@@Zach-sc9xu And Tech won it's bowl game while Miami lost to Rutgers. Not sure how @IsaacPunts can say Miami "played down to their competition". Pretty insulting comment really. Tech was the better team. Miami didn't play down to anyone. Miami is Miami.
I was unbelievably confused seeing ESPN score updates: NE with the ball and 3 seconds left I knew i was going to see a final tie score in regulation indication soon…. A minute went by, no tie Yet another minute goes by, still no tie I thought “there’s NO way NE pulled a stray TD play out of nowhere” Then I saw it. LV +6 pts TD. I knew an absolute catastrophe of a play must’ve been done to somehow result a TD the other way around when NE should’ve just kneeled for OT
"An intense, multi-hour surgery deep into the intestines of victory to retrieve defeat" Brilliant, incredible, poetry, magnificent wordsmithing here my friend, what a line.
Baylor vs. UNLV 1999 was the worst of all time, even worse than the Miami debacle. Baylor was up 24-21 on the UNLV 8 yard line with 20 seconds left. A knee would have run the clock out but Baylor coach Kevin Steele insisted on running up the score and tried to punch it in. The RB actually made it to the UNLV 1 but got it stripped just shy of the goal line, and it was run back for a 99-yard game winning TD by the UNLV defense. That's something that shouldn't even happen in a video game let alone a D-I college football game and I don't think that will ever be topped so long as organized football is being played.
Miracle of the Meadowlands. It’s the Miami-VT play, except the Giants players didn’t want to do it but were *threatened with getting cut* by one of their coaches if they took a knee. That coach was fired after the Giants loss and never coached at any level of football ever again.
At the time, the play clock was only 30 seconds. The play clock was going to run out at 31 seconds, and that’s when Joe Clack snapped the ball (seeing the play clock about to run out). The Giants had to run at least one more play lasting more than 1 second.
Yeah, but even if it wasn’t as formalized or in its modern iteration, they were using the strategy for a while up until that point according to Wikipedia. And any movement followed by getting on the ground would ensure that the extra second was used up.
@@Rockhound6165 It was, but most coaches didn't use it because they saw it as a cowardly, dirty way to end a game. But you could just have the QB hold onto the ball and run it so this play is still retarded.
@@AEMoreira81 You mean something like the QB receiving the snap and then running up the middle? Something infinitely safer and what even the announcers calling the game thought they were gonna do?
I've got one for you from the Cleveland Browns. Opening Weekend in 2002. Kansas City at Cleveland. CLE is up 39-37 prior to what will be the final snap of the game. Kansas City has no timeouts. A sack or anything complete in the field of play ends the game. Dwayne Rudd gets a hold of Trent Green and spins him around. Trent Green (evidently unbeknownst to Rudd) tosses the ball back to tackle John Tait. Tait actually rumbles, bumbles, and stumbles to around the 25 or 30 yard line of Cleveland, but the gun goes off and the clock strikes 0:00. Game over. Except... Flag on the play. Unsportsmanlike conduct, on the defense, #57, removing his helmet on the field of play, during play. The game cannot end on a defensive penalty. Half the distance to the goal. Automatic first down, we will play the down. Kansas City kicks a field goal, on an untimed down at the end of regulation, to beat Cleveland, when all Cleveland had to do was hold on to their hats.
There was a Seahawks at Cardinals game a few years back where nobody won. It went 3-3 into extra innings. They traded field goals. Then they traded missed field goals. Ended 6-6. Horrible game.
I put that game in the same category as the Fail Mary game: everyone only looks at the ending (2 missed FG) but fail to notice the whole game was like that - easily the worst performance the RW3 offense ever had, neither team remotely looking like scoring a TD, the Seahawks only scoring their first FG from a punt block, the Cardinals doing absolutely everything they could to blow all their other FG opportunities; the traded missed short FGs was just par for the course I legitimately believe if the game had required a TD to end it would have gone for about a day and a half 🙃
One I remember well, the Chiefs were playing the Falcons a few years ago. The Falcons took a one point lead late in the game with a TD. Instead of kicking the extra point, they attempted a two point conversion for a three point lead. On the attempt, the pass was intercepted by the Chiefs and run back to give the Chiefs two points, thus giving them a one point lead PLUS they would get the ball back with the kickoff and were able to take a knee and win.
As a Pats fan, the ENTIRE "lunatic lateral" game was a dumb loss. Of course everyone remembers that stupid af ending, but nobody remembers any of the crap that led up to it. - At one point in the first quarter, Patriots had the ball at the 2 yard line, on 3rd down Mac threw a TD pass to Meyers, but it was negated because Belichick (who I'm SO glad isn't the coach anymore) stupidly called a timeout right before it. Pats then ran a designed passing play to a blanketed Aghalor who obviously didn't catch it. Angered and flustered, Mac called another timeout because he wanted the TD and not a field goal. On 4th down Mac scores a TD on a QB sneak, but it was negated because the waste of talent Jonnu Smith false started, and the Pats had to settle for 3 points. That was literally 5 failed attempts at a touchdown due to terrible coaching, terrible discipline, terrible awareness and terrible execution, sums up the Matty P offense in a nutshell. - Patriots were punting right before halftime, and Jabrill Peppers wasn't paying attention during the snap and allowed the guy he was supposed to block to get past him and block the punt. This set the Raiders up at like the 10 yard line and they scored easilly, another 7 point swing that never should have been. - With less than 2 minutes in the game, Patriots miraculously had a touchdown lead and needed just ONE MORE STOP to win, as the Raiders needed to convert a 4th and 10 on their own 18 yard line to stay alive, and they were out of timeouts. For whatever f**king reason, Belichick had the corners and safeties play flaccid soft coverage (pretty much prevent) defense, which allowed Carr to connect with a wide open Hollins on a comeback route twice in a row, and the Pats defense (who literally only allowed 52 yards of offense that ENTIRE half) proceeded to sh*t all over themselves and gave up the game-tying touchdown drive. It was easilly the most infuriating loss I ever had the misfortune of watching, and honestly Belichick doesn't get anywhere near the amount of blame he deserves for it. It was Super Bowl 52 levels of abysmal coaching.
That university of Miami loss is, and always will be, the most embarrassing choke of all time. All they had to do was take a knee, but their disaster of a coach couldn't even handle something so simple.
It's an older dumb loss, but it checks out: 2002 Lions at Bears - game goes to overtime with the old sudden death OT rules. Lions win the coin flip and elect to kick the ball, because you see, it was a very windy day and they wanted to make the Bears go into the wind. The Bears subsequently end up driving the length of the field and kicking a chip-shot FG into the wind to win the game.
