How Ronnie Lott & The 49ers Beat Dan Marino’s Dolphins In Super Bowl XIX | Undeniable with Joe Buck
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- NFL legend and 49ers all-time great Ronnie Lott tells Joe Buck about their matchup between the 49ers and Dan Marino's Miami Dolphins in the Super Bowl.
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This was the 2nd Superbowl I watched here in the UK. It’s what made me a Niners fan and a Ronnie fan. 40 years later…
I was at that game. Knew a player on the team and was invited to eat with team AFTER the game. Sat at table with Don Shula... who was all class and cool. Dan Marino never came down to eat with the rest of the team. Stayed in his room. (Guess I understand)... but Coach Shula was amazing. We were among the last to leave... and Coach Shula was there until the very end. WHAT CLASS...
I know people who met him and said the same thing about him.
Lott played corner for the first two SB wins. People forget that.
And Rice wasn't there for either one
What people also forget is that Dan Marino was drafted in 1983 and was the youngest QB at 23, a record that still stands. The Dolphins were out coached if your going to pass this off as how 49ers beat Dan Marino.
I was front row at Ronnie's Pro Football Hall of Fame induction along with Joe Montana,Howie Long,Dan Rooney,and Dave Wilcox.What really struck me was the humbleness all of them displayed when they were awarded their place among the greatest in Pro Football history.An example of pure class I wish today's players would learn something from.
I completely agree...That 84 team never gets the love they deserve. They were a smart and complete team...Go Niners!!!
R u kidding, everyone who is old enough loves that team lol
My Steelers gave them their only loss in Candlestick.
That pinky though………this guy is different breed.
bro thats the first thing I looked at --- his hands - he still got the finger? That guy is an animal... talk about the will to win.
Had to look at it.
Marino was sacked four times in that game which was unheard of at that point in his career. In later years it became more frequent and so were injuries.
Ronnie was a brutal hitter and yet an awesome sportsman as he often helped up opposing players and gave them pats on the back after a play.
The Eric Wright interception at the goal line was an awesome athletic play!
Bill Walsh himself stated that Fred Dean & Gary "Bug Hands" Johnson were the defensive keys to the game. Those two were in Marino's grill on almost every passing attempt.
Two things Joe and Ronnie missed were the fact that they had played the Dolphins the year before after Marino was inserted into the lineup, and were beaten in Candlestick, so they would have known more about how to stop Marino than most other potential NFC teams, having played them the previous season. The other thing was the switch Bill Walsh made in the second quarter to go with 6 defensive backs after Marino had gotten the better of the 49ers' defense in the first quarter with that surprise no-huddle offense that forced the 49ers to keep Jack Reynolds and Dan Bunz on the field when they were not good pass defenders.
Another key to that 49er defense was the fact that they had reunited Fred Dean and Gary Johnson (and incidentally, added a third member of that powerful Charger defensive line of 1980, Louie Kelcher, who was on the kick blocking unit), because there were plays they could run together when they were in the game together that they had used in San Diego, when that defensive line was the best in the sport. The defense is the key reason why that 49ers team is the greatest of their five Super Bowl championship teams. The offenses from their 1989 and '94 Super Bowl teams were greater, but the '84 team was their greatest overall team, as their 15-1 record showed.
I loved the tribute to "Big Hands" Johnson in the Sports Illustrated Super Bowl review. A four-picture sequence showing Johnson rushing Marino. It's interesting to note that all three of those Pro Bowl defensive linemen from the Chargers got rings after they left San Diego.
Until Super Bowl XIX, the Niners had never beaten the Dolphins. Things changed after that game.
