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00:00A good NFL meltdown.
00:04Don't talk to me, alright?
00:06Knock it off!
00:09I wish I had things for them to throw.
00:13It's one of those things that you're always looking forward to in a perverse sort of way.
00:20Hey!
00:26When the heat is on, meltdowns ensue.
00:29But determining the criteria for what constitutes a meltdown can get a little sticky.
00:36Somebody said it was going to be easy now.
00:38Some meltdowns happen every day.
00:43And some with a little less regularity.
00:48I'm a catch heat stroke! It's too hot out here!
00:51On our list, meltdowns cover a variety of situations gone nuclear.
00:58Huh.
01:00They can happen to a coach.
01:02Oh, you son of a...
01:04See that? That's your IQ, buddy. Zero.
01:06If you want to crown him, you crown him!
01:08They can happen to a team.
01:10We are in the midst of a meltdown of classic proportion.
01:15That's peewee stuff.
01:16Such an embarrassment to even be out there doing that.
01:18Or make it even be larger in scope.
01:21That is Kitts' touchdown on the first plate.
01:24I think the Kansas City team is a real top football team.
01:26It doesn't compare with the National Football League teams.
01:28The one essential element...
01:30He ranuka had him.
01:32And then he let him go.
01:33And Tom Coughlin goes up to him and says,
01:35What are you thinking?
01:36...is a complete undoing.
01:39You just feel it collapsing.
01:40You see it collapsing.
01:41That's what makes a meltdown great.
01:47The number 10 meltdown of all time.
01:50Trey Junkin's bad snap.
01:52It was a complete and total melting down like from an iceberg to a puddle.
01:57We've all suffered a lot of defeats,
01:59but I'm not too sure that in my career I've ever been in that kind of shock.
02:03For the first 40 minutes of a 2002 NFC wildcard game,
02:07the Giants looked unstoppable.
02:09Looking for two.
02:10And he's got it for a touchdown.
02:11It was 38-14 and we're blaming the long snapper.
02:15We don't blame the Giants.
02:17The Giants defense.
02:18The rest of the Giants.
02:20Just the long snapper.
02:23They were up 38-14 with 20 minutes to go.
02:28And you thought, well this is over.
02:29But the 49ers scored the next 25 points.
02:33Trills for the end zone.
02:36And all of a sudden, the Niners are winning 39-38.
02:40That was an all-time, all-time collapse.
02:44You couldn't believe what you were seeing, even when it was happening.
02:47After all that, they get one last chance.
02:5042 yards for the win.
02:53Trey Bleepin' Junkin just puts his name into the history books.
02:58Snap is low.
02:59Allen can't get it down.
03:01Not Allen can't get it down.
03:03He's trying to throw it.
03:05He just heaves it downfield.
03:07He throws it.
03:08And it's incomplete.
03:09Well, welcome to New York, Trey.
03:11And the Giants are going home.
03:15The Giants that year had trouble with snappers all year long.
03:18They went through about 37 long snappers.
03:20With five days to go before the game,
03:22they go get Trey Junkin, who's one of the greatest long snappers in NFL history.
03:25What a story.
03:26I mean, he wasn't even playing football.
03:28Trey Junkin was enjoying retirement.
03:30Fossil knew him from some shared time in Arizona.
03:33The very first thing, being a successful long snapper,
03:36you really don't want anybody else to know your name.
03:39Trey Junkin had been a snapper for centuries.
03:42He was impeccable.
03:43He was almost perfect on every snap.
03:47Jank.
03:50Junkin nailed his first ten snaps of the game.
03:53But with the Giants' lead whittled to five in the fourth quarter,
03:56his 11th win astray.
03:59Long drop kickin' it's so good.
04:01Way left.
04:02The low snap of Trey Junkin.
04:05Allen did all he could to get it down,
04:06and Brian never had a chance.
04:08That's not the snap that wakes me up at night.
04:12There's only one snap that does that.
04:13Trey Junkin, a 20-year veteran,
04:17with two poor snaps.
04:19He must have snapped the bull like two million times in his career.
04:23He's the first one that he really just loved completely.
04:26Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to do this.
04:28To watch him do what he did,
04:30I just made, I felt so bad for him.
04:32I cost this team a chance to go to the Super Bowl.
04:34This is the best team in the NFC.
04:36And I remember afterwards, he was just so devastated.
04:41I'd give anything in the world,
04:43except my family at this point, right now,
04:47to have stayed retired.
04:48It's a shame, because again, he was in retirement,
04:50and nobody would have known who he was for the rest of his life.
04:55New York, as much as any other town,
04:57always needs, you have to be able to point the finger at somebody.
05:02Don't blame Trey Junkin, okay? Please.
05:04They never should have been in that spot.
05:06That game should never have come down to a last-second field goal for the Giants to win.
05:10You know, everybody looks at that and says,
05:11you know, he melted down and he cost the Giants the game.
05:14I'm like, Jeremy Shockey dropped the touchdown pass.
05:17Shockey drops it!
05:18You can blame everybody and anybody
05:21who wore a uniform, who was on that sideline as a coach that day.
05:25You gotta make that snap.
05:26And when you don't make that snap, everybody knows it's your fault.
05:29So he's the poster child of that loss.
05:31That's what the National Football League is about.