Yes, but it was the play call that did it. One of the refs appeared to try very hard to get to the ball and set it but there still wasn't enough time to make it happen.
Yup, they tried a QB run with under 30 seconds to go and no timeouts. The plan was to spike it and kick a game-winning FG, but they didn't quite judge the time right. :)
@@bryansummers3219 There were a large number of things done wrong that added up to time running out. A) The Cowboys only needed to get to the 35 or so to be in easy field goal range, and Dak went an extra bunch of yards, taking off extra time. B) rather than popping up and handing the ball to the ref, Dak handed it to the center, making the ref have to walk around people, wasting more time. C) the entire Cowboys team lined up on the ball before the sprinting back judge could spot the ball, forcing him to have to find a gap between them squeeze and shove and around two NFL lineman, yank the ball out of the hand of the center who didn't want to let go which wasted a good 2 seconds. D) since the center had spotted the ball wrong, the whole line then had to reset back from where it was, wasting even more time. The Cowboys only missed the spike by about a second. Even with the risky play call, if they had known what to do AFTER the play, ie, Mike Mccarthy had coached them, they would have been fine. But nope, it was a pile of bumbling clown decisions and they lost in an epicly dumb way.
Mario Cristobal lost a game the EXACT same way at Oregon before going to Miami. With the lead against Stanford and almost no time left, he called a running play rather than a kneel, the ball was stripped, and the Ducks lost in the stupidest way possible. He should get a special award for losing this way twice.
Fran Tarkington fired a lateral 20 yards backwards and the guy scored. In fairness, the Vikings were losing and Fran basically said they were going to lose if he got tackled so he did it. So, it is only stupid if you are not losing.
I will never forget when I was watching the Raiders-Pats game, and my brother who was watching on his tv (with a delay) was immensely confused when he heard me screaming "OH MY GOD! TOUCHDOWN RAIDERS!" from the other room. When I ran over to his tv, I couldn't stop laughing at his live reaction to the play itself. Best Patriots play of all time.
Great list save #2. Hindsight is 20/20. On a similar play between the Steelers and the Colts in '05, Bettis got the ball to punch it in and ice the game. He never fumbled with goal to go. Until he did. Only a shoelace tackle by Big Ben and an infamous 46 yd miss by Vanderjagt (on his last NFL play I think) saved the Steelers. Wilson has also had 0 picks in this situation before. And Beastmode did have a couple of negative plays, as you say in the vid. It wasn't a riskier play. Hindsight is 20/20.
I agree with this, yes they could have run it but the Pat's were likely going to go all out to stop the run. If Lynch doesn't make it against a stacked box, they only have one more chance. The criticism of this call is a case of national Monday morning quarterbacking.
It was a totally fine decision to throw the ball - they had to do it at least once, since they only had one timeout, and they decided to throw on 2nd down rather then 3rd down. The problem here is the throw itself - it has to be either a TD or an incompletion to stop the clock. Russ slightly missed the throw, which allowed Butler to pick it, but even if the throw was fine… Ricardo Lockette would have likely caught the ball and then got stopped by Butler for no gain - which would be a horrible result, as the clock would still be running.
How can you say passes aren't a riskier play than runs when they empirically are. According to research I've found, ~3% of passes end in interceptions while ~1% of run plays end in fumble turnovers. It is about 3x riskier to throw a pass than to run.
@@superdog3293 These seem like all-time numbers rather than current ones. If you can point me to situational stats of gtg or red zone INT vs lost fumbles % (let's say for argument's sake that checking from the 1 yd line would be a small sample), I might agree with you.
@@KD555 OK, I looked into specifically the goal line plays. No formal research but a blog post looked at games from 2016-2029 with plays on the 1 or 2 yard line and found runs had a 53% chance to score with 2% turnovers and passes had 49% chance to score with 3% turnovers
In Todd Gurley's defense, going 75 yards in 1:04 with no timeouts is a very hard thing to do. The defense not getting a stop and the offense not even attempting a 2-pointer to go up by 7 beforehand is significantly worse than accidentally scoring a touchdown.
Still doesn't quite offset the other Atlanta team being on the wrong side of it twice (3 times if you count the 28-3 mention)… I'm a Falcons' fan, sigh
Not only did Seattle have the BEST short yardage RB in the NFL, they had the BEST running QB and a KILLER O-line... NOTHING said "pass" in that moment other than "we want to lose for an NFL script". NOTHING. And I'm a DIE HARD 49'ers fan. This was A BS call by Seattle.
Ole Miss v Ms St 2019, Ole miss scored and had an excessive celebration (better known as Ole Piss) and pushed the extra point kick back 15 yards. The River City Relay is up there too.
The Dumbest way to almost lose: In the 2012 divisional playoffs the Falcons were up 30-28 against the Seahawks with 8 seconds left after kicking a go ahead field goal. Instead of doing a normal kickoff, the Falcons decided to attempt an onside kick which the Seahawks recovered but the Falcons defense bailed them out
As an FSU fan i had been arguing with my UM friend all season long about who would win the game last year and after that loss against Georgia Tech he knew it was over for them. Incredibly ridiculous loss.
I’m sorry, but I completely disagree. The Seahawks debacle is the worst play in football history. It’s not even close. Not only was it in a professional game, but it was the Super Bowl. Nothing even comes close.
Seahawks did not have sufficient timeouts to run it 3 times. I probably still want Lynch on the ball but it is not as dumb as it has been made to seem. Or, alternatively, I am dumb.
No, his take is pretty dumb. 30 seconds is not a “healthy” amount of time. Thought process: 1. Do a quick pass that either scores a TD, or falls incomplete to stop clock. If incomplete- 2. Run on 3rd down and take timeout if TD is not scored. If TD not scored- 3. Do your absolute best play to win game on 4th down Only reason the play is called bad is hindsight
Seattle did this all season long. It wasn’t something the coach just came up with. The pass would also keep the D honest. It was more that the Pats prepared for it and made a great defensive play.
The thing here was Pete Carroll stuck way too much to the game plan there and didn't read the room. Lynch was kicking ass. At least let him run it once, call the time out, then pass.
It's not sufficient to run it three times, but it is sufficient for a well-disciplined team (which you'd hope you have if you're in the Super Bowl) to get three plays off. Not running on second down, when you'll have at least one more (and probably two) play(s) and you have arguably the best power back in the league that year, that close to the endzone, is still pretty damn indefensible. Especially when you're close enough that almost any positive yardage will get you into the endzone.