VERY INFORMATIVE 🤔🧐
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GRACIOUS VERY GRACIOUS
They didn’t miss anything,they lived it 🤦🏻♂️
@@curtisrodriguez938 There are a lot of stories about teams that could never beat the 49ers after Bill Walsh and Joe Montana got there in 1979. One of the craziest being, as great as they were in the 80s and early 90s, the Washington Redskins could never win in San Francisco, and their run was just as good as the 49ers' run was (4 trips to the Super Bowl from 1982-'92 with 3 wins). They did get the best of the 49ers in the 1983 NFC Championship Game in RFK, but that was about the only time they beat the 49ers during that run, and when they beat the 49ers in Candlestick in 1999 (that was the year their dynasty officially ended), it marked the first time since 1975 they had won in San Francisco.
I still say that the 1989 49ers are the best in history. The 55-10 score in the Super Bowl is still a record for most points and margin of victory.
If you are going by margin of victory in their Super Bowls, then 1989 looks good. However, I feel the 84 Dolphins were a much better team than the 89 Broncos
What a team. I was hiking in Golden Gate Park when they “lost” to Pittsburgh. Loved how the Niners poached Big Hands and Louie Kelcher from the Chargers. Fred Dean, Lott, Wright, etc. I remember people screaming in the apartment complex up on beautiful Twin Peaks . Local game too. Good times. Thanks Ronnie. Bill Walsh was HIM.
I always laugh when one Niner teammate said that Kelcher was so big that when he put his hands down, it looked like someone opened a package of hot dogs. That defensive line was one for the ages, one where Michael Carter made himself known as a nose tackle for the ages.
Steelers rushed for 175 yards that day and beat the 49ers with a quarterback who had not started a game in over 3 years.
@@bnegs521That was a very costly game. Larry Brown, their amazing T had his career end that day as did a very promising rookie TE Chris Kolodzieski. Lambert also barely played that season and Dwayne Woodruff was out. Good heavens, if they had drafted Marino.....
@@TheTicktockman321 You are speaking my language here. Terry Bradshaws last season was 1983 and going into that draft the Steelers had Bradshaw, Cliff Stoudt and Mark Malone. Chuck's decision to pass on Marino was just beyond stupid there are NO WORDS. After Noll won the 79 Super Bowl he coached 11 seasons and won 2 playoff games. That error lead to over a decade of difficult to watch football and mediocre teams. The hit on Chris was dirty and you're right Lambert maybe played one more game after the 49er game
I was a huge Dolphins fan....Marino had a ridiculous year......but that 49'ers team was loaded on both sides of the ball. Lott is probably right...best 49'ers team from top to bottom.
You made the smart choice ditching that terrible franchise.
Superbowl or not, Marino will always be a legend. Go dolphins..
Legend at cheating on his wife...
@@RK-um9tu That's got nothing to do with football. Call the National Enquirer and tell them about it...
@@rickallen1908"Damn, you guys are going to break my leg!" Dan Marino 1/20/1985
Game Manager 😂😂😂😂
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Not a Dolphins fan. But that’s a blatant lie!
Dan Marino is no Kobe Bryant.
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The rules were against passing back then, compared to now. When Lott says we got up on the receivers, he means grabbing and holding and hitting them downfield to throw off their routes. None of that is allowed now unless you’re on the NFL’s win side😳
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Shula didn't make any adjustments. 49's were able to get pressure on Marino and Dolphins should've used screen passes and swing passes to slow that rush down. Dolphins didn't have a running game to be feared, so the 49's could just pin there ears back and rush Marino.
Marino never had a good running back. Just Clayton and Duper earlier in his career. While the Niners were loaded with talent.
No salary cap back then.
@@enigma9971the Niners and Cowboys are why there’s a salary cap. They were the only 2 teams willing to spend all their profits on talent acquisition.
Ronnie Lott was an absolute beast! I saw him lay out so many people.
Man given me a lot of great memories watching this guy and Joe with my dad jumping around the tv. One of the best football players to walk this planet. Thx Ronnie! Go Niners!
Those two passes to Clayton were the kind he brought down for touchdowns all year.
Rice and Ronnie, The San Francisco Treat!
One ☝️ of my favorite ❤️ players along with LT
I think the biggest problem for the dolphins was the defense had no answer if I remember correctly. That game was a long time ago. The 49ers offense put so much pressure on them to keep up and the 49ers defense made enough plays to really slow them down.
