Bledsoe & Marino EPIC Opening Day Duel! (Patriots vs. Dolphins, 1994)
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Check out the 1994 Week 1 game highlights between the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins!
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People born after 1993 probably have no idea how great Dan Marino was. Arguably the greatest thrower of the football in NFL history. Drew Bledsoe, was a really good franchise level quarterback who just happened to come before the guy many consider the greatest ever.
Phillip, I agree... probably the greatest pure-passer ever. Marino was as good as they come... too bad he ran into Montana and the 9ers or he would have had a ring...
Bledsoe is a good bridge QB at best He is so trash compared to Brady
@@causeoriginal8627 Bledsoe was equivalent to Stafford
You guys are comical. The NFL became a "passing league" after 2004 when the rule changes set in. Marino has the best arm ever and Bledsoe was actually a good QB
Hey man DON SHULA was a great HC but the one mistake he made during Marino and FINS return to glory in the 90's was this,He just could not let go of the one F'N guy wrecking the DOLPHINS and MARINO'S chance at another SB appearance and if u are a die hard FIN fan at that time then u probably know who I'm talking about!!yep,TOM OLIVIDOTTI their DC!!They had the pcs,just didnt have the guy to get them their!!between 90-95,those squads were loaded with good to very good players AND yes on BOTH sides of the ball!!They had a LB'r capable of double digit sacks EVERY yr if he was used right!!BRYAN COX was very underrated and a spark plug !!TIM BOWENS was a BEAST,PERIOD!!another VERY UNDERRATED PLAYER!!TROY VINCENT was a good corner who could have been GREAT but STILL ranks in top 5 CB's in MIAMI history,give or take a couple spots but definately in our top 10!!SS LOUIS OLIVER was a solid,hard hitting play maker that held that position down nicely!!I liked DG but I always thought he coulda played better,but not a bad player,but nothing special either and DE coulda been upgraded cuz COLEMAN kinda sucked and not sure if OFFERDAHL was still playing much into the 90's but boy was he GOOD,probably put him right behind ZACH THOMAS!!so there was definately a decent D and EVERY yr waiting for this guy to lose his job and NOPE!!SHULAS loyalty and STUBBORNESS ruined DAN MARINOS shot for at the very least,gettin back to the SB And really we can say 90-95 with the exclusion of 93 for MARINO's injury,they had a legit shot at gettin back there and with THAT D in both 92 and 94 probably woulda got one for him,but it was ALWAYS same ol D that would collapse in the 2nd half of the season and i f2ff would then be MARINO,MARINO,MARINO,its a shame,not more fans realize just how close DAN and our FINS got to not only getting there but a decent shot at winning a SB!!
Dan Marino, in the mud, with two bad knees, a visibly atrophied leg from a torn Achilles, with a D-lineman baring down on him: Can't touch this.
Dolphins need to bring back those uniforms and the dolphin logo wearing a helmet.
You got that right! Even the Jimmy Johnson era logo and unis are far better than the current uniforms. PLEASE change them back, especially since it appears Miami is on the way back to winning ways.
@@tombstone1111 Lol not this year they aren't, better luck next year.
Yeah because their current uniforms and logo, suck.
I loved the 90's Pats.... Bledsoe, Martin, Law, Slade and Coates was a beast.
Robert Edwards was sad he was gonna replace curtis Martin
@@ericsigersmith2831 Edwards looked great. I think he injured himself playing football in the Hawaiian sands when he made the Pro Bowl.
T.Glenn,L.Milloy...Bruschi,McGinnest
Some of these passes Dan threw give me goose bumps. No one throws like he does in the nfl right now.