I don't know about No. 5 being that dumb. The field goal at the end isn't a given and the other team still needs to go 3/4 of the field in one minute to score. Those don't seem like bad odds to me. I just find it hard to believe that there are only four plays dumber than this that have resulted in a loss.
Playing down to competition? Georgia Tech finished with the same record (7-6) as Miami. But had a better ACC record (5-3) compared to Miami's (3-5) If anything, Georgia Tech was the better team who had just faced tougher opponents up to that point.
I think the point was that Miami, on paper at least, should have had the upper hand, as a 4-0 team, ranked in the top 25, and playing at home. A single game like this changes a team's mental state, and can change the outlook of a season. For instance, Miami players probably lose trust in themselves and their coach after such a demoralizing loss, as opposed to Georgia Tech gaining the confidence that they can win under any circumstances. Football is as much a game about momentum as any other factor.
There was a game between the Falcons and 49ers where there was like 3 minutes left and the Falcons were losing by 4 and got to the 1. Then on 4th and goal they kicked the field goal. Falcons never got the ball back.
Fun fact: if Gronk hadn't been hurt and instead managed to catch a tipped ball in the end zone, there's a slim chance Super Bowl XLVI would have ended the same way as the Falcons/Lions game. Two things people conveniently forget about the Brady-era Patriots: 1. Dude had an absolute cannon for an arm. It wasn't just accuracy and coverage reading. It's crazy how relatively few people talk about this aspect like it's the football equivalent of Michael Jordan's defense. 2. In all three of his Super Bowl losses, he threw desperation heaves in the final seconds that were nearly caught, and could've at least sent those games to overtime (the throws were well short of the end zone in XLII but could've set up a tying field goal, the would-be game-winning touchdown in XLVI, and a potential game-tying touchdown in LII assuming the success of the ensuing two-point conversion).
There was a Bears Falcons game where the Bears were up 1 with 6 seconds left and kicking off to the Falcons. Bears decide to squib kick!! Falcons get the ball at the 44 yard line with 6 seconds left. Falcons ran a quick play to the sideline with 1 second left and then kicked a long fg to win. Falcons on the other side of one of these things for once
Kicker during the falcons cowboy game was Greg Zurline. Also is the inventor of that strange onsides kick, set on the ground sideways kick it. Hardly enough of even seeing a couple kickers to side to try that technique as they're on sidekick it's worked for Zurline a few times, but never successful in the way this one was. This one was ridiculous and should have never ever ever been able to be recovered.
You could have covered an old game. Specifically for the New York Giants where there OC of the time (Bob Gibson) decides to do a play instead of kneeing it. The ball goes to the other team, scored, and Bob Gibson is fired and is never hired to play any level of NFL football again (source: EmpLemon's Art of the Choke, specifically in The Inconceivable mark
Yes, The Miracle at the Meadowlands, better dubbed as Stupidity at the Meadowlands. Though it has to be said the aging Csonka sold his QB Pisarczik on the play, refusing to be handed the ball. The Miami play at #1 here was a homage to that debacle.
A QB kneel wasn't a legit play until 1985, so they had to run an actual play. Larry Csonka didn't like the call so he threw the play. That was 100% on Csonka.
Actually, I think that the case could be made to throw the poor ol' Falcons into this one more time for that idiotic call from Shannahan in the Super Bowl. A couple of safe runs or even having Ryan dig for a yard, and Belichick is out of timeouts, and here comes the field goal unit to ice it. No, he decides to "make a statement" and that is that.
I’m kind of surprised you didn’t include the 1993 Thanksgiving Day game between the Dolphins and Cowboys when Leon Lett became a household name for all the wrong reasons, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. (Between that and the Super Bowl Pick Six that he essentially gave away, Lett became a poster boy for stupid plays, which is too bad because he was a very good player otherwise.)
Oilers vs Bills, 1992 AFC Wild Card. Oilers have a 35-3 lead halfway through the third quarter but lose 41-38 in OT. And lose to a team playing their backup QB.
#2 was a dead give away on just how you were setting up for it. LOL its that infamous of a play that everybody knows it was likely the worst coaching call ever made in the Super Bowl.
Seattle's game-losing pick was then followed by an offsides penalty on Michael Bennett to negate an excessive celebration penalty on the Patriots, and Brady's following kneel-down gets Bruce Irvin ejected for an instigator penalty
I had mostly given up on the Hurricanes, then that play happened. I didn’t watch another second of Hurricanes football after that and don’t plan to again anytime soon.
There are a million of em. The Colts lose to the Vikings after leading by 33 pts in the 3rd qtr. Leon Letts double Dutch against the Bill's where Don Bebee ran him down and stripped the ball, and against the Dolphins where he dove on a blocked field goal in the snow that he could have just left alone, resulting in a extra field goal attempt that lost the game. The Oilers blow 32 pt lead in the 3rd quarter to the Bills to lose a wildcard race. It never ends.
I'm surprised you didn't include when the Falcons were down 4 points at the 1 yard line towards the end of the game, inexplicably kicked a field goal, then never got the ball back.
The Miami game is so bad because on the final play the entire secondary bites on the low route leaving the receiver to catch it almost at the end zone with nobody there to stop him lol.
I'm a Patriots fan and even so, seeing Russell Wilson just sort of casually clap his hands and shake his head as if to say "ah phooey!" after throwing away the Super Bowl makes my blood boil. Like, I was cheering at the moment, but every time I see a replay I feel rage on behalf of Hawks fans when I see that. Glad the Pats won, but my god I still can't believe the playcall
The Pete Carroll call isn't THAT bad, Isaac. Everyone just assumed Marshawn Lynch scores without any thought to probability. Marshawn Lynch or Russell Wilson had about a 5.5% chance of losing a fumbled rush attempt. Wilson had about a 7.1% chance of throwing an interception. That is hardly the worst call in history, and I can't believe I'm defending Brandi Love, I mean, Pete Carroll.
I think it's worse than people give credit. Lynch on the day was 24/26 of runs going for more than 1 yard, and those other 2 didn't lose them a yard just ran for no gain. I think you don't take the ball out of Lynch's hands in that situation until 4th down.