Ronnie has always been my favorite 49er. The 84 team had the best secondary in the league with Ronnie, Eric Wright, Dwight Hicks, and Carlton Williamson and the QB wasn't too bad either, Joe something I think his name was.
Brilliant interview - for them being known as an offensive team that was one of the most brilliant Super Bowl defensive performance and probably the best defensive adjustment ever called. The Dolphins were unstoppable and passing line that on that era was amazing!
Dude, Ronnie looks like he could suit up and play right now. He must be 60 by now
I think he's about 65 now. Rookie season was in 1981. He's aged quite well.
I am a lifelong Dolphins fan going back to Shula's first press conference and had season tickets for the '84 and '85 seasons. The 49ers were an absolutely loaded team, whereas we had Dan and Duper and Clayton and Dwight Stephens as our stars on offense and a good/okay defense but with an injury at LB we had to start a rookie at MLB and Joe Montana carved him up whenever he needed a first down...he was definitely a weak link and the 49ers did a great job of running pass plays at him all day long. I believe years later it was proven that the 49ers owner DeBartolo (sp?) had skirted the spending cap to assemble that team...they were absolutely loaded on both sides of the ball.
There was no spending cap in the 1980s!!! So what spending cap are you talking about?
The Spending Cap wasn't implemented until 1994.
Joe Robbie was one of the cheapest owners in the NFL that was our cap.
Second, the defense was ravaged by injuries and old age. I believe 7 starters needed surgery that were starters and retired right after the game. If the D was the Killer B’s of a few years before were are talking a different game and outcome possible.
yep they just kept throwing it to Roger Craig and Jay Brophy couldn't keep up.
Of course it was proven. It was PROCLAIMED VERY LOUDLY, 49ers paid their players better than everyone. First class all the way. No rules were broken, there was spending cap back then, and the Dolphins were cheap in comparison.
@@Greybeardmedic Didn't the Bartolo's get forced into selling the team and had to pay a big fine for their under the table paying of players?
9er fan since 81, an it started in 81 with the NFC championship game agenst the cowboys we dominated the 80's we have a 40 plus year history with the Dallas cowboys. An wished it would've continued this Saturday...This was our second super bowl win agenst Dan Mario an the dolphins they had no chance...
I like his interview on how he met Woods at the line of scrimmage, Boom!!
I'm old enough to remember watching this guy lite some people up 😂
I remember how THAT game, and how they shut down Marino, turned me into a 49ers fan for life. I already loved the Niners and Joe Montana, but that game… WOW! What a performance by the Niners!
So you are a front runner. I bet you didnt watch 1 game in 2015, 16, when they were bad.
I bet you didnt watch the Warriors until Thompson and Curry came aboard.
How did i do?
Dont worry, there are millions in the Bay Area like you.
Take care.
-Panthers fan, win or lose. (We were 2-15 and i still watched 12 games.)
@@kevinb3307 I’m not a Warriors fan. Never have been. I never lived in California.
My fav teams are:
Patriots
Raiders
Niners
I keep up with them all and cheer them all on every season.
You did lousy (since you asked).
What Ronnie didn't say was that coach Shula saw that they were in a run package and when they were they went to hurry up no huddle offense so the 49ers could not substitute for passing situations and that's where Miami capitalized. Once 49ers went into man coverage it was over.
Going to the dime defense with the 1 backer being Keena Turner was the key. The four man line (with occasional blitz by Keena) was able to get to Marino after awhile. So, not a 46 defense, but a 4-1-6. This was possible because the Dolphins weren't built to be a brute force running team which could take advantage of this scheme.
And I agree with Ronnie - this was the best of the Niner Superbowl teams. The 2 leaders of the team, Montana and Lott, were at their absolute best during this year.
The 89 team was better and it had Jerry Rice. The 89 playoff run was 3 blowout victories.
