Marino was the BEST QB i've ever seen PERIOD...best arm, most accurate, quickest release, genius at reading defenses & coverages! QB's today look like they're in slow motion compared to him. Even Joe Montana said he was better than he ever was, basically said he's the real GOAT and would've won more Super Bowls than him if we was on the Niners. Rod Woodson said he was the toughest QB he ever had to defend. There's a reason why Aikman, Favre, Manning & Brady idolized him!
CBS Interview - After Brady led the NFL in passing yards (5300) , TD's passing 43 and completions at age 44 in 2021 "Joe Montana admits that Tom Brady is 'definitely' the best NFL player ever The Hall of Fame quarterback settles the debate once and for all
By Chris Bengel Mar 4, 2021" Not only greatest QB but greatest player ever I rest my case
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Marino was excellent and a generational talent. I could only imagine what kind of statistics he would post in an era that is almost perfect for a QB of his talents!
@@STP43FAN1your smoking something, cmon ! Probably an Aikman fan who had to rely on the best offensive line arguably of all time , Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin , allways had a great defense . Marino had himself nuff said
@JCOH-TV a one dimensional cripple player.. a loud mouth too.. cried rivers 😢 😭,, and it was always the other players faults. Many players on his team,,, came out later,,, THEY HATED PLAYING WITH HIM. SO ARROGANT WAS MARINO.. THAT HE ATTEMPTED,, A COME BACK.. AFTER HIS LAST INJURY.. AND HIS RECORD WAS THE WORST.. MARINO WAS A SACKS,,, PUNCHING 👊 BAG...
Even now, more than two decades later and the Dolphins are still plagued with the same problems. Low-tier defense with a great offense (when Tua is healthy) that puts up excellent regular season numbers but is nonexistent in the playoffs
@@STP43FAN1 tua has 2 seconds to throw the ball, having the 31-32nd worst oline in the league every year makes it quite hard on your qb, only one or two qbs would do as well or better than tua in our system.
Two seconds is enough. He’s supposed to be good enough to succeed just as Joe Burrow succeeds at two seconds to throw. A good number of quarterbacks would do better than Tagovailoa
@@STP43FAN1 oh bullshit, lamar, burrow, allen, all the top guys ON AVERAGE have 2.6+ seconds to throw, almost a full second longer than tua. two seconds is the absolute least time in the league and it has been for years the only person in the playoffs right now that has nearly as bad (still not as bad as tua) is mayfield with a little more than a quarter of a second longer in the pocket than tua, almost every playoff team does the one thing miami doesnt, PROTECTING their quarterback.
@@STP43FAN1 Hurts darnold, lamar, purdy, herbert, stroud, wilson, allen all have nearly a second longer to throw your example of burrow, he still has more time on average than tua on average in pocket, nearly half a second longer. How are plays supposed to develop when your qb has less than 2 seconds to throw the ball when all the playoff teams have 2.6-3.0 seconds to throw? It's bullshit that people like you dont see any issue with having to get the ball out of his hands in less than 2 seconds and say "oh its no big deal"
I remember the one Super Bowl he played in against the 49ers in 1985. That Niner defense was absolutely killer. This was before the rules changed to make breathing too hard on the quarterback a penalty. The Niners pummeled Marino the entire game, something he didn’t have to face all season. But the man had an absolute cannon for an arm and combined that power with great accuracy. He had two great wideouts as well, in Clayton and Duper (the Marks Brothers). If he played with today’s rules, no one would stop him.
Today is not easier than Marino’s era. The Niners won that Superbowl because Montana kept putting up touchdowns where Marino could not move the ball. The defense wasn’t that good, Marino simply was in over his head. That Superbowl showed opponents something about Marino. Take away his deep ball and he couldn’t command the offense that effectively.
@@armandoayala5134 Yeah, but supposedly Marino had every possible tool that any human ever had at qb? How could he possibly be stopped for 17 seasons without a Superbowl? Of course it has to be blamed on everything else from Hall of Fame coaches, to his running backs, to his receivers, to his defense.
@@STP43FAN1today is way easier, they created a pass happy league. Can’t breath on certain QB’s, can’t touch WR’s before they’ve had time to prepare for the tackle. Pass interference at the spot of the foul. Brady new this and constantly air out the ball at the end of games when they were behind knowing either they would catch it or he would get the pass interference call either way the same result
@@STP43FAN1 You've got some of the worst contrarion takes on football I've ever heard. Joe Flacco, Trent Dilfer, Eli Manning, Terry Bradshaw, Peyton with the Broncos, Jim McMahon, none of those guys won their super bowls because they were great. They won because they did enough on great teams. The quarterback alone does not win super bowls. The modern NFL is absolutely an easier game for QBs today, the statistics bear this out conclusively. The rule changes are such that even bad QBs will throw over 3,500 yards and 25 TDs a season. You're either a hater, a tiresome contrarion or a troll.
Marino had the most beautiful passing motion of any quarterback in NFL history, and it’s the key reason why he didn’t get sacked very much. Just a quick pop of the arm and the ball was 40 yards down the field before the defense knew what hit them. What he did in 1984 was absolutely unheard of. Imagine the numbers he would put up if a prime Dan Marino played in today’s NFL
I remember collecting football cards as a kid and of course always studying the stats on the back. The first time I saw Marino's numbers that 84 season i thought i had a misprint! They were so far away from everyone else up to that point it was crazy!
I still got him and Brees at the top. I know people call me delusional. But look at what they did with the lack of team defense. Montana and Brady had top defenses every other year.
Marino would run todays football!! His arm was just flawless, Elway could Zip it like that but didn’t have the touch Dan did! RAIDERS fan here, but Marino is the best Qb I ever saw play the game and I’m almost 50
Defense doesn’t win. It’s quarterback. He failed to reach 60% completion in his career. He was consistently in over his head in big games (8-10 playoff career). He didn’t win more than five division titles, didn’t return to the playoffs until the third wildcard was added, and never exceeded ten wins his last six seasons.
Also it’s throwing not running. Marino had good running games, better in yards per carry than 4/5ths of Superbowl champs. Nobody won because of defense or running the ball. It’s quarterback, coaching, and situational execution
I was fortunate to live upstate NY as an foreign exchange student. I remember, phill simms, boomer, Marino, J Kelly, W Moon, Montana etc. What an era of great quarterbacks.
I was a young fan of the dolphins for much of the 90’s. Because of Marino! Still one of the greatest gunslingers of all time and always will be. I feel the pain of the playoff woes. It was always so disappointing and i wish he could’ve won the big one. But he’s still the best in my book!
@ oh man, I’m jealous. What I really would’ve loved to watch though would be the defensive stars. They hit hard, were scrappy, and didn’t even seem human.