@@IsaacPuntsMarshawn Lynch had scored 1/5 times from one 1 yd line that season, and an incomplete pass stops the clock Their real mistake was letting the clock run all the way down to 22 seconds because they apparently assumed Belichick had called a timeout
@@IsaacPunts the play only gets shit because of hindsight. If that pass ends up as a TD, or falls incomplete, it wouldn’t be criticized at all. Seahawks thought process was do that quick pass, hope it ends up as TD or at worst incomplete. If incomplete, clock stops and run on 3rd down. If run doesn’t score, call timeout then run your absolute best play to score on 4th down. Also that pick concept pass the Seahawks ran is still run to this day, and it never ends up as a pick. Butler just made an insane play on the ball
Two real good ones are Dallas Cowboys Wild Card Round 13 seconds left no timeouts Hail Mary situation - QB run instead + slides down in bounds Buffalo Bills 27 - 23 40 seconds left QB sneak fumble at their own endzone for a Vikings recovery TD.
I have a problem with number 2 that most people don't realize: they were FORCED to throw the football. The Pats were in goaline formation with 3 dbs in the box, meaning that the LOS had more defenders than the offense had on the LOS. ha they simply gave it to Lynch, there is a chance he would've scored but more than likely would've been stopped. Number 5 wasn't Gurley's fault either. He was not expecting the defender to let go of him, forcing his momentum to go forward & break the plane. The rest are totally unforgivable and just no football awareness is key situations.
The attendance of the first games looks like it could be counted in the hundreds, not the thousands. The Atlanta faithful are an astute bunch apparently, since they know when to stay home.
Surprised the braille mary isn’t on here. Fitzmagic completes a pass with his helmet sideways because of a face mask as time expires led to a dolphins field goal and victory in LV
There are so many dumber college football losses. You could make videos for every season and not run out of content. However, I still don't think there will ever be a dumber way to lose than what Miami did. Doing nothing would have won the game.
The Seahawks could only run the ball twice, to be clear, but I agree that the correct sequence was run, timeout, then either pass on 3rd down or run knowing you are ending the game one way or the other. As for the Pats play, I've always thought the criticism of Stevenson was unfair, because his lateral was short, careful and to a player he looked at first. Even if it's a fumble, it's a fumble in a scrum that has no chance of being returned anywhere. It's a low chance of success, but it's an even lower chance of failure, and honestly if you're gonna blame Stevenson then you might as well criticize running a play at all (which would be pretty fair, to be clear, but either way Stevenson gets a pass imo)
The criticism on Stevenson is MORE than fair. The score was tied and the game was (unfortunately) going to OT, the only time you should EVER lateral the ball is when you are either losing and there's no time left or you are running a play that actually has a designed lateral in it. There are countless things to criticize from that game, and Stevenson's horrible situational awareness and ball security is one of them. Those terrible traits likely cost the Pats the game against the Bengals too when he stupidly fumbled the ball at the 3 yard line with less than a minute to go in the game. Criticism on Stevenson was/is more than warranted.
Embarrassing Loss - Dwayne Rudd removing his helmet at the end of a Browns game. The defensive penalty extended the game for one un-timed down. Kansas City wins on the second "final play" of the game.
As a Tech fan, the fact that we went on to win a bowl game we wouldn't have been eligible for without that win to Miami will never not be hilarious
We ended with the same record as Miami after how hyped up they were haha
As a Miami fan, good work
Yeah there’s nothing I can really say in this situation
@@Zach-sc9xu And Tech won it's bowl game while Miami lost to Rutgers. Not sure how @IsaacPunts can say Miami "played down to their competition". Pretty insulting comment really. Tech was the better team. Miami didn't play down to anyone. Miami is Miami.
Wow, you won a literally meaningless bowl game, who gives a shit lol
@@javag4995 -- Miami literally wins if they...TAKE. A. KNEE!
The Meyers to Jones lateral will forever be my favorite play. Watched it live and never laughed harder in my life.
Yeah, honestly same. It's just one of those plays that defies logic 😂 but you can't always look like a hero, so In a weird way, I respect it.
@@kyledabearsfani hear that. They tried 🤷♂️
As a Bills fan that was the best and funniest play ever! I love watching the pats and jones fail
Meyers ended up joining the raiders too lmao, hes balling out too
I was unbelievably confused seeing ESPN score updates: NE with the ball and 3 seconds left
I knew i was going to see a final tie score in regulation indication soon….
A minute went by, no tie
Yet another minute goes by, still no tie
I thought “there’s NO way NE pulled a stray TD play out of nowhere”
Then I saw it. LV +6 pts TD.
I knew an absolute catastrophe of a play must’ve been done to somehow result a TD the other way around when NE should’ve just kneeled for OT
"An intense, multi-hour surgery deep into the intestines of victory to retrieve defeat"
Brilliant, incredible, poetry, magnificent wordsmithing here my friend, what a line.
Baylor vs. UNLV 1999 was the worst of all time, even worse than the Miami debacle. Baylor was up 24-21 on the UNLV 8 yard line with 20 seconds left. A knee would have run the clock out but Baylor coach Kevin Steele insisted on running up the score and tried to punch it in. The RB actually made it to the UNLV 1 but got it stripped just shy of the goal line, and it was run back for a 99-yard game winning TD by the UNLV defense. That's something that shouldn't even happen in a video game let alone a D-I college football game and I don't think that will ever be topped so long as organized football is being played.
My wife and I were living in Waco at the time. Still sticks in my memory.
I remember that. As a young CFB fan, that made quite the impression on me. I never thought I'd see it again, until Miami-GA Tech in 2023!
In a video game I would've run the clock down to the last second and finish the game with a field goal
@@gth804f As a Rebel fan I agree.
Miracle of the Meadowlands. It’s the Miami-VT play, except the Giants players didn’t want to do it but were *threatened with getting cut* by one of their coaches if they took a knee. That coach was fired after the Giants loss and never coached at any level of football ever again.
At the time, the play clock was only 30 seconds. The play clock was going to run out at 31 seconds, and that’s when Joe Clack snapped the ball (seeing the play clock about to run out). The Giants had to run at least one more play lasting more than 1 second.
Taking a knee wasn't an option then.
Yeah, but even if it wasn’t as formalized or in its modern iteration, they were using the strategy for a while up until that point according to Wikipedia. And any movement followed by getting on the ground would ensure that the extra second was used up.
@@Rockhound6165 It was, but most coaches didn't use it because they saw it as a cowardly, dirty way to end a game. But you could just have the QB hold onto the ball and run it so this play is still retarded.
@@AEMoreira81 You mean something like the QB receiving the snap and then running up the middle? Something infinitely safer and what even the announcers calling the game thought they were gonna do?
