to state the blindingly obvious, is very not good.
Always makes me sad that Marino went out on such a sad note, getting blown out by the Jags in the playoffs. He deserved so much better
No., he did not.
He deserved everything
Deserved?
@@jerrymccarthy5826 he deserved nothing and thats what he got, he wasn't clutch enough
@@moedoe188 you clearly didn't watch football then. Or have any Google skills. This is a team sport u don't win the superbowl with a amazing team with "clutch" players all around. Btw Most people can't name a single dolphins receiver, or defensive player. Especially in the second half of his career 🤔 what u think that means
Dan the Man is the reason I started watching football a true legend . Miami is still looking for a QB ... Good Luck Tua !
💔💔didn’t she well Miami will never succeed at it man they cursed
ask every coah whou preffer, Turtle Marino or Steve Young nobody pick Turtle Marino
Even Brett Favre considered him the greatest QB arm talent, and those guys played together many years. That for me says a lot!
I'd rather have the best QB mental talent than arm talent. That's really how Brady won all those Superbowls.
Marino's dad taught him how to throw. He told Dan very simply, "the ball comes up and out", and it led to Marino's lightning quick release.
Dan Marino so skilled. Truly sad he never won a title.
This is one of the best videos about Dan Marino's NFL playoff career that has ever been made! One day they'll make a real documentary movie about him as well?
Do a Tracy McGrady untitled. His losses were agonizing and worthy of the evaluation
He should have never left Toronto. If him and Carter stayed together, Raptors could have been in the Finals in 2002 instead of the Nets.
You’re kidding right?
@@murray1978 Doc Rivers screwed T-Mac. Duncan was going to join the Magic along with Grant Hill and T-Mac, but Duncan was told by Doc that significant others were not allowed to ride on the team plane and that did not sit well with his wife who wanted to stay in San Antonio.
He lost because he wasn't that good and his team's choked , years they didn't choked they faced tough competition
My man never got out of the first round. He’s just not that good.
Such an underrated QB. Dude completely changed the position. Throwing for 4000 plus yards during a time where WR would get smoked by safeties
CHANGED IT HOW? He Lost to a Guy Named Joe! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The defense end of story. That is why Dan Marino untitled.
@@davidrivera9743 Facts
Dan Marino is constantly talked about as the GOAT. What are you talking about
@@TV-ob1if uh... No His behind Tom Brady and Joe Montana Everyone knows this.. whoever says that is a Dolphins fan or misinformed
22 years later and the Miami Dolphins still are desperately looking for the "Marino replacement". That's how good he was and how important he was to the sports psychy of South Florida.
Dwyane Wade is Dan Marino's replacement, at least spiritually.
Hope they dont neglect a solid RB like they did during Dan's run otherwise they won't be getting a Chip no time soon. Solid QB & RB is how you stay a PO contender
They will never replace Dan Marino ever! They should just focus on creating a team or looking for whatever great talent there is that they can get, they owe Miami fans for all of their team management mistakes and I would say not shaping a dynasty around Dan Marino, instead they usually had one of the worst defenses in the league and Marino and whoever carry the offense...
lol seriously
You don’t often replace players like that ever.
In 1982, the year before Marino arrived, the Dolphins had the third best rushing offense in the NFL, including the league's 2nd leading rusher in Andra Franklin. The lack of running game was down to Shula being so enamored with Marino that he overused him to the exclusion of any other facet of their offense.
Since the Dolphins last won the Super Bowl in 1973 it seemed they petered out overall.
They should’ve beaten Washington in 1982 though as they were favored
@@RYMAN1321 82 was lost because of garbage quarterback play that left their defense on the field for too long. They corrected that problem but then they let the defense go to seed after 84 and it never did make a full recovery to what it was in the early days with Shula.
no dude, Turtle Marino never wanted running game, he was a cancer
@@juanpabloperez9063 That is just patently untrue, and calling him a cancer is just idiotic.
@@bjchit he was a cancer dude, maybe you were not alive when turtle Marino was playing
These videos are so eloquently put together and executed. Exceptional work young man.
having been a long time dolphin fan i've spent a lot of time thinking about marino. the best explanation i can come with is that he was so talented that his team won 4 or so games every year that they had no business winning, which resulted in the team having worse draft picks and tougher schedules.
Schedules are already predetermined for the most part. That has nothing to do with it. If they had a tough schedule it was merely a coincidence or they had other good teams in their division year in, and year out.
@@shawnchristianson324 - Wrong.
While 8 of your 16 games were against your division rivals, the other 8 were based on your record and the records of your opponents from the previous year.
Prior to the realignment of 2002:
1st place finisher: played 1st and 2nd in one division, 1st and 3rd in the other
2nd place finisher: played 2nd and 4th in one division, 1st and 2nd in the other
3rd place finisher: played 1st and 3rd in one division, 3rd and 5th in the other
4th place finisher: played 4th and 5th in one division, 2nd and 4th in the other
5th place finisher: played 3rd and 5th in one division, 4th and 5th in the other
There were similar rules for the non conference games as well.
