This has always bothered me...

[Wrangler87]

"The most successful coaching stop for Phillips was at Buffalo. He always kept the team competitive and in the playoff hunt. A loss to the Titans in the 1999 playoffs haunted Phillips for the rest of his time at Buffalo. In this same season he caused a controversy when he inserted Rob Johnson as starting quarterback after Doug Flutie led the team to the playoffs"



This goes down as one of the worst decisions in NFL history in my opinion. I remember this like it was yesterday. Flutie had practically revived the Bills season, coming off the bench when Rob Johnson got hurt. Johnson became healthy just at the start of the playoffs, and Phillips inexplicably decided to start Rob Johnson instead of Flutie, to many people's dismay. The Bills lost the Music City Miracle" in a game that may not have been so close if Flutie had continued starting. Many people though it was done due to the money differential between Johnson (high dollar) and Flutie (not so high).

 

[dargonking999]

As much as the fans hate it, Flutie was a back up QB, and most likely mangement told him, that he had to start Johson for the playoffs, since they were paying him millions of dollars to do that exact thing.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

"The most successful coaching stop for Phillips was at Buffalo. He always kept the team competitive and in the playoff hunt. A loss to the Titans in the 1999 playoffs haunted Phillips for the rest of his time at Buffalo. In this same season he caused a controversy when he inserted Rob Johnson as starting quarterback after Doug Flutie led the team to the playoffs"



This goes down as one of the worst decisions in NFL history in my opinion. I remember this like it was yesterday. Flutie had practically revived the Bills season, coming off the bench when Rob Johnson got hurt. Johnson became healthy just at the start of the playoffs, and Phillips inexplicably decided to start Rob Johnson instead of Flutie, to many people's dismay. The Bills lost the Music City Miracle" in a game that may not have been so close if Flutie had continued starting. Many people though it was done due to the money differential between Johnson (high dollar) and Flutie (not so high).

In the end, it didn't really matter whether Johnson or Flutie played, Buffalo was in a position to win that game but Phillips decided to play conservative and kicked early, leaving time on the clock, and the rest is history.