05:32When you're asked to make plays, you have to make them.
05:34And if you don't, you're going to pay the price.
05:37And Trey Junkin is a name who will live in giant infamy.
05:40Coming up, in every other game, he has it together.
05:44Take him to the game ball for melting down when it matters most.
05:48Number nine, meltdown of all time.
05:51Tony Romo after December 1st.
05:54Tony Romo, top ten, meltdown.
05:56Yeah, he stunk it up at the end of the season.
05:59In the Cowboys' final game of 2008, Tony Romo delivered an oh-no.
06:05They bury him again!
06:07It was the third straight year he ended the season by melting down.
06:11It's a pop fly!
06:12This is Tony Romo!
06:14After December 1st, Romo was just 5-10 over a three-year span.
06:19And the playoff drought will continue.
06:22At the end of the season, he is far from at his best.
06:25Tony Romo, in every other game, has it together.
06:29But take him to the postseason, and it's meltdown city.
06:35A season is down to one play.
06:37They've got to go to the end zone!
06:39Fourth and 11 at the Giants' 23.
06:42He's got a little Brett Favre in it.
06:44He's a little bit of a gambler.
06:45And when you do that, you're going to have some great plays.
06:48You are going to have some spectacularly bad ones.
06:50Romo, back to throw.
06:52Has time to the end zone.
06:54Intercepted by the Giants!
06:55This is a disappointment of absolutely colossal proportion.
07:00The Dallas Cowboys are looking for their first postseason win since 1996.
07:04You talk about weird endings.
07:06Games don't end that way.
07:08There's the snap.
07:09The spot.
07:10Romo can't get the spot down!
07:12That Seattle game, what people don't remember is Tony Romo plays a pretty good game playing his first playoff game.
07:18Of course, now it's his legacy.
07:20I think it's incredibly unfair.
07:21If Martin Gramatica even gets a shoulder on the guy who's running at Romo, Romo walks into the end zone.
07:28Did he make a bad play?
07:29Did he make a bad play?
07:30Yes.
07:30Could he even score it on the play?
07:31Yes.
07:32Your starting quarterback shouldn't be holding your snap to begin with in a playoff game.
07:35It's an extra point for heaven's sakes!
07:38Come on!
07:39I've never seen an ending to a game like that.
07:45What has Tony Romo done to become a media darling?
07:48Okay, the snap goes over his head and he runs for a first down against St. Louis.
07:51And the Tony Romo gets away from one man, left to the 40, to the 50, first down!
07:57Great play.
07:57Oh my goodness.
07:58Tony Romo, one of the great starting quarterbacks in the league.
08:00When you quarterback the Cowboys and Jessica Simpson's your girlfriend, you know what?
08:04Some people are going to hate you.
08:06You know, I would hate Romo, but he's not hateable.
08:08He's not a hateable guy.
08:10I actually like Tony Romo.
08:11It's kind of odd.
08:12I kind of like his story.
08:15Undrafted, rising to the top.
08:16The guy has achieved the American dream in my eyes.
08:19I mean, he's a scratch golfer, which is just cool.
08:21He's dated Carrie Underwood, Jessica Simpson, and he's the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.
08:26Steakball, Brian.
08:27Caught it over the corner.
08:29Touchdown!
08:30Would you trade spots with him?
08:31Probably you would.
08:35I don't think it's fair to label him a choke artist yet.
08:39Too many guys have had problems in the playoffs early in their career, only to rebound and
08:44do something great.
08:45All it takes is one.
08:46And people will forget about the box snap, the interception at the end of the Giants game.
08:51He never got that.
08:52I think it's early to put Romo in that top ten.
08:56Vanderchoke kicks the line.
08:58He did come up small in some big spots.
09:01That wasn't always the case.
09:03The kick is up.
09:04It is good!
09:06It's easy to overlook the fact that he was one of the best kickers of his era.
09:10In 2003, he went to combine 96 for 96 on field goals and PATs between the regular season
09:18and the playoffs.
09:19Ball down.
09:20Vanderchoke kick is all the way.
09:22It's good!
09:23It's good!
09:24He's got the record!
09:25What he did that year had never been done before.
09:27A guy going through an entire season without missing a kick.
09:33The problem with Vanderjatt is he ran his mouth too much.
09:37The Colts lost the 2002 wild card game 41 to nothing to the New York Jets.
09:43It's a wide open touchdown!
09:45A few weeks later, Vanderjatt gave an ill-advised interview on Canadian television.
09:51Intercepted!
09:52Good night, Ivory!
09:53All week before the Jets game, I'm like, you know, 18, you know, we're going to handle
09:56it.
09:56Me and you, we're going to win this game.
09:57And he's like, oh, yeah, okay.
09:59I'm like, Peyton, come on, show some enthusiasm.
10:01You're the quarterback.
10:02We need to win this game.
10:03I just don't see it from him.
10:05Some guys have it.
10:06Some guys don't.
10:06Why you would say anything about Peyton Manning when you are just the kicker?
10:12It's absolutely absurd.
10:14You've got to be one of the dumbest human beings in captivity.
10:18That was when Peyton Manning came out and called him the idiot kicker.
10:22We're talking about our idiot kicker who got liquored up and ran his mouth off.
10:26That was how he was.
