The GREATEST Mistake in New York Jets HISTORY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- In a 1976 Monday Night Football game between the New York Jets and New England Patriots, Jets running back Clark Gaines ran a play that he was not supposed to run. However, the play not only changed Jets history for the better, but may have singlehandedly saved his NFL career in the process
NOTE: Because of a copyright issue/the NFL's complete lack of understanding on how fair use works, a 10-second portion around the 10:50 mark had to be trimmed. If you see an abrupt jump cut there, that's why, and it's completely out of my control
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Members of the 1976 Jets:
Duane Carrell
Pat Leahy
Steve Joachim
Joe Namath
Richard Todd
Clark Gaines
Burgess Owens
Shafer Suggs
Steve Rogers
Phil Wise
Steve Davis
Bob Gresham
Ed Taylor
Harry Howard
Jazz Jackson
Louie Giammona
Rich Sowells
Roscoe Word
Tommy Marvaso
Clifford Brooks
Ed Marinaro
Greg Buttle
Jim Rosecrans
Mike Hennigan
Carl Russ
Steve Poole
John Ebersole
Larry Keller
Bob Martin
John Roman
Joe Fields
Randy Rasmussen
Darrell Austin
Al Krevis
Robert Woods
Abdul Salaam
Winston Hill
Lawrence Pillers
Carl Barzilauskas
Garry Puetz
Howard Satterwhite
Richard Neal
David Knight
Jerome Barkum
Clint Haslerig
Keith Denson
Don Buckey
Ed Galigher
Richard Osborne
Billy Newsome
Rich Caster
Lou Piccone
Lou Holtz (head coach)
I remember watching him play in frigid Shea Stadium back in '77. With a name like Gaines, you knew he had to rack up some yardage. As for Ed Marinaro, he ended up becoming a cop on Hill Street Blues!
I was wondering if he was the same guy who became an actor, and later played a college football coach on tv
@@shanestanton8 yes the same guy
"The GREATEST Mistake in New York Jets HISTORY" - well that's a bold statement
Well, that's partly because the Jets have had a lot of bad luck over the years, the biggest one being Mo Lewis knocking out Drew Bledsoe in 2001.
@HENDRIX SOUSA I'm a Bills fan and have hated the Jets for longer than the Dolphins or Patriots. But the aftermath of the Mo Lewis hit on Drew Bledsoe made me hate the Patriots more.
@@John-tr6of Also they may have been cursed to ruin any QB prospects they get their hands on.
Most Debatable proclamation more like it.
Right? That's saying something.
Clark Gaines is a classic example of hard work and determination overcoming lack of talent. He didn’t have speed, didn’t have great moves, but still was successful
But he knew how to fall and get open while being grabbed. Finally, he recognized the unknown and trusted his instincts.
"Since footage of Wake Forest during the mid 70's wasn't available or is kept a secret and used by the government as a form of torture" is one of the best sentences ever
Maybe we should use it against the Taliban. ;)
@@derekbrown2215 Afghanistan is is the death of empires...they play real football there....maybe it could have worked...but the US was doomed to fail from the start...there was no plan to success...sucks.......but good reply...
You know what else can be considered a form of torture? Watching this year's Wisconsin squad fail at playing offense 😰
@@Phateagle262 I was born in Michigan...try being a Lions fan
@@Phateagle262 the Lions forced 2 HOF to retire...because they got tired of losing...
I remember watching this game on MNF. You explained this game and play perfectly. Your analyses of these games on all of your videos are amazing. Such a great channel. Keep up the wonderful work. It's awesome.
Also let's be thankful the QB was Joe Namath, who was always a gentleman of a player who would forgive a teammate's mistake.
Can you imagine if the QB was Marino? He would have been furious at this missed block, and demonstrated how mad he was on National TV, no question.
Brady is the same way.
@@jmad627 Definitely, both Brady and Marino wouldn't have let that slide.
I am admittedly biased since I went to Cornell and was part of the Cornell Athletic Department in an unpaid position when Ed Marinaro was a running back for the Big Red in his final two seasons. I was there when he set the NCAA rushing record.
Big Ed was not a bust with the Vikings. He was a starter for them in two Super Bowls and played well in both of them. But he didn't pile up a lot of yards or TD's for them because he was primarily a blocking back (for Chuck Foreman starting in Ed's second NFL season) and not their first option on offense.