I’ve always heard that, not only was he a great football player, he was a great person as well. He did all kinds of charity work and kids camps. Read something about him just hanging out on set and talking with the set crew when he was on HBOs NFL show. The article stated that, while the rest of the hosts acted like divas and stayed in their private rooms until filming, Marino just hung out on set and cut it up with the average joes working the set.
Even though he never won a championship, he was as well-known outside of the US as any of the other great 80s-early 90s QBs. Everyone has heard of Dan Marino and Joe Montana. I think a lot of people around the world couldn’t even name a current NFL QB. But back then everyone had heard of Dan.
You don’t win by running the ball. They didn’t win because Marino always failed when he had to execute to actually win the game. When he had to throw touchdowns at the Superbowl he instead gagged up three turnovers and failed on fourth down. Situational execution trumps everything. That’s why Marino - not the team, Marino - failed.
Dan Marino led the Dolphins to the Super Bowl during his rookie year and lost to the 49ers. He was a 9-time Pro Bowl selection, so he was the first quarterback to throw over 5,000 yards in a season. He also broke records for the most passing yards and touchdown pass in a single season.
Bills fan here...I remember well the glory days of the Bills winning 4 back-to-back AFC Championship games in a row during the early 90s...Marino was a fierce competitor and Buffalo/Miami was a classic rivalry through the late 80s into the mid 90s. Bills fans always dreaded games against Marino...he picked defenses apart better than any QB I've ever watched. He was a gunslinger and had the quickest release in the NFL. Looking back, the Bills had the opportunity to take Marino and I wish they would have, as much as Bills fans like Jim Kelly. Jim was never quite the QB Marino was, and I'm confident the Bills would've won 2 maybe 3 of those 4 Super Bowls with Marino in the pocket. Josh Allen, arguably the best current QB in the NFL faces the same dilemma Marino did...will Josh ever get a SB Ring? No one knows, but he has another 12 seasons or so left to do it. In the meantime, Josh faces harsh criticism having not won a Super Bowl...I hope for his sake he gets at least a few. Marino should've won at least a couple of rings.
I remember an NFL Films show about his SB loss against the Niners. They included this quote from a James Taylor song: "There were sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground." I thought that summed it up well. When he was "on," he was a ton of fun to watch, with the way he seemed to be able to flick the ball forty yards downfield, and have it land right on the money. Watching Marino pass was kinda' like watching Deion run or watching Bo making his cut on a sweep. Fluid. Pure.
I grew up in Miami, and the talk I heard around the draft was that teams were scared off by his knee injury - he had surgery off-season and there were many repeats during his time with the fins..
When I was down in New Orleans on vacation with the wife we had dinner, at Antoines I believe. We wandered into their bar and cigar lounge afterwards and I struck up a conversation with the bartender. Somehow he got on the subject of celebrity patrons. He rattled off a few names and I asked him how they treated him. He said all were nice folks but then surprised the hell out of me by telling me that Marino would always act like an entitled prick when he came by. I really liked watching Marino at QB so imagine that. Our conversation was cut short when actor Peter Weller (eg. Robocop, etc.) came by to enjoy one of his cigars that celebrities stock in their floor to ceiling humidor. I've never forgotten that occurrence, probably never will.
I used to have a work colleague who was a former defensive back for the LA Raiders; he also said that Marino was easily the best he ever came across and it was universally agreed by all in the DB room and Defensive Coordinators that he was practically impossible to gameplan against.
The Seahawks, the Patriots and the Bills all game-planned against him. I won't throw the 9ers in there because the Marino fans just say that was a great defense and he supposedly would have beaten any other team that day.
I remember watching that Cleveland game when he tore his Achilles. You can hear the pop when it snapped. Marino said he still to this day is having trouble from it. He has to wear a special lift in his right shoe because the tear he suffered was a spaghetti tear, which caused his tendon to split in the middle on down
FACTS, in fact dolphins were ready to sign have dan sign a 1 or 2 year extension after the 98' season, 1 of the stipulations was marino had to put up something like 4500 yards & something like 40+ TDs all while playing @ least 80-85% of the season which pissed marino off because miami had made no moves to better the phins chances @ a shot to go to playoffs which in return marino had his agent make some calls for interviews with other teams, he went to seattle & i believe it was pete carroll which asked marino, "what are you doin' danny ?", marino said nothing, marino said himself in a recent interview that no coach or owner was never so straightforward honest with him until like i said i believe it was pete carroll posed that question to marino which marino came to realize what he needed to do next, the rest is history !
I was just talking about Marino yesterday and this pops up on my feed today…lol He was the best…I always thought him to be too cocky but, his release was sudden and his arm was the best..He was the best pure passer ever I would say..
A great talent for sure. It helps when that talent teams up with a legendary coach. Shula’s game schemes were brilliant. In one weeks time Shula figured out how to deflate and expose the glaring weaknesses of the Bear’s 34 all out blitz defense and pull out a win on a Monday night, the Bear’s only loss that season. It took the rest of the league the entire off season to figure out what Shula figured out in a week.
He had the beat arm and release ever. The combination of strength and accuracy was unbelievable. People who think Rodgers, Mahomes, or anyone else had a better arm are just plain wrong.
Yep. Make things as perfect as possible for Marino and he just might have a ring. Other qb's work with what they have, and make their teams better over the years. Marino is the only "great" qb that somehow didn't do that. The franchise pretty much got worse the longer he stayed. He had 2 Hall of Fame coaches, one of which he manipulated and ultimately learned how that type of offense doesn't work in the NFL, and then the other tried to teach him how it works, but he argued the entire time. Yeah, the greatest. Sure he was.
He had a condensed throwing motion. Lots of velocity on intermediate routes. Nice touch on deep routes. Clayton and Duper were fabulous. Absolutely shredded my beloved Steelers in the 1984 AFC Championship game. Hung a fifty burger on us. The Steelers were the only team to beat the 49ers that year who clobbered the Dolphins in Superbowl 19. The Steelers didn't draft him because of rumors he liked to party. Don Shula said he liked to have a good time at that age too and the rest is history.
Niners were 15-1 that year with nfls top rated defense. Outcome want a surprise that particular Niners team may have been greatest team of all time league has seen.
Dan was the Man, hands down. We are talking about the best throwing the ball. He didn’t play defense. Saw him every year of his career at the OB and Joe Robbie as a season ticket holder for the Phins from 1972 to 2000.
Marino is an all-time great, but the notion he "never" had a defense or run game are myths. In fact, he was drafted by a team that got all the way to the SB on the strength of their run game and defense.