That quick release is legendary. You could be a D lineman smelling his jersey up close and he will move his arm from his side and throw a 50 yard frozen rope before you could lay your first finger on him. Closest quick release I've seen is maybe Peyton Manning? but he had more wind up
The release is impressive but so is the accuracy and arm strength. The pass at 5:24 is just crazy. 40 yards on a line all the receiver had to do was put his arms out and it was right in the bread basket lol
@@beetertruk88 you're preaching to the choir. I could go on and on about his arm strength and accuracy but I just wanted to mention one thing I saw that you don't really ever see which is that quick release. I could see some folks who never saw Marino play try to argue about Rodgers arm strength and Bradys accuracy over Marino for example. yada yada yada. I would just laugh if any one tries to compare Marinos quick release to anyone before or after him.
@Craig Adams Just tell them Marino threw 48 TD's and 5084yds in 1984 and that would be like 62 TD's and 6000yds nowadays. Also it took 23 years for someone to break that TD mark.
Nobody would have broken Marino's records if they had to play under the same rules he did oh my imagine Marino playing under today's rules were everything is pass interference he would absolutely destroy the nfl.
As A lifelong Patriots fans, this is one of their only losses I don't mind rewatching.
Same, just to watch the great Dan Marino do his thing.
This season was pretty much the start of the change in fortunes. Kraft came in to save the team from being moved to St Louis, the Patriots finished 10-6 to make the playoffs losing to Belichicks Browns and would go on to make it again in 1996 (making the super bowl),97, and 1998 then the rest is history
Because a star was born in Drew Bledsoe, and another in Ben Coates.
I like rewatching Super Bowl 52 tbh, talk about a shootout.. Eagles may have won, but that was Tom's greatest offensive performance in any Super Bowl he has played.
@@greysonG10 Brady should have won Superbowl MVP even in the loss
I wish Marino couldve got at least 1 ring ....most casuals just over look him in goat talk because of him not winning a ring...this dude was easily a top 5 all time qb if not #1
Marino could've came back in 2000 for the Dolphins, but after that embarrassing loss to the Jaguars that's when he decided to quit. And the sad part about that 2000 season, the Dolphins had a top 5 defense that season and it continued till at least 2002 under Dave Wannstatt.
@@BSmokeyGaming That's true but Marino was cooked, in 99 he had an atrocious season and lot of Dolphins fans want him benched. Marino deserved a ring but back in the 80's he never had a decent defense and in the 90's he never had a decent running game.
I watched plenty of Marino in the 90's. Guy was the real deal. A shame he ran into those early 90's Bills team.
those people dont understand that rings are given to great teams not necessarily great players. Montana beat Marino when Montana had the better team in the 84 season and Marino beat Montana when he had the better team in the 94 season.
@Brian Mcminn It's kinda hard to argue that these days when most folks never even saw him play live. It was hard back then with Montana but to me there was only 1 Marino and there may never be another
I bet Ace Ventura could find out who stole the middle of the field.
Drew Bledsoe is the reason I became a Patriots fan & growing up Dan Marino was my favorite quarterback..
He was real slow though
@@ericsigersmith2831 okay and still was a great qb brady slow also
@@telisahampton8135 Bledsoe had a habit of holding onto the ball too long which resulted in him getting sacked alot. He was basically a statue in the pocket. Brady is slow too, yes. But he pretty much atleast move and has a quicker release time
@@ultimatebeing2348 that true but he did lead new England to two Superbowl before Brady came along even tho lost both he had a great coach bill parcells
@@telisahampton8135 cap, he only led them to one superbowl in 1996, Bledsoe was on the patriots from 93-01 [i think] It was not bledsoe who led them to the superbowl in 85, it was someone else
Bledsoe was a baller that gets overlooked in history since we all know who took his job.
Who ?....
I believe he was better than the next guy. He got shelved.
Absolutely. Drew was fire every bit the franchise guy you want. Coates was borderline unstoppable. After ‘97 the whole franchise became a comedy of errors. Parcells bailed, they made some of the stupidest personnel decisions I’ve ever seen couldn’t draft for shit. Whole team just fell apart. They squandered away Bledsoe’s prime years. He shoulda gone down as one of the best he had the tools to do it.