10:27Yeah, Vandershank attempted one field goal in that game and he missed it.
10:37Characterized and that was sort of how he was thought of.
10:39It was just one of several sarcastic nicknames.
10:43Money Mike.
10:44Vandajerk.
10:45Vandr.
10:46Vandrchoke.
10:47Vandrgag.
10:48I like Vandrjackass better, actually.
10:53Before games, he'd be out there warming up and he'd wear this t-shirt that said,
10:57Pro Bowl.
10:58Will you have to wear a t-shirt that says you're a Pro Bowler?
11:01You're probably not a Pro Bowl.
11:02That theory gained credibility as Vandrjack struggled on high shakes kicks like his overtime
11:08attempt during the 2000 playoff game in Miami.
11:11Well, there's a whole lot of pressure in this.
11:14It's not going to play like that.
11:17Vandrjack missed it.
11:18The kick never had a chance.
11:20Yeah, he never made the big kick in a big spot.
11:22In 2004, he tried to send a game with the Patriots into overtime with 24 seconds left.
11:29The kick is no good!
11:32No good!
11:33The one I remember the most was the Pittsburgh one.
11:36The kick that cemented his spot on our list was his first career playoff do-or-die attempt.
11:42A 46-yarder to send the game into overtime.
11:45I thought he was going to make it.
11:47It's in the dorm.
11:47It's at home.
11:48Vandrjack's kick is on its way.
11:49That kick was long enough, high enough, and it's no good!
11:51No, it's no good!
11:52He missed it!
11:53No good!
11:54Oh, man!
11:54Off the side of his foot, it looked like one of my golf shots.
11:57And that thing went whoop!
11:58Well, that never had a chance.
12:00Never even got close.
12:02Scott Norwood gets talked about, but at least you could say, man, it only missed by inch.
12:07In the air.
12:07It's not the destination.
12:09Oh, God!
12:12I don't think that's choked.
12:15I think he just missed it.
12:16Of course it's okay to call him a choke artist.
12:18How can you not?
12:19That was a long kick.
12:2046 yards, that's a long kick.
12:22You're paid for one thing.
12:24It's to kick the ball through the uprights when the game is on the line.
12:28Nicole's ready to celebrate if he makes it.
12:30They missed it bad.
12:31They missed it bad.
12:32Oh.
12:33Game is on the line.
12:35Postseason.
12:35Move on or go home.
12:37Do you make the kick?
12:39And if you don't...
12:41They were 4-2.
12:43Top seed.
12:44For the team that didn't win their own division.
12:47I'm pretty sure.
12:49That team went on to win the Super Bowl.
12:52Colts went home.
12:54Soon as they got rid of Mike Vander Jack, they won the Super Bowl.
13:01It's coming up.
13:02It didn't look like there was any team capable of catching them.
13:06They won one stick in game.
13:07One game.
13:09For seven meltdown of all time, the Cardinals and their coach lose it.
13:14You look at that game and you say, how does that happen?
13:18A complete meltdown.
13:20In week six of 2006, Cardinals rookie quarterback Matt Leiner made his second start and made
13:28a big impression on the 5-0 Bears.
13:31When I watched that game, I was shocked.
13:33I was literally shocked.
13:35We thought, this kid's the real deal.
13:36He looks great against the best defense in the league.
13:39All right, let's go, baby.
13:40They can't stop him.
13:40The next thing you know, they're up 14-0.
13:42They were dictating to the Chicago Bears.
13:46And it kept happening.
13:47And it kept happening.
13:4820-0 lead at halftime.
13:50It did not feel good.
13:51All good.
13:52All good.
13:56Rex Grossman was awful.
13:58Four picks, two fumbles.
14:00Grossman guns it deep.
14:01Intercepted by Francisco.
14:03Rex Grossman that day had the worst game of any quarterback in any game going back to 1995.
14:10And here's the thing.
14:12They won anyway.
14:17They came out in the second half.
14:19The team that played the first half left the locker room and another team came in.
14:22In the second half, the Bears are showing a nine-man front.
14:27And the Cardinals are still trying to run the football, which doesn't make sense.
14:31Not one pass the entire drive.
14:32What does that say?
14:34And I was told afterwards, Denny Green instructed Keith Rowland, then the offensive coordinator,
14:38to run the football in the second half.
14:39He didn't want Matt Larrant to throw a pick.
14:41If any of four things don't happen, it's a successful strategy.
14:48The Cardinals completed their meltdown without giving up a single offensive touchdown.
14:56The two fumble returns for touchdowns.
15:03The punt return for a touchdown.
15:10Do not, do not kick to Devenham.
15:13What happens?
15:13They kick off.
15:14Fingers.
15:15Now runs right to the 20, 25.
15:17Look out.
15:17And big field.
15:18And you're done right there.
15:1915, 10, 5.
15:21Touchdown.
15:22You've got to be kidding me.
15:26Despite all that, though, they did have a chance to win the game.
15:30Liner took them down the field and put them in position to win with 50-something seconds
15:34left and a 41-yard field goal at 10.
15:37Rackers' kick is up.
15:38It has the leg.
15:39Rackers' kick is so good.
15:42That was one of the most amazing meltdowns I can recall.
15:49Everybody knew the Bears were going to come back and win that game.
15:52That was no surprise.