This is why you are wrong, as Miami would player tougher schedules regularly than if they had otherwise lost more games.
@@PaulGaither Oh I was not aware of the realignment in 2002. Thank you for pointing that out!
He didn't win because the coaches and organization didn't do their jobs well enough
@@michaelthorpe1869 What? You're telling me Shula was coaching for at least a decade after the game had passed him by? And their GMs never got the hang of free agency? How can this be, they had the undefeated season in which they beat TWO whole teams with a winning record in the 14 game season.
The Dolphins of the late 80s were very similar to the Saints team of 2014-2016. Both teams had potent offenses that ranked near the top of the league and quarterbacks who were setting one record after another but their defenses ranked near or at the bottom. For this reason, both teams were not playoff contenders during those periods.
That was Peyton Manning's curse for all but one month of his career at Indianapolis.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I don't think that's true. In Peyton's 14 seasons with the Colts, the team made the playoffs 11 times, won a Super Bowl and made it to another. How can this compare to the Dolphins of the late 80s?
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 Believe me. The Colts had a magnificent offense, but their D was as porous as cheese cloth. With Manning's PO blues, had the '06 D not played with equal magnificence for 3 of those 4 PO games he'd have 0 SBs at Indy. Go check their D stats for the Manning years.
@Sonny Jim they couldn't run the ball at all. Teams thinking they can TOTALLY abandon the run will damn near never win Chips. Gotta pass,playaction and RUN the ball to keep defense off-balance not just throw 4 quarters straight
@@krambone You do know about Kurt Warner and the Rams in '99? His Defense gave up 37 pts. in that 1st playoff game so Warner threw 5 TD passes and led his team to a 49-37 win. He had no running game in all 3 playoff games that year. Kurt ended with over 1,000 yds. passing in those 3 games while his backs ended with around 100 yds. for those 3 games.
It’s pretty well known that Marino and the Dolphins gave the ‘85 Bears their only loss. I would have liked to see a rematch in the SB and I’ll never understand how the Patriots beat the Dolphins in the AFC Championship.
People only focus on the QB matchup in the '85 AFC Championship but the Pats were very talented beyond the...wonky QB battle. They had 2 first team All Pro guys: Andre Tippett at outside linebacker and especially John Hannah, one of the greatest guards of all time. Indeed, before the Brady/Belichick era, Hannah was hands down the best player in Pats history
To SB's point on Miami's porous run defense, throwing that defense against a top offensive line, that was a huge mismatch. Pats had ~250 yds on the ground and were top 5 in rushing attempts. Combine it with subpar throwing weather? On paper it seems like a confusing win, the team with Marino lost to the team with Tony freakin Eason, but the stats of the game make sense
The Patriots had a better team overall and a very good running game that decimated Miami's defense. Miami's biggest issue during Marino's tenure was the run game on both sides of the ball. They just couldn't figure it out.
Divisional rivals. You played them 2x already and probably know their plays offensively and defensively.
Fumbles. Interception. Run defense. Sacks total breakdown. Patriots just played perfect and forgot everything against the bears. Weird
When I watch highlights of any great QB, they look like the best to ever play. When I watch Marino highlights, I don't know how anyone could possibly be better.
Just imagine if Dan Marino and Warren Moon (had to shout him out lol) got to play with with the new defensive rules nowadays
Oh if Marino played today he'd throw 1,000 TDs in his career.
Spoken like kids who’ve never seen these legends play. This dude actually said Warren would be Rodgers lmfao wtf I can’t
@yossarian “spoken like kids” brother you can’t even read my comment and interpret it correctly, you definitely a short buser
@@joshdude273 warren threw as many interceptions as he did tds damn near even with the defensive rules of today he not doing what Rodgers did Rodgers had 50k passing yards with 412tds to 89int you don’t just become that efficient because of new rules
@@joshdude273 in 2018 Aaron had the lowest all time int rate at 0.3 Aaron is like the god of efficient at qb
Finally, I've been waiting for this once since I found the series!
I watched Dan play in that era, and in my opinion, He was and still is the very best all around quarterback of all time. I have always been a Chicago Bears fan, and back in the 85 season, I still have nightmares of Dan and the Mark brothers tearing up that Bears secondary. I always wondered what that Super Bowl would have been if the Bears would have faced off again against Dan and the Dolphins.
I always thought Dans lack of mobility exposed him during the playoffs. Montana Aikmen Young Elway all had the legs to get them 1st downs. Montana threw 100s TDs outside the pocket.
if if if if..... stop overrated turtle Marino, he always choked in playoffs makes dumb interceptions, he chokes in 1992 AFC championship game in Joe Ruby stadium against the bills, please stop, he wasnt that good. and he was a lazy turtle who never worked in athleticism
Best arm, yes. Best all around? No way.