Apparently that didn't help Marino win anything. He wasn't getting hit/sacked, but still couldn't win the big one so even in today's game he'd choke in the playoffs.
Marino's biggest problem was he threw the ball so fast and hard that most receivers had trouble catching it, many passes would bounce off their numbers with them having grabbed at the ball too late.
If Dan Marino was playing in this Day and age he would’ve had a superbowl for sure! He played in the wrong era and on the wrong team because I guarantee you if they took winning seriously they would’ve got him help, he’s the greatest QB to never win a ring 💯
Yeah. Marino played for only 2 coaches, both of which won 2 Superbowls each without him, and are both in the Hall of Fame, but sure, they didn't take winning seriously. 17 years of a career and failures against teams like the Seahawks and Patriots in the Orange Bowl no less along with other losses in the playoffs; some of that has to be on him and not on everyone else but him. After all he's the quarterback, and if all his passing yards are his, then so are those sad losses in the post season.
Marino was really elite during his era & would thrive in today’s game. Don Shula never really gave the Dolphins a consistent running game when Marino was at his top. If only Danny Boy could’ve ended his career like John Elway’s.
I’m a die hard giant fan. I only got to see if Phil Simmons play his last year in NFL but I must say I kind of wish that we drafted Dan Marino. He will probably have three chips maybe four that 93 team was very good number one defense number one rushing offense in the league that year, I know San Francisco had Home for the advantage and they blew was out in the playoffs but if we win overtime game against Dallas and 93 thanks for the change the landscape in a year I feel like…
@Brando7266 to answer your recent response - Marino kept throwing. That’s why he got those volume records. Opponents began figuring him out by 1986; they couldn’t shut him out but they consistently shut him down in the clutch. What really saved his playoff record is adding the extra wildcard team, that’s where the bulk of his eight playoff wins happened. It was NEVER harder to put up volume, the culture of the game didn’t begin truly changing until Tom Brady began surging to more and more Superbowls and the game finally caught on that throwing instead of running actually controls the game better (no one for instance recognized Warren Moon was 5-5 in games throwing at least fifty passes until Brady erupted to something like TWENTY such wins). In today’s game Marino wasn’t going to set new records because the quality of his throws would not be better
Re: teams "consistently shut him down in the clutch" ... I should just ignore you like everyone else apparently has but I just needed to point out that he had 33 4th qtr comeback victories - 2nd most in NFL history at the time ...
No he had enough defense and run support. He is why those Dolphins didn’t win it all. You can’t win on defense or running the ball. It’s quarterback and situational execution
I think with today’s rules making it easier for QBs to accumulate stats and time, 25 years, Dan Marino gets more and more underrated. You had to be there to understand just how good he was.
I remember watching his last game with my dad. What my dad said always stuck with me to this day….”His teammates gave up on him and are purposely blowing this game to spite him for some reason”
That's an opinion. And cool that you have it. But I'd hard disagree that hea top 3. Even top 5. Top 10? Maybe. Absolutely. But 3 is absurd to me. But this is just my opinion.
These dumb kids in the comments who don’t understand the world existed before them. The rules now would allow a guy like Marino to get 6000 yds and 60 Tds
Maybe so, but he'd still choke in the playoffs against a defense that wasn't in the bottom half of the leegue that season, and he'd still have no ring.
A real smart kid like myself would say Marino's regular season prowess never remotely resembled his playoff expectations. > 8-10 in the playoffs with a horrible 56% completion % and almost as many INT's as TD's passing Wanna Play With Me and We Will See who is Smarter?
In the regular season yes. In the playoffs, it would be 2 late td's to make the game close along with 2 interceptions that killed the team from having any chance.
I understand it perfectly. QB's can do some great things when behind as the defense allows yardage to run clock. Marino was the best at that in the regular season. Big deal. His Superbowls were his fake spike against the Jets and a home Monday night game where he's amazing all the way down to a tipped pass that goes for a td as if he planned that one too. His last 3 playoff losses he helped his offense to 1 td and a total of 13 points, but of course his bad defenses cost him those 3 seasons too as if some other defense is going through the playoffs with that type of offense.
You've missed a ton of games then somehow. Even in his own era he wasn't the best. He knew how to throw a ball, but he didn't understand how to win football games when it counted against good teams. If a defense showed up on the other side of the ball, most of the time his skills disappeared.
I saw him a few weeks after he lost the Super Bowl to San Fran at the Walter Camp dinner in New Haven CT on Wooster Street and he was absolutely obliterated drunk and he fell on ice and slammed against the ground lolol. But in my eyes he was the greatest pure QB of all time.
Obviously he should be noted as one of the greats. His lightning fast release and pin point accuracy was unparalleled. However, it should be stated that without Mark Duper, Mark Clayton, and Tony Nathan, he may have never got out of the gate. His inability to scramble made it difficult for his offensive line to do anything but pass block, which made them one dimensional. The defense during his entire tenure bordered on horrendous. That didn't help much either. I can remember going to games and the fans would be shouting for the defense to just lay down so Marino would have time to come back and make the winning score.
Please look back at all 17 seasons. They didn't border on horrendous that entire time. Dan Marino obviously would have won a Superbowl if everything was perfect for him, with the best defense, best running backs, best receivers, and no injuries at all, and if he had good head coaches because Hall of Fame coaches weren't good enough either.
The tragedy of the Dolphins was the failure to mesh Marino with a defense. In the early 70s the Dolphins won back to back Super Bowls with the "No Name Defense", headed by defensive coach Bill Arnsparger. Arnsparger had previously been the defensive coordinator for the dominant Baltimore Colts teams in the late 1960s, before joining the Dolphins with Shula in 1969. After the two Dolphin super bowl wins, Arnsparger left the Dolphins to become head coach of NY. The Dolphin defense went from dominant to medicore in the years Arnsparger coached in NY. Arnsparger returned to Miami in the second half of the 70s, and within a few years, had built another dominant Miami defense, nicknamed the "Killer Bees". It was this defense that got Miami to the Super Bowl in 1982, despite having a mediocre offense. The tragedy for Miami is that Arnsparger again left Miami in 1983, just as Marino was transitioning the Dolphins into a blistering offense for several years. But unfortunately, within just a couple years of Arnsparger's departure, the Miami defense had crumbled from the dominant "Killer Bs" to the bottom of the league, where it for most of the rest of the 80s and 90s. The Dolphins got to the Super Bowl in 1982 with a dominant defense, but was hampered by a mediocre offense. Two years later, the Dolphins offense torched everything, but it's defense failed, repeatedly. Shula was a great offensive coach but the evidence doesn't stand up for his skills for the other side of the scrimmage line. Marino's offense kept the Dolphins competitive in the 80s and early 90s, but without defense, there was only so far the Marino and the Dolphins could go.