15:53But when Denny Green went crazy after that game, it made it one of the best meltdowns
15:58of all time.
15:59The Bears are who we thought they were.
16:01Came unglued, didn't he?
16:02That's why we took the damn field.
16:04When he did go over the edge, he didn't hold back.
16:06Crown their ass, Dennis Green.
16:08Crown their ass.
16:08Now, if you want to crown them, then crown their ass.
16:11For the first time in a very long career as a head coach, I kind of blew my top.
16:16But they are who we thought they were.
16:18And we let them off the hook.
16:19Just one of the classic all-time post-game press conferences.
16:23They are who we thought they were.
16:24For somebody to be who you thought they were.
16:27I mean, just thinking about enough.
16:29You think about the catchphrases that are still used today from that press conference.
16:34I know you've already shown it in this segment, but please, for me, please, for me, and all
16:40other sports fans, show it again.
16:43If you want to crown them, they've crowned it.
16:46I'm glad that that game makes this list, and it should make every list.
16:51Thanks, coach.
16:58When you have a three-game lead with three to play, you better close the door.
17:03They had to win one stick in game.
17:05They had to tie one game.
17:06It didn't look like there was any team capable of catching them, because everyone else in
17:11the division was playing so poorly.
17:13The Chargers came out of nowhere.
17:14The Chargers have a pulse!
17:16The Broncos blowing it was obviously a tremendous meltdown.
17:20Yeah, it's got to rank up there.
17:22The 2008 Broncos went 8-5 through their first 13 games.
17:27They needed just one win in their final three to clinch the AFC West title.
17:33We talked about it before.
17:34You've got to play your best football in November and December.
17:40That team was falling apart long before it hit the skits.
17:44This is a team that just had enormous defensive issues.
17:47The Patriots are just slamming the Broncos from pillow to post.
17:52Mike Shanahan, his defense was giving up 28 points a game on the average.
17:55Untouched into the end zone.
17:57What did the Broncos not have?
17:58The great defense.
18:00And in December, it's the great defense that gets you through.
18:03In the Broncos' first chance to clinch the AFC West, they gave up 30 points at the Panthers.
18:09The pressure is suffocating in Denver if you're a Bronco.
18:13In their second shot to seal the deal, they allowed 30 points to the Bills at home.
18:19So it'll come down to next week.
18:21The Broncos travel to San Diego.
18:23Whoever wins is in.
18:24And whoever loses is going home.
18:29You can't be serious.
18:30If you can't get hot for this game, you're not going to be here.
18:33They had some blowout games.
18:35And of course, it completely came unrattled in that last game against the Chargers.
18:38And they gave up 52 points.
18:40In the season finale, Denver became the first team to squander a three-game division lead with three to play.
18:47They got blown out of the building.
18:49Just completely collapsed.
18:51Keeps on going.
18:52Touchdown.
18:53Yeah, they had them on their home field, but Denver didn't show up for the game.
18:58I think they're still on the bus.
19:00Cutler was really bad at that game.
19:02His head was just dialing 9-1-1 from the first snap of the game to the end.
19:06If there was ever a picture of a four-year-old kid swallowing castor oil, that's what Dave Cutler looks
19:13like right now.
19:14Cutler, keep your mouth shut.
19:16Keep your mouth shut.
19:17Because Rivers has got your number right now, pal.
19:22San Diego has stolen this division.
19:24I mean, yeah, it's a big meltdown.
19:26That's why Mike Shanahan is unemployed this year.
19:29Nothing he could do would ever get him fired.
19:31Well, this got him fired.
19:32When you get the coach fired, yeah, you must have melted down, especially one that had the track record of
19:37Shanahan.
19:38It was the fallout from the meltdown, I think, that made it such a big deal.
19:42If they had made the playoffs, their coach would still be there.
19:45Their quarterback would still be there.
19:47What in the world just happened?
19:48Clearly, it's a team that you'll always remember for unraveling.
19:51Light the ignition, man!
19:53Coming up, the number five meltdown of all time, Marty Schottenheimer in the playoffs.
20:00I think Schottenheimer gets kind of an unfair rap for a lot of his postseason failures.
20:06It is totally fair to say Marty Schottenheimer is one of the biggest chokers in the history of the National
20:12Football League.
20:12We're talking about a guy who won more games in the regular season than all but four coaches in NFL
20:18history.
20:19George Hallis, Curly Lambeau, Tom Landry, Don Shula, and then also in that group is Marty Schottenheimer, 5-13 in
20:30the postseason.
20:35Marty's first playoff game as a head coach also featured his first postseason meltdown.
20:40At the Dolphins, we were up 21-3 and had a chance to just bury him.
20:45For the Brown offense, it looked so smooth early on, simply melted in the fourth quarter.
20:51In 1986, a future Hall of Famer drove Marty Bunkers.
20:56The Broncos are 98 yards away from where they need to go.
20:5998 yards to drop. 98 yards.
21:02In your own stadium, your fans going crazy.
21:04There has to be some bad luck involved there with Marty.
21:07I'm not going to put it all on his shoulders.
21:0998 and a half yard drive.
21:12Circumstances sometimes, beyond his control, have just not gotten him the big fries.
21:17Hands up to Biner on a draw.
21:19Biner inside the 5 to the 4 and the 3 to the 2.
