The seven myths as to why Dan Marino never won a Super Bowl

[saturdaysarebetter]

In the regular season, he was good enough to beat the '85 Bears. However, in the post-season, he couldn't beat the '85 Patriots - at home - in Miami - and was badly outplayed by the great Tony Eason. Check out his performances in all the Dolphins' post-season losses. No defense? He was drafted by a team that was just in the Super Bowl. Do you think David Woodley's passing got them there or was it the Killer B's defense?

No running game? Another myth. Plenty of examples of teams that won a Super Bowl with far less of a running game than Marino had in Miami. What was the excuse at Pitt? Bobby Bowden said that Pitt's 1980 team was the greatest college football team he ever saw. Maybe check how Marino played in big games. Zero rings at every level. Stats don't lie.

https://johnbaranowski.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/the-seven-myths-about-dan-marino/

 

[gtb1943]

In the regular season, he was good enough to beat the '85 Bears. However, in the post-season, he couldn't beat the '85 Patriots - at home - in Miami - and was badly outplayed by the great Tony Eason. Check out his performances in all the Dolphins' post-season losses. No defense? He was drafted by a team that was just in the Super Bowl. Do you think David Woodley's passing got them there or was it the Killer B's defense?

No running game? Another myth. Plenty of examples of teams that won a Super Bowl with far less of a running game than Marino had in Miami. What was the excuse at Pitt? Bobby Bowden said that Pitt's 1980 team was the greatest college football team he ever saw. Maybe check how Marino played in big games. Zero rings at every level. Stats don't lie.

https://johnbaranowski.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/the-seven-myths-about-dan-marino/

actually stats lie all the time
only fools think they tell the whole story

 

[jwitten82]

actually stats lie all the time
only fools think they tell the whole story

Sure they lie if you have a small sample size, but Marino 10 seasons worth of playoffs to look at

 

[gtb1943]

Sure they lie if you have a small sample size, but Marino 10 seasons worth of playoffs to look at

If you bother to do research and examine each game, you will then understand why your claims about stats are bogus

 

[jwitten82]

If you bother to do research and examine each game, you will then understand why your claims about stats are bogus

Dont come for me, if I aint send for you!!!!

 

[gtb1943]

Dont come for me, if I aint send for you!!!!

do it to them before they do it to you!

 

[saturdaysarebetter]

It's not hard to see which quarterbacks raised their game in the post-season as compared to their regular season career quarterback rating.

Did you see Marino's performances in each of the Dolphins' playoff losses? He was putrid on many occasions.

How did he fare at Pitt in big games when he had one of the greatest teams around him???? No one answers that one.

Quite a large sample size equating to ZERO rings at EVERY level.

 

[Flamma]

actually stats lie all the time
only fools think they tell the whole story

I have a feeling the author of this piece isn't old enough to have watched the games. He's just going by stats. I could be wrong. Thinking back, '84 was the last year I thought Miami had a team good enough to go to a SB. When they drafted Marino, the team's best years were behind them. In '85 the Dolphins barely beat the 8-8 Browns in the playoffs. They were down 21-3 in the 4th. Had the Raiders not fumbled away the game to the Patriots the previous week, they would have destroyed Miami.

 

[saturdaysarebetter]

I have a feeling the author of this piece isn't old enough to have watched the games. He's just going by stats. I could be wrong. Thinking back, '84 was the last year I thought Miami had a team good enough to go to a SB. When they drafted Marino, the team's best years were behind them. In '85 the Dolphins barely beat the 8-8 Browns in the playoffs. They were down 21-3 in the 4th. Had the Raiders not fumbled away the game to the Patriots the previous week, they would have destroyed Miami.

Wrong. I'm 62 and remember watching Marino play in person in high school.

 

[Flamma]

Wrong. I'm 62 and remember watching Marino play in person in high school.

That's great, but how old is the guy that actually wrote the piece?

 

[gtb1943]

The Miami Dolphins had weaknesses that proved fatal in the playoffs.

History is replete with examples: all the Minnesota Viking losses in the late sixties into the seventies. The 90's Buffalo Bills are not really on that list since a missed very makeable FG is what meant 0-4 but three of those losses were not close. Before the Combination of Elway and Terrel Davis, the Bronco's lost SB after SB.
Whoever wrote this article was a typical stats fanatic who think stats are all that matter.

and to top it off the Dallas Cowboys have had teams that failed in the playoffs again and again.

The article writer thinks its all about the QB and that is about as dumb as it gets