Miami Dolphins Now Hold The Dishonor Of One Of The Most Embarrassing Droughts In Football

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The Commanders making the conference championship gives the Dolphins the honor of having the longest drought in the NFL...32 season. Tobin finds a technicality that creates an eye roll in Leroy.

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00:00Leroy, the Miami Dolphins, now that the Washington commanders have made the conference championship

00:11are now the holder of the longest drought of team without a conference final appearance.

00:1932 seasons going back to 1992, one caveat, the Browns haven't been there since 89, but

00:26of course, three seasons, they were not the Cleveland Browns.

00:30They were gone.

00:32You remember that you were there, but let me just tell you right now, I don't want to

00:40be a part of any caveats.

00:43I just wanted to let you know, right?

00:45So, but, but the organization won a Superbowl since then, that organization did win a Superbowl

00:50technically.

00:51Right?

00:52So the tech go tech, technically the new Browns should only come since 2000.

00:56I agree.

00:57Ergo, the Miami Dolphins longest conference championship drought.

01:01So everybody, so everybody else, everybody else has made the conference championship.

01:06Yes.

01:07Other than the Miami Dolphins in the 90s, in 2000, here, let me put this in perspective.

01:18The last time the Miami Dolphins made a conference championship, Ronald Reagan was president.

01:26Nope.

01:27Nope.

01:28Nope.

01:29I got one worse.

01:30There's two teams, three teams that didn't even exist.

01:34Now let me stop.

01:35Wait, wait.

01:36What's the 92?

01:37Was it 92?

01:3892.

01:39No, I'm wrong.

01:40Houston's never made it.

01:41I'm sorry, but they've only been around 23 years.

01:42Okay.

01:43So Houston, Jacksonville's made it.

01:45Carolina's made it.

01:47Superbowl.

01:48Superbowls.

01:49Superbowls.

01:50Yep.

01:51Jets made it back to back in the list right now.

01:5411.

01:55Yeah.

01:56The list right now.

01:57Leroy's right.

01:58I mean, the Browns, the new Browns should really only count.

01:59They should only be 24 years, but they, if you, I guess they got their history back.

02:02So they count for 32 seasons, but it goes back to 89.

02:06They're technically the longest, but it's tied.

02:0789.

02:08The Dolphins.

02:09Guess what happened right after that?

02:11I got there and then we start second.

02:12Sorry, man.

02:13I know.

02:14Are you the mush?

02:15I would like to think I was a mush, but it probably had to do with the 17 guys we had

02:19over 35.

02:21Do you want to know who's second?

02:22Wait, wait.

02:23Second.

02:24Behind the Dolphins.

02:25Oh, no, no, no.

02:26I can guess.

02:27Hold on.

02:28Hold on.

02:29It's not.

02:30Is it the Chargers?

02:31No, no, no.

02:32No, it's not.

02:33Texans.

02:34Nope.

02:35No.

02:36Texans.

02:37Wait, did they make it?

02:38Yes, they did.

02:39No, the Texans have never made it.

02:4023 seasons.

02:41There's a team above them.

02:42Hold on.

02:43It's not the Texans.

02:44The Texans are currently the third longest, if we're not counting the Browns.

02:45It's not the Saints.

02:46Cowboys.

02:47Isn't it?

02:48Oh.

02:49Cowboys.

02:5029 seasons.

02:51Dallas Cowboys.

02:53So basically, here's what I would say about that.

03:01The Cowboys acting like they supposed to be there every year.

03:04I think they got five titles.

03:06But, but, okay.

03:07They got a star.

03:08The star.

03:0929 years.

03:10The star shines more than the Dolphins.

03:11There's people in this building that wasn't born.

03:13That's true.

03:14That's true.

03:15So, so, yeah.

03:16Okay.

03:17So, so do the Steelers.

03:18That don't stop them from wanting to fire their coach.

03:21And he has one.

03:23But they have, they have now the longest, we already know they had the longest playoff

03:26wind drought, 24 years.

03:29And now they also have the longest conference championship berth drought with the commanders

03:34making it.

03:35That is horrific.

03:36Yep.

03:37That's bad.

03:38That's bad, dude.

03:39It's bad.

03:40That's, that, that is, that is shame.

03:41Is that to his fault too?

03:42Because he wasn't born.

03:43Part of it his fault.

03:44Damn, really?