21:22He's almost a football from the Broncos.
21:25Have it.
21:28The Marty Schottenheimers of the world.
21:30You lose one big game and you start thinking about it.
21:34There's the snap.
21:36The kick is up.
21:37It is going to fall.
21:40Shot.
21:40Nick Lowry, we're blaming a coach for a missed kick.
21:45You know, you know that sounds stupid, right?
21:50You lose another one.
21:54All of a sudden, your hand starts automatically going to your throat and it's all over.
21:58What a bad break for the Chiefs.
22:01You have to kill a little love.
22:02And it wasn't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any at all.
22:05Michael Stewart tried to tear that ball out of there.
22:07The Dolphins say, hey, yes!
22:09Travis, he's got it!
22:10He robbed Marko Zala.
22:14If I would give you one criticism of Marty is that at times he plays it too conservatively
22:20offensively.
22:21In close games, that could come back to haunt you.
22:2342 seconds left to go in the game.
22:25A lot of defensive-minded head coaches get into playoff games and they lose games to teams
22:31they're better than overall because they don't score enough points.
22:35Wired to the left, no good.
22:37Lynn Elliott misses his third field goal of the game.
22:40And the games come down to one or two plays in the third or fourth quarter.
22:43This is fourth and two and a half.
22:45This is the game.
22:46And if those plays don't go your way, you can lose those games.
22:50Knocked away!
22:51Incomplete!
22:52If you're doing the same old thing, that's not going to inspire anybody.
22:56Except to lose.
22:58To win it in overtime for the Chargers.
23:00Kick on the leg.
23:01Towards the uprights.
23:02It is no good!
23:03As coach of the Chargers, Marty's postseason woes continue.
23:07None more devastating than in 2006.
23:11This is our game!
23:13They go 14-2.
23:14San Diego is better than the Pats.
23:16I know Brady was there.
23:17He had no...
23:19Curry has the interception and he fumbles.
23:22Troy Brown makes it one of the great players of all time.
23:24Fumbled on the interception.
23:25The Patriots have it!
23:27That loss to them a couple years ago was as bad as it gets.
23:32How can that be?
23:33You want to get to the playoffs?
23:34You want Marty Schottenheimer as your coach.
23:36You want to win in the playoffs?
23:38You don't want Marty as your coach.
23:40You can't get around the fact that his team couldn't win the big game.
23:44Marty Schottenheimer belongs on a list of guys who couldn't get it done in the big spot.
23:49If that defines meltdown, then he's well placed on your list.
23:54Number four meltdown of all time.
23:57Brett Favre throws it to the wrong teams at the wrong time.
24:01Brett Favre stunk in the big games at the end and threw way too many interceptions.
24:05That was not always the case, of course.
24:08Favre built a Hall of Fame resume that included two Super Bowl appearances, all the while entertaining
24:15football fans like Hugh Bill.
24:17Look at Brett Favre coming off the field.
24:19He is so happy.
24:21He played the game with such joy and enthusiasm.
24:23There's nobody that I've ever seen who has displayed the love of football any better than
24:28Brett Favre.
24:29But that fun-loving style often went hand-in-hand with a careless one, even in the playoffs.
24:36Intercepted by the linebacker, John McCullough.
24:38For an all-time great, he's had some terrible postseason problems.
24:42None worse than in the 2001 divisional playoff with the Rams.
24:46Quick toss, right throw, second, he scores, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, touchdown.
24:51The six-pick game against the Rams is the one that really stands out the most.
24:56Brett Favre will force balls into cover.
24:58Yes, he does.
24:59He's throwing it everywhere, stupid passes.
25:02Favre tries to force it in down the field.
25:04That just got worse for the Green Bank Packers.
25:07That game just snowballed.
25:08Brett pops it over the middle, off the Heat of Green, intercepted it again.
25:12And he is Williams, left sideline, 10, 5, touchdown.
25:17Unbelievable.
25:18When did Brett Favre not throw six picks?
25:19Well, in a 2003 divisional playoff with the Eagles, instead he threw one doozy in overtime.
25:27He's just threw right at it.
25:28Fire is deep.
25:29Brian Dawkins intercepted.
25:31That was just a joke.
25:32Right to him.
25:34He could have called fair catch.
25:36Ball dropper.
25:37From the moment the ball left his hand, it had no chance.
25:41Oh my goodness.
25:44Brian Dawkins has probably never had an easier interception in his life.
25:47You live by the gunslinger, you die by the gunslinger.
25:50In the 2007 NFC Championship game, Favre's team died by him again,
25:55as he became the only quarterback ever to throw an overtime interception in two playoff games.
26:02Corey Webster got the pick.
26:03The Giants thought in that game that if you gave him enough time,
26:06there would be a moment where they could step in front of one in a key spot.
26:09It's unfortunate that that was his last throw as a Packer.
26:12Brett didn't get enough on that ball to get it over him.
26:15I've got to believe the 2007 championship game is going to make him ill for decades to come.
26:23He made more stupid plays, more bonehead plays than any great quarterback that I have ever seen in my life.
26:32He's not the NFL's all-time interception leader for nothing.
26:36Favre rules the right side of the ball, tipped and intercepted.
26:38Yet another interception.