I still want one on the late Air McNair, but this is great too!
I still remember that 4th qt comeback against the colts where he pulled an audible despite not being allowed to by JJ, where he identified an opening prior to snapping and completed a deep pass instead. It was hard to argue with the results lol... they’d go on to win that one.
Marino is one of my all-time favs. As a Pitt fan, I always thought he seemed to really struggle in poor weather. Almost all his poor games were in rain and/or snow. I think it affected his amazing release. Still, if my Steelers had drafted him, they likely win at least 2 Super Bowls. Heartbreaking.
Yeah man, just like KENNY PICKETT. He literally was in y’all back yard for the taken. And he would’ve easily replaced Terry Bradshaw👍🏿
if we're doing NFL QBs, Fran Tarkenton would be an interesting one
Agreed! He had pretty much all of the career passing records before Marino came along.
Do one on Jim Kelly and the Bills.
To who?
Agree totally on Tarkenton. Those 70's Vikings teams were very underrated in my opinion. He had a very interesting career also.
Agreed. My late grandfather, “sacked,” him in High School. Sacks were not an official stat at the time.
This entire episode was beautifully written, but that last minute is POWERFUL. I grew up in South Florida and Dan Marino was football. He brought in a lot of the ride or die fans that are around today. Really miss these days.
I was just wondering where the Dan Marino untitled was and here it is!
Now, I have been asking for years to please make a rewinder of the 1991 World Series! One of the best of all time with tons of memorable moments. not to mention the storyline of both teams being the worst the year before and the start of the Braves dominance in the 90s
I remember that Dolphins-Jags playoff game vividly:
The sprinklers came on in the endzone!
Even the announcers couldn't contain their laughter!
Dan the Man is another one of those legends (Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Calvin Johnson, Barry Sanders) to retire without a ring.
Sad, man.
Barkley and Ewing have a much better excuse though. The only chances they really had were the 2 years when Jordan took some time off and The Dream took care of that. Outside of that, they had the Lakers, Celtics, Pistons, and Jordan to contend with.
I would love to see someone interview defensive coordinators and defensive players from Marino's era to see if they picked up on something that Marino did at the line when it was a running play. It seems nearly impossible that for almost 2 decades not one running back could really do anything while he was there.
I’m a lifelong Detroit Lions fan and my first two NFL jerseys I ever got when I was a kid were Barry Sanders #20 and Dan Marino #13.
Two of my all-time favourite players along with Deion Sanders.
When I found the "untitled" playlist, I was like damn, why didn't they name this playlist. Turns out I'm just stupid
Untitled suggestion (in a few years): Mike Trout
This is painfully true.
Phillip Rivers
Jim Kelly
Mike Trout is the Dan Marino of baseball
@@gregtrust5599 Except Trout might not even win a pennant
Marino was a great QB with strong arm, not very mobile, but mobile enough. Great WRs, but really never great RBs. Defense was usually Miami's weaknesses. His early years, Miami owned the AFC East and only had to worry about the NY Jets. Mid-late '80s. Occasionally the Indy Colts and NE Pats. They loss to a very good SF team in the Super Bowl in 1984 The next year they were favored to get back to the Super Bowl but were upset by the Patriots in the playoffs. Then during most of Marino's peak years, the late '80s - mid '90s. Bad timing! The Buffalo Bills became very good. Much more complete team (offense, defense, special teams). The Bills own the AFC East from the late '80s - mid '90s and were elite. Miami could never get over the hump in the playoffs and normally were outed by the Bills. The Bills owned Miami during those years . By the late '90s/early '00s the Bills and Dolphins both got a little older and faded a little. Younger teams like the Patriots, Colts and Jets got better those teams started winning the AFC East. The Dolphins and Bills window had closed by the early '00s
Yes running game sucked and defense not very good at all vs the better offenses in the league at that team. Also their coaches needed some new blood. Just bad luck on another team he gets his superbowl.
U basically said it perfectly!! Well said
The one thing the Dolphins still hold over the Bills though is that they have two Lombardi trophies, while the Bills still have none.
Been a long time for both teams. Miami last won a SB back in the '70s. While the Bills last won a championship (AFL) back in the '60s, Pre-SB years.
Some day it will happen for both teams.
And Turtle Marino always throw dumb interceptions in important games 1992 AFC championship in Miami, and loss to Buffalo because Turtle Marino was in control
And to think, Joe Flacco and Trent Dillfer have one, and Eli Manning has two...
Eli's Giants went on 2 lucky runs. There's a reason the 2nd team was 9-7.
Garapplo, has two and hasn't won one. Lol
Dude, don't remind me...🤦♂️
Nick Foles, Jeff Hostetler, Doug Williams and Brad Johnson each have one as well. I’m kind of iffy about Jim Plunkett as well but some might toss him in the category of middling NFL QBs who managed to win a title as a starter, or in his case two rings.