In college, Marinaro had achieved much of his success by being a punishing runner and having better performances in the second half than in the first by wearing down the defense. He still holds four NCAA rushing records which indicate how often he was relied on as a running back: most rushes per game in a season (39.6 in 1971), career average carries per game (34.0, 1969-71), most rushing yards per game over an entire career (174.6, 1969-71), and earliest game reaching 1,000 rushing yards (5th, 1971).
As the #2 back in Minnesota, while he played well as a blocking back, his best game was taken away from him. With the Jets, he wasn't the primary running back at the beginning of the year, but as the coaching staff tried to find something that worked, when they made him the go to guy, he responded with those 100+ yard games.
The sad irony is that Marinaro was known for his durability as a runner at Cornell and with the Vikings. Just when he was finally getting a chance to prove that his college stats were not a fluke, an injury effectively ended his career, although he tried to come back with Seattle in '77. And it wasn't a knee or ankle injury. It was a foot injury.
Even so, Marinaro won the Maxwell Award and the UPI College Football Player of the Year as the top player in college football in his senior year. And he finished first in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in every region of the country except for the South where the voters basically en masse left him off their ballots so that Pat Sullivan of Auburn could win the trophy, much to the surprise of the those covering the naming of the winner on national TV.
But karma can be sweet. If anyone was a bust in pro football, it was Pat Sullivan, not Ed Marinaro. Sullivan only played in 30 NFL games (all for Atlanta) and started only 4, losing all 4. He completed only 93 of 220 passes with 5 TDs compared to 16 picks, 22 sacks and only 5.3 yards gained per attempt for a QB rating of 36.5. As the producer of the videos on this channel loves to point out, Sullivan would have had a higher QB rating if he merely spiked the ball on every single play.
Great re-cap Lois! Thanks for the insights, much appreciated!
I was about to use the spike the ball into the ground on every play line about Sullivan
I'm just trying to process that females actually watch these videos 😲😲😲
Great story. I saw Clark Gaines single handedly dismantle the the Tampa defense at shea stadium later that season, btw it was Joe Namath's last victory at Shea
Had a career high 27 carries in that game too. But to be fair, it was the '76 Bucs.
1. On that Monday Night game didn’t Patriots fans cause a lot of trouble that night?
2. You showed Gaines catching a lot of passes in a home game against the 49ers. I believe in that game Jets QB Richard Todd set a record for completions in a game, with Gaines catching 18 of them. As I recall that too was a single-game record at the time.
3. After Marinaro’s injury he must have been singing the blues…Hill Street Blues, that is.
It was 17 catches, which was one short of Tom Fears' existing record of 18. That's since been topped twice (TO with 20, Brandon Marshall with 21) and equalled twice (Brandon Marshall, Jason Witten).
www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rec_single_game.htm
Steve Grogan ran for a career high 105 yards in that game, and is the player picking up the fumble and running it in for a score.
The greatest mistake the Jets ever made was naming Lou Holtz head coach of the Jets in 1976.
Yeah skip to 33:09 here!
He’s #2 on that All time list
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Great post as always, Jag-Man. I really appreciate you telling this man's story, he seems like a great young man, great young athlete, and a role model.
Thanks again from a Steelers/Dolphins/Oilers fan as a little kid who always respected the Jets of olden days.
He’s my dad and he is pretty amazing 😊
2:25 "...footage is either unavailable, or kept secret and used by the Government as a form of torture."
Fair point, Wake Forest Football hasn't exactly had ANY highlights since Brian Piccolo played.
They may have used that film when they weren't using this to punish criminals: th-cam.com/video/5kwcLW9I0n8/w-d-xo.html
I love that line at 2:25 and will use it when describing the current Dolphins OL.
@Matt Joseph Also Muggsy Bogues and Chris Paul.
And they produced Chris Paul as well.
I like finding the tv cops in these videos. Saw renegade cop rick hunter in yesterdays pat video. Now hill street blues cop ed marinaro. Also appeared late on 'laverne and shirley' as well. Maybe do a video on nfl players turned tv/movie cops like bubba smith of the 'police academy' movies.