26:40As a person who loved watching Brett Favre play, you can almost hold none of it against him.
26:46The meltdowns are going to come with success.
26:48You can't separate from those.
26:49What a throw by Brett Favre.
26:51Brett Favre made a lot more of those throws successfully than he missed,
26:57which is why he's a great quarterback.
26:59So many people related to the way Brett Favre played,
27:03he probably got a little bit more of a benefit of doubt than he should have.
27:05Oh, you talk about improvisation!
27:09If it was a young quarterback doing the kind of things that Brett has done over the last five or
27:13six years,
27:13people would be killing him.
27:15But because he's the anointed Brett Favre,
27:18everybody looks the other way.
27:19Let's get, let's get real.
27:23Coming on.
27:24Oh, and Brett Favre's team died by him once again,
27:28the year this came out.
27:3020, 2009 NFC Championship.
27:35There you go.
27:37Three meltdown of all time.
27:39The 1994 Jets.
27:43Tell us about the 94 Jets.
27:45Ugh.
27:47Ugh.
27:54Where do I start?
27:56Let's get this baby started outside!
27:58In 1994, the Jets overcame a two and three start
28:02by winning four of their next six games.
28:04Goose!
28:05Heading into week 13,
28:07they could smell blood in the waters of the AFC East.
28:11The wound is open.
28:12We're about to commit surgery.
28:16Jets are six and five.
28:17Late November game against the Dolphins.
28:20If they win this game,
28:21they have a share of first place in December.
28:24Wish!
28:24D!
28:25The Jets were up.
28:27They're up.
28:28It's painful to even, like, think about this.
28:31They're up 24-6 in that game.
28:33And the Jets have opened up the lead.
28:34All of a sudden, it's just an utter collapse.
28:37Marino goes off in the fourth quarter.
28:39Jets trying to hold on to this one
28:41and trying to grab a share of first place.
28:44But again, nothing's safe with Dan Marino
28:46on the other sideline.
28:47Game comes down to the final seconds.
28:50Oh my goodness!
28:51And Marino does the famous clock play.
28:54I believe Marino is saying,
28:55I'm going to spike it.
28:56We're 32, 31, 30 seconds to go.
29:00Marino takes the snap from center.
29:02He's looking.
29:02He's running.
29:03I'm running.
29:04I'm running.
29:04I'm running.
29:04I'm running.
29:05I'm running.
29:06I'm running.
29:08I'm running.
29:09Ecstasy, and to look on the other side,
29:12it was devastation.
29:13This place is stunned.
29:15Rightfully so.
29:19You mentioned Fake Spike and Dan Marino
29:22and Jet fans.
29:23It just sends a chill down their spine.
29:25I love the Fake Spike game.
29:27I play it every day.
29:28Jet fans started with the Dolphin fans.
29:30They're always needling us.
29:31Oh, you're a Dolphin fan.
29:32Okay, whatever.
29:33You're going to be moving to Florida
29:34in 10 years anyway,
29:35so Fake Spike game was the greatest.
29:37Everyone likes to talk so much
29:39about the Fake Spike,
29:41but the amazing thing,
29:42that team, after that,
29:44did not want to know the game.
29:45That was the amazing thing.
29:46I mean, that team couldn't do anything right
29:48after that game.
29:50It was an incredible meltdown.
29:52The Jets lost their next four games
29:54after the Fake Spike
29:55to finish 6-10.
29:58I'm tired of it.
29:59I'm changing it.
30:00Clean house.
30:00I've been out of money for years.
30:01Clean house.
30:02By the time you helped us out.
30:04The meltdown continued into the offseason
30:06with the firing of head coach Pete Carroll.
30:09After Pete Carroll was with the Jets,
30:11if you had told any Jets fan
30:14that Pete Carroll would eventually build
30:16a dynasty in college football,
30:19they would have left you out of the room.
30:22Pete Carroll deserved more than one year,
30:24and to get Richie Cotite in here.
30:26My philosophy is really very simple.
30:29I'm not a genius.
30:31Pete Carroll's out,
30:32Rich Cotite's in,
30:33and the Jets are heading for two years
30:35of just total misery.
30:36Line up for the National Anthem.
30:39Low to the high.
30:40Low to the high.
30:41The New York Jets,
30:42from the Spike game
30:44until Richie Cotite was fired,
30:46went 4-36
30:48over two seasons and four games.
30:51I'd say the fans got their money's worth.
30:53Arguably one of the worst coaches
30:55in the modern era.
30:57What's wrong?
30:58Sorry, Coach,
30:59but we think we got it right
31:00by making the 94 Jets
31:02the number three meltdown of all time.
31:05That big spike
31:06was just like a spike
31:07through the heart for them.
31:08It took them literally
31:09two and a half years
31:10to recover from that.
31:12You gotta love this, though.
31:13It's cool.
31:14And there was a title on the line.
31:16Showtime, baby.
31:17But only one side showed up.
31:20There's been no explanation.
31:24In 2006,
31:25the Giants were a sack away
31:26from finishing off the Titans.
31:29He would look ahead of him.
31:31And then he let him go.
31:32And Tom Kaufman goes up to her and says,
31:34what are you thinking?
31:35Once in a while,
31:36a meltdown spans a number of years.