@@cassidy109 interesting point
As a Dolphins fan that 93 season was even more heartbreaking than 84 or 85.
Yep go Bills
Dolphins were not beating the Bills 2 times in one year back then. It was only the hatred the two teams had for each other that allowed the Dolphins to even compete. The Bills were better everywhere than the Dolphins except qb.
It wasn't just Marino's injury that sunk them, it was Mitchell also getting hurt and most of the D as well. Add on top of that a brutal 3-game stretch that saw them face the Giants, Bills and Steelers (all playoff teams that season) and then the Chargers who literally always beat them in San Diego at that time.
Marino was fun to watch. That quick release and accuracy was tough to defend. Oh and BTW, the Achilles Heel of the 85 Bears was Dan Marino.
I'm a Bills fan but always admired how great Marino was. Whether it was Marino's fault or not, in the NFL (even now but especially back then) if you can't run, you can't win. Same reason Elway didn't get a ring till he got TD
I disagree. John Elway was always an athlete. It just that Denver discovered Terrell Davis along with getting the complimentary pieces to boot. But make no mistake about it. John was the center piece of that team and the owner at the time made sure he had one last shot at it. And he got the ring ✌️
Yeah Denver had a subpar running game for most of Elway's career but it was the defense that really stank up the field in Elway's early Super Bowl loses. In 86 he kept them in the game until the third quarter before the Denver did fell apart and got some very unlucky breaks (The Bavaro TD pass comes to mind) In 87 by all rights they shouldn't have even been there since Cleveland had that game won before the "fumble". And once again it was the defense that just got completely torched by Washington and a no name running back that had one great moment and a journeyman quarterback that got hot at just the right moment. By the time Davis arrived in Denver they had also done a lot to fix their problems on the defensive side of the ball as well and it made an enormous difference in those two Super Bow victories in the 90s. You have to have some offense but you absolutely can not win a championship with a substandard defense.
Which brings us to the Bills who by all rights should have at least beaten New York, since that team had a great defense and offense. The loss to Washington was equally shocking. However the loss to Dallas wasn't surprising because they really ran into a buzz saw on both sides of the game when they played those Cowboys teams.
Do not compare Turtle Marino with Elway for god sake
@@juanpabloperez9063 Marino was better.
@@bjchit Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i preffer even Aikman than turtle "made mistakes like a rookie" marino
Even though I was born the same year he was inducted into the HOF, Marino is still my favourite player of all time and the fact that he never won a Super Bowl still really hurts
If you could compare Marino to any current nfl quarterback who would it be
@@stephonwilliams5232 Definitely Aaron Rodgers
You missed everything
Montane. perhaps greatest Superbowl QB. Ever
You know your football history young person 👍
Miami legend. I remember watching him every Sunday growing up in South Florida
I worked the scoreboard for the Jaguars that game. It was insane... he started off 0-11 passing
I came here to say “Laces Out,” but was reminded of how transcendent Marino’s talent was. Great video.
The emergence of the Bills, the failure to find a consistent running back and linebackers to stop the run are the reasons.
Several teams had a running game & didnt win a Super Bowl
@@fivehundrediq5212 have to have a good defense as well
#NoRunOffenseOrRunDefense
Throwing it alone will not get that Chip
@@fivehundrediq5212 they didn't have rush defense. Its damn near no team that you can find in SB era that won Chip 🏆 that didn't have neither run/Rush offense or run/Rush defense.
@@krambone They didn’t have a rush defense because they had to spend all their draft picks and cap money on having a great offensive line because Dan unfortunately became increasingly immobile
imagine giving him a receiving corps that would glue the ball into their hands and a defense that would make sure that his efforts ain't wasted
Good luck finding a good defense on a team that passes on nearly every play.
He never had a running game or a defense. It was always hey Dan we are down again can you go win this game for us. Look at how many QBs they have had since he left. Should prove it right there.
He did have the #1 defense his final 2 seasons,but by then he wasn't the same guy as in the 80s
@Harry Engel His defense in the playoffs routinely disappeared.
I grew up a huge Dolphins fanatic and watched the Fins since Shula's arrival in '70 through Dan's retirement in 2000. From my vantage point the 70's perfect teams were built like magic with hall of famers signed as free agents and low cost trades and some key high draft picks. Those teams were loaded with talent and with Shula pushing them you ended up with three SB's in a row and the perfect '72 season. After that the Dolphins came close several times but other AFC teams just had more talent when we had very good teams (Bills for their run as examples) and the Dolphins with Dan always had a chance to win so our record was always good so we never got blue chip draft picks and there were always teams that had been down and then rebuilt with blue chip draft talent (The Patriots before Belicheck had like seven 1st round draft picks on their team at one point). With Shula's solid coaching and Dan under center we never drafted high and the couple times we did they either got hurt early in their career or were flops.