Marino loving the cocoa wasn’t a rumor. It’s actually the reason his wonderlic was so low (he was coked out and walked out only finishing half the test)
It's a shame the Dolphins centered the entire team around Marino, and thus fell into the Marino trap of not running the ball (watch the rushing attempt numbers drop when he arrived), which then turned the team into a pass blocking team, which then just made it worse, which then had the offense showing up with plenty of 3 and outs or quick scores, which then made the defense stay on the field longer against good teams, which then made the defense look worse than it was, which then resulted in no more Superbowl appearances, thus he took the one team that was already a Superbowl contender before he even got there, and became the wrecking ball of the franchise and its previous winning ways.
Well here's a guy with a big problem. The problem is the NFC was so strong for a decade I believe that the LA Raiders were the last AFC team to win the superbowl until the Denver Broncos in 1997
Marino was the BEST QB i've ever seen PERIOD...best arm, most accurate, quickest release, genius at reading defenses & coverages! QB's today look like they're in slow motion compared to him. Even Joe Montana said he was better than he ever was, basically said he's the real GOAT and would've won more Super Bowls than him if we was on the Niners. Rod Woodson said he was the toughest QB he ever had to defend. There's a reason why Aikman, Favre, Manning & Brady idolized him!
Mareno is a BUM!
Elway is my hero and I’ll admit Marino is prob the best.
@@THE_Secular_Conservativespell check your stupid comments
Highlight IVE EVER SEEN and lowercase best qb and period.
Ur opinion
CBS Interview - After Brady led the NFL in passing yards (5300) , TD's passing 43 and completions at age 44 in 2021
"Joe Montana admits that Tom Brady is 'definitely' the best NFL player ever
The Hall of Fame quarterback settles the debate once and for all
By Chris Bengel
Mar 4, 2021"
Not only greatest QB but greatest player ever
I rest my case
Not a Dolphins fan but Danny Marino has always been my favourite QB.
Barry Sanders was always my favorite RB. Neither won a Superbowl. Sigh.
@@chalp1290 so what? That doesn't mean they aren't Goats. Winning a Superbowl is 100% a full team effort.
The best thrower of a football I've ever seen. Dan was The Man!
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Go watch Elway on The Drive. That's how a qb operates in crunch time.
@milton1448 DAn,, . Marino.. was a Total FAIL,, FINALS WISE.. STOP MAKING UP LAME EXCUSES.. MANY ARE AGRRES WITH ME. MARINO WAS A EXCUSE MAKER,,
Marino was excellent and a generational talent. I could only imagine what kind of statistics he would post in an era that is almost perfect for a QB of his talents!
No different today
@@STP43FAN1 dude, are you the village mid-two-digit IQ wonder?
He’s better than any passer in the NFL today by far!
@@STP43FAN1your smoking something, cmon ! Probably an Aikman fan who had to rely on the best offensive line arguably of all time , Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin , allways had a great defense . Marino had himself nuff said
Today he would make Mahomes,Brady or Peyton look ordinary.
Got to meet Marino years ago, best arm I’ve ever seen, remember watching him with my dad…good times amazing player
Too bad he’s known as ahole
That quick release is near impossible to replicate.
@ not the kind of thing that can be taught.
@JCOH-TV a one dimensional cripple player.. a loud mouth too.. cried rivers 😢 😭,, and it was always the other players faults. Many players on his team,,, came out later,,, THEY HATED PLAYING WITH HIM. SO ARROGANT WAS MARINO.. THAT HE ATTEMPTED,, A COME BACK.. AFTER HIS LAST INJURY.. AND HIS RECORD WAS THE WORST.. MARINO WAS A SACKS,,, PUNCHING 👊 BAG...
Even now, more than two decades later and the Dolphins are still plagued with the same problems. Low-tier defense with a great offense (when Tua is healthy) that puts up excellent regular season numbers but is nonexistent in the playoffs
Tua doesn’t execute to the situation close to enough. There’s the problem. It’s not defense.
@@STP43FAN1 tua has 2 seconds to throw the ball, having the 31-32nd worst oline in the league every year makes it quite hard on your qb, only one or two qbs would do as well or better than tua in our system.
Two seconds is enough. He’s supposed to be good enough to succeed just as Joe Burrow succeeds at two seconds to throw. A good number of quarterbacks would do better than Tagovailoa
@@STP43FAN1 oh bullshit, lamar, burrow, allen, all the top guys ON AVERAGE have 2.6+ seconds to throw, almost a full second longer than tua.
two seconds is the absolute least time in the league and it has been for years
the only person in the playoffs right now that has nearly as bad (still not as bad as tua) is mayfield with a little more than a quarter of a second longer in the pocket than tua, almost every playoff team does the one thing miami doesnt, PROTECTING their quarterback.
@@STP43FAN1 Hurts darnold, lamar, purdy, herbert, stroud, wilson, allen all have nearly a second longer to throw
your example of burrow, he still has more time on average than tua on average in pocket, nearly half a second longer.
How are plays supposed to develop when your qb has less than 2 seconds to throw the ball when all the playoff teams have 2.6-3.0 seconds to throw?
It's bullshit that people like you dont see any issue with having to get the ball out of his hands in less than 2 seconds and say "oh its no big deal"
I remember the one Super Bowl he played in against the 49ers in 1985. That Niner defense was absolutely killer. This was before the rules changed to make breathing too hard on the quarterback a penalty. The Niners pummeled Marino the entire game, something he didn’t have to face all season.
But the man had an absolute cannon for an arm and combined that power with great accuracy. He had two great wideouts as well, in Clayton and Duper (the Marks Brothers). If he played with today’s rules, no one would stop him.
Today is not easier than Marino’s era. The Niners won that Superbowl because Montana kept putting up touchdowns where Marino could not move the ball. The defense wasn’t that good, Marino simply was in over his head. That Superbowl showed opponents something about Marino. Take away his deep ball and he couldn’t command the offense that effectively.
Miami lost that Superbowl because they didn't have a running game plain and simple. Everyone expected Marino to throw the 🏈
@@armandoayala5134 Yeah, but supposedly Marino had every possible tool that any human ever had at qb? How could he possibly be stopped for 17 seasons without a Superbowl? Of course it has to be blamed on everything else from Hall of Fame coaches, to his running backs, to his receivers, to his defense.
