WEBVTT - THE MUD BOWL 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.480 Welcome to Special Teams, a production of My Heart Radio 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.680 Greetings and Welcome inside Special Teams with Jason Smith and 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.880 Mike Harmon. Every week we look back at a specific 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.120 year in sports and some of the special teams that 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.360 made up that year. We're kind of on a weather 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.320 run right now. We had the Freezer Bowl that we 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.360 talked about previously on the podcast, the coldest game in 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:44.000 National Football League history, a f C champions game between 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:49.560 the Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals, won by the Bengals. Uh. Today, well, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.440 we're gonna do the Mud Bowl. One of the games 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.520 that is so incredibly, very near and dear to my heart, 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.360 the very famous two a f C Championship game him 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.560 between the Dolphins and the Jets, won by the Dolphins 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.919 fourteen nothing on a field filled with mud. It was ugly, 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.119 it was brutal. I mean, it was fun to run 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:12.959 around and slide and if you were seven years old. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.480 But the Dolphins go to the Super Bowl winning this 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.240 game a field that is absolutely filled with mud. And 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.280 you know, I'm gonna try to not go crazy during 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.160 a lot of this because boy, this game is almost 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.200 forty years old and I can still remember it like 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.520 it was yesterday. Yeah, but this is a game that 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.480 would have been, you know, probably one of your first 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.920 real sports memories for one of your teams, right as 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.720 young Jason Smith getting after it watching himself some playoff football, 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.160 you know, thinking, hey, my team's got a legit shot here, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.640 Richard Todd's gonna lead my team to greatness and to 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.920 watch the quagmire that the field became absolutely amazing. But 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.000 I mean, we all have those pieces of nostalgia and 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.200 look at thus mean that it's the result was always good, right. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.000 I mean, one of my favorite teams of all time 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.440 growing up in Chicago's the eighty three White Socks win 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.880 and ugly was the mantra. And then they went out 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.840 and got absolutely worked by the Baltimore Orioles and in 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.720 the playoffs, you know, and that's just the way it goes. So, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.360 you know, but you won't take away greg Lozinski hitting 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.120 the ball on the roof, Carlton Fist being the human 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.680 rain delay, and that starting rotation with Banister and brick 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.120 Burns and Richard Dotson. Uh. You had Dewey Lamar Hoyd 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.040 as your young winner and of course Rookie of the 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.880 Year Ron Kittle Okay, should we just do the white socks? 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.680 At some point you can get it all out? I mean, really, 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.240 can we just do the three white socks? But I 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.880 just thought, I just thought, I try to relate to 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.440 the people that, you know what, nostalgia and that moment 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.560 of awe doesn't always have to be, you know, the 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.320 greatest ending. You know, a loss can somehow still have 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.480 its effect on you. Yeah, well, obviously you'll find out 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.959 over the next half hour plus here. Uh So this 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.919 was the NFL playoffs during the strike. Yere If remember 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.600 we talked about the eight two strike in a previous podcast. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.240 UH teams were seated one through eight in each conference. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.960 Miami was the number two seed. The Jets were the 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.079 number six seed. Miami wins to get to the a 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.799 f C Championship Game. They host the Jets, who beat 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.480 the Bengals and the Raiders to get here. Now getting here. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.280 If you remember, if you listen to a previous Special 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.359 Teams podcast, Don Shula, head coach of the Miami Dolphins, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.480 was so incensed the Patriots allowed the snow plow on 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.440 the field UH to beat them three nothing in the 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.360 game earlier. Remember he was so upset. Oh, I can't 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.360 believe they allowed it. Annie actually talked to the NFL 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.000 about disallowing the victory to the Patriots. So it was cheating. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.120 It was cheating, and Don Shula was always on the 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.120 up and up, always on the up and up. Well, 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.480 there were torrential rings this week in Miami. And here's 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.640 the deal. The Jets had a high flying, well balanced offense. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.160 Right they had the leading rusher in the NFL and 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.280 Freeman McNeil. That had wide receiver Wesley Walker who was 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.360 a Pro bowler. Richard Todd was ranked third in the 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.360 a f C in passing. They played well in the playoffs, 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.360 they slept most of the sack exchange. On defense. I 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.599 mean this, I remember thinking, we're going to the Super Bowl. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.680 We are loaded. Everything is good. The offense is good. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.040 Richard Todd is when I still liked him, because obviously 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.400 after this game I didn't. But then they were loaded. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.280 This was it for the Jets. And the Jets were 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.360 built on offense and the Dolphins were built on defense 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.800 and running the football. I mean, Bob baum Howard was 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.159 Pro Bowl defensive tackle. This was the killer Bees defense 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.840 that the that the Dolphins had with Glenn and Lyle 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.039 Blackwood and Bomb Howard and Miami leading the NFL and 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.680 fewest yards allowed, fewest passing yards allowed. Believe it or not. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.880 In nine games in the regular season, Miami allowed a 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.760 thousand and twenty seven passing yards. In nine games, they 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.880 allowed just over a thousand yards passing. That is some 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.520 kind of defense. They were so good across the board. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.279 Their offense was run heavy Andrew Franklin and Tony Nathan 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.640 at running back. David Woodley was just okay, but he 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.800 was a mobile quarterback. Uh. They're passing attack was dead 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.160 last and their rushing attack was third. So what's the 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.040 best way to win this game? Boy? If only the 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.000 field could be really muddy. So no coverage of the 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.440 field happened. The field was not covered with a tarp, 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.479 which is against NFL rules. And the Jets and and 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.719 many NFL UH people go down and saying, well, Miami 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.920 Dolphins didn't cover the field. They're supposed to cover the 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.000 field because it needs to be in good playing condition. Well, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.360 how do you slow down an offense You make the 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.560 field really wet and full of mud. This tells me 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.039 the Dolphins knew they weren't gonna be able to beat 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.440 the Jets straight up. So let's have the field be 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.520 all muddy. And this was the great equalizer. If our 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.440 offense stinks throwing the football, guess what. Your offense is 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.800 gonna stay throwing the football too. So if we don't 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.240 cover the field, it rains for five days. Hey, good 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.520 luck trying to move the football up and down the field. See, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.440 I'm already worked up night. I'm already worked up on 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.800 this again, this thirty eight years go. I'm already worked 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.279 up about it. Yeah. But as you and I have 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.000 talked about so many years on our Fox Sports radio show, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.480 you can't fall to good strategy. So if you this 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.520 was gonna be the great equalizer, mother nature came on 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.040 your side to, uh say, hey, you know, let's vanquished 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.159 the Jets. Sorry, Uh, you know what, that's just the 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.520 way it's gonna go. I mean to your point that 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:28.040 the thousand yards you know, passing yardage against is really 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.880 just patently absurd. Now, part of it is you go 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:36.440 back and look at the the NFL during during that period, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.599 it was still three yards in a cloud of dust 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:44.520 for many teams. But that that is just impressive overall. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.080 I mean, just going back and and looking at some 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.520 of the data, and fortunately, through the power of the 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.640 inner webs, there's still some videotape that you can find 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.040 here through the uh well clipped off stuff from NFL films. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.760 Thanks but the giving us a little bit of a 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.080 look see into how these teams stacked up. Now, the 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.160 funny thing is, this mud Bowl was not what you 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.960 would think it is. If you didn't see the game, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.400 you would look and see highlights this and go, the 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.760 field really doesn't look that muddy. The players don't really 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.480 look that muddy. In fact, the outside parts of the 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.320 field look okay. Even the inside parts of the field 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.040 don't look that muddy. But the issue was you can 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.760 run straight ahead, and when you try to do that, 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.760 you can do okay, But can you cut back when 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.960 the field is as muddy as it is. You couldn't 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.160 do it in the middle of the field. And certainly 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.720 you've seen other mud games where players jerseys you can't 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.400 even tell who they are. This was about the heavy rain. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.480 This is about the slickness of the field. And really 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.880 we did not see a lot of teams being able 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.040 to hold onto the football. We didn't see a lot 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.080 of offense. We saw one incredibly great play that, unfortunately, 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.600 I will see in my head every day the rest 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.160 of my life. But really, the surprising thing to me 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.160 is that when you look at the field, he's saying, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.200 it really doesn't look that bad like you expect it 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.320 to look a lot work. But still the teams that 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.080 they just couldn't stay upright, They couldn't hold onto the football, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.800 they couldn't make plays outside. And that's one thing I 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.600 was always helping is that, well, eventually they're gonna run 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.080 a play outside, right, someone's gonna do something. But no, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.480 everything was still in the middle of the field and 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.560 the team. Neither team could move the ball up and 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.440 down and be able to do anything more than anything 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.720 straight ahead, whether it was a run play or a pass. Yeah, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.520 I mean you talk about the play you've alluded to 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:30.440 several times. I mean the footing certainly had something to 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.560 do with how that worked too. I mean, the the 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.920 overhead looks like all right, uh, the unnatural green, no 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.280 question about that. On the grass, but you got the 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.599 patches right. You can see It's not that it's necessarily 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.400 giant puddles, but it's just enough as guys try to 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.360 make their their cuts. It's it's just not working and 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.040 trying to get to the edge. It was gonna be 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.640 a no go. You watched the receivers in some of 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.760 the clips as you go back, just tiptoeing their route 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.280 knowing that their legs are gonna slide out from under them. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.439 Not exactly a way to run a height, high octane 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.080 passing offense for Richard Todd and company. And you know, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.040 one funny thing about this before you get to the 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.000 game is like I talked about, you know this staying 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.920 with me for years. It was like in two thousand 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.559 and eight, two thousand nine something like that, Don Shula 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.400 did an interview in in New York radio for something 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.839 I forget why he did it, and the person of 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.000 the interview with I think was Marty Lyons, who was 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.160 a former Jet defensive lineman who played in this game. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.000 And one of the things he did, of course, was 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.520 bring up the mudball and don't Jula And don't Jula 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.559 is like it was thirty years ago. Let it go, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.719 Let it go. He started laughing, just saying let it go. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.120 It's like, no, no, the losses stay with you. The 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.199 games like this stay with you. Yeah. No, And obviously, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.120 if you're the coach Uh, you know, you got away 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.040 with one here and when when you want to bring 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.079 up integrity and legacies and all of that, and certainly 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.839 we do it on the show and across sports Chok 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.240 radio and sports television, when whenever we talk about the Patriots, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.839 you you have to talk about the asterisks, double asterisks 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.360 and different spots along the way. Don Shula doesn't get 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.040 a pass for this one. And the Dolphins management, for 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.400 all the great things you can say about them, this 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.280 one still becomes the well, let's at least have a debate. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.319 Should they play regardless of weather? Right? Should they shouldn't 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.160 be incumbent upon them to to put the tarp out? 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.320 You know which side of yacht. It's like, you know, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.240 growing up in Chicago, I said, you know, rain, sleet, snow, fog, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.400 that's all part of Chicago Bears lore. So I just 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.360 kind of shrugged my shoulders and say, play on. But 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.640 when the guys had the push brooms out before the 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.640 game to try to get some extra water off, maybe 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.719 we could have taken better care of the field. So 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.360 we've set the stage for you for the mud and 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.880 the rain, and coming up next we'll break it all 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.760 down and the play that will live for her in 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:20.800 NFL history. This is special teams. So the Jets and 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:25.000 Dolphins were set for AFC Championship game amidst the rain 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.760 and the mud in Miami, and you knew right away 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.240 this was gonna be a really ugly game. Okay, first possession, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.360 Richard Todd, Jets quarterback who I had such a love 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.880 hate relationship with because when he was on he was great, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.600 and when he was off he was terrible. He throws 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.240 into double coverage, he gets picked off. All right, It's like, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.160 oh boy, here we are starting already. Next play, Miami 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.839 gives the football back. David Woodley gets picked off. This 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.079 is how the game went. This was how both of 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:55.319 the game went. Second quarter, David Woodley, quarterback of the Dolphins, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.280 had a seventeen yard gain on a run that was 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.520 the longest run the day by either team. That's all 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.240 you need to know. The team's traded turnovers in the 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.600 first half. Miami could have scored near halftime, but after 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.080 a block punt, Woodley got picked off again. It was 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.000 just a crazy day and and maybe no better footage 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.600 to be seen in this game, because I still remember 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.480 this as much as a j Dewey. Who we're gonna 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.640 get to is that the Jets punter was a guy 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.360 named Chuck Ramsey. And you've seen punter's punt with their 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:30.080 cleats on, and you've seen barefooted kickers, Right, Chuck Ramsey 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.040 punted wearing a sock. Well, you know, I guess there 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.520 everybody has their thing, but he was he would punk 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.319 wearing a sock. And to watch him walk around this 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.240 field with a mud filled sock, I'm like, it's like 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.400 when you were if you go out and play outside 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.040 and your socks get all filled with snow and stuff 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:47.960 and you come inside going, oh my god, it's just 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.800 flopping around on the carpet. I can't wait to get 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.080 him off. This guy's punting wearing a sock. He would 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:56.480 get That's the worst feeling in the world. Wet socks. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.400 Then you're gonna get You're gonna get sick, or you're 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.839 gonna get a rash or Yeah no, it's not good. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.960 It's bad, bad job by him. But you know what, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.880 if he was comfortable with it, you know, all power 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.960 to him. I mean that's what it was. You watch 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.440 players slip around in the first half, you watch players 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.959 have trouble holding onto the football and the mud bowl, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.559 and its legend was just beginning to grow. Right. We 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.480 get to the third quarter of a scoreless game, and 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.560 I admit watching this game. Look, I'm I'm I'm not 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.160 even a teenager yet, and I know this is not 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.280 gonna end well for the Jets. I know because they 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.240 can't do anything. This is playing into the Dolphins hands, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.480 who were good defensively. This was our great offense and 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.160 they couldn't do anything. The Dolphins finally dent the scoreboard 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.400 in the third quarter after a couple of ridiculous things. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:47.360 The Dolphins have the football. Tony Nathan Good, running back 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.400 in the Dolphins, fumbled, but he was ruled down to 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.320 the Dolphins keep the football. Then Woodley completes the path 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.160 to Duriel Harris, which, okay, they're getting close to field 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.840 goal range. But then Darryl Ray, Jets defensive back, argues 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.640 about the completion so much he gets a fifteen yard penalty. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.920 Argues with the right, I'm gonna give you another fifteen 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.440 yards to get close to the end zone. What are 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.000 you doing? Why are you argue? He argues so much 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.880 he gets a fifteen yard penalty that puts the ball 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.319 on the seven yard line. And on the next play, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.800 would he Bennett ex Jet former Jet? Would he Bennett 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.280 goes in from seven yards out? Miami's up seven nothing. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:24.920 And I tell you, Mike, at this point, I knew 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.200 the game was over. I saw we're never gonna score. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.360 It said they could be playing the game now forty 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.200 years later, the Jets would still have no points. But 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.400 I knew seven nothing the game was over. Well, and 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.000 that was the thing is as you go back and 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.000 watch as much highlights as you can and go through 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.480 the box score, like you're you're not getting any long 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.120 protracted drives. I mean, the numbers are anemic, to say 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.160 the least. When you look at you mentioned Nathan seven, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.520 Garry's twenty four yards, not like you're, you know, making 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.920 any big plays, big cuts because on contact, your your 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.200 feet are coming out from under you. And you saw 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.680 that on every run. It's like a just secure the 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.520 ball and go down and live to see another play. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:11.080 And yes, seven seven points certainly seemed insurmountable at that point, unbelievable. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.360 It's seven nothing going to the fourth quarter. But okay, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.880 you know, maybe there's some hope. Maybe you're thinking, maybe 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.440 maybe the Jets have not been able to hold onto 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.360 the football all day. Richard Todd would wind up throwing 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.000 five interceptions in this game. Okay, wood Lee through three, 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.360 Todd through five, teams were fumbling. It was it was crazy. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.960 The Dolphins fumbled the ball three times. It's still seven nothing, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.920 and then the play happens that again, I will be 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.240 seeing in my head for the rest of my life. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.560 The Jets trying to move the football down the field 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:49.320 and a J. Dewey, who already has two interceptions. This 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.480 a J. Dewey pick and pick six that clinches the 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.080 game for the Dolphins at fourteen nothing. The worst part 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.040 of this play was, as you see this developed, you 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.680 know what's gonna end awful for the Jets. Okay, it's 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.840 a screen pass where he's trying to get it out 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.000 to Bruce Harper and Richard Todd just locks in on 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.720 Harper where the entire Dolphins defense is crashing the line 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.760 of scrimmage and Todd do no matter what. A J. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.720 Dewey is in his face and he still tries to 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.520 throw it up in the air. A J. Dewey leaps up, 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.480 kind of deflects it comes down with it runs into 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.200 the end zone. I see him running with the ball 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.720 in his left hand, looking at his teammates, going, come 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.280 celebrate with me, Come celebrate with me. It's fourteen nothing, 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.000 and then I know, really the game is over. But 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.840 even if Dewey doesn't catch it. I mean, let's say 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.800 it goes over A. J. Dewey's head, which it didn't. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.480 If Dewey doesn't catch it, Ernest Roan would have because 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.600 he comes all the way and he's right on on 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.640 Bruce Harper, the running back as well, so he's gonna 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.680 catch it and go in for a touchdown. This play 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.280 is so bad and I can't it over how Richard 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.880 Todd through the football. I mean, this is where you're 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.960 look and go, oh, this is not working. I'm gonna either, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:57.760 you know, fall down or try to run up the 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.840 middle of the field and get something because this play 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.040 is clearly not working. But nope, I'm gonna throw the 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.520 football anyway. Yeah. I've watched that from several angles, Uh, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.760 every camera angle, every opportunity, rubbing my eyes and trying 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.200 to figure out exactly what the hell he saw. Uh, 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.160 you saw Marvin Powell the right tackle fift Yer guy 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.560 out of USC Uh do we pretty much just thrown 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.800 him to the ground because his feet came out from under, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.840 which is why he's wide open to to leap into 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:32.400 the well in in front of Richard Todd's pass. Uh 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.879 you mentioned on the outside. Even if that ball doesn't 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.560 get intercepted, it's still a miserable decision. I mean, there's 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.560 just there's nothing there. There's two defenders, one receiver, oh, 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:49.080 and A J. Dewey in between them. So I it's 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.720 mind boggling. It's one of those things you and I 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.119 text back and forth on football Sundays when there's a 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.720 play like that. I believe you have reference A J. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:03.000 Dewey so many times, so many time. If we played 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.639 a drinking game training you and I. I mentioned some 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.560 bad decisions and balls picked up the line of scrimmage. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:15.840 Uh wow, that would just be obliteration. But just a 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:19.200 horrid decision on what was a series of bad decisions. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.280 And look, a couple of the interceptions their tip balls, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.159 but unfortunately, unfortunately they count against you. It's not like 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.640 they don't know the balls tipped down over, down, over 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.040 down over. No. But but at the point being right, 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.720 not that well thrown balls. And we do this every 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.600 week as well, like it goes on the quarterback gotta 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.040 throw a better ball. The guy's open, he hits his hands, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.080 Yes he should catch it, but you know what slippery 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.199 wet football, bad footing, trying to keep your footing, the 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.720 concentration of that, not to mention you're about to get 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.640 blown up because this guy has now stretched you out. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:54.880 All of that means the ball is coming off your 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.520 fingers and going up in the air for the waiting 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.480 defensive back to come flying in. And I just saw 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.240 in this game as well, you know, And the one 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.040 solace I have is that if a j Dewey doesn't 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.679 make that play, it doesn't matter because the Jets don't score. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.600 So it's you know, the game has a signature play. 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.080 It's one of the biggest signature plays in NFL history, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.399 So it's got that. So but the only thing I 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.240 wouldn't have to see it. What else are they gonna 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.720 show from this game? If it's just Richard Todd incomplete, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.320 here's the muddy field, here's how bad the conditions were. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.719 The Dolphins win seven nothing, and that would have been 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.359 in but I knew the Jets weren't going to score anyway. 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.840 It was just one of those. It was just fruitless 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.199 to why. It's like running the air conditioner with the 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.440 door open, all right, no matter what you do, if 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.600 you're not gonna get the room cooler, right, That was 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.600 what the Jets did, and the Jets didn't threaten. They 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.960 lose fourteen nothing. The Dolphins go to the Super Bowl, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.040 and here are the numbers that are gonna wow you. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.960 This is the mud Bowl. Okay. The Jets had ten 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.320 first downs in the entire game. Miami had thirteen. Richard 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.040 Todd was fifteen out of thirty seven for a hundred 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.840 and three yards and five picks. David David Woodley, the 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.240 winning quarterback, through for eighty seven yards and three interceptions. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.480 That's how bad it was. A j Dewey was for 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.000 not look this game. This is like I bet he 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.359 you know, I would watch it every day. He lined 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.040 up at six different positions. He was all over the field. Look, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.200 Miami's defense was incredible. When you put make the field 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:22.800 like the of course, this is how it's gonna go. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.200 The team's combined for nine turnovers and nineteen punts. I mean, 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.240 really that nine turnovers in this game. You take it, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.439 you take it over. Here's one time where the Dolphins 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:33.920 are able to get down the field and then the A. J. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.479 Dewey play happens. This was so difficult to watch. It 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.800 was so difficult to see and and look as you 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.119 mentioned that, you know, the water being squeegeed off the field, 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.440 and and how rough it was. I just keep going 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.119 back of all the worst losses in Jets history, I 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:50.879 go back, this is one of the top two. This 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.120 or the eighty six. Lots of the browns though those 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.439 are really really bad losses, but this is the one 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.920 I think of, and go, man, I get what they 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.200 say when athletes and coaches, everybody, you know, the winds 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.640