Nice video. That missed kick against SD really stung, but I don't think Miami would have done any better against the 49ers in the SB that year.
When I was a kid my mom got me a Marino jersey, but I was always a Steelers fan but I loved watching Marino
The dolphins losing to the chargers in the divisional round was the first and only time I cried over a football game.
I remember seeing that loss at home knowing I had to drive 3 hours back to college right afterwards. That sucked even more than the loss itself.
Me too. I was 10. They had a team built to beat Pittsburgh the next week. The only other time I got so frustrated was when they held the lead for the entire game vs the Colts in 2009 only to let Peyton drive and win it.
That’s when Dan Fouts became my hero!
That's an epic game though. Both teams played and gave all they had.
@@DolFan316 I hear ya. I was 7-8 at the time and I think it was just watching them dominate most of the game and slowly let it slip away.
All of his peers, the great Super Bowl winning quarterbacks of his era, considered him the greatest.
All of his peers? We know Joe Montana said it, but Joe knows what counts in any game, and that's winning, and winning championships, but stroking a retired guy's ego because he never won one, is just being nice.
@@roland7584nah he’s objectively one of the most talented QBs ever, the film don’t lie
@@kylesawkon4074 He could throw the ball, but he couldn't win and his position is the most important on the field. In his own era, other talented qb's won and he didn't. The QB position is about being a leader and making all those around you better than they are. Marino couldn't do that. The list of excuses why he didn't win goes on and on and on.
@@roland7584so having almost nobody surrounded around you in a team sport is a excuse and discredits your greatness?
@@toomuchdiponmychips Almost nobody around him? Give me a break. He had 2 Hall of Fame coaches. Are you discrediting their long history of their coaching greatness? Both were winners without him. Was Marino talented? Sure he was. In one of the most important positions in all of sports where leading comes first, could he do that and win? Surely he couldn't. Everything is used as an excuse for why he didn't win without ever pointing to the one factor (him) that caused them not to.
The reason why Dan never won a ring is perfectly summed up by this fun fact: he threw 44 TD passes for a team that finished 8-8. He had no running game and, more importantly, terrible defenses. That isn't a problem against bad teams in the regular season, where Dan could turn the game into a shootout. But you don't get to play bad teams in the playoffs, and that's where the Dolphins' weaknesses would get exposed.
His team was just never good enough to get it done. The best team he had was the '84 team, but no one was going to deny the '84 49ers. And even if he'd somehow miraculously carried one of those early 90s teams past the Bills and into the Super Bowl, they'd have gotten blasted by the NFC rep. It's no accident that the NFC champion won the Super Bowl every single year of Marino's prime.
@G BLICKY Or the Giants. I think that 1990 might have been the best of those early 90s Dolphins teams. And while the Giants were a bad matchup for the Bills, they would have been an even worse matchup for the Dolphins.
The NFC teams were so much more physical and better on defense in those years. The Giants, the Bears, The Redskins, the 49ers. Everyone remembers the niners offense but that defense was extremely physical with Ronnie Lott and company. The Giants, Redskins and Bears were so intimidating. It seemed like the Raiders were the only AFC team with that kind of physical play but they were slowly fading after 1983. By the early 90's it was the cowboys and niners alone.
Those top NFC teams just DOMINATED the line of scrimmage in those days. That's really what undid the Bills and the Broncos in those SB losses. The Bills in particular were loaded with talent (more than any previous AFC champion in those years) but always got beat at the line of scrimmage in those SB's. The Broncos were not as talented as the Bills but had John Elway in his prime. Good enough to win the AFC 3 times, but got destroyed at the line of scrimmage in the SB.
Jim Kelly had an AWESOME defense. A GREAT RB in Thurman Thomas - went to FOUR super bowls and won ZERO. Excuses, excuses.
@@marcoslaureano5562 The Bills did not have an "awesome" defense. They had a few great players but as a unit they weren't as good as the NFC teams. Their Super Bowl teams ranked 14th, 16th, 10th, and 9th in defensive DVOA. By some of the more basic stats they ranked even worse than that.
@@marcoslaureano5562 That "awesome" defense got totally destroyed each year in the SB, particularity along the defensive line.
Can we get a Jamarcus Russell untitled?
The video would be a blank tape. If you know you know
@@demaszstyo9644 I see what you did here
@@vittiriowashington8623 Jamarcus said he did too
That one would be last about 2 and a half minutes.
To this day I’ve never seen a QB with a release as quick as Marino’s. The Dolphins’ lack of defense was inexcusable, but their lack of running game is somewhat on the shoulders of Marino. It was an open secret that he wanted to pass all the time. Even if he had Dickerson I think he would’ve preferred to air it out as much as possible. He & Shula believed in his right arm a bit too much.
You're right. Marino demanded a majority of plays he didn't want a RB getting too much attention
I don't think they even had a general manager in the 80s. It was basically Shula and he was terrible at it. It could've been his coaching too. 87 would've been a good time for a coaching change.