@@STP43FAN1today is way easier, they created a pass happy league. Can’t breath on certain QB’s, can’t touch WR’s before they’ve had time to prepare for the tackle. Pass interference at the spot of the foul. Brady new this and constantly air out the ball at the end of games when they were behind knowing either they would catch it or he would get the pass interference call either way the same result
@@STP43FAN1 You've got some of the worst contrarion takes on football I've ever heard. Joe Flacco, Trent Dilfer, Eli Manning, Terry Bradshaw, Peyton with the Broncos, Jim McMahon, none of those guys won their super bowls because they were great. They won because they did enough on great teams. The quarterback alone does not win super bowls. The modern NFL is absolutely an easier game for QBs today, the statistics bear this out conclusively. The rule changes are such that even bad QBs will throw over 3,500 yards and 25 TDs a season. You're either a hater, a tiresome contrarion or a troll.
Marino had the most beautiful passing motion of any quarterback in NFL history, and it’s the key reason why he didn’t get sacked very much. Just a quick pop of the arm and the ball was 40 yards down the field before the defense knew what hit them. What he did in 1984 was absolutely unheard of. Imagine the numbers he would put up if a prime Dan Marino played in today’s NFL
I remember collecting football cards as a kid and of course always studying the stats on the back. The first time I saw Marino's numbers that 84 season i thought i had a misprint! They were so far away from everyone else up to that point it was crazy!
Dan Fouts topped 4,000 three straight years before Marino was drafted. Marino’s 5,000 yards and 48 touchdowns wasn’t unimaginable it was inevitable
@@STP43FAN1 He got alot of touch downs because he would air it out every damn time
@jmgozales meaning what?
@@jmgonzales7701 because he could, youngster
He was a revelation for the QB position. Arguably the greatest pure passer ever
No argument suffices. Who else can it possibly be?
Dan Marino, even without the ring, is still in arguments for top 5 QB, THATS how good he was
I still got him and Brees at the top. I know people call me delusional. But look at what they did with the lack of team defense. Montana and Brady had top defenses every other year.
Hunter Carter defense does not win anything. It’s quarterback, coaching, and situational execution.
@@STP43FAN1 you are the dumbest nfl fan alive.
That is the most interesting point of all time.
@@STP43FAN1 Is Don Shula not the most winningest coach of all time?
Marino would run todays football!! His arm was just flawless, Elway could Zip it like that but didn’t have the touch Dan did! RAIDERS fan here, but Marino is the best Qb I ever saw play the game and I’m almost 50
Nice 😂😂😂joke
@@MichaelRodriguez-y2gwhat do you know anyway kid?
@@That-Dude-DRASTIC537 nice JOKE. 😆 🤣
I'll gladly take you on with that spin
@@Akkbar21 I know that in 18,,. SEASONS,, MARINO NEVER GOT CLOSE TO ANOTHER SUPER 🏈 BOWL
Marino was a master at accuracy it sucks that he didn’t have a defense
or a running game
Defense doesn’t win. It’s quarterback. He failed to reach 60% completion in his career. He was consistently in over his head in big games (8-10 playoff career). He didn’t win more than five division titles, didn’t return to the playoffs until the third wildcard was added, and never exceeded ten wins his last six seasons.
Also it’s throwing not running. Marino had good running games, better in yards per carry than 4/5ths of Superbowl champs. Nobody won because of defense or running the ball. It’s quarterback, coaching, and situational execution
@@STP43FAN1 tell the 85 bears that defenses don't win games
Shadow prince the Bears needed to score 29 points per game to win. Their defense allowed fewer yards in 1984 than in 1985 but their offense was poor
One of the Top 3 best Quarterbacks ever played that Game, even without a Superbowl Ring
I was fortunate to live upstate NY as an foreign exchange student. I remember, phill simms, boomer, Marino, J Kelly, W Moon, Montana etc. What an era of great quarterbacks.
Are you high?
No he is correct... Name one better. You can't because maybe you are the one high. @@JM-cf9xy
Dan Marino is possibly the best qb ever. Football is a team sport.
Sober up and check into Rehab buddy
I was a young fan of the dolphins for much of the 90’s. Because of Marino! Still one of the greatest gunslingers of all time and always will be.
I feel the pain of the playoff woes. It was always so disappointing and i wish he could’ve won the big one. But he’s still the best in my book!
That book is fictional.
He is the John Stockton of the NFL. One of, if not, the purest passer of the game that never won a chip.
Don't disrespect Dan Marino like that
I would say drew brees
@@jamman950drew Brees won in 09
I’m a jazz fan and I agree
Good call
Marino accomplished all that, back when defenses were ferocious and allowed to play. And they were allowed to actually hit the QB.
I wish I was alive to watch old school football. Even I can tell it’s soft nowadays.
@Marcello2005 I got watch him play, him, Montana, Elway ect. Great football back then.
@ oh man, I’m jealous. What I really would’ve loved to watch though would be the defensive stars. They hit hard, were scrappy, and didn’t even seem human.
Other qb's in that era accomplished so much more when defenses were ferocious and allowed to play. Too bad Marino was a stat chaser and nothing more.
I’ve always heard that, not only was he a great football player, he was a great person as well. He did all kinds of charity work and kids camps. Read something about him just hanging out on set and talking with the set crew when he was on HBOs NFL show. The article stated that, while the rest of the hosts acted like divas and stayed in their private rooms until filming, Marino just hung out on set and cut it up with the average joes working the set.
Even though he never won a championship, he was as well-known outside of the US as any of the other great 80s-early 90s QBs.
Everyone has heard of Dan Marino and Joe Montana.
I think a lot of people around the world couldn’t even name a current NFL QB. But back then everyone had heard of Dan.
Blah blah blah
Every Patriot fan knew there was no way, that Marino and Dolphins were going to beat the Patriots in the playoffs that season…
What kept Marino from a championship was the fact that Miami had no ground game. They couldn't eat clock and their defense got tired.
You don’t win by running the ball. They didn’t win because Marino always failed when he had to execute to actually win the game. When he had to throw touchdowns at the Superbowl he instead gagged up three turnovers and failed on fourth down. Situational execution trumps everything. That’s why Marino - not the team, Marino - failed.
Defense wins championships son.
Brady had 2- 1000 yard rushers in 23 seasons and never had an offensive player drafted in the first round from 2003 to 2017
@@STP43FAN1 that's possibly the dumbest football related statement I've ever heard. Get a new hobby.
@@antonchigurh7227 True, but their running game was a lot better than that sounds. They never really had a feature back is all
Dan Marino led the Dolphins to the Super Bowl during his rookie year and lost to the 49ers. He was a 9-time Pro Bowl selection, so he was the first quarterback to throw over 5,000 yards in a season. He also broke records for the most passing yards and touchdown pass in a single season.
@@blakebrown84 2nd year, no rookie QB has been to a SB yet! He did have a standout rookie along with Eric Dickerson
@@AmirKhan-yv8jmthanks
Yeah to have the throwing numbers he had in the 80s is crazy 15-20 tds was average for most qbs at that time
An absolute horrendous playoff QB though.