@@bnegs521 21-10 (over the team which would win the SB 2 years later, with Giants only score on a pick-six TD return), 23-0 (over the SB winning team the next year), and 38-16 over a 14win and favored Dolphins. Best running game the Niners ever had, with Craig and Tyler, and thus the most well-balanced offense. The best defense the Niners ever had. Joe was at his physical peak.
The 89 team, while also great, blew out 3 opponents which didn't win anything (Vikings, Rams, Broncos). Of course, the Broncos would win the SB 9 years later, but the only players left were Elway and Atwater.
And their one regular season loss was a 3-pt loss to the Steelers when the Steelers were given a new set of downs at the 1 after a horrible PI call on Eric Wright and then Wershing misses a chip-shot to tie at the gun.
With ANY luck, that team ends the season undefeated.
@@kevinbrennan-ji1so I already know all that. Thanks for writing a book no one needed. I'd take the 89 team over the 84 team. The Steelers beat the 49ers. Suck it up CUPCAKE
It was a phantom holding call on Lott if I'm not mistaken also that let them take the lead after the 49ers had stopped them.
I'm really not sure though because that fubar game in '84 was THE ONLY GAME ALL YEAR THAT WASN'T BROADCAST ON TV. and I live in the 49er tv market. Had to listen to it on the radio. I'll never forgive those tv bastards for that. They took it off tv so they could cheat us out of an undefeated season. imo
@@plantfeeder6677 ok that's your opinion. What about the rest of the game VERY CLOSE game. You are taking one play out of 120 and if not called you dont know the outcome of the rest of the game or what would have happened. Also Wershing missed the field goal to tie. That's the refs too? 🤣🤣
The '84 49ERS Were just a stop away by almost going 19-0 Undefeated team in NFL History. The pass interference call against Pittsburgh lost them that game
In that game Chuck Noll outcoached Walsh and took away a lot of high percentage plays the 49ers liked to run. The 49ers had a game tying kick MISSED by Wershing to tie the game late. Steelers won 20 to 17 at San Francisco. Walsh later admitted Noll outcoached him in that game
@@bnegs521 facts I didn't think it was a PI
@@albuquerqueturkey1567 I'd like to see that play again. Steelers lost to the Dolphins in the AFC CHAMPIONSHIP in 84. Steelers vs 49ers rematch did not get to happen. The 49ers are only one of two teams to ever win 18 games and win the Super Bowl. 85 Bears being the other.
@albuquerqueturkey1567 You're spot on. That PI call was as bad as the defensive holding call on Lott in the 83' Championship game. Just horrible officiating on both. I saw replays from multiple angles and it was textbook coverage by Wright. And if the Steelers don't get that call (it was 4th down and under 90 seconds left), the game was over. And the Niners go 19-0. As Walsh famously said during one of the taped meetings which later leaked, "we just couldn't overcome the officials that day."
@@kevinbrennan-ji1so Steelers won at SF that year and a game doesnt come down to one call. Wershing missed a game tying kick. You blaming the refs for that too?
It's a shame you can't play the game like these guys did every hit would draw a flag the closest player we have to this is Greenlaw.
I was at this game, as a limo driver, driving Huey Lewis & his band. Usually I could just walk into any game, but I wasn't interested, and just hung out in the parking lot .... Don't think I missed much. Met Keena Turner, # 58, and to this day will watch 49er video to watch him play..great guy ....ran into Ronnie Lott at W. Maui airport, but he wasn't friendly, so I left him alone...
GO NINERS ! THE 84 TEAM WAS AWSOME . I REMEMBER IT WELL. HOW COULD I FORGET . RONNIE WOULD VISIT US FOR OUR H.S. GAMES AT IKE ! I MISS YOUR TEAM TALKS YOU HAD FOR US . GO IKE AND GO NINERS !