03:45Part of it.

03:46How is it part of his fault?

03:47He was here for part of it.

03:48He's in it.

03:49He was here for part of it.

03:50He's in it.

03:51That's, that's, that's.

03:52The five seasons?

03:53Yeah.

03:54He's responsible for five.

03:55Yeah.

03:56But you still may, you still put your second at 27 years.

04:00That's right.

04:01Yeah.

04:02So.

04:03But yes, he is a part of fault.

04:04And so is Mike McDaniel.

04:05Really?

04:06Yeah.

04:07Okay.

04:08His fault too.

04:09And Chris Greer.

04:10He's probably been here for all of it.

04:11How long has he been here?

04:12He's got 20.

04:13He's been here since like 2000, 2001.

04:14He's been here longer than the Texans have existed.

04:16Yep.

04:17So he owns that too.

04:18Now does the same thing work because you can't do, cause Tennessee went to a Superbowl, but

04:26what they used to be the Oilers.

04:28No, they took that, but they took the Oilers history.

04:31That's why it makes a lot of Oilers, a lot of Oilers fans upset because they wear the

04:35Oilers jerseys.

04:36Yeah.

04:37When they wore those powder blues.

04:38Oh, Tennessee did?

04:39Yeah.

04:40They wore the powder blues.

04:41Houston people got upset about that.

04:42Yeah.

04:43Hey, let me tell you.

04:44That was cool.

04:45That was cool.

04:46Didn't the Titans go their first year in Tennessee or was it their second year?

04:49Was it their first or second year that they went?

04:51What do you mean?

04:52When they got to the Tennessee Titans.

04:53I think it was the first year.

04:54Cause it was a trend of like, if you moved, you would have been in the Superbowl.

04:58You were in the Superbowl right away?

04:59Yeah.

05:00There was like a trend with that.

05:01All I remember is when they first moved to Tennessee, we had to play at Vanderbilt.

05:08That was fun.

05:11You guys complain about your stadium.

05:13Go to a small SEC college and play a football game there.

05:1832 seasons.

05:1932.

05:20Wow.

05:21The Commanders.

05:22What was I doing 32 years ago?

05:23You think the Commanders can pull this off?

05:24That was just the second year.

05:25I was in the league.

05:26What do you feel, though?

05:27You think Jen Daniels, you think that they can pull this off this weekend?

05:30Here's what I think.

05:32I think there's a couple of things that they have going for them.

05:40One is they're young and dumb.

05:43They just bowling, right?

05:45They just look like they out there freewheeling it.

05:49The coaches freewheeling it.

05:51They're playing with house money.

05:53That's what it looks like.

05:54Fourth down, they taking chances down the field.

05:57They going for it.

05:58They doing whatever.

05:59Because guess what?

06:01Did you have them on your bingo card that's going this far?

06:04I did not.

06:05I'm talking about before the season started.

06:07No, definitely not.

06:08Right.

06:09They can play.

06:12We're not expected to be here.

06:15We going to play loose and free.

06:18And that's the kind of the worst teams to play.

06:21You know, fake punts going for it.

06:23Why?

06:24Well, OK.

06:25So what?

06:26House money game against the division rival for the conference.

06:28But here's here's and they beat them once.

06:31But here's the deal.

06:34It's something about Saquon.

06:35Oh, my God.

06:36Like you.

06:37Oh, my God.

06:38I can't believe a franchise let him go.

06:41And nobody got.

06:42Nobody got fired.

06:43How's that?

06:44How's that?

06:45Crazy.

06:46And we wait.

06:47And it wouldn't have been as bad if we hadn't seen it on television of this guy in the owner

06:53telling him, I hope he doesn't go to Philadelphia.

06:56Yeah, it hurt me.

06:59What do you think he felt like when he saw not the first, but the second long when he

07:02was when he was when he did that, do you think he changed his mind about not firing when

07:07he saw Saquon Barkley rush for 80 yards for a touchdown?

07:10You think you got called?

07:11You know what?

07:12You are fired.

07:13See, I would.

07:14I'm sorry, I'm not.

07:15Is that like very rarely at that job?

07:21Do you have a moment where it is clearly identifiable that you did something really wrong?

07:31Yep.

07:32Right.

07:33I mean, you could go through all the other gyms and you could justify a lot of decisions

07:37that were made, right?