But even when the RBs got carries their yards per carry was terrible.
Excellent vid! I remember 1983's QB draft and as a life-long Broncos fan, I always appreciated Marino's excellence and besting of Elway in most meetings. Marino doesn't need the Lomardi trophy to be labeled a top three QB in NFL history.
Dan Marino's Dolphins and John Elway's Broncos on played three times in their careers.
Once in 1985, and twice in 1998 (regular season and playoffs).
Yeah, but greatness like his deserves that validation doe👏
The exact reason for why most players (most notably QB’s) don’t win.
Supporting cast
Jim Kelly has to be apart of this at some point
Please make one of Barry Sanders. Outside of Marino, he was my first thought when this series started. He was one of the greatest running backs who not only ended his career early but deserved so much better of a team to end it with.
Best runningback I've ever seen
@@dnice2000 by far. And a native of my home state as well. I dreamed of different ways to trade for him and bring him to KC so he could play closer to home. But he was definitely the greatest RB.
@@rustyreese4006 I'd look again. Barry Sanders is my favorite running back, but he's far from the best if you mean how much a player's play helps their team win.
I think that he was *one of* the best because he was so talented, but Sanders has a trait which a lot of great players who never won titles have: half of his carries went for 30 yards, the other half for a loss. It doesn't always show up in his stats, but one of the reasons why some running backs play in a way that is conducive to winning is because of their consistent ability to pick up yards while running the clock.
Barry Sanders did not do this. Look up the drop in odds of a team scoring a TD when they take a QB sack versus not. It's about 17% when not and 9% when they do. RBs getting tackled deep behind the line have a similar effect.
@@christianc.christian5025 you do realize offensive line matters right? His offensive line was never good... there are a TON of runs where he got hit immediately after taking the handoff.... Emmitt Smith never had that issue (had one of the greatest olines ever) and he never ran for 2,000 in a season like Sanders.
Dan Marino never had a running game with over average 4 yards per carry.
Jimmy Johnson built him a very good defense, but yeah he never benefited from a good running game.
If he played today, with the rules favoring a passing game over defense, he'd have a better shot.
Dude threw for 5000 yards and 48 TDs in 1984, when 3000 yards and 20 TDs was considered good. These days, no telling what he could do.
@G BLICKY how do you really know? Maybe, but maybe not. Remember the rules back then applied to all QBs. Yet QBs like Montana, Elway, Aikman, Plunkett, Young, Favre, & Warner, were able to win 1 or more rings under the same rules as DM.
The new rules giving the QB & WR more protection did account for higher numbers in the passing game. But both teams benefitted as well.
There is 1 winner & 1 loser in every game. That never changed. Passing yardage, points, TD passes, increased in recent times, but wins & losses is the key. The QBs with rings, yesterday's Montana, Elway, Aikman, Bradshaw, Staubach, etc., always brought their A game to the playoffs. They did not always post the highest numbers, but found a way to win.
Likewise today's Brady, Big Ben, Manning bros, Brees, Rodgers, Mahomes, etc., somehow find a way to win. Mahomes was pretty lame through 50 minutes of the last SB, but pulled it out when he needed to.
DM was 8-10 in the post-season. Not terrible, but not really that good either. I watched DM through his whole career. His post-season performance was not that good. Against a really good defense he & his team struggled.
DM was great for sure. But I just didn't see enough great play in his playoff games.
He’d throw for 60 Tds and 6,000 yards
@@thewalruswasjason101 but no rings. As a fan, I want my team to be Champs. Whether our QB throws for 6,000, 4,000, or 3,000 yards, 60, 40, or 30 TDs, doesn't concern me. I want rings, period.
In today's rules, Montana, Elway, Young, Bradshaw, Aikman, Graham, etc., would post bigger numbers as well. But they would also win rings today.
@@claudeabraham2347 okay but how good were their teams compared to Marino's?
I want a Barry Sanders Untitled, Reggie Miller Untitled, & and more soccer beef.
Soccer beef? Man that'll be nothing but footage of them on the ground rolling around faking pain.
I want more basketball & football collapses.
@@hmoobgvp you obviously know nothing about soccer
@@ofenomeno1381 lol calm down, it's a joke besides you know I'm right. You got grown men rolling on the field acting like they're hurt. The only sport where grown men fall on the ground and roll around trying to sell their pain lmao.
Being a life long Dolphins fan it's difficult to see things any other way when concerning Dan Marino, however I always found it somewhat flattering that when the subject of your favorite football team came up, no matter what team the others in the conversation backed, they'd always speak of Marino with such adoration and enthusiasm. It was like every football fan in the world was a fan of Marino. Winning season or losing season, Super Bowl ring or not, I've never talked to a person who's eyes didn't light up when speaking of Marino. He was not an "underdog", he was a player who's ability and talent transcended the game itself and was probably viewed by most as being an individual master of an art form more than a showpiece member of a legendary squad.