I've got one for you from the Cleveland Browns.
Opening Weekend in 2002. Kansas City at Cleveland. CLE is up 39-37 prior to what will be the final snap of the game. Kansas City has no timeouts. A sack or anything complete in the field of play ends the game. Dwayne Rudd gets a hold of Trent Green and spins him around. Trent Green (evidently unbeknownst to Rudd) tosses the ball back to tackle John Tait. Tait actually rumbles, bumbles, and stumbles to around the 25 or 30 yard line of Cleveland, but the gun goes off and the clock strikes 0:00. Game over. Except...
Flag on the play.
Unsportsmanlike conduct, on the defense, #57, removing his helmet on the field of play, during play.
The game cannot end on a defensive penalty. Half the distance to the goal. Automatic first down, we will play the down.
Kansas City kicks a field goal, on an untimed down at the end of regulation, to beat Cleveland, when all Cleveland had to do was hold on to their hats.
*Everyone* knows this incident.
There was a Seahawks at Cardinals game a few years back where nobody won. It went 3-3 into extra innings. They traded field goals. Then they traded missed field goals. Ended 6-6. Horrible game.
I didn't know Baseball had ties.
@@JackKnoxx Or that football had innings.
It was an incredibly entertaining game. The score wouldn’t show it, but it was one of the most memorable games of the year.
What does this have to do with dumbest football losses?
I put that game in the same category as the Fail Mary game: everyone only looks at the ending (2 missed FG) but fail to notice the whole game was like that - easily the worst performance the RW3 offense ever had, neither team remotely looking like scoring a TD, the Seahawks only scoring their first FG from a punt block, the Cardinals doing absolutely everything they could to blow all their other FG opportunities; the traded missed short FGs was just par for the course
I legitimately believe if the game had required a TD to end it would have gone for about a day and a half 🙃
One I remember well, the Chiefs were playing the Falcons a few years ago. The Falcons took a one point lead late in the game with a TD. Instead of kicking the extra point, they attempted a two point conversion for a three point lead. On the attempt, the pass was intercepted by the Chiefs and run back to give the Chiefs two points, thus giving them a one point lead PLUS they would get the ball back with the kickoff and were able to take a knee and win.
That patriots one is still the worst play I’ve ever seen
beli should have retired after that play
As a Pats fan, the ENTIRE "lunatic lateral" game was a dumb loss. Of course everyone remembers that stupid af ending, but nobody remembers any of the crap that led up to it.
- At one point in the first quarter, Patriots had the ball at the 2 yard line, on 3rd down Mac threw a TD pass to Meyers, but it was negated because Belichick (who I'm SO glad isn't the coach anymore) stupidly called a timeout right before it. Pats then ran a designed passing play to a blanketed Aghalor who obviously didn't catch it. Angered and flustered, Mac called another timeout because he wanted the TD and not a field goal. On 4th down Mac scores a TD on a QB sneak, but it was negated because the waste of talent Jonnu Smith false started, and the Pats had to settle for 3 points. That was literally 5 failed attempts at a touchdown due to terrible coaching, terrible discipline, terrible awareness and terrible execution, sums up the Matty P offense in a nutshell.
- Patriots were punting right before halftime, and Jabrill Peppers wasn't paying attention during the snap and allowed the guy he was supposed to block to get past him and block the punt. This set the Raiders up at like the 10 yard line and they scored easilly, another 7 point swing that never should have been.
- With less than 2 minutes in the game, Patriots miraculously had a touchdown lead and needed just ONE MORE STOP to win, as the Raiders needed to convert a 4th and 10 on their own 18 yard line to stay alive, and they were out of timeouts. For whatever f**king reason, Belichick had the corners and safeties play flaccid soft coverage (pretty much prevent) defense, which allowed Carr to connect with a wide open Hollins on a comeback route twice in a row, and the Pats defense (who literally only allowed 52 yards of offense that ENTIRE half) proceeded to sh*t all over themselves and gave up the game-tying touchdown drive.
It was easilly the most infuriating loss I ever had the misfortune of watching, and honestly Belichick doesn't get anywhere near the amount of blame he deserves for it. It was Super Bowl 52 levels of abysmal coaching.
And we all loved it.
Its a bit older but Leon Lett in the sleet bowl in 1993 has to be tops in a list like this. Great work as always!
Against Miami.
Miami been "playing down" for 20 years, maybe they just arent that good and still riding the name brand.
It's true. They used to be great, but that was a long time ago.
As a ‘canes fan, yeah this is the most accurate take on them I’ve seen in a while
That university of Miami loss is, and always will be, the most embarrassing choke of all time. All they had to do was take a knee, but their disaster of a coach couldn't even handle something so simple.
It's an older dumb loss, but it checks out: 2002 Lions at Bears - game goes to overtime with the old sudden death OT rules. Lions win the coin flip and elect to kick the ball, because you see, it was a very windy day and they wanted to make the Bears go into the wind. The Bears subsequently end up driving the length of the field and kicking a chip-shot FG into the wind to win the game.
Very early in the M&M error!
Didn't the Cowboys lose because they didn't get the ball back to the refs to set the ball?
Yes, the NFC Wild Card Playoff game vs the 49ers a few years ago.
And followed it up by having Zeke play as the center with zero tackles or ends at the line.
Ah, Cowboys magic.
Yes, but it was the play call that did it. One of the refs appeared to try very hard to get to the ball and set it but there still wasn't enough time to make it happen.
Yup, they tried a QB run with under 30 seconds to go and no timeouts. The plan was to spike it and kick a game-winning FG, but they didn't quite judge the time right. :)
@@bryansummers3219 There were a large number of things done wrong that added up to time running out.
A) The Cowboys only needed to get to the 35 or so to be in easy field goal range, and Dak went an extra bunch of yards, taking off extra time.
B) rather than popping up and handing the ball to the ref, Dak handed it to the center, making the ref have to walk around people, wasting more time.
C) the entire Cowboys team lined up on the ball before the sprinting back judge could spot the ball, forcing him to have to find a gap between them squeeze and shove and around two NFL lineman, yank the ball out of the hand of the center who didn't want to let go which wasted a good 2 seconds.
D) since the center had spotted the ball wrong, the whole line then had to reset back from where it was, wasting even more time.
The Cowboys only missed the spike by about a second. Even with the risky play call, if they had known what to do AFTER the play, ie, Mike Mccarthy had coached them, they would have been fine. But nope, it was a pile of bumbling clown decisions and they lost in an epicly dumb way.