@@antonchigurh7227 When your defense is letting opponents score 25-35 points a game it's hard to win playoffs.
he definitely one of the greats
Bills fan here...I remember well the glory days of the Bills winning 4 back-to-back AFC Championship games in a row during the early 90s...Marino was a fierce competitor and Buffalo/Miami was a classic rivalry through the late 80s into the mid 90s. Bills fans always dreaded games against Marino...he picked defenses apart better than any QB I've ever watched. He was a gunslinger and had the quickest release in the NFL. Looking back, the Bills had the opportunity to take Marino and I wish they would have, as much as Bills fans like Jim Kelly. Jim was never quite the QB Marino was, and I'm confident the Bills would've won 2 maybe 3 of those 4 Super Bowls with Marino in the pocket. Josh Allen, arguably the best current QB in the NFL faces the same dilemma Marino did...will Josh ever get a SB Ring? No one knows, but he has another 12 seasons or so left to do it. In the meantime, Josh faces harsh criticism having not won a Super Bowl...I hope for his sake he gets at least a few. Marino should've won at least a couple of rings.
The Bills with Marino would have won 3 out of 4 of those super bowls.
@@TheGonzorelic Agreed.
I remember an NFL Films show about his SB loss against the Niners. They included this quote from a James Taylor song: "There were sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground." I thought that summed it up well.
When he was "on," he was a ton of fun to watch, with the way he seemed to be able to flick the ball forty yards downfield, and have it land right on the money.
Watching Marino pass was kinda' like watching Deion run or watching Bo making his cut on a sweep. Fluid. Pure.
I’m sad I never got to see Dan but I do watch highlights sometimes
I grew up in Miami, and the talk I heard around the draft was that teams were scared off by his knee injury - he had surgery off-season and there were many repeats during his time with the fins..
Best channel on RUclips this and nonstop sports
More fans need to recognize MARINOS SIDE STEP.
He made 1st pass rusher miss EVERYTIME!
When I was down in New Orleans on vacation with the wife we had dinner, at Antoines I believe. We wandered into their bar and cigar lounge afterwards and I struck up a conversation with the bartender. Somehow he got on the subject of celebrity patrons. He rattled off a few names and I asked him how they treated him. He said all were nice folks but then surprised the hell out of me by telling me that Marino would always act like an entitled prick when he came by. I really liked watching Marino at QB so imagine that. Our conversation was cut short when actor Peter Weller (eg. Robocop, etc.) came by to enjoy one of his cigars that celebrities stock in their floor to ceiling humidor. I've never forgotten that occurrence, probably never will.
I heard he was a prick as well.
I heard he was Big 🍆
Marino had magic in his arm. He is smart and aware of his surroundings. It was a pleasure to watch him play. He could hit the mark most of the time.
One of my favorite QBs of all time.
Never won SB , very sad
2020's passing numbers in the 1980's. Living in Miami at the time, it was a shame that he had no run game to help him. Phenomenal talent!
I used to have a work colleague who was a former defensive back for the LA Raiders; he also said that Marino was easily the best he ever came across and it was universally agreed by all in the DB room and Defensive Coordinators that he was practically impossible to gameplan against.
The Seahawks, the Patriots and the Bills all game-planned against him. I won't throw the 9ers in there because the Marino fans just say that was a great defense and he supposedly would have beaten any other team that day.
I remember watching that Cleveland game when he tore his Achilles. You can hear the pop when it snapped. Marino said he still to this day is having trouble from it. He has to wear a special lift in his right shoe because the tear he suffered was a spaghetti tear, which caused his tendon to split in the middle on down
Marino was the best qb ever to play the game. Nobody could ever throw the ball like him. It is a team game and Marino made everyone better
It was rumored that he had a chance to sign with the 2002 Buccaneers if I’m not mistaken, they won the Super Bowl that year…
He was past age 40 that time!
@@AmirKhan-yv8jm yes I know, but that was a rumor that was going around that they were trying to sign him for the Super Bowl run..
Even before that but it was a different team. Marino was close to sign with the Minnesota Vikings in 2000, but he retired instead.
FACTS, in fact dolphins were ready to sign have dan sign a 1 or 2 year extension after the 98' season, 1 of the stipulations was marino had to put up something like 4500 yards & something like 40+ TDs all while playing @ least 80-85% of the season which pissed marino off because miami had made no moves to better the phins chances @ a shot to go to playoffs which in return marino had his agent make some calls for interviews with other teams, he went to seattle & i believe it was pete carroll which asked marino, "what are you doin' danny ?", marino said nothing, marino said himself in a recent interview that no coach or owner was never so straightforward honest with him until like i said i believe it was pete carroll posed that question to marino which marino came to realize what he needed to do next, the rest is history !
BLITZ WITH ANOTHER BANGER.
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I was just talking about Marino yesterday and this pops up on my feed today…lol
He was the best…I always thought him to be too cocky but, his release was sudden and his arm was the best..He was the best pure passer ever I would say..
A great talent for sure. It helps when that talent teams up with a legendary coach. Shula’s game schemes were brilliant. In one weeks time Shula figured out how to deflate and expose the glaring weaknesses of the Bear’s 34 all out blitz defense and pull out a win on a Monday night, the Bear’s only loss that season.
It took the rest of the league the entire off season to figure out what Shula figured out in a week.
Too bad Shula forgot you need a running game and stingy defense to win Super Bowls.
@ I agree.
He had the beat arm and release ever. The combination of strength and accuracy was unbelievable. People who think Rodgers, Mahomes, or anyone else had a better arm are just plain wrong.
Put him on Pittsburgh in the 70’s, San Francisco in the 80’s, Dallas in the 90’s he would have 4-5 rings. Greatest QB I have ever seen!
Yep. Make things as perfect as possible for Marino and he just might have a ring. Other qb's work with what they have, and make their teams better over the years. Marino is the only "great" qb that somehow didn't do that. The franchise pretty much got worse the longer he stayed. He had 2 Hall of Fame coaches, one of which he manipulated and ultimately learned how that type of offense doesn't work in the NFL, and then the other tried to teach him how it works, but he argued the entire time. Yeah, the greatest. Sure he was.
He had a condensed throwing motion. Lots of velocity on intermediate routes. Nice touch on deep routes. Clayton and Duper were fabulous. Absolutely shredded my beloved Steelers in the 1984 AFC Championship game. Hung a fifty burger on us. The Steelers were the only team to beat the 49ers that year who clobbered the Dolphins in Superbowl 19. The Steelers didn't draft him because of rumors he liked to party. Don Shula said he liked to have a good time at that age too and the rest is history.
