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

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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/
 
saturdaysarebetter said:
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/
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actually stats lie all the time
only fools think they tell the whole story
 
jwitten82 said:
Sure they lie if you have a small sample size, but Marino 10 seasons worth of playoffs to look at
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If you bother to do research and examine each game, you will then understand why your claims about stats are bogus
 
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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.
 
gtb1943 said:
actually stats lie all the time
only fools think they tell the whole story
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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.
 
Flamma said:
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.
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Wrong. I'm 62 and remember watching Marino play in person in high school.
 
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
 
the only dolphin team he played on worth a damn was the super bowl team of '84.
remove #13,and those other playoff dolphins don't even make the playoffs.
later on,even with keith jackson at te and keith byars as his rb,it was not enough to over come a bad defense.
for most of his time in miami...his oline and receivers were really good.
but he never played with a rb that did much of anything...and after the '84 team...name one defense he had that could stop a cold.
marino made the dolphins better than they were.
wish we had drafted him in '83.
 
saturdaysarebetter said:
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/
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Let's see....some bozo with 14 all-time posts decides to come on a Cowboy site to specifically bash Dan Marino

Bizarre

Agenda much?
 
Marino was one of the shooters on the grassy knoll too.

Oh, wait
 
sammy smith?
mark higgs?

they keep defenses up at night.
or were they the re-invention of butch cassidy and the sun dance kid and i just forgot?
 
gtb1943 said:
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
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Marino had one thousand yard rusher his entire career, and two midgets at WR. And no D.

How do people come up w/ the crapp?
 
Marino is easily top 10 all time. He's in the same convo w/ Brady and Montana. Can you imagine Marino w/ those great Pats Ds?
 
kskboys said:
Marino is easily top 10 all time. He's in the same convo w/ Brady and Montana. Can you imagine Marino w/ those great Pats Ds?
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Yep.
In my opinion its between him or Rodgers as the alltime purest/most highly gifted passers of a football.
 
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