This is the first video of yours I've seen and I'm subscribing. The "defeat in the intestines of victory" bit was top tier. Keep it up 🎉
Mario Cristobal lost a game the EXACT same way at Oregon before going to Miami. With the lead against Stanford and almost no time left, he called a running play rather than a kneel, the ball was stripped, and the Ducks lost in the stupidest way possible. He should get a special award for losing this way twice.
Ok, your speech bit about digging into victory to find defeat? That was brilliant.
Who throws a lateral backwards 20 yards?????? Stupidest play of all time
and towards the qb
It was all unnecessary to boot. It’s not like they would have lost the game had they not scored… OT isn’t the end of the world.
Fran Tarkington fired a lateral 20 yards backwards and the guy scored. In fairness, the Vikings were losing and Fran basically said they were going to lose if he got tackled so he did it. So, it is only stupid if you are not losing.
There will never be a list like this that does not have the Atlanta Falcons. A history of unbelievable incompetence. 28-3 forever!
lol 😂
I was surprised that you didn't include the Miracle of the Meadowlands.
I will never forget when I was watching the Raiders-Pats game, and my brother who was watching on his tv (with a delay) was immensely confused when he heard me screaming "OH MY GOD! TOUCHDOWN RAIDERS!" from the other room. When I ran over to his tv, I couldn't stop laughing at his live reaction to the play itself. Best Patriots play of all time.
Great list save #2.
Hindsight is 20/20. On a similar play between the Steelers and the Colts in '05, Bettis got the ball to punch it in and ice the game. He never fumbled with goal to go. Until he did. Only a shoelace tackle by Big Ben and an infamous 46 yd miss by Vanderjagt (on his last NFL play I think) saved the Steelers.
Wilson has also had 0 picks in this situation before. And Beastmode did have a couple of negative plays, as you say in the vid.
It wasn't a riskier play. Hindsight is 20/20.
I agree with this, yes they could have run it but the Pat's were likely going to go all out to stop the run. If Lynch doesn't make it against a stacked box, they only have one more chance. The criticism of this call is a case of national Monday morning quarterbacking.
It was a totally fine decision to throw the ball - they had to do it at least once, since they only had one timeout, and they decided to throw on 2nd down rather then 3rd down.
The problem here is the throw itself - it has to be either a TD or an incompletion to stop the clock. Russ slightly missed the throw, which allowed Butler to pick it, but even if the throw was fine… Ricardo Lockette would have likely caught the ball and then got stopped by Butler for no gain - which would be a horrible result, as the clock would still be running.
How can you say passes aren't a riskier play than runs when they empirically are. According to research I've found, ~3% of passes end in interceptions while ~1% of run plays end in fumble turnovers. It is about 3x riskier to throw a pass than to run.
@@superdog3293 These seem like all-time numbers rather than current ones.
If you can point me to situational stats of gtg or red zone INT vs lost fumbles % (let's say for argument's sake that checking from the 1 yd line would be a small sample), I might agree with you.
@@KD555 OK, I looked into specifically the goal line plays. No formal research but a blog post looked at games from 2016-2029 with plays on the 1 or 2 yard line and found runs had a 53% chance to score with 2% turnovers and passes had 49% chance to score with 3% turnovers
In Todd Gurley's defense, going 75 yards in 1:04 with no timeouts is a very hard thing to do. The defense not getting a stop and the offense not even attempting a 2-pointer to go up by 7 beforehand is significantly worse than accidentally scoring a touchdown.
This defense doesn't really work when Matt Ryan literally told him "Don't score" before the play
@@chargingbadger867 How does that affect Atlanta's secondary?
Exactly. I hate how Gurley is the only person that ever gets blamed
Gurley TRIED to stop but couldn't brake well enough.
Good call!! Atlanta should have gone for 2.
So happy to see GT on the right side of this list
Still doesn't quite offset the other Atlanta team being on the wrong side of it twice (3 times if you count the 28-3 mention)… I'm a Falcons' fan, sigh
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Not only did Seattle have the BEST short yardage RB in the NFL, they had the BEST running QB and a KILLER O-line... NOTHING said "pass" in that moment other than "we want to lose for an NFL script". NOTHING.
And I'm a DIE HARD 49'ers fan. This was A BS call by Seattle.
Ole Miss v Ms St 2019, Ole miss scored and had an excessive celebration (better known as Ole Piss) and pushed the extra point kick back 15 yards.
The River City Relay is up there too.
The Miami Head Voach committed a fireable offense.
The Dumbest way to almost lose:
In the 2012 divisional playoffs the Falcons were up 30-28 against the Seahawks with 8 seconds left after kicking a go ahead field goal.
Instead of doing a normal kickoff, the Falcons decided to attempt an onside kick which the Seahawks recovered but the Falcons defense bailed them out
Funnily enough, it was actually Julio Jones that caught the game sealing INT in that game
And then they blew a 17-point lead to the 49ers in the NFC Championship
Looks more like a failed squib kick
As an FSU fan i had been arguing with my UM friend all season long about who would win the game last year and after that loss against Georgia Tech he knew it was over for them. Incredibly ridiculous loss.
Thank you Miami for giving this blessing to us Georgia Tech fans
Leon Lett on Thanksgiving deserves a note here.
3:22 Greg Zuerlein kicked the Cowboys onside, not Maher
Marty Morningweg as lions head coach takes the wind in overtime.. back when a single FG wins the game...
Very dumb
Detroit Chicago not sure on the year but I think 2000-2006 area
I would say both miracles at the Meadowlands are worthy of honorable mentions
Oh my heart, you showed a clip of the iron bowl, "kick six" 💔
I’m sorry, but I completely disagree. The Seahawks debacle is the worst play in football history. It’s not even close. Not only was it in a professional game, but it was the Super Bowl. Nothing even comes close.
Seahawks did not have sufficient timeouts to run it 3 times. I probably still want Lynch on the ball but it is not as dumb as it has been made to seem. Or, alternatively, I am dumb.
No, his take is pretty dumb. 30 seconds is not a “healthy” amount of time. Thought process:
1. Do a quick pass that either scores a TD, or falls incomplete to stop clock. If incomplete-
2. Run on 3rd down and take timeout if TD is not scored. If TD not scored-
3. Do your absolute best play to win game on 4th down
Only reason the play is called bad is hindsight
Seattle did this all season long. It wasn’t something the coach just came up with. The pass would also keep the D honest. It was more that the Pats prepared for it and made a great defensive play.