Best pure thrower, I've ever seen, and have been watching football since 1971. He had good, but not great, teams around him.
anyone else remember him on ace Ventura?
What
@@martavioustisby4942 like the old movie "ace Ventura". one of my fav movies.
Laces Out Dan!
He honestly shoulda won SB 19 because of the simple fact that 1984 was the greatest season of his entire career.
But that SF 49ers team was one of the greatest of all-time! It had the best scoring defense and second best scoring offense.
The Real Joe Cool stood in his way
Difference between the Niners and Dolphins
Marino was in over his head.
Montana was not
@@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 and that SF 49ers defense led by Lott! Lol
Niners were 15-1 that year with nfls top rated defense. Outcome want a surprise that particular Niners team may have been greatest team of all time league has seen.
Dan was the Man, hands down. We are talking about the best throwing the ball. He didn’t play defense. Saw him every year of his career at the OB and Joe Robbie as a season ticket holder for the Phins from 1972 to 2000.
Great video 🔥🔥🔥
Marino is an all-time great, but the notion he "never" had a defense or run game are myths. In fact, he was drafted by a team that got all the way to the SB on the strength of their run game and defense.
Marino is the Greatest QB of all time.
Period.
You should be drug tested.
Sober up and check into Rehab buddy
@ its evident that you don't know shit about football, Bud.
Absolutely horrendous in the postseason.
That’s hilarious bro 😂
My fav QB ever. And I think the best ever in terms of passing.
I’m a raider fan and he was my favorite quarterback of all time!
he'd throw for 7,000 yards a season in today's game. can't even breathe on the qb these days without a flag
Apparently that didn't help Marino win anything. He wasn't getting hit/sacked, but still couldn't win the big one so even in today's game he'd choke in the playoffs.
Marino's biggest problem was he threw the ball so fast and hard that most receivers had trouble catching it, many passes would bounce off their numbers with them having grabbed at the ball too late.
True dat. The ball was always there - sometimes before his receivers even turned around
The pit panther legend and he was proud of that 1984 class with Gene Kelly John Elway question Kelly’s from Miami. John Elway went to Stanford.
Criminally underrated, he’s in the category of Steve young, or Kurt Warner
Marino or Kelly are the GOATs to be Ringless. Or throw Tarkenton in the mix?
True
Kelly
McNair Delhomme Garoppolo Hurts and Purdy executed far better in their Superbowls than Marino or Kelly.
Marino's the best quarterback of all time. brady has 7. AS IF he's the most talented player at that position. give me a break.
@@RobertMJohnson When you are the QB of 7 SB winners, it's more than just coincidence. Come on.
Still no Dlineman videos, come on BLITZ
If Dan Marino was playing in this Day and age he would’ve had a superbowl for sure! He played in the wrong era and on the wrong team because I guarantee you if they took winning seriously they would’ve got him help, he’s the greatest QB to never win a ring 💯
Blah blah blah.... but but but... if if if.... you guarantee it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
@@atg1338 get that hate out your heart kid it does a disservice for you 💯
@@Oso_99 👈🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡💯💯
Yeah. Marino played for only 2 coaches, both of which won 2 Superbowls each without him, and are both in the Hall of Fame, but sure, they didn't take winning seriously. 17 years of a career and failures against teams like the Seahawks and Patriots in the Orange Bowl no less along with other losses in the playoffs; some of that has to be on him and not on everyone else but him. After all he's the quarterback, and if all his passing yards are his, then so are those sad losses in the post season.
@roland7584 Did you actually see him play? Did you actually watch his playoff games? You do know he wasn't playing 1 on 53🤔
Jim Kelly was pretty damn good also
Marino was really elite during his era & would thrive in today’s game. Don Shula never really gave the Dolphins a consistent running game when Marino was at his top. If only Danny Boy could’ve ended his career like John Elway’s.
He had no defense behind him. If you gave him a top 10 defense, he wins multiple Super Bowls.
Wrong. He had top twelve defense seven times. He had the top defense twice. His superbowl defense was 7th. He failed. Not the team. Him.
@@STP43FAN1 it's actually correct
I’m a die hard giant fan. I only got to see if Phil Simmons play his last year in NFL but I must say I kind of wish that we drafted Dan Marino. He will probably have three chips maybe four that 93 team was very good number one defense number one rushing offense in the league that year, I know San Francisco had Home for the advantage and they blew was out in the playoffs but if we win overtime game against Dallas and 93 thanks for the change the landscape in a year I feel like…
Greatest pure passer I've ever seen.
Dude was too good for a Superbowl that he never even bothered to win one.
@Brando7266 to answer your recent response - Marino kept throwing. That’s why he got those volume records. Opponents began figuring him out by 1986; they couldn’t shut him out but they consistently shut him down in the clutch. What really saved his playoff record is adding the extra wildcard team, that’s where the bulk of his eight playoff wins happened. It was NEVER harder to put up volume, the culture of the game didn’t begin truly changing until Tom Brady began surging to more and more Superbowls and the game finally caught on that throwing instead of running actually controls the game better (no one for instance recognized Warren Moon was 5-5 in games throwing at least fifty passes until Brady erupted to something like TWENTY such wins). In today’s game Marino wasn’t going to set new records because the quality of his throws would not be better
Re: teams "consistently shut him down in the clutch" ... I should just ignore you like everyone else apparently has but I just needed to point out that he had 33 4th qtr comeback victories - 2nd most in NFL history at the time ...
It sucks he never had a good running back and defense to help him win 🏆
No he had enough defense and run support. He is why those Dolphins didn’t win it all. You can’t win on defense or running the ball. It’s quarterback and situational execution
@@STP43FAN1 you most certainly can win from defense. You and anyone who says otherwise can't be taken seriously. Such a dumbass comment.
@@STP43FAN1This. It isn't all on Marino, but he did have a tendency of not stepping up when Miami needed him the most.
Imagine what Pittsburgh would have done if they had drafted Marino? Both might have gotten a few Super Bowls.
@@lindaangus2307 The Jets passed on him as well and drafted Ken O'Brien.
@@TheHoff305 Poor Ken O'Brien was stuck on the Jets. If he was on the Dolphins during that time, he probably wins 2 Superbowls.
To this day...I still believe he is the greatest QB to ever play based on talent.
I think with today’s rules making it easier for QBs to accumulate stats and time, 25 years, Dan Marino gets more and more underrated. You had to be there to understand just how good he was.