31:39The Dallas Cowboys of the late 60s
31:41lost championship
31:42championship after championship
31:43after championship
31:45and earned the nickname
31:47next year's champions.
31:52But it was a different
31:54multi-year phenomenon
31:55that earned a spot on our list.
31:58The number two meltdown of all time,
32:02the AFC in the Super Bowl.
32:0413 games in a row
32:06is, you know,
32:09probably too long a streak.
32:10It was such domination
32:14by the NFC.
32:15Back to back.
32:16Number one.
32:16Year after year after year.
32:18The Cowboys back to back.
32:20From the time the Raiders
32:21won Super Bowl 18 in 1984
32:24until the Broncos
32:27won Super Bowl 32 in 1998,
32:31This one's for John.
32:33the AFC lost 13 straight Super Bowls
32:36and lost them big
32:38by an average of three touchdowns.
32:40What a terrible disappointment
32:42for the Bills.
32:45Chances are,
32:46by the second half,
32:47there'd be plenty of time
32:48to go to the bathroom.
32:49Super Bowl 19
32:50is in the record books.
32:51The AFC just kept
32:52getting their asses kicked.
32:53Kicks their ass!
32:54It was for a while
32:55in the 80s
32:56a different team every year.
32:57It wasn't just the Niners.
32:58The Bears,
33:00they go one year
33:01and win big.
33:01William Perry has scored!
33:03The Giants go one year
33:04and win big.
33:04I'm gonna go to Disney World.
33:06Redskins go next year
33:07and win big.
33:08Touchdown,
33:08Washington Redskins!
33:12I feel for the networks there
33:14because you've got
33:14the biggest audience
33:15you're gonna have all year
33:16and you've got a frickin'
33:17blowout on your hands,
33:18you know,
33:18so what do you do?
33:19Nine minutes and 44 seconds
33:21left to play
33:22in the third quarter.
33:24Oh,
33:24let's find out
33:24what Don Beebe does
33:25in his personal life.
33:26Beebe said he received
33:28hundreds of pieces of mail
33:29after last year's Super Bowl.
33:30Let's get an update
33:31on the Bug Bowl.
33:32Whatever works.
33:33There is an awful lot
33:34of football
33:35yet to be played here.
33:36They started putting
33:37more emphasis
33:37on halftime shows
33:39in these big
33:39elaborate productions.
33:43Bruce Springsteen
33:44appeared last year.
33:45That's a descendant
33:46of the AFC losing
33:46to the NFC.
33:51Washington's first
33:52offensive play
33:53of the second quarter
33:54ignited the most
33:55stunning 15 minutes
33:57of football
33:58in NFL history.
33:59The AFC's losing streak
34:01ranks number two
34:02on our list
34:03thanks to some
34:04of the biggest meltdowns
34:05in Super Bowl history.
34:09Like the second quarter
34:10of Super Bowl XXII
34:12when Denver
34:13allowed five touchdowns.
34:15Neil O'Donnell
34:16throws two bad passes
34:17to Larry Brown.
34:18O'Donnell threw
34:18a break to him.
34:19There was no receiver
34:20out there.
34:21I don't know if there
34:21was a miscommunication
34:23there or what.
34:24The Giants beat the Bills.
34:25The Bills beat
34:25themselves really.
34:27That spot in the air.
34:29It's got the distance
34:29it is.
34:30So good.
34:31They went 92 yards
34:34in 11 plays.
34:40It's just totally
34:42cyclical.
34:42I truly believe
34:43in cycles.
34:44In the 70s
34:45the Steelers
34:46and the Raiders
34:47and the Dolphins
34:47were the best
34:48organizations
34:49and they had to
34:50beat each other
34:50to get to the Super Bowl.
34:53Then you got
34:53into the 80s
34:54and the 49ers
34:55with Bill Walsh.
34:56They are the world champions.
34:58And the Redskins
34:59with Joe Gibbs.
34:59We are seeing
35:00a virtuoso performance.
35:02And the Giants
35:02with Bill Parcells
35:03were the model franchises
35:04so they would push
35:05each other
35:05to these greatest heights.
35:07The 49ers
35:08have brought
35:08the quality of football
35:09in the NFL
35:10to really a new level.
35:11You never think
35:12about that
35:13when you're playing.
35:1346 A boss
35:14on two,
35:15on two,
35:15all you think about
35:16is beating
35:17the other team.
35:18The only time
35:19I ever thought
35:20about AFC-NFC
35:21was in the Pro Bowl
35:21because if we won
35:22we got more money.
35:23So let's go AFC.
35:25coming up
35:25and now
35:27the number one
35:28meltdown
35:29of all time
35:30Jim Mora's
35:32Playoffs
35:33Number one
35:34meltdown
35:35of all time
35:36is playoffs.
35:38Playoffs?
35:38It's gotta be.
35:40Playoffs?
35:41Playoffs?
35:42Playoffs?
35:43Playoffs?
35:44Playoffs?
35:44Playoffs?
35:45You kidding me?
35:46Playoffs?
35:47Are you kidding me?
35:48Playoffs?
35:49During the Renaissance
35:49oil painting
35:50reached its apotheosis
35:52and I think
35:53the Monday press conference
35:54you know
35:55peaked with
35:56Playoffs?
35:57Playoffs?