Coach Bill Walsh won that Super Bowl by playing a nickel and dime the entire game. Walsh dared Miami to run the game and he knew Marino had no patience for it.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were the only team to beat the 49ers that year. Chuck Noll decided to run the ball on the 49ers until they stopped it. The Steelers ran for 175 yards and the Steelers scored the last 10 points to win. Chuck Noll's plan to run the ball worked as the Steelers had 10 minutes more of time of possession and yards gained was almost dead even. The 49ers Ray Wershing missed a tying FG late in the game and the Steelers won! The 49ers would finish 18-1 with the only blemish being the loss to Pittsburgh.
you forgot WHY Wershing missed that kick.
…some J-@$$ in the stands threw a snowball at his feet as he was in the middle of kicking the ball.
if not for that snowball, 49’ers could have been the first perfect 16-game team in the NFL.
@@darthvirgin7157🤣🤣🤣 and that's a great joke on a picture perfect 70 degree day at Candlestick that day. Good one.
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oops. you’re half right. it was 60F.
never reaches 70F in candlestick.
the snowball incident was in Denver.
@@darthvirgin7157 🤡🤡🤡🤡clown
@@darthvirgin7157 tell me more about the snowballs. You football historian. 🤣🤣
Look at his left pinky finger. Man CUT IT OFF rather than miss part of an important game. Legend
I was in the Bay Area when that game was played. Was watching it on TV and walked outside during halftime just to get some air. It was absolutely silent. No cars on the streets at all. Everyone was watching that game. This was Montana's second Super Bowl, but in my mind going into the game there was no doubt that he would lead the team to a win. Defense played great, but Montana just carved the Dolphins defense up.
Very good. I'd like to see other post-game analyses of the best Super Bowl matchups. Like Steelers-Cowboys '79, Broncos-Packers '98, Giants-Patriots 2008, Seahawks-Patriots 2015.
I remember that game well I took everybody's money 💵💵💵💰💰💰 all the guys at work said you were crazy to bet against Miami so I took advantage of a good thing!.
I agree with Ronnie, best 49er team ever!
I always bring up the 84 team as the best bc at the time of the game, the guys on the team were their best or close to it. The 89 team had Steve Young as a backup QB but he wasn’t really Steve Young yet, so even if the team was deeper or better it wasn’t the same to me. The 94 team was loaded too and are in the conversation and ppl bring them up a lot and deservedly so but a lot of those guys were older like Dent, Mann, Jackson, Harris, Hall, in their prime tho if they were career 49ers especially with Plummer and Norton, they would’ve been wrecking machines
I read they they went to an unusual 4-1-6 defense, and it worked.
thankfully now we have competitive Superbowls
From what I remember, Bill Walsh added another defensive back because he realized the Dolphins don't run. So 5 dbs shut down Marino.
During that season, the 49ers had the number one defense and number two offense in the entire league. The number one Offensive team: The Miami Dolphins.
I think that 49ers team was indeed the greatest ever!
40 years later we have the greatest team
In their only loss Lott got used by John Stallworth. The Steelers were without their WR1 Louis Lipps and their backup QB Mark Malone made his first start in 3 years and beat the 49ers 20-17. F
If the Steelers would have beaten the Dolphins in that AFC CHAMPIONSHIP game. That Superbowl would have been totally different
@@JS-yt1bl how so?
@@bnegs521Wear down the 49ers defense with the run game. The Steelers Defense would shut down the 49ers Offense with only 2 tds
@@user-br5vp1js9v That happened multiple times in the 80s where the runner up in the AFC would have fared better than the AFC Champ in the Super Bowl. And all four years from 1984 through 87.
3:39 Lott's missing half his pinky finger on his left hand! If you don't know why, ask somebody. This dude is a beast!
'94 is the greatest 49er team of all time by a billion miles.
LB Keena Turner
Keena was at his very best in the 84-85 seasons.
If you asked Dan after the game if he thought he'd get back there again I can't imagine he'd say no.
It’s ironic Montana after SB win wasn’t considered on Marino level. Purdy same but it’s 4 guys get most likely a SB rematch to show whose right amazing SB setting up.
Greatest SB of all time!
Joe was imagining booty holes when Ronnie said that 😂
Go 49ers! ❤
The 49ers should bring Lott in as a coaching consultant. Their current defense needs some pointers. They scare me.
