Hell the 17-7 loss to Tennessee on a Saturday (hurricane pushed the game up a day) where Jay Fiedler was benched at halftime in favor of AJ Feeley was another nut-puncher.
Any game that Feeley played in was a nut-puncher.
Hell the 17-7 loss to Tennessee on a Saturday (hurricane pushed the game up a day) where Jay Fiedler was benched at halftime in favor of AJ Feeley was another nut-puncher.
Any game that Feeley played in was a nut-puncher.
Losing 8 straight to the Jets between 1998 and 2002 was a major pie in the face to the franchise. All the losses seemed to have some embarrassing quality like blown leads, Fiedler pick 6's, Ray Lucas, defensive meltdowns, Bernie Parmalee, Bryan Cox, Mike Westhoff all getting revenge, playoff chances squandered, etc....Those losses and an inability to explain them started to make me think the Zach Thomas/Jason Taylor defenses just weren't that clutch.
You guys have included probably my top 5 in there above, but 2003 was a bad year with two games already above from this list. Here's one that has always bugged me:
Colts 27, Miami 17 (from 2003)
I will go down as one of those who always hated Jay Fiedler and Dave Wannstedt. Throughout those years, I was always looking for someone, ANYONE to replace Fiedler and give us a shot. The talent on those teams was so good, outside of quarterback (and coaching), it's terrible we won just one playoff game during that time.
Wannstedt seemed to HATE anything that reminded the fans of the team's glory years, and Brian Griese represented the worst of that. It felt like Wannstedt would handcuff anyone who might have any shot at replacing Fiedler. In Griese's first game as a starter, replacing the oft-injured Fiedler, he led the team to an impressive win vs. the Chargers. This Colts game, vs. Peyton Manning, was his second game. Down by just 6, Buckley picked off Manning and gave us the ball at the 15 with under 3 minutes to play. With our defense, if we score 7 there, we probably win that game, giving Griese an impressive 2-0 start with us, making it harder for Fiedler to come back when healthy. But on second down from the 13, Freeney comes around untouched to sack Griese and force the fumble, giving the ball back to the Colts, who just ran out the clock. I always thought that maybe, just maybe, if we win that game, maybe we can finally rid ourselves of the Fiedler curse that had held back the team for almost 4 years...I guess the next year the wheels came off and we finally managed to get rid of him, but by then the damage was done and the team spiraled down out of control for the next decade...
I know Brian didn't play that well for us overall, but I always felt that as the quarterback who preceded Tom Brady at Michigan, and who took them to an undefeated national championship, that perhaps with the right coaching, he could have been a better pro. As it was, his overall stats are still superior to Fiedler's...but I suppose that wasn't hard to do...even Damon Huard's career stats are superior to Jay's...
Minnesota, 2003. Culpepper sneaks on 4th to keep the drive alive and the kicker wins it as time expires. Oh yeah, and Chris carter had the worst game of his career against his former team and cost us the game.
The very next week..... NE 2003. I wont even go here because I still tend to rant when I get going about this game. This one is the worst.
Texans, 2008. I remember screaming "sneak!! Sneak!!!" at the tv. David carr RUNS in the gw td as our defense parts like the red sea.
2007 vs pats. This one was just so damn ugly that it scarred me as a fin fan. Brady was literally just tossing the ball downfield and Moss was catching it over our guys like he was playing ****ing vs his kids. It was humiliating. And to make matter worse we were all terribly worried about 19-0. Thank you Giants.
2015 green bay packers. The timeout by philbin when they were scrambling and probably gonna have a bad play. The fumble recovery that didnt happen. The fake spike. Smh. Everyone in the damn stadium knew that Rodgers was going to throw it to quarless. He even stopped and pointed to him and nodded. Wheeler knew it was coming and fast and still could do nothing to stop it. Good riddance wheeler.
Good thing we're not includong playoff games because I've got a couple doozies.....well I guess we all do.
1997 season: Week 16 Sun Dec 14 1997 at Indianapolis 41, Miami 0
Back to back games in the 97 season. The first I attended with high hopes of clinching AFC East title against the woeful 2-12 Colts. What followed was the most embarrassing game I ever attended. Left in the 3rd quarter after the Colts scored to start the second half. Knew it was over. Never even competed in that game. It was a long drive home.
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The worst 5 game regular season stretch for me was in 1989
1989 season: Week 12 Sun Nov 26 1989 at Mia Pittsburgh 34, Miami 14
1989 season: Week 13 Sun Dec 3 1989 at KC Kansas City 26, Miami 21
1989 season: Week 14 SnN Dec 10 1989 at Mia Miami 31, New England 10
1989 season: Week 15 Sun Dec 17 1989 at Ind Indianapolis 42, Miami 13
1989 season: Week 16 Sun Dec 24 1989 at Mia Kansas City 27, Miami 24
After beating the Cowboys on Thanksgiving day and having the best record in football at 9-2 the Dolphins lost the next 5 to miss the playoffs and endure one of the worst collapses in NFL history. That was brutal.
The loss to Green Bay in Miami about 3 or 4 years ago. Philip F'king Wheeler matched against their TE.
We had played pretty well but Aaron Rodgers shredded us in the final minute to come from behind. This was the game that fully exposed the shortcomings of Joe Philbin's coaching. Poor time management. Poor positional matchups. Old Joe was close in this game but he didn't know how to win it.