35:57Whenever you hear
35:58the word playoffs
35:59you automatically
36:00think back to Jim Mora.
36:02Automatically.
36:03You're out at the bar
36:04having a few drinks
36:05with your buddies
36:05and somebody
36:06sooner or later
36:07is going
36:07Playoffs?
36:09Are you kidding me?
36:10Playoffs?
36:11I bet you
36:11a poll of people
36:13couldn't tell you
36:14what year it was
36:15and what game
36:17it was after
36:18all they remember
36:19is playoffs?
36:20Playoffs?
36:21And the Colts missed
36:21the...
36:23Playoffs?
36:23I walk down
36:24the street occasionally
36:25and some guy's
36:26walking this way
36:27and he'll kind of
36:28look at me
36:29and then we'll pass
36:30and all of a sudden
36:31I'll hear
36:31playoffs?
36:32Playoffs?
36:33There's something
36:33about Jim Mora's voice
36:34which is sort of
36:35high-pitched
36:36and it kind of
36:37hits your ear
36:37a certain...
36:38It was the only time
36:39from 99 to 2010
36:41that the Colts
36:42missed the...
36:44playoffs?
36:46...way...
36:48Playoffs?
36:48When you hear
36:49somebody who's whiny
36:50and angry
36:50it's funny.
36:52Playoffs?
36:53That's usually
36:53what I sound like
36:54when I'm yelling
36:55at my kid.
36:56Don't talk about
36:56playoffs?
36:57The eyebrow is up,
36:59the body language
36:59is completely
37:00taken...
37:02Playoffs?
37:03The visual
37:03complements
37:04the audio
37:05better than
37:06any other
37:07meltdown
37:07we've ever seen.
37:14I'm very impressed
37:16with what a great
37:17football player
37:18this guy is
37:18and
37:20get that on TV.
37:22Long before he
37:23uttered
37:24playoffs
37:24Jim Mora
37:26was known
37:26for his
37:26entertaining
37:27press conferences.
37:34The NFL
37:34needs
37:35personalities.
37:36You need
37:36guys
37:37that can
37:37provide
37:38those
37:38soundbites
37:39that can
37:39make people
37:40laugh.
37:40It makes
37:40the game
37:41powerful.
37:41Without
37:42Jim Mora
37:42without guys
37:43like that
37:43around
37:44it does
37:44get just
37:45a little
37:45less
37:45interesting.
37:46We all
37:47love
37:47Jim Mora.
37:48He said
37:49what we
37:49all have
37:50thought about
37:50one time
37:51or another.
37:52That's pitiful.
37:52I mean
37:53it's
37:53absolutely
37:54pitiful
37:54to perform
37:55like that.
37:56Pitiful.
37:57He was
37:57very sincere.
37:59It was
37:59not contrived.
38:00Holy crap.
38:01I don't know
38:01who the hell
38:01we think
38:02we are
38:03when we do
38:03something like
38:04that.
38:04I don't think
38:05that Jim Mora
38:05knew what was
38:06going to come
38:06out of his
38:07mouth.
38:07He was just
38:08being himself
38:08and that's
38:09what made
38:09it so
38:10wonderful.
38:10We couldn't
38:11do diddly
38:12poo
38:13offensively.
38:13We couldn't
38:14make a first
38:15down.
38:15We couldn't
38:16run the ball.
38:17We didn't
38:17try to run
38:17the ball.
38:18We couldn't
38:18complete a pass.
38:20We sucked.
38:26If that's
38:27all people
38:27remember about
38:28Jim Mora
38:29post-game
38:30explosions
38:31then that's
38:32really unfortunate
38:33because he was
38:34a good football
38:35coach.
38:36I worry that
38:36people are
38:37going to
38:37always think
38:38about Jim
38:39Mora
38:39saying some
38:40crazy thing
38:41after a game
38:41or something
38:42like that.
38:42But hey
38:42what can I
38:43do about
38:43it's my
38:43own fault.
38:44Jim Mora
38:45remains the
38:46winningest
38:46coach in the
38:47history of
38:47the Saints
38:48and once
38:49took the
38:49Colts from
38:5090 more.
38:52Worse to
38:52first.
38:53But to
38:53many he's
38:54remembered for
38:55one simple
38:56word.
38:57Playoffs.
38:58As much as
38:59he did in
38:59the NFL
38:59Jim Mora
39:00is going to
39:01be known
39:01for that
39:02little outburst.
39:03Playoffs.
39:04It's something
39:04you don't
39:04expect to hear
39:05from a
39:05football coach.
39:06I think
39:06comedy is
39:07at the
39:07essence of
39:08it all.
39:09Playoffs.
39:09It's timeless.
39:10It's like
39:11caddy shot.
39:12That was a
39:12classic,
39:13classic
39:13meltdown.
39:14Playoffs.
39:15Love it.
39:16Playoffs.
39:17Every time
39:17I see it.
39:18Playoffs.
39:18I don't
39:19see it
39:20at all.
39:20Playoffs?
39:21I want to
39:21see it
39:21every day.
39:22Don't talk
39:23about it.
39:23Playoffs?
39:24That is the
39:25greatest of all
39:25time and it
39:26will never
39:26ever be
39:27time.
39:28You kidding
39:28me?
39:29Playoffs?
39:32Greatest.
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