Why would the Jets get a head coach who never coached football at any level before? Sounds like a dumb decision.
We dont question how the Jets operate...
God, I wish I could remember the context and where I read this quote, but I think it applies to the Jets and its really vivid in my mind.: "I don't think I want people who know what they're doing."
This guy should make a channel solely devoted to the New York Jets.
Oh how I miss the games played at Shea stadium.
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In all honesty, he DID throw a block on the LB. It might have been his instinct or intuition that made him go for the pass.
yeah amen that wasn’t a whiff that was a perfectly executed block-and-release. Hence why Namath said “we got a running back here”
Exactly! He blocked the LB and got open then caught a pass, just like the coach didn’t draw it up! 🤣
This is a very Jets play that actually turned out for the best.
The 2:30 quip is pretty savage. But it is remarkable to remember how once it was hard to find tape of a college team even in the 80s. Especially if your, well, my team wasn't very good.
Would Kilamanjaro be an apt mountain for Gaines to climb?
Despite only playing basically half a season, Gaines not only was the Jets leading rusher, but he led all NFL rookies in rushing that season and was also named to the All-Rookie Team. Makes you wonder if there was ever another undrafted free agent rookie RB to do the same.
As for Marinaro, that injury pretty much ended his career, which was a darn shame.
It's amazing to Me that Clark Gaines had four 100-yard rushing games for that pathetic Jet offense that year.
He actually led all rookie RBs in rushing yardage, and did it after having just 37 yards in the first 6 games 😲
I just gotta say... you make somehow great videos. Great vibe. Thanks.
Clark Gaines had big heart for the game, glad he was able to have a successful career.
My proudest accomplishment, but first we need some context...
I started watching these videos about 4 months ago.
Now, I believe this is my 40th video.
40. Which we all know is more than 39.6, meaning I have surpassed the passer rating of anyone who would have spiked the ball on every single play!
Clark Gaines broke his leg in a mid-season game at Shea Stadium vs. the Patriots. (do you have the footage?) and it ended his Jet career.
The greatest mistake in Jets history was firing Pete Carroll after only one season and replacing him with Rich Kotite.
Mr. "I'm 80 years old and want to win now" had to eat a lot of shit for that.
When I heard they did this to bring in Kotite ....
Darwin award winning move
@@chrisrifkin3670 I'll tell you one thing, between Rich Kotite and Dave Brown. The local morning shown on wpdh radio in Poughkeepsie ny(near where I live in ny state) had no shortage of radio bits regarding how shitty the Giants and the jets were
@@bigdrew565 haha Poughkeepsie is my home town . I used to listen to Coop in the morning .
Anywho , kotite did lead to Parcells and eventually our 4 first round picks . So it worked out in the end.
@@robertlawrence4719 waking up with the wolf on my way to school. I got to find something free that I can covert windows media to something that can be uploaded here. Because I got some songs you'd love to hear.
Wake Forest football was so bad that they were the inspiration for the Steely Dan song, “Deacon Blues”. “They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, call me Deacon Blues”. One my favorite Steely Dan tunes!
The 70's were a wild time in the NFL
45 Years Ago
I was ready to drink the spike, but stayed sober this whole video.
In that Pats-Jets game, Steve Grogan had a career high 105 yards rushing, and was the player who ran the fumble into the end zone.
"DAMNIT GAINES!!!"
How do you do all that work to catch on to an NFL roster and then not learn the playbook?
@Douglas Farshtey After finding out Gaines had poor grades in high school and then the playbook thing, he might have actually been dyslexic. In the '70s nobody had any idea about dyslexia, let alone how to treat it. He definitely doesn't come across as sounding dumb in his interview snippets.
Wake Forest's football team during this time was so bad it was the inspiration for the Steely Dan song Deacon Blue.
Wow, I didn’t know that. Learn something everyday.
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues
The greatest mistake in NY Jets history - only one name comes to mind - Mo Lewis.
He means greatest in the sense of a mistake that worked in their favor.
Part of the eight game lou holtz experiment. Also rip joe walton. Walton, who got the jets to the playoffs twice-including the 2 ot brown playoff game loss-seems like a pretty good jet coach when compared to coslet, gase, holtz, kotite... And where was riggo? Walked out on the jets already by then?