@@beastbod At the time I thought there was no way they'd throw the ball. Lynch was running all over them even with the stacked box.
The thing here was Pete Carroll stuck way too much to the game plan there and didn't read the room. Lynch was kicking ass. At least let him run it once, call the time out, then pass.
It's not sufficient to run it three times, but it is sufficient for a well-disciplined team (which you'd hope you have if you're in the Super Bowl) to get three plays off. Not running on second down, when you'll have at least one more (and probably two) play(s) and you have arguably the best power back in the league that year, that close to the endzone, is still pretty damn indefensible. Especially when you're close enough that almost any positive yardage will get you into the endzone.
I don't know about No. 5 being that dumb. The field goal at the end isn't a given and the other team still needs to go 3/4 of the field in one minute to score. Those don't seem like bad odds to me. I just find it hard to believe that there are only four plays dumber than this that have resulted in a loss.
I was hoping the watermelon kick was on the list! 😂 (#4)
Now there’s another one that happened Cowboys still lost but they got another one successful (Cowboys fan)
Phillip Rivers fumbling the kneel down will always be my favorite undeserved win.
Cleveland losing that game because the dude took off his helmet is pretty dumb.
Harbaugh's decision to punt against MSU will always be one of my favorite WTF moments
Surprised that Nathaniel Hackett's Broncos weren't mentioned once.
Here in Atlanta, let me tell you, the pain is real.
You guys deserve an Oscar for living like that (Cowboys fan)
Playing down to competition?
Georgia Tech finished with the same record (7-6) as Miami. But had a better ACC record (5-3) compared to Miami's (3-5)
If anything, Georgia Tech was the better team who had just faced tougher opponents up to that point.
Bowling Green was a tougher opponent?
I say this as a GT fanatic.
I think the point was that Miami, on paper at least, should have had the upper hand, as a 4-0 team, ranked in the top 25, and playing at home. A single game like this changes a team's mental state, and can change the outlook of a season. For instance, Miami players probably lose trust in themselves and their coach after such a demoralizing loss, as opposed to Georgia Tech gaining the confidence that they can win under any circumstances. Football is as much a game about momentum as any other factor.
But if Cristobal doesn't brain shart, Miami finishes 8-5.
There was a game between the Falcons and 49ers where there was like 3 minutes left and the Falcons were losing by 4 and got to the 1. Then on 4th and goal they kicked the field goal. Falcons never got the ball back.
That Atlanta/Dallas game was insane. Three onside kick recoveries, but only two counted. So bad!
I love the msu vs Michigan clip in the beginning ah those were some good times for me kinda just pain now as a msu fan
Fun fact: if Gronk hadn't been hurt and instead managed to catch a tipped ball in the end zone, there's a slim chance Super Bowl XLVI would have ended the same way as the Falcons/Lions game. Two things people conveniently forget about the Brady-era Patriots: 1. Dude had an absolute cannon for an arm. It wasn't just accuracy and coverage reading. It's crazy how relatively few people talk about this aspect like it's the football equivalent of Michael Jordan's defense. 2. In all three of his Super Bowl losses, he threw desperation heaves in the final seconds that were nearly caught, and could've at least sent those games to overtime (the throws were well short of the end zone in XLII but could've set up a tying field goal, the would-be game-winning touchdown in XLVI, and a potential game-tying touchdown in LII assuming the success of the ensuing two-point conversion).
There was a Bears Falcons game where the Bears were up 1 with 6 seconds left and kicking off to the Falcons. Bears decide to squib kick!! Falcons get the ball at the 44 yard line with 6 seconds left. Falcons ran a quick play to the sideline with 1 second left and then kicked a long fg to win. Falcons on the other side of one of these things for once
Kicker during the falcons cowboy game was Greg Zurline.
Also is the inventor of that strange onsides kick, set on the ground sideways kick it.
Hardly enough of even seeing a couple kickers to side to try that technique as they're on sidekick it's worked for Zurline a few times, but never successful in the way this one was. This one was ridiculous and should have never ever ever been able to be recovered.
Zeurlein made the onside kick, not Maher.
No Dwayne Rudd?
The fact that the Cowboys fan that same onside kick vs the Ravens and recovered it makes it seem like a big brain move even though they lost
Shouldn't Miracle of the Meadowlands be on this list if not the top?
You could have covered an old game. Specifically for the New York Giants where there OC of the time (Bob Gibson) decides to do a play instead of kneeing it. The ball goes to the other team, scored, and Bob Gibson is fired and is never hired to play any level of NFL football again
(source: EmpLemon's Art of the Choke, specifically in The Inconceivable mark
Yes, The Miracle at the Meadowlands, better dubbed as Stupidity at the Meadowlands.
Though it has to be said the aging Csonka sold his QB Pisarczik on the play, refusing to be handed the ball.
The Miami play at #1 here was a homage to that debacle.
A QB kneel wasn't a legit play until 1985, so they had to run an actual play. Larry Csonka didn't like the call so he threw the play. That was 100% on Csonka.
Matt Ryan has to be the least clutch QB in NFL history 😂
Might give that to phillip rivers
Best choker QB
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Dak Prescott
Love the vids, but F you for that SB51 reference
Actually, I think that the case could be made to throw the poor ol' Falcons into this one more time for that idiotic call from Shannahan in the Super Bowl. A couple of safe runs or even having Ryan dig for a yard, and Belichick is out of timeouts, and here comes the field goal unit to ice it. No, he decides to "make a statement" and that is that.
isaac is stepping his game up in 2024 and im here for it
Huge Jax St fan here, but honestly our loss at South Carolina last year could probably make this list
I’m kind of surprised you didn’t include the 1993 Thanksgiving Day game between the Dolphins and Cowboys when Leon Lett became a household name for all the wrong reasons, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. (Between that and the Super Bowl Pick Six that he essentially gave away, Lett became a poster boy for stupid plays, which is too bad because he was a very good player otherwise.)
Saints fan here. Felt good seeing the falcons in this a few times
Oilers vs Bills, 1992 AFC Wild Card. Oilers have a 35-3 lead halfway through the third quarter but lose 41-38 in OT. And lose to a team playing their backup QB.
Mario did the same at oregon vs stanford. Lost the exact same way. Ran the ball instead of taking a knee.
#2 was a dead give away on just how you were setting up for it. LOL its that infamous of a play that everybody knows it was likely the worst coaching call ever made in the Super Bowl.
Seattle's game-losing pick was then followed by an offsides penalty on Michael Bennett to negate an excessive celebration penalty on the Patriots, and Brady's following kneel-down gets Bruce Irvin ejected for an instigator penalty
Man, I will never forget the NE-LV game.