$100 million contract tells the story
Yes agree
I can't believe it's been 25 years since I watched this game on TV! Dan Marino and Don Shula, Drew Bledsoe and Bill Parcells, names I grew up with. Jim Lampley and the late, Todd Christensen on the call for NBC, live from Joe Robbie stadium.... Ahhh, memories! Back when the NFL was still the NFL. I wish NBC and the NFL would have some fun, and broadcast a few games like they did years ago, being this is the 100th season of the NFL. Games without CG first down lines, only flashing the score card once someone scores a TD or FG. C'mon NFL, give us a couple of retro games!
Watched this on TV in Miami?
Jim lampley does only boxing. Well, he did football, also.
@@hectorlopez1069 Probably because he gets that HBO/Showtime money now!
Willie McGuiness a rookie!
Damn now you have to do the 1994 Vikes-Pats game where Bledsoe attempted a record 70 passes in a huge comeback win over Warren Moon. Plus in 1994 Fox kept the scoreboard on the screen all the time, so that one might be a bit easier to follow lol
Should have shown it last year when the pats did play the Vikings
That game is uploaded here on youtube just look up pats vs vikings 94
King Kong Aint Got Shit On Me I know I’ve watched it but it’s not as good as the league itself posting it, which draws huge attention
Yeah, the "Fox Box". Critics called it a stupid idea and said it would never work
As a Dolphins fan living in MA, I got to see Bledsoe a bit. Great QB, but even better guy. But my Patriots friends would say who ever had such an incredible season in only their 2nd year? I'd smile and say, don't look up Dan's stats from '84....
Ah the good old days when players got muddy and social media wasn’t a thing
Domes ruined the nfl
Great times.
Here we go, love these 80s/90s games.
It good to see the NFL from the past.
Domes ruined the NFL
Ben Coates was a beast then so was a young Bledsoe. But nobody was beating Danny on his comeback day.
11:07 Marino was the master at side stepping lineman look how he loads up and waits before he does it here
Marino:im about to end this man whole career
That throw was amazing!
I was going to say the same. What a throw!!!
How does he move so nimbly with such huge balls of steel?
This was on NFL network a few months ago and was hoping it would be uploaded! Thanks Throwback!
I was 14 in 94 and played fantasy for the first time. Marino was my 1st pick everyone thought I was crazy bc he was coming off injury and old but boy did he prove me rt and how. Wada an opening weekend. He was a stat machine. Took Sterling Sharpe with 2nd pick and went ahead and won the league. Thanks fellas. Two Legends.
I was at this game great game can't believe it was 25 years ago
I love that these uploads usually are themed. Pats & Dolphins play each other this week and the Dolphins here had Mark Ingram Sr. and just played against Ingram Jr. last week.
I wish that the Dolphins still played like that.
"You talk about heart! You talk about championship courage! You talk about a will to win! A flame burns in that man, Dan Marino!" - Jim "Mad Dog" Mandich
I remember this game like it was yesterday. I was cursing the existence of the Florida Marlins for the muddy infield dirt. “Dan’s gonna hurt his knee again!”
It was his Achilles tendon, but yes, I felt the same way. Even watching this today, 25 years later, I had to stifle some anxiety about him reinjuring himself. I spent half this video watching his footwork to make sure he was ok. What a weird feeling. I miss being this emotionally invested in the Dolphins.
@@robpreston5692 Marino had already had a couple of knee surgeries by this point too.
@@bjchit could hardly walk. Hence why they used so much shotgun.
Marion a legend. Bledsoe had such a strong arm too. Nice throwback.
I miss those days. 24 years later we are still searching for our franchise QB
John beck byu?
I had Fryar, Bledsoe, Marino and Coates in my Draft Kings lineup that day.
Ha!!
@The Green Pill Mindset Actually fantasy football did indeed exist back then. It's been a thing since 1987. Now go take your pill.
@The Green Pill Mindset Pill time
@The Green Pill Mindset Your pathetic, ridiculous comments say everything we need to know about you.
