Worst play in NFL history POLL
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The Pisarcik fumble was both 100% unnecessary and turned a sure win into a loss, so it's hard to top.
Lett in the snow was pretty heinous since a win became a loss, and it was as premeditated as it gets in the middle of a play.
I voted Jakobi because people here say it is the worst. It ruins the holidays and probably the rest of human existence. And even though I don't really feel that way now, as Chandler barreled into the endzone I kinda did. Now its just stupid.
Torn between Meyers and poor Griff. I think the immediate impact of the play has me leaning Meyers.
The fake punt thing was insane in design, but didn't have a real effect on the outcome of the game like todays did.
Do you think any non-Pats fan will remember unprompted the Meyers play 5+ years from now? Because it needs to rise to that level to compare to every other one posted.
I’m guessing no.
I’m guessing no.
Colts fake punt by a country mile. They actually DREW THAT UP AND RAN IT.
All the other ones are some stupid shit happened during a play that might've made sense on paper.
All the other ones are some stupid shit happened during a play that might've made sense on paper.
Voted Marshall, only because he not only ran the wrong way, he kept running. Not just a momentary brainfart but 5-10 seconds of total cluelessness.
There are posters here ready to demand BBs head. People will definitely remember this and its going to be rubbed in Pats fans faces like the buttfumble.
Its an L and we gotta take it. We got lots of Ws along the way...
Tonight was stupid but come on.
Also do we mean stupidest play in NFL history or worst? Because the Malcolm Butler INT may not have been a stupid play (YMMV) but I am guessing every Seahawks fan out there thinks it is the worst.
Also do we mean stupidest play in NFL history or worst? Because the Malcolm Butler INT may not have been a stupid play (YMMV) but I am guessing every Seahawks fan out there thinks it is the worst.
If this poll is “the most meaningful bad play in history” then I’m certain there are playoff plays that top this one.
Combination of stupid and meaningful. It was completely unforced. So much different than the Butler pick or the Miami Miracle etc.
We’ll see. I’m skeptical there’s going to be an oral history written about this play 10 years from today. For starters, the game was pretty meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and it didn’t have a national audience.
Again, to be the worst play in NFL history you probably needs some consensus among fans of the other 31 franchises. If you think fans of other teams are going to name check this play years from now that’s fine. I kinda doubt it.
Worst play in NFL history ended with Malcolm Butler going down at the 2 yard line and it isn't close.
I'm over it. I will get crap from random fans of other teams but I have six points of protection.
But this play will be held over the Pats for a while. They haven't been on the receiving end of this sort of thing often so it feels like the media is going to get as much value as possible.
100%. Legitimate chance it has a buttfumble legacy. On one hand, lack of butt hurts it there. But on the other hand, it borderline ended the Patriot season. It’s gonna have legs.
I just don’t care about that stuff. Maybe it’s me. But I’m an adult, why would I care if someone taunts me with a dumb Pats play? Middle schoolers care about that silliness.
Exactly. That stuff stopped stinging after a certain point. Middle school for you, Super Bowl XXXVI for me.
Nah, not middle school for me. I’m human. But I find the whole “embarrassing” thing to be weird. I have lots of things to be embarrassed about, but random events of the sports teams I follow don’t make the cut.
Like, a giants fan friend texted me about it. I said, yep that was awful. And scene. Whatever.
This was pretty bad. Certainly will be on NFL network’s top blunders list for the rest of our lives. I’m not sure where it ranks. It wasn’t the playoffs. I don’t know where it ranks.
Giants kicking to DeSean should be up there I guess. Romo fumbling the XP? Trey Junkin anyone?
Giants kicking to DeSean should be up there I guess. Romo fumbling the XP? Trey Junkin anyone?
This is why I voted it the stupidest play. Meyers runs backwards about 10 yards - which fine - it doesn’t matter if he gets stopped at the 30 or 40 and they weren’t going to advance forward on the sideline.
Meyers then throws the ball 10 yards back to Mac Jones who is surrounded by 3 Raiders defenders.
Is he thinking Jones can throw it forward again like a flea flicker? He can’t think that Jones is somehow going to break a 50 yard run.
Watching the replay a few hours later gave me the distance to realize it was all even dumber than I thought when I watched it live.
Voted Colts.
This one came to mind as well as Garo.
View: https://twitter.com/TDISportsClips/status/1345140037009240064
This one came to mind as well as Garo.
View: https://twitter.com/TDISportsClips/status/1345140037009240064
The Colt play was planned. This had a dreadful outcome but let me repeat what I said: The Colts PLANNED that play.
Yeah that's the one in the poll. Probably hsould have linked to it since it's not as famous as the other ones ,but still horrendously dumb.
Yea. I think they all are bad from different angles. But this is like - man you learn this shit in JV. Worst or not, it's hard to argue that it's not the dumbest.
McAfee's story is that the "QB" was never supposed to get into position to take the snap from the "center." The head coach (ignorant of the playbook) jumped in and told the QB to freelance and get under center to try and draw the Pats offside. The backup center followed the playbook which dictated "If QB sets up under center, we are definitely snapping the ball." He snapped the ball, surprising the QB and just about everyone else.
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And yet the coaching staff still called the play. Do we think with the correct "package" it might have worked?
So why plan it, practice it and call it?
Any one of those steps is the height of stupidity on behalf of many in the organization. I don't think any of these others go that far
They were only supposed to run the play against a certain look. They had a backup in and he fucked it up. The coaches absolutely should have aborted before the backup took the field. But against a certain look the play probably has some chance of success, otherwise the Colts would have never conceived it. I mean LOL Colts and all but they wouldn’t have created some trick play 100% doomed to failure.
Here's McAfee's recap, and it's totally worth a listen:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFWU3yTRNM
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFWU3yTRNM
It's up there, but the Buttfumble had physical calamity that will never be matched.
The only thing I can really point to positively in terms of its historical NFL legacy is that it didn't happen to a traditionally terrible team, so people won't be like, "oh that was SUCH a Jets/Browns/etc. play." Unless the Pats continue to play this way, in which case they might just earn their spot in that discussion.
The only thing I can really point to positively in terms of its historical NFL legacy is that it didn't happen to a traditionally terrible team, so people won't be like, "oh that was SUCH a Jets/Browns/etc. play." Unless the Pats continue to play this way, in which case they might just earn their spot in that discussion.
Once you have run the ball over the line of scrimmage you cannot throw a forward pass even if you bring the ball back behind the line of scrimmage.
I understand the Pisarcik love/hate being given here since it turned a win into a loss, whereas Jakobi just turned a chance at overtime into a loss. But I'm going to take the situation into account and bring up John Kasay kicking off out of bounds in the friggin' Super Bowl here. These are guys who are trained to split the uprights following a snap and hold with extremely large and fast people running at them - and from a stationary position with no oncoming pressure he missed - THE FIELD. (by the way - "the field" should be spoken in the voice Norm MacDonald uses to say "THE WORLD" in his routine about Germany). He missed THE FIELD.