07:39You could justify Ryan Leaf over Peyton Manning or, you know, you could justify it even if

07:46it didn't work out.

07:47I'm just saying you there were people who could justify it even if it didn't work out.

07:53Eli Manning.

07:54Who's Eli Manning?

07:55Well, over the charge, quarterback Rivers, Philip Rivers, Philip Rivers, Greg Oden over

08:00Kevin Durant.

08:01Right.

08:02You.

08:03What about Jordan?

08:04Sam.

08:05Sam Bui.

08:06Sam Bui over Jordan.

08:07Right.

08:08You could justify all these things at the time.

08:12But this is the decision that you were on national television.

08:20The world could see it in hard knocks and you're saying your owner, your boss is saying.

08:28This Saquon thing, I'd really hate to see him run.

08:31And then six months later, you fast forward to Saquon Parker stabbing himself in the head

08:35in the snow.

08:36Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

08:37You're not even adding the little cherry on top.

08:39Was that you decided prior a year prior to give Danny Dodd 40 million dollars instead

08:46of getting so Saquon the money?

08:48How does that guess?

08:49What was the name?

08:50Shane, John Shane, Joe Shane, Joe Shane, Joe Shane.

08:53Has he got a job?

08:54I don't know.

08:55Has he got a job?

08:56So.

08:57So like, yeah, him and Chris Greer, like you think they have like conference calls on how

09:01to keep their jobs, like Chris was like, Joe, Joe, this thing is that you do is you blame

09:06it on the coach and then you keep the gig.

09:08Oh, that's good.

09:10Chris Greer in the mistakes and some of the decisions that he has made.

09:15Or not even close to as egregious as that, because his boss didn't come in and suggest

09:27we do something else.

09:29It was rumored.

09:30Wasn't it rumored for years, though, that that that Steven Ross told the room Draft

09:33Lamar Jackson.

09:34And they're like, no, no, no, Mr. Ross.

09:36No, I mean, in fairness, I don't know if that's true or not, but I know that was one of those

09:39Dolphins rumors that was kicked around for a while.

09:41In fairness, they both first year.

09:43It's when Daniel Jones went crazy and they had to pay him that year.

09:46So it was either paid a quarterback and a running back.

09:48And most people would say paid a quarterback, even though it was really.

09:51But here, pay the running back here.

09:53But here's what you have to understand, especially with a young quarterback, especially with

10:00a quarterback, you're you're you're if you're the one thing that gives him solid ground

10:05to stand on is is a running game.

10:08Right.

10:10And you made the assumption that what Saquon Barkley was doing, we could do that with anybody.

10:17That's the decision that should have you.

10:20And not acknowledging the greatness of Saquon Barkley and allowing him because you thought

10:27you could save money and get that guy anywhere.

10:31That's the issue.

10:32The issue is not.

10:35Paying Daniel Jones.

10:36The issue is what this guy thought of a guy he had in his system that wanted to stay.

10:46What he thought of a guy when the coach, when the owner came in and had questions himself,

10:51scoffed at him, scoffed at him, this nasty word that right, you know, it's like she upgraded

10:57to it.

10:58You know, I broke up.

10:59You know what this is like.

11:00She upgraded to a tycoon.

11:01Yeah.

11:02And then you got, you know, you're dealing with, you know, hey, you're ready, Betty.

11:07This is what this is like.

11:08Yeah.

11:09Diner.

11:10You haven't seen that new email commercial.

11:12Lima Lima.

11:13Yeah.

11:14Living Mutual.

11:15You know, he's when the guy had the little emu has a stick and he's walking down the

11:19street.

11:20He's a nobody's going to believe it.

11:22He bowed.

11:23He was selling insurance and they show up on TV goes that damn bird did it right.

11:30That's what like it's just great.

11:32Like it's crazy.

11:33It's like it's I think sometimes we get caught up in what we want the team to look like instead

11:44of making the best version of the team we have.

11:48Right.

11:49And so everybody, I want to put my system and I want to put myself.

11:53Yeah, man.

11:54But look at your players.

11:55Like your job is to get the most out of the players you have in front of you.

12:00And so like we sit here and say Quan Barkley, they put so much crap on him his first few

12:05years that he covered up the fact that your quarterback couldn't drop back and throw 40

12:13passes.

12:15Who went with the quarterback and said, we can get somebody else to do what Saquon Barkley

12:18does.

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