WEBVTT - Special Teams: The Music City Miracle 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.520 Welcome to Special Teams, a production of I Heart Radio 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.000 Greetings and Welcome Inside Special Teams with Jason Smith and 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.320 Mike Harmon, a podcast where we look back at history 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:27.840 at a team and what made them so special a 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.880 very specific year in sports. We've been doing this for 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.559 a while now and getting to play around with the 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.760 material and the format a little bit is one of 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.040 the more fun things we get to do. And one 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.400 thing we're gonna do here now in the coming weeks 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.879 is we're gonna look back at a couple of special 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.000 teams each week. What we're gonna do is go back 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:52.320 and re examine famous games in NFL college football, Major 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.000 League Baseball history, the special teams that participated in them, 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.279 and what became afterwards for both of those teams. Our 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.920 sport tonight is the National Football League, and we are 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.600 looking back at the Music City Miracle, one of the 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.720 most famous plays in sports history. But we're gonna do 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.880 it a little differently. You've seen it all from the 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.319 Tennessee Titans point of view and NASA coming around and 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.640 figuring out just how did that Pasco Right along the 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.080 line from I check over to Diyson had it all? 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.600 We've seen that but we're gonna get into what made 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.520 that play possible. And when you look at it from 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.720 the Buffalo Bill side of things, this play takes even 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:34.160 more mythic proportions, right, madness all around. Right, Well, you 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.640 know the play, you know the family, As you said, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.399 it's been broken down by everybody way smarter than us. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.440 I mean, Elon musks kid with all the mutant uh 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:50.800 symbols and these hot hot hike, I mean, the ex 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:55.280 exponents uh exponential growth for the child as we go. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.760 I mean, there's a lot of great theories on it. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.520 But you just remember the Buffalo Bills and the time 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.320 in space and what this meant to the trajectory and 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.000 and kind of bouncing football history in a whole other angle. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.480 So the two thousand Playoffs, the Music City Miracle which 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.120 the Titans beat the Bills sixteen, is on our docket today. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.120 How before we get to the game, how did these 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.160 teams arrive at this point? For the Buffalo Bills in 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.919 the thousand season, Doug Flutie was entering his second year 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.160 as starter after his Electric Folk Hero debut the year before. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.800 Flutie comes back from the CFL after being away for years. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.640 He is amazing. He is incredibly smart, he makes plays, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.520 he throws in lanes, and Flutie flakes were everywhere, and 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:46.000 Doug Flutie was the cult icon in the National Football League. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:51.120 But Doug Flutie versus Rob Johnson wouldn't go away because 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.239 they got Doug Flutie as a flyer. Rob Johnson is 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.440 someone that the Buffalo bill said, Hey, we gotta go 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.560 get him because when he was in relief of Mark 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.919 Brunell a couple of years before with the Jacksonville Jaguars, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.360 he played pretty well. So after the nineties seven season, 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.560 the Bills trade a first and fourth rounder and they 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.960 signed Rob Johnson for five years and twenty five million dollars, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.480 which is a really big contract for a quarterback back then. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.640 So they were invested in him no matter what. And 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.600 this is the crazy part, Mike that I remember is 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.240 that as good as Flute he was, and you couldn't 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.079 go anywhere without talking about Flute and and and how 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:27.679 much he meant to the game and what a big 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.160 story was. But still in Buffalo they wanted Rob Johnson 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.560 to play. Yeah, it felt like every week Flute was 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.840 playing for his job in Buffalo, when in the rest 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.200 of the league. He was a superstar because, hey, the 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.160 Bills made a big move for Rob Johnson. They looked 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:41.880 pretty bad if he could win the starting job. Well, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.560 it wasn't winning with style, right, there's different levels. We 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.680 live in Los Angeles right reside here. When the Lakers 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.360 are good, there's gotta be some flare to it. Right. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.880 The whole campaign that the Clippers put together of you know, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.280 the mean streets versus the league lights or and all 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.400 of those nonsensical billboard even though you went and got 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.400 two of the top five players in the game, you 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.120 know that. You know, we're street tough versus the Lakers. Man, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.960 it's high flying, it's showtime all around. In Buffalo. They 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.000 wanted a little bit of that. That's what Rob Johnson 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.920 was supposed to bring them, right. The guy with the 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.320 big arm as opposed to Doug Flutie while we had 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.799 the Hail Mary from his college days in the pros, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.400 you know, made some plays with his legs, extended drives, 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:30.120 but wasn't a big explosive offensive threat. And people kept wondering, well, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.919 this is good. But with the big armed guy that 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.440 we spent so much to get, perhaps it could be 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.919 even that much more dominant, So when are we going 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.279 to pull the trigger? So yeah, every week was that debate. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.680 You know, how how much and how well did he 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.719 have to play to retain that job. So Flutie plays 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.320 well in ninety nine, he goes ten and five and 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.200 the Bills clinch a playoff spot. And now Flutie wasn't 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.240 as great as he was his first year. But the 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.400 big thing the Buffalo defense was really good. They allowed 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.240 the second fewest points in the NFL low in franchise history, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.160 to nine. This is Ted Washington in the middle of 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.440 that defense and Sam Cowart who was phenomenal, and the 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:12.080 Bills had a really good young defense and thousand was 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.960 their big coming out party. But they go ten and 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.640 five and they have a meaningless final week game against Indianapolis. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.839 Now Indianapolis was terrific this year. They had won eleven 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.880 games in a row. What happens, Well, with nothing to 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.520 play for, the Bills decide, well, we're gonna start Rob 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.760 Johnson this game and rest Doug Flutie. What happens Buffalo 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.040 ends Indianapolis is eleven game win streak thirty one to six. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.640 Rob Johnson throws for two eighties, seven and two touchdowns. Okay, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.800 well that's nice. He had a nice final week game 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.839 Week sixteen. Except Buffalo. After seeing this, the Bills bench 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.880 Doug Flutie for Johnson for the playoffs. The players were stunned, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.000 they were pissed. I can't blame him. Wade Phillips, head 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.640 coach of the Buffalo Bills, said afterward that Ralph Wilson, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.560 the owner, ordered him to make the chain. I mean, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.760 Flutie always won more than Rob Johnson. Right, Johnson got 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.680 hurt when he got the job. Flutie came in and 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.280 was great. Flutie was great in ninety nine. Then when 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.320 you get into two thousand, a year after, Johnson was 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.560 terrible again. I mean, it's like the Bills didn't know 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.520 how good they had, and it's like, you know, they 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.680 were football karma, saying, no, flute is really your guy. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.120 Every time Rob Johnson gets a chance, he gets hurt 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.240 or he's ineffective, and Doug Flutie is the guy. And 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.000 can you imagine making a change at quarterback solely because 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.559 the guy you you picked finally had one good game 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.320 and you go away from your starter the entire season. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.479 I can't believe there wasn't a mutiny for the Bills 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.200 going into the game against the Titans. Well, just the 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.000 fact that Wade Phillips, Hey, it was him, he ordered me, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.560 he ordered I didn't do it. Yeah, no, he I 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.160 voted for Kodos like the you he gets. Certainly, Flutie 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.720 was the locker room guy, right, Everybody rallied around him. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.120 They played well. Johnson was the hot shot guy. All 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.440 these years later, Right, it's still the I don't understand 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.840 and that I got screwed, and and there's a lot 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.080 of negativity that flows out of it. It's like, you know, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.320 we we see it in sports all the time, and 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.640 look at look back to Philadelphia. Right, there's just always 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.600 this weird dynamic has gone on these last couple of 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.120 years with Carson Wentz. What happened when he went down 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.120 and Nick Foles went in, everybody rallied around that guy. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.080 Doesn't make sense on a larger scale, no, because when 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:31.360 starting played, Okay had his moments, but certainly nothing like 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.640 the magic of that playoff run that earned him a 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.360 statue outside the stadium. Same thing here with Doug Flutie. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.840 There was just something about him where you rally. So 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:44.600 this always became a sticking point and today with social media, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.720 sports talk radio, sports television, uh, to the level that 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:54.080 it is now. I mean, you'd be shunned if you 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.360 you try to do this again. I mean, as an owner, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.840 this this is what it gets you to start turning 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:04.360 over front office people, coaches, and players with great regularity 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.320 because you're hearing it from all ends. Yeah, this is 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.280 something that, if it was now, would dominate sports talk 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.840 radio every week. Can you believe that the bill still 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.040 want to play Rock Johnson all Doug Fluti does his 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.560 win and he has spark plug plays, and he runs 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.520 for first downs on third and fifteen and makes clutch 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.120 throws to the end zone on on fade patterns. I mean, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.960 it would be it wouldn't make sense that this would 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.680 be going on. And we'll be talking about it all 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.840 the time. But this is the drama the Bills carried 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.800 with them into the wild card game against the Titans. Now, 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.440 the Titans had a great year, all right. They cruised 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.000 through the regular season. It was the first year they 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.839 were the Titans. You know, they drafted Javon Curse, who 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.640 turned into a superstar player for a few years. They 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.520 went thirteen and three. Eddie George was a stud. This 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:53.439 was one of those solid, all around quintessential heritage NFL 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.079 teams that you would see going to Super Bowls in 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.319 the seventies and eighties. Boy, they got a really good defense, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:58.959 they got a really good running game, they got a 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.280 quarterback and makes play is They get everything they need. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.280 Jeff Fisher is is a young up and coming head coach. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.160 You know before he was, oh my god, Jeff Fisher. Seriously, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.640 this is when Jeff Fisher was, Oh Jeff Fisher. We 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.800 gotta go get Jeff Fisher. And they go thirteen and three. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.760 But Jacksonville goes fourteen and two, so that relegates the 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.120 Titans into the wild card game. Steve McNair, as great 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.040 of a reputation as he had on the field as 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.440 a playmaker, didn't have a great season. All right. The 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.480 Titans didn't score a ton of points. He only threw 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.440 twelve touchdowns, you know, when he ran for eight, which 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.120 would put his total up, you know, respectable twenty. He 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.439 also only played in eleven games because McNair was a 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.120 guy that had tough time staying healthy and really the 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.560 spark plug. And I can't believe I'm saying this because people. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.360 I remember what he was like with the Jets. But 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.160 nil o'donald started five games when you thought his career 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.400 was over all, right, what you go to the Jets 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.360 and you fail, your career is done. But no, no, no, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.600 he comes in relief of McNair, starts five games, throws 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.160 ten touchdowns in five games. All right, that's to lesson 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:06.840 McNair in six less games. So o'donald was really good. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.520 The Marcus Mariota, Ryan Tannehill winging around kind of idea, right, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.520 But still McNair was the starter. He was beloved, and 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.560 he was you know, and he still look he engineered 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:17.959 them to a lot of wins. It was nice to 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.560 have o'donald in relief. So when the wild card game comes, 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.320 McNair is the quarterback. But it's not like this was 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.880 a team that boy Tennessee put up a lot of points. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.000 You know, this was Tennessee is winning all around solid play, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.440 and now we're gonna see what can they do in 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.480 the playoffs? How far can this take them? So the Titans, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.840 who were eight no at home and healthy, match up 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.800 against the Bills and what turns into the Music City 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.559 miracle Coming up next will relive the play, the game, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.880 and the crazy things that actually made it possible that 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.080 I still can't believe twenty years later. That's coming up 0:10:53.120 --> 0:11:13.880 next right here on Special Teams. We're continuing on with 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.520 Special Teams as we look back at the Music City Miracle. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.760 The special teams involved the Bills and the Tennessee Titans, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.000 and we'll get to the Music City Miracle play coming 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.800 up in a couple of minutes. But this playoff game 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.839 that was won by the Titans sixteen and what he's 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.960 going down with one of the most famous plays in 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.920 NFL history. In fact, you could probably say, outside of 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.199 the Immaculate Reception, this is the next most famous play 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.800 in NFL history. We've seen it a million times and 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.040 we've broken it down, but this play, the big home 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.360 run throwback and Frank why Chick just has some kind 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.080 of place mythologically. But to say that this was a 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.360 great game was a bit of a misconception because this game, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.280 like this was a terrible game. This is one of 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.439 those games you watch and go, well, it's an NFL 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.439 playoff aim on TV, so I'm gonna watch it. I mean, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.440 it really had everything was in that final Music City 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.280 Miracle play. Oh no, absolutely, it was a lot of 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.600 build up. At least you got the big finish to it, 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.679 because I mean when when you're big plays earlier, I 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.160 think I took a safety. Really, that's that's the guy 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.640 you're fighting. Yeah, we got a safety. He takes the safety. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.720 And yes you celebrate because everybody stands up, does the 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.800 I Dream a Genie dance and does all that with it. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.240 That you get a little bit excited there, but certainly 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:34.160 it's it's not one that inspires great, great confidence overall 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.720 as to what your offense is bringing to the table. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:41.880 And he got a scoreless first quarter and Buffalo doesn't 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.720 get out of the gates. This game can be summarized 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.320 with this sentence. Steve McNair through for seventy six yards 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.480 in this game. Yeah, Rob Johnson threw for one thirty 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.160 one and he actually had a worst game the McNair. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.960 You're talking about the two starting quarterbacks that combined in 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:04.120 a playoff game to throw for two yards. All right, now, Johnson, 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.600 like I said, he was worse. He was ten out 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.720 of twenty two. He got sacked six times and he 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.840 fumbled three times. What's the biggest shock is that, you know, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.680 this is how much from above this game with Ralph Wilson, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.480 because as bad as they struggled, Doug Flute was never 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.400 put into the game. He doesn't get off the badch 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.040 How do you not get in the game when Rob 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.280 Johnson is this bad and and and you have no 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.839 offense for three and a half, three and two thirds 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.360 quarters in this game. And because Flutie had played so 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.920 well during the year, that's the thing, right, It's not 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:39.240 like he was hurt or that he'd been grossly ineffective 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.600 to where you had a true competition even though you're 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.719 making the playoffs and you're and you're pushing forward. I mean, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.720 he played well for you, and he's sitting there just 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.360 on the on the bench. Hey, someone just hied his helmet. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:56.120 He's not getting in. I mean that that's I mean, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.720 I look at it now. So there's no way they 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.360 wouldn't go to Flutie if was not bad. There's no 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.040 way they wouldn't have done. You know, if that, if 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.360 that was the decision to be made by Wade Phillips, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.720 there's there's no question about it. I mean that that's 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.080 done at the end of the first quarter, if not before. Yeah, 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.440 it's it's it's field goals, field goals, field goals. And 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.160 this game comes down to the end, the final couple 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.280 of minutes. Let's just say the final couple of minutes, 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.160 because we had some drama before the Music City Miracle. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:29.400 Buffalo was down. Well that's the other thing, is that 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.560 as badly as they played there in the game. Yeah, no, no, no, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.120 they were in the game. You're right, Buffalo as bad 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.480 as they were, but their defense was really good. So 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.080 was the Titans. And that's why, you know, I wanted 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.800 to make sure we mentioned that the Bill's defense is 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.680 really the hallmark of this team as much as it 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.880 was Flute. He was, like I said, Ted Washington was 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.040 a big dude man and you couldn't move him and 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.400 coward and you had a lot of talent on on 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.400 that Bill's defense, and they were really tough to score on. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.640 So the fact that this was that kind of game 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.040 is really not that shocking. But when you can't put 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.920 any offense on the board and your quarterback is getting 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.680 sacked what they called Johnson robosack, you know, because you 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.480 know he couldn't stop getting sacked. He was staying in 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.280 the pocket and get hit. I mean, you have to 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.560 make a move. You try to, you know, get a 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.120 get up, some kind of spark on your offense, but 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:18.520 they stick with Rob Johnson, and Johnson actually gets Buffalo 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.760 the sixteen fifteen lead right there, down by two with 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.480 a minute forty eight left to go. Right because you're 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.640 you're talking field goals, field goals, field goals. Rob Johnson 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.800 throws for a big first down without a shoe on 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.080 to get Buffalo to the twenty four yard line, and 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.360 now you're getting inside a minute. He had lost a 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.480 shoe the play before, he couldn't put it back on. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.320 He throws for a big first down, and now with 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.720 twenty seconds left, Buffalo's got the football at the twenty 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.880 four yard line of the Titans. They're down by a 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.840 field goal. Twenty seconds left, the Bills have no time outs. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.360 And this is where things get interesting. Why don't the 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.520 Bills have any time outs? Well, because they burned one 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.200 the previous drive on defense because they were all yelling 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.880 at each other because the Titans had the lead and 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.160 and they were trying to run the clock out, and 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.440 the Bills lost their composure and they had to use 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.360 the time out when they didn't have the ball. Just 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.520 to hey, hey, guys, let's cooler heads prevail here. Let's 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.000 make sure we stopped them. Now, it worked, they stopped 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.920 there and got the ball back, but they had no 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.640 timeouts because of this. So the Bills are now faced 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.000 with twenty seconds left in the game. They have first 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.920 down at the twenty four yard line. Now this is 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.200 an eternity, right, and if this was now in the 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.600 National Football League teams, it's all right. We got plenty 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.040 of time. We can run a play anywhere we want to. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.360 We can throw the ball to either whatever we want 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.400 to do and get inside the twenty, get inside the 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.040 ten and run up, spike it and then come out 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.880 and kick a field goal. I mean, twenty seconds is 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.680 an eternity to do that. All you have to do 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.520 is hope Rob Johnson doesn't get sacked. And you know, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.000 look Rob Johnson liked to get sacked. But still yeah, 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.200 but still you would think they would now they would 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.800 run a play easy a league. No, the Bills decide 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.520 instead of that, we are going to kick the field 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.520 goal with twenty seconds left, Whereas conventional wisdom now says, 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.840 we'll run a play, we'll get up there, we'll let 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.960 the clock tick down to two or three seconds because 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.800 we have no time out, so it doesn't matter with 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.159 a bad snap. We can't just call time out and 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.040 try to kick the ball again on the next play. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.119 So we let it go down to two or three seconds, 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.080 called time out, and we kicked the game winner on 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.720 the final play. That's what every team would do, but 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.320 the Bills didn't do it. Many of the coaches on 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.560 the sideline wanted the Bills to call run another play, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.920 but Wade Phillips said, no, I want to send out 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.199 Steve Christie to try to kick this field goal. And 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.040 now there are few kickers that were that were as 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.720 accurate as Steve Christie. Christie gets on the field makes 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.159 it forty one yards out. Bills have the lead with 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.520 twenty seconds left. Rob Johnson looks like a hero. All 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.000 the Bills have to do is defend for sixteen seconds 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.600 and things are gonna be great. But now you're seeing 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.080 some of the things that played into the fact why 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.879 the Music City Miracle was able to happen. Bad lock management, 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.199 yelling at each other on defense. You go back and 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.520 watch the video and it's laughable because we see that 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.000 in games, and now it doesn't force you to call 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.240 time out, might be a busted play, might be a 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.760 little out of position, whatever, but your management is usually 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.360 a little bit better than that. So then we get 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.200 the Music City miracle and we get the home run 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.920 throwback and Frank white check throws it back to Kevin 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.040 Dyson who catches the lateral and goes seventy five yards 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.480 for a touchdown. Uh. I remember when this happened, watching 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.080 it live. I was producing uh sports for KBC here 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.960 in l A. We were going on the air after 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.320 the game was over and we had a big football 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.920 show going on. We're saying to ourselves, I'm like, man, 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.399 this is a terrible game. What the hell are we 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.560 gonna talk about? We got this, we got field goals. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.399 It's you know, it's all right, but we can talk 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.480 about it's a terrible game. But it's still the one 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.119 point game, right right, but still but it's like, okay, 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:54.800 you're looking for some kind of excitement. This has been 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.200 a crappy game. And then the Music City miracle happens 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.080 and Dyson goes in for a touchdown, and this all 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.600 kinds of questions, is the play? Is the play legal? 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.920 Are they gonna can they all go back and and 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.200 and look at there was all these different things that 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.720 we were wondering because it happens like, oh my god, really, 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.080 just take one throwback to the other side and and 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.000 Dicon goes all the way for a touchdown. Because that's 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.640 what that's what it came to me, was that we've 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.280 seen crazy plays before, and we've seen touch on. Look 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.600 the Dolphins touchdown to beat the Patriots on the on 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.919 the final play a couple of years ago. But you 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.159 see a lot of change of directions and and and 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.919 players moving, and then you get too many people on 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:36.480 one side of the field, and there's a couple of 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.960 blocks that are thrown. But this is after the play 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.960 change direction two or three times. This was just here's 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.280 a kick to white Check, who picks it up, throws 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.439 it across the field, and there's nobody there because Bills 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.120 have no one there and diceon. It's not like Dyson's 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.480 gotta run and make this incredible uh play, or there's 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.640 any more laterals. He's got a convoy all the way 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.320 to the end zone. So I'm like, how did that happen? 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.200 Did the Bills just think they were gonna go down 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.040 the field like zombies and and just and and the Titans, 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.800 we're gonna fall on the football. I mean, even if 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.400 you're staying in your lane on the kickoff team, which 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.199 is what you're supposed to do in a situation like this. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.480 Believe me, I was a kickoff team star in high school. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.200 And you've talked about it's really been on hands and everything. 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:18.760 I always stayed in my lane. I did not know 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:21.840 even if you stayed you're listening to LaVar Ball before 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.280 you knew, you were listening to lay in yo lane. 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.000 And even if you do that, you're gonna make a 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:28.720 play on Dipe. But there's nothing even close to a 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.680 play on Dison on this even close. No, He's able 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.560 to stroll straight in and it's it all just becomes 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.119 a You start arguing. He's like, well, we knew the 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.879