Well, you knew Mario couldn't scramble, nor were they going to run the ball.
'94 Niners was the best Super Bowl team ever.
49er fan. I remember the game well. The Niners beat the living crap out of Marino every chance they got. They’d never be able to do that in this era. Same was true in reverse when the Giants beat the crap out of Montana a few years later. Completely different game now.
1984 Niners was the greatest Niner team ever. They beat one of the greatest NFL offensive teams in the Dolphins and they beat one of the greatest defensive teams in the 1984 Bears (Who Buddy Ryan said was a better defense than the 1985 Bears defense). And they did not even have Jerry Rice yet.
Noticed how great teams go through tough games to win Championships??!! Then, noticed how haters are trashing Brock Purdy this season??!!
ROGER CRAIG FOR THE HOF!!!
jeeeeeeeeeeeSUS! How has that not happened yet!!????!!!
Ronnie Lott is very correct that the '85 Bears couldn't stop the '84 Dolphins. Unless he believes in time travel, or concussions.
Joe Montana and his offense was good enough to keep Marino's dolphins' offense off the field 49ers did not need defense.
Look I know, Joe. thinks the laters 9ers team are awesome. But I agree with, Ronnie Lott. way more. The 1984 San Francisco 49ers teams had the all time best record in that season, 15-1. that's crazy.
Those days are over and im not a 49ers fan😂
Why did Lott mention the Bears? The Dolphins didn't even play the Bears in 1984. Lol
having the inarguably the greatest quarterback of all time didn't hurt at all.
Just think about that-Talk about dominance. They had the GOAT team in 84, then exactly 10 years later they're back (94) with an even better team. They owned the 80s and 90s. People talk about the Pats but the 9ers did it 1st (dominated the NFL for 2 decades). Dallas stole a lil glory from that but if anyone watched the 2 loses 9ers had to Dallas to get to SB, Dallas did NOT beat the 9ers, the 9ers beat themselves in those 2 games. Dallas fell of the face of the earth in 96 and SF battled GB for right to win SB from 96-99. Total dominance
Takes his hot damn pinky off at halftime so he can stay in the game, and my WR gets a shoulder stinger and may miss the biggest game of the year. When did we get so damn brittle
People talk about Dan Marino. BLA BLA BLA There is another guy that day named Joe Montana.
ALL FOUR OF HIS TEAMS WERE THE BEST
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84 Niners team is the best! And I’m not a Niners fan
San Francisco benefited, like New England, by playing in a division that was terrible for years and years.
It was simple. They just played a dime defense and dared Miami to run the ball. They tried and failed miserably because they had no good running backs. The 49er defensive line just blew up those running lanes especially with Fred Dean. Offensively, the Miami linebackers just got eaten alive. They couldn't cover Roger Craig and they couldn't stop Joe Montana from scrambling. They just kept throwing the ball short between the linebackers and the Dolpin defense couldn't stop it.
It’s funny how the pass happy lovers still think that these one dimensional offenses will prove winning! None for Marino, Kelly, Rivers, Luck, nasogastric many others! Football will always be about balance run pass mix!
@@felixsavella4435100% confirmed in 2013 when the legion of boom beat the record breaking broncos.
The 1 big exception was the "99 Rams and Kurt Warner. Warner ended that playoff run with a little over 1,000 yds. passing in those 3 games compared to the teams' 99 yds. rushing for those 3 games. That's a ratio of 10 to 1 passing to rushing. On top of that Warner's defense gave up 37 points in the 1st game of the playoffs, so Warner throws 5 TD passes and the Rams win 49-37-----on his way to S.B. champ and MVP.
Over the years there have been more lopsided offenses but not quite to the Rams extent----10 to 1 ratio.
Yeah Bill Walsh changed that Defense around to a 4-1-6 (Dime Defense) in second quarter of that Super Bowl en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XIX#Second_quarter
lol, just read your comment after I posted. You beat me to it.