Another name that was spoken with the same universal adoration was Barry Sanders.
Barry Sanders was one of my favorite players not Dolphins,
Dan Marino and Barry Sanders are just likeable guys.
Even if you hate the Lions and the Dolphins it’s impossible to hate on Marino and Sanders.
@@RushAnthem69 Yes they are, is like Montana, I rellay like him, he is a nice guy, i couldnt hate SF because he is nice..
I'm a Bears fan and I remember the pounding they gave to us in 1985, and still, Marino is one of my favorites players. He always seemed to carry himself with a lot of class, win or lose.
It is a shame he didn't win one, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he was an outstanding QB.
If I was a Dolphins fan. I think that I would’ve been able to get over greatness of that caliber of a QUARTERBACK. But 👌
Crazy draft Elway 5 Super Bowls. Kelly 4 Super Bowls. Marino 1 Super Bowl. Eason 1 Super Bowl. 11 Super Bowls out of 1 class. The win percentage is not good but the NFC back then was so powerful. I remember as a kid hoping the AFC would win just 1! I was a Broncos fan and would have loved to see any AFC team win it. Amazing memories watching these guys play!
Video idea: Untitled, Jim Kelly and the 1990s Bills
With Jim Kelly, there are three reasons.
Reason 1: The Big Blue Wrecking Crew
Reason 2: Coach Gibbs
Reason 3: Jerry Jones, Part 1 and Part 2
@Harry Engel I'd call it more the fact that Jones is the greediest man in football who can't stand having anyone else take credit for Dallas' success, forgetting in the process that there are people better qualified for the jobs he wants done. As well, Dallas has been a magnet for mercurial, volatile personalities and people who are as inconsistent as they are talented ever since Jones got in charge. Sometimes it works, but he honestly hasn't gotten the balance of volatile and brilliant right since 1995.
@Harry Engel Jerry's an egomaniac, not stupid. His bad moves aren't quite as meme-worthy of those done by the front office of The Artists Formerly Known As The Washington Redskins. The Cowboys are more akin to a dog owned by a person who has no idea how to train them rather than just a straight-up joke. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they misbehave, but they'll never reach what they could be unless their owner stops seeing them as just something nice to have around and starts taking them to obedience classes.
Okay here's the reason why the bells of lost 4 Super Bowls in a row we ran into great teams and also our starting quarterback Jim Kelly partied like he was a careful one actress in The Hangover Zach Galifianakis character
The greatest QB to never win a Super Bowl. Not a Dolphins fan. But I respected Marino's game a lot. The man deserved so much more with all of his accolades in his career.
How would you rank Marino alongside other greats that didn’t win such as Kelly, Tarkenton, and Rivers ?
As a Jets fan living in Florida ; Dan Marino was a constant thorn in my side. However, his talent and will to win won my respect. I'm a huge fan and enjoyed the rivalry.
I would honestly say, that the fact that he DIDN'T win a super bowl is infinitely more memorable than winning just one. He will be remembered for all of football history rather than a singular game of a great season. Good video, laces out Dan.
Oooooh finally, I was waiting for this. How about Barry Sanders guys, when will you do a feature about him?
There is a part of me that wishes Marino made it to the SB in 85 just to see if he could have repeated that performance against the Bears. I think ultimately the Bears would have won as they were destined to win that game but if there was any team that might have made them work for it, it was Miami. That quick release of Marino's was the perfect antidote for the 46 defense.
He should've won but ran into literally every greatest team
He played in the toughest era
@@keenanmccarty9925 The toughest era that wasn't utterly dominated by the Evil Empire, that is.
@@furioussherman7265 Indeed
It’s not as if the Dolphins were atop of the league during these years. Far as I can remember, these Dolphins teams were always somewhere along the 5-10 spot of teams. They had big holes, namely defense and running.
He lost to the wild card Patriots in 85.
They weren’t good at all.
The interesting aspect about Don Shula and the Dolphins is in the way he coached the Miami to three straight AFC championships, winning back to back Super Bowls behind a running game consisting of two half backs of Kiick and Mercury Morris and hall of fame Fullback Larry Csonka, but then he failed in giving Dan Marino a running back.
That nucleous with griese wa already there in 70. Could have won more except for they left for the usfl in 75along with warfield
I would say Calvin Johnson but we all know why he's untitled..
One word: Detroit
Can't have nothing in Detroit
Barry Sanders also fell victim to 60 years of wretchedly bad ownership
No wonder he retired still in his prime.
@@gregoryfilar1783 just imagine if Miami traded for Sanders? Both he AND Marino would've won a Super Bowl together.
i would like this comment but its at 69 so i can't
Dan’s cameo in the movie Little Nicky was the best.