I remember watching his last game with my dad. What my dad said always stuck with me to this day….”His teammates gave up on him and are purposely blowing this game to spite him for some reason”
That's one drunk dad for sure.
top 5 qb of all time, id even argue top 3
That's an opinion. And cool that you have it. But I'd hard disagree that hea top 3. Even top 5. Top 10? Maybe. Absolutely. But 3 is absurd to me. But this is just my opinion.
i agree
@@Magdalena8008s i respect that
Top 3 for sure!
He's not even top 3 in his own era. Give it a rest.
I truly miss watching that man throw a football. Best ever
Purest QB there ever was
He still is the greatest passer the NFL has ever seen.
i love you dan... just wait we will win a SuperBowl sooner then later
Probably not
Grew up in Miami, was a kid, he is best thrower of the ball I have evere seen, if he had a running game would have been more lethal
These dumb kids in the comments who don’t understand the world existed before them. The rules now would allow a guy like Marino to get 6000 yds and 60 Tds
Maybe so, but he'd still choke in the playoffs against a defense that wasn't in the bottom half of the leegue that season, and he'd still have no ring.
A real smart kid like myself would say Marino's regular season prowess never remotely resembled his playoff expectations. > 8-10 in the playoffs with a horrible 56% completion % and almost as many INT's as TD's passing
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He had that 3 step drop and boom out it went. Very hard to sack and his arm strength was powerful
Greatest passet the NFL has ever seen. If he played today, 60-70 td passes would be possible.
In the regular season yes. In the playoffs, it would be 2 late td's to make the game close along with 2 interceptions that killed the team from having any chance.
@ u dont understand football. Not even a little. Shhhhhh.
I understand it perfectly. QB's can do some great things when behind as the defense allows yardage to run clock. Marino was the best at that in the regular season. Big deal. His Superbowls were his fake spike against the Jets and a home Monday night game where he's amazing all the way down to a tipped pass that goes for a td as if he planned that one too. His last 3 playoff losses he helped his offense to 1 td and a total of 13 points, but of course his bad defenses cost him those 3 seasons too as if some other defense is going through the playoffs with that type of offense.
He was the best that I've ever seen and I've been watching the game since 1973
You've missed a ton of games then somehow. Even in his own era he wasn't the best. He knew how to throw a ball, but he didn't understand how to win football games when it counted against good teams. If a defense showed up on the other side of the ball, most of the time his skills disappeared.
I saw him a few weeks after he lost the Super Bowl to San Fran at the Walter Camp dinner in New Haven CT on Wooster Street and he was absolutely obliterated drunk and he fell on ice and slammed against the ground lolol. But in my eyes he was the greatest pure QB of all time.
If only Ray finkle didn’t shank that kick. Iykyk
The laces were in THEY WERE IN!!!!
@@frankfrega1302 No, the laces were out ...
Obviously he should be noted as one of the greats. His lightning fast release and pin point accuracy was unparalleled. However, it should be stated that without Mark Duper, Mark Clayton, and Tony Nathan, he may have never got out of the gate. His inability to scramble made it difficult for his offensive line to do anything but pass block, which made them one dimensional. The defense during his entire tenure bordered on horrendous. That didn't help much either. I can remember going to games and the fans would be shouting for the defense to just lay down so Marino would have time to come back and make the winning score.
Please look back at all 17 seasons. They didn't border on horrendous that entire time. Dan Marino obviously would have won a Superbowl if everything was perfect for him, with the best defense, best running backs, best receivers, and no injuries at all, and if he had good head coaches because Hall of Fame coaches weren't good enough either.
When Danny left the NFL. He might not have left with a Super Bowl Ring but he dam sure left with the record book..
It was that Pepsi commercial that cursed him..
‘Hey Joe… next year I’m buying’
Marino loved a choof and occasional chase of the magic dragon 🐉 he partied in miami for christ sake his white line fever wasnt that on the gridiron
I never remember Miami having a stand out r.b during his time of play. Aikman had Emmitt and Joe had Roger Craig.
The tragedy of the Dolphins was the failure to mesh Marino with a defense. In the early 70s the Dolphins won back to back Super Bowls with the "No Name Defense", headed by defensive coach Bill Arnsparger. Arnsparger had previously been the defensive coordinator for the dominant Baltimore Colts teams in the late 1960s, before joining the Dolphins with Shula in 1969. After the two Dolphin super bowl wins, Arnsparger left the Dolphins to become head coach of NY. The Dolphin defense went from dominant to medicore in the years Arnsparger coached in NY.
Arnsparger returned to Miami in the second half of the 70s, and within a few years, had built another dominant Miami defense, nicknamed the "Killer Bees". It was this defense that got Miami to the Super Bowl in 1982, despite having a mediocre offense. The tragedy for Miami is that Arnsparger again left Miami in 1983, just as Marino was transitioning the Dolphins into a blistering offense for several years. But unfortunately, within just a couple years of Arnsparger's departure, the Miami defense had crumbled from the dominant "Killer Bs" to the bottom of the league, where it for most of the rest of the 80s and 90s. The Dolphins got to the Super Bowl in 1982 with a dominant defense, but was hampered by a mediocre offense. Two years later, the Dolphins offense torched everything, but it's defense failed, repeatedly.
Shula was a great offensive coach but the evidence doesn't stand up for his skills for the other side of the scrimmage line. Marino's offense kept the Dolphins competitive in the 80s and early 90s, but without defense, there was only so far the Marino and the Dolphins could go.
I recall watching him and golfer Greg Norman both get so close but not close enough.
Marino loving the cocoa wasn’t a rumor. It’s actually the reason his wonderlic was so low (he was coked out and walked out only finishing half the test)
It’s a shame Miami never gave him much of a running game to complement his passing attack.
It's a shame the Dolphins centered the entire team around Marino, and thus fell into the Marino trap of not running the ball (watch the rushing attempt numbers drop when he arrived), which then turned the team into a pass blocking team, which then just made it worse, which then had the offense showing up with plenty of 3 and outs or quick scores, which then made the defense stay on the field longer against good teams, which then made the defense look worse than it was, which then resulted in no more Superbowl appearances, thus he took the one team that was already a Superbowl contender before he even got there, and became the wrecking ball of the franchise and its previous winning ways.
For real but they still good
No offense, but this is more of a career retrospective of Dan Marino than an actual commentary of how good he was...
Why the Steelers didn't draft him is still one of the great mysteries of all of human history.
I think Jim Kelly should be the GOAT due to the super bowl appearances
He was darn good too
He was also a comedic movie star as I recall.
Best QB wver in my opinion Certainly my favorite he changed the game
Warren Moon had the best "pure passer" mechanics. And he had a rocket arm.
Well here's a guy with a big problem. The problem is the NFC was so strong for a decade I believe that the LA Raiders were the last AFC team to win the superbowl until the Denver Broncos in 1997