@@kevinbrennan-ji1so You are right about one thing the Miami Dolphins didn't have any running game at all I mean there only running backs Woody Bennett and Tony Nathan. The 49ers had Wendell Tyler and Roger Craig who had 2 receiving and 1 rushing Touchdown in that game.
Bill Walsh was the Genius
@@albuquerqueturkey1567 Yes he is
@@albuquerqueturkey1567 That term shouldn't be used for a football coach, no matter how high up that ladder the person is. We're talking about football here, not rocket science or crafting nuclear weapons.
Dolphins lead 10-7 after the 1st quarter!
That was an all pro secondary. All went to the pro-bowl that year as a unit. The lions play a similar type of offense to the lions. Perhaps the present 9er team should reference this. Wilks, take a look!
It would be a great interview if joe buck wasn’t in it.
TRUTH
I think the 94' 9ers were slightly better.
Really? over the 84 and 89 teams? Didn't the 7-9 Eagles beat them 40-8?
Wershing's game winning try.....37 yarder on the wayyyyyyy. Noooooooo......😮😮😮😮😮
Fav non Steeler
It was known before the fourth quarter was over with how they were beat. #1 San Fran attacked straight up the middle.
#2 Miami had a joke for a defense.
Simple as that. No rocket science or drama stories to tell.
Marinos will to win? Tell that to Jimmy Johnson
How? They were better amd tougher! Thats how!
The Forgeiners cheated
Nothing insightful said.
Duper and Clayton
The NY Giants owned them, from 1985-1990 they played the Giants 3 times in the playoffs and lost all 3 times by a combined 81-19, that's a butt kicking. In 1988 last regular season game, the Giants needed the 49ers to beat the Rams to get in the playoffs but Niners deliberately pulled out all their starters by the half and got blown out by the Rams, they deliberately lost that game to eliminate the Giants from the playoffs cause they knew NY would beat them in the playoffs and in the regular season game that year the Giants had the game won until at the very end Montana hit rice with a go ahead bomb and in the 1989 season Niners had a 24-7 lead on the Giants but NY came back and tied it up and it was anyone's game after but the Niners ultimately prevailed and the 1990 regular season game Giants would've won that game had Parcells kicked a field goal earlier and the Giants would've been down 7-6 with the ball inside the 20 at the very end and would've won 9-7 with a game winning field goal and before the start of the NFC championship game rematch in 1990 some 49ers players weren't happy with Siefert electing not to blitz more for the game and those Niners players were heard predicting they would lose to the Giants. I also recall in games against the Giants they would often try and deliberately injure Giants players to beat NY, the Niners were afraid of the Giants and knew they couldn't beat them and would have a tough time doing so.
I would wager that Marino and the Dolphins would have won that game in '84 if it had been played IN THE REG. SEASON. Just like they (the Dolphins) did in '83 and just like they beat the Bears in '85. But Dan became a different type of player from that S.B. loss on in the playoffs and especially in his BIG games in the playoffs. His numbers prove it.
Nobody will ever convince me that the Niners Defense in '84 was better than the Bears Defense in '85, and we all saw how Marino torched that Bears Defense---IN THE REG. SEASON.
Marino never had a good running back. He only had Duper and Clayton brief in his career.
@@thespaceram2879 But keep in mind how Marino used his backs--as running AND receiving backs. Dan's backs had OVER 2,500 yds. rushing and receiving 10 times. His backs averaged 0ver 150 yds. a game in the Reg. Season even though the Dolphins average Ranking for Rushing Attempts was 20th but for Passing it was 5th. Are you aware of the Marino quote that illustrates this ? I will post it if you want
Here it is:"We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them,'I don't care what he calls, we're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead'. To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option". That it how Marino viewed the running game. I wonder if Shula ever regretted that ??
@@dennismumford6108 Marino never had good running backs like Barry Sanders. And briefly in his career had Duper and Clayton. Marino carried that team. If Buffalo wasn't so loaded the Dolphins might of had another shot at the Superbowl.