Dan: “I can’t stand retirement. C’mon just let me win one super bowl”
Devil: “in exchange for eternal damnation of your soul? You’re much too nice a guy to make me do that to you, Dan.”
Dan: “you did it for Namath!”
Devil: “yes, well, Joe was coming here anyway.”
Dan: “this sucks! I’m gonna go to the super bowl as an announcer, and I’ll win myself an Emmy!”
Devil: “that’s the spirit!”
Little Nicky: “you’re a good devil, dad.”
Devil: “...and I also happen to be a jets fan.”
He was great in Ace Ventura too
That explains everything
Hope this series is going strong, I’d love to see a Philip Rivers episode.
Team game. Dolphins were never built to go the distance. That said, the best pure passer in NFL, this guy was amazing.
They sure as hell had the quarterback. But my problem is that John Elway didn’t have that much more than Dan Marino. But yet went to 5 Super Bowls. So what’s up wit dat!!!
@@vincente4570 you answered youre own question
still waiting on a Reggie Miller untitled
@James Simmons 2000 Finals, 1998 ECF, and 2004 ECF were the closest he ever came.
You could make a case that if the “Malace at the Palace“ never happened, the Pacers with Artest could’ve really challenged the Pistons and Spurs in his final season for a title.
Cause that fight just destroyed their whole season!
As a ... *sigh..* Knicks fan, it feels really, really weird to say thanks to Ron Artest.
a lot of great athletes who still havent gotten an untitled yet
The opposite of a Dan Marino: failed and choked when it mattered (especially vs the 1999 Knicks), despite having those stacked (literally the only team example, aside the HOFers Bulls of course, in the 90s that wasn't a star or a duo star alone in bad teams) Pacers teams and for both the 90s and 2000s decades as well.
Especially those Rik Smits, Mark Jackson, prime Jalen Rose, Davis boys coached by Larry Bird teams, carrying his single digit points Games.
And despite getting all the calls from the refs, that Hollywood Miller (some original flopping in there).
response: Michael Jordan and Malace at the Palace basically.
It’s kind of sad how history is favorable to the guys who won in the end than the guys like Dan Marino and Dan Fouts who had all the talent in the world to be great but either by a cruel twist of fate or just running into better organized teams they never are able to take their teams further than where they ended up. Really it’s just a case of somebody has to win and someone has to lose but sometimes it’s unfair but then again life isn’t fair as well.
Fouts never even played in the Super Bowl. Not his fault the Chargers had no defense.
it's hilarious to me that Jeff Hostetler, Nick Foles and Trent Dilfer all have Super Bowl wins and Jim Kelly and Dan Marino have none.
@@professor4202 A QB is only 1 out of 22 players on a team. That is why they don't have as much influence as you would think.
@@professor4202 Jim McMahon and Mark Rypien
@@ericmatterson9905 lol. QB is probably the most important position in team sports.
Everyone should watch ‘Dan Marino freak out’ because it’s a god damn national treasure.
A lot of factors went into this. Bad luck, timing. Defense gave up 34 points a game and over 200 yds rushing in Marino's 10 playoff losses. But the main problem was Don Shula. He failed to put a team together and Joe Robbie was a tightwad. Shula drafted one bust after another (with an occasional nice player but no game changer). He passed on Thurman Thomas, Emmitt Smith, Charles Haley, Terrell Davis, Shannon Sharpe, Steve Atwater, Issac Bruce, and many others. No innovation on offense. Same pro set with no intention on establishing a run game. Why not let Marino run a west coast offense, or a variation of it. Run and shoot. K gun. Something!!!
'85 hurts most. Literally dropped it against the Pats in the championship game, who were in turn humiliated by the Bears in SB20, it wasn't even a contest. 'Fins only team to beat them in regular season in the classic game at the Orange Bowl. Fins v Bears could have been the best superbowl ever, whichever team won it. After 85, I could never get why Shula couldn't seem to put together a decent defence, after all his previous success had been based on elite defences.
Marino never had a strong running game to compliment his passing game! He was one of the Very Best Quarterbacks in the NFL, probably in the top 3! He was one-of-a-kind! Off the field, he is AN INCREDIBLE HUMAN BEING! So down to earth and friendly! Met him once, couldn’t meet a nicer guy!
Terry Bradshaw won 3 Super Bowls throwing the ball, How many Running Backs won a Super Bowl MVP, hint: you only need one hand
@@fivehundrediq5212 You need a team, to win is not just the Qb, Elway win when he had RB and defense
From the time Marino was 25 to when he was 32, his prime years, the Dolphins missed the playoffs 6 of those 8 years (5 of 7 if you don't want to count the year he missed most of with injury).
Marino's career reinforces the fact that offense wins games, but defense wins championships. He never had a good enough D to win against good playoff teams. Not a big Marino fan, but i do feel bad that someone that great could never win the big game.
If he had a good enough defense' i feel like he would have won multiple Super Bowls without a doubt.