@@brianfitzsimmons6074 Draft Kings is vastly different than the early 90's era fantasy football.
I miss those days! I wish Dan could play today!😔
More physical
To all the young viewers, yes the Patriots have had a QB not named Brady, and he was pretty underrated too
Many teams have had dozens of starting QBs since 1994. This is 25 years ago and Bledsoe and Brady have been the only starting QBs(sans injuries) for the Patriots. Packers are the only other similar team with Favre/Rodgers.
Only the narrative kept Drew from being in the HOF. He brought a sad sack 1 win, franchise, (that was moving to St Louis), to the Super Bowl in only his fourth year. This was his sophomore season. When Drew retired, he was in the top 5-10 in every major QB category. Robbed of HOF. Mac Jones has nothing on this guy.. BTW, Ben Coates was a God when catching a ball down the middle was deadly. I'd take him and his durability (with today's rules) over Gronk, and I love Gronk.
Pats have been a solid organization for 25 years, blows my mind
I remember when they didnt even win a game for like a season and a half before Parcells. Things have changed quite a bit
Now the pats are trash again. Hahaha 😂😂😂
@Rick James The pats still suck. What happened?
@@damanithegoat9653 top of the afc loser, what poverty franchise do you fanboy for??
@@conner24316 Lol the pats suck and haven’t made the playoffs in nearly 3 years. Stay mad 🤡
This game, the Fake Spike, and the '92 win at Buffalo are my favorite Dolphins games.
I’d have to say, the ‘85 win against the bears was his SB! Think about it! The greatest team ever was beaten by the ultimate gun slinger! That to me was his SB ring!
Marino to Fryar was insane in the 2nd half.
Old man river
Irving Fryar has a great connection with Dan Marino. This game and the jets game shows Dan Marino’s determination to win the game for his team
Sports 311 he also happened to be a former patriot who was on the pats when they were a dumpster fire lol. He actually scored their only TD in the 46-10 Bears super bowl
Irving Fryar should be in the HOF
So glad the on screen visuals have improved. No game clock, downage briefly flashes on screen as if they're trying to hide it, no line of scrimage or first down lines, no score, no timeouts, and no season records. While watching this game I lost track of the score. Just had to wait for the 3rd quarter to finish. Football must have been wholely unwatchable to casual football fans. Just actions happening on screen with no information or context.
Drew Bledsoe was the man .. As a Patriots fan it took me awhile before I accepted Tom Brady..
I always liked Bledsoe more than Brady.
@@trhansen3244 Bledsoe was the reason I became a Pat's fan...
"Accepted " he's the fucking goat and a shit ton better than Bledsoe. Come on
@@trhansen3244You're delusional. Brady is light years better
@@josephayers7395 Bledsoe had swagger
I remember watching this live on NBC and knew I was going to be a Pats fan for the rest of my life! Drew Bledsoe was my freakin' childhood idol!
This was a really good game. You had Dan Marino, a Hall of Famer on one side, and Drew Bledsoe, who had a lot of potential as a great quarterback but is sadly lost to history because of Tom "The Goat" Brady, on the other side.
“The GOAT"? Not quite. He's definitely a top 5 or top 10, though.
Marino is the GOAT at the QB position, ring, most rings, or no ring
Tyler Mittan elaborate on how Brady isn’t the GOAT please
@@Tyler-hf4uc Agreed. Only New Englanders and today's recency biased media say Brady is the quintessential GOAT. Over the Pats current dynasty? There's been far too much cheating and far too much blatant league and referee favoritism. Most unbiased, older die hard NFL fans have the opinion that some of their past successes were grossly undeserved. To be honest...half of their 6 rings are tainted. All this said....Brady should still definitely be considered TOP 5-10. In my eyes he still isn't close to Montana, Elway or Manning. All 3 of these all time great's accomplishments cannot be questioned.
I'm sure every Patriots fan would love to see Drew Bledsoe in the Hall of Fame; however, outside of New England, he is known mainly as the guy Tom Brady replaced.