As a panthers fan, hehehehehheheh
Both of the 49ers Super Bowl losses to the Chiefs immediately came to mind, blowing two 10-point leads is quite a feat.
always uploading bangers! Keep it up man🫡
the Bears double doink
Not gonna lie, this shit is hilarious!!
I had mostly given up on the Hurricanes, then that play happened. I didn’t watch another second of Hurricanes football after that and don’t plan to again anytime soon.
Speaking of Increasingly Dumber, the Seahawks were going for back to back Super titles, not 2 in 3 years dingus.
There are a million of em. The Colts lose to the Vikings after leading by 33 pts in the 3rd qtr. Leon Letts double Dutch against the Bill's where Don Bebee ran him down and stripped the ball, and against the Dolphins where he dove on a blocked field goal in the snow that he could have just left alone, resulting in a extra field goal attempt that lost the game. The Oilers blow 32 pt lead in the 3rd quarter to the Bills to lose a wildcard race. It never ends.
As a Miami fan, i dont think we're ever living this one down...
2:00 they had younghoe koo on their team 😂🤣
I'm surprised you didn't include when the Falcons were down 4 points at the 1 yard line towards the end of the game, inexplicably kicked a field goal, then never got the ball back.
The Miami game is so bad because on the final play the entire secondary bites on the low route leaving the receiver to catch it almost at the end zone with nobody there to stop him lol.
I'm a Patriots fan and even so, seeing Russell Wilson just sort of casually clap his hands and shake his head as if to say "ah phooey!" after throwing away the Super Bowl makes my blood boil. Like, I was cheering at the moment, but every time I see a replay I feel rage on behalf of Hawks fans when I see that. Glad the Pats won, but my god I still can't believe the playcall
You gotta do another one and put vontaze burfuct on it! That one playoff game against the Steelers ruined him
Oh, there's worse than what's in these - except maybe for #1. The Leon Lett game? Dwayne Rudd's penalty for taking his helmet off?
Which Leon Lett game!!??😂😂😂
The Pete Carroll call isn't THAT bad, Isaac. Everyone just assumed Marshawn Lynch scores without any thought to probability. Marshawn Lynch or Russell Wilson had about a 5.5% chance of losing a fumbled rush attempt. Wilson had about a 7.1% chance of throwing an interception. That is hardly the worst call in history, and I can't believe I'm defending Brandi Love, I mean, Pete Carroll.
I think it's worse than people give credit. Lynch on the day was 24/26 of runs going for more than 1 yard, and those other 2 didn't lose them a yard just ran for no gain. I think you don't take the ball out of Lynch's hands in that situation until 4th down.
@@IsaacPuntsMarshawn Lynch had scored 1/5 times from one 1 yd line that season, and an incomplete pass stops the clock
Their real mistake was letting the clock run all the way down to 22 seconds because they apparently assumed Belichick had called a timeout
@@IsaacPunts the play only gets shit because of hindsight. If that pass ends up as a TD, or falls incomplete, it wouldn’t be criticized at all.
Seahawks thought process was do that quick pass, hope it ends up as TD or at worst incomplete. If incomplete, clock stops and run on 3rd down. If run doesn’t score, call timeout then run your absolute best play to score on 4th down.
Also that pick concept pass the Seahawks ran is still run to this day, and it never ends up as a pick. Butler just made an insane play on the ball
Two real good ones are
Dallas Cowboys Wild Card Round 13 seconds left no timeouts Hail Mary situation - QB run instead + slides down in bounds
Buffalo Bills 27 - 23 40 seconds left QB sneak fumble at their own endzone for a Vikings recovery TD.
I have a problem with number 2 that most people don't realize: they were FORCED to throw the football. The Pats were in goaline formation with 3 dbs in the box, meaning that the LOS had more defenders than the offense had on the LOS. ha they simply gave it to Lynch, there is a chance he would've scored but more than likely would've been stopped. Number 5 wasn't Gurley's fault either. He was not expecting the defender to let go of him, forcing his momentum to go forward & break the plane. The rest are totally unforgivable and just no football awareness is key situations.
Fantasy football legend Todd Gurly.
No Leon Lett?
The attendance of the first games looks like it could be counted in the hundreds, not the thousands. The Atlanta faithful are an astute bunch apparently, since they know when to stay home.
Surprised the braille mary isn’t on here. Fitzmagic completes a pass with his helmet sideways because of a face mask as time expires led to a dolphins field goal and victory in LV
My dumbest one: My beloved Packers don't catching the onside kick from the Seachickens back in the NFC Championship game.
There are so many dumber college football losses. You could make videos for every season and not run out of content. However, I still don't think there will ever be a dumber way to lose than what Miami did. Doing nothing would have won the game.
Patriots lateral in a tied game is my favorite.
#3 should have been #1 because they lost it on that play and it was super dumb.
Houston Oilers up 35 - 3 with 8 minutes left in the third quarter of a playoff game and lose to a backup quarterback 😂.
The Seahawks could only run the ball twice, to be clear, but I agree that the correct sequence was run, timeout, then either pass on 3rd down or run knowing you are ending the game one way or the other.
As for the Pats play, I've always thought the criticism of Stevenson was unfair, because his lateral was short, careful and to a player he looked at first. Even if it's a fumble, it's a fumble in a scrum that has no chance of being returned anywhere. It's a low chance of success, but it's an even lower chance of failure, and honestly if you're gonna blame Stevenson then you might as well criticize running a play at all (which would be pretty fair, to be clear, but either way Stevenson gets a pass imo)
The criticism on Stevenson is MORE than fair. The score was tied and the game was (unfortunately) going to OT, the only time you should EVER lateral the ball is when you are either losing and there's no time left or you are running a play that actually has a designed lateral in it. There are countless things to criticize from that game, and Stevenson's horrible situational awareness and ball security is one of them. Those terrible traits likely cost the Pats the game against the Bengals too when he stupidly fumbled the ball at the 3 yard line with less than a minute to go in the game. Criticism on Stevenson was/is more than warranted.
Embarrassing Loss - Dwayne Rudd removing his helmet at the end of a Browns game. The defensive penalty extended the game for one un-timed down. Kansas City wins on the second "final play" of the game.
No Dak running straight down the middle to ruin the clock or and just... end game? Lol
As a Saints fan, after #5 and #4, I was hoping this whole video would be fun Falcons losses ... 28-3 shoulda been #1.