Was at this game. Probably the best game I ever saw in person.
The good old days
What a great game. I didn't get into football until about '98. Definitely fun to go back and watch some older games. This one was fun!
His footwork was insanely good. Shame we couldn't win one with him. He definitely deserved one
I like these patriot uniforms. Should bring them back at least once a season
Ace Ventura' era of Dolphin football..
Ah the good old days when Miami actually had a quarterback
2018?
And we still didn't win jack
Now we do(:
Now they do
Well we 10-6 now
Us dolphins fans needed this after what happen Sunday don’t we all miss dan marino i just hope the future is bright for us suffering fins
That stadium used to be electric when Marino was there. Hasnt seen that kind of electricity for almost 20 years
@@Dashoost no reason for us to be excited about these teams. Have only had incompetent management for over 20 years. Damn I miss the good old days!
11:07 shows just how damn good Marino was. He was tripping backwards and still threw a 50 yard pass into the hands of the receiver perfectly led into the end zone.
Marino Is GOAT
One of them for sure but you absolutely have to have at least one ring to be considered the GOAT. I wish he would've won one, just like I wish Kelly had or Malone and Stockton in the NBA. I truly believe that had Jimmy Johnson came to Miami in 88-89 instead of Dallas, Marino would've had 2 rings. Shula ignored the running game and the defense. JJ built one of the best defenses in the NFL with Miami but Marino was over the hill by the time JJ took over in Miami.
Can u believe it has been 29 years and one day since this masterpiece?
I love these games
pats fans be like "why is edelman throwing the ball? where's brady?"
Bandwagon fans
Coming back off the Achilles Tecmo Bowl numbers
I didn't know Tom Brady changed his name from Drew Bledsoe. Even got to play against Dan Marino, what a guy.
This was definitely one of the best forgotten shootouts in NFL history. It's memorable by the record Dan Marino set in this game
Forgotten? Everybody remembers this game.
This game was a total classic. Marino was on another level. 94 might have been the Dolphins best chance to get back to the Super Bowl along with 92.
What a barn burner 🔥 . Dan the man delivered a whale of a game, coming off the ruptured achilles the prior season. Props to bledsoe too for that performance. Those fins jerseys/logos are MILES better than the current
I love watching the trio of Marino, Duper, and Clayton during the height of their careers. No super egos, no trying to out shine other players, they were just players who were great at what they did and almost unstoppable!
1994 season was one of the best years in the NFL. A lot of great teams and players. It also was the first year I followed and developed my new found passion of professional football. It was the last time my 49ers won a Super Bowl. I've been a fanatic of the game ever since.
Vincent Brown...still the most chiseled Patriot of all time. He mentored Willie McGinnest well. Also, RIP to Kevin Turner due to playing football... and RIP to baseball infields in football stadiums after last nights Raiders game. We might not ever see it again after they get a new stadium. Speaking of baseball... this game was played during the strike for what it matters.
The Undertaker. Guy hit like a wrecking ball.
One of the greatest NFL games I ever watched.
This was an amazing game. I remember this vividly
What a arm Marino had!!! I don’t think we’re gonna see another one like that again..
I've got this game in my collection and it's one helluva ballgame. Two guys who were very similar in their style at QB and some great offense. This was definitely a good choice for Dolphins fans considering how their season right now is already over.
Wow, this game really brings back some memories. For those who were too young or hadn't been born yet, this game is a great example of just how great Dan Marino was. Also a good look at some past Patriots greats, including Irving Fryar (although on the Dolphins by this time). Bledsoe and Coates had a great connection when they played together.
This package clearly shows the main problem the Dolphins had during the entire Marino era; NO DEFENSE.
Yeah we called them the Olphins
And they played in the same division of late 80s/90s Bills and 00's Pats
First time watching Marino highlights and man 🔥
Weird how Pats fans didnt travel so well in 94...
It just shows they are bandwagoners
The play at 5:25 just sums up Marino so well. Calm in the pocket, split second decision making and the quickest release ever, a seed thrown perfectly into the hands of his man on the run. Love it!
Oh yeah, the Dolphins were good once upon a time.
Been a long time. I miss the OB
Long ago, in a galaxy, far, far, away...
They good again now
@@johncorbin5332 Indeed they were, at least offensively. This is the type of game you just automatically expect Miami to choke away at the end. If not for that Coates fumble, NE likely would've won.
I'm from Boston and I was a big Dolphins fan in the early to mid 90s, it dove my dad nuts.
These games were just so damn physical. We'll never see this type of play again.
Coates was 'Gronk' before Gronk.
GregzVR actually mark bávaro was gronk before gronk
@@jalos012 | Bavaro never played for the Patriots. GregzVR meant Gronk being the best Patriot Tight End since Coates.
Miami Dolphins fan from Maryville Illinois since 1983 love them and Dan Marino I was 15 years old and glued to the tv Go Dolphins
What a classic!!
Both of my childhood idols growing up playing quarterback! This shoot-out in Miami was one for the ages! And the Ray Crittenden catch!
Bledsoe was no joke back then
Can you imagine if we had Danny today, with the receivers we have! What a privilege to have seen him play. Nothin but Noodle-arms since.......
Great throwback between the Dolphins Patriots what a shootout of a game as dolphins this was cool even though I didn't watch this back down was only born this year but wow what a game fins up
Wow what a game
Marino was my favorite QB when I was in grade school! With Duper and Clayton! The Marks Brother's!
Best loss we (Patriots) ever had.. Drew and Ben... Real men.
I remember this game like it was yesterday! Man, I miss watching Marino. It was such an honor to have watched that man play the QB position. To have been able to watch him throw that pigskin throughout his career is something that’ll never be as good again.
Before Brady, Peyton, Brees and Rogers. Dan the man Marino was slinging it... in an era the QB's got knocked on their ass. People look at Marino's career and see all the rd's, 300 + yard games.... etc... but Marino was one of the toughest QB's to ever play the game... He took some brutal hits before all the "roughing the passer" rules...
They did have the roughing the passer rule but not the ones from today
This was like a playoff game. These 2 teams went at it !
I gotta admit these Patriots uniforms are freaking sweet! Hope they adopt this as an alternate 1 day.
I remember watching this game my first weekend in college in Rhode Island. Lot of Pats fans watching.
i watched this live, IF YOU LIKE MEN STANDING TALL AND THROWING THE BALL AS WELL AS ANYONE IN NFL HISTORY, this was the game to watch... fax!!!
This is one of the better games in NFL history
Back when we had legends to watch now days we don't have that much anymore
Was at that game as a die hard Pats fan. The place was crazy from start to finish
the epic 90s!
The game that made me a Patriots fan for life. I was 8.
bak in the day wen they never showed the score wtf
Believe it or not, Fox was the first network to do from the mid-‘90s onward, with the so-called “Fox Box” for football and baseball games that blew a lot of people’s minds back then. :)
Hell of a game!
I'm here today because we suck so bad now. :-(
We don’t suck that bad
@@damanithegoat9653 we did when I posted that. We have since climbed up to the "mediocre " level
Your thumbnail's wrong... Bledsoe's wearing the 1995-1999 jersey in it. Should be the 1994 one;) It was only used for just that year.
Good eye!
Still drives me nuts seeing that field like that.
The thumbnail shows Bledsoe in a uniform that didn’t exist yet in 1994 … that particular design debuted in 1995.
This NFL was more badass. The players were better in the 80s and 90s. The games were outstanding to watch. My God, I want this NFL back.
Can you imagine dan marino and irving fryar stats in this game of how much points they would have in fantasy football today lol and dolphins need to go back these all white uniforms of that era
This year was my introduction as a Patriots fan...been able to watch this team play in TEN superbowls..insane.. Phins need to go back to these unis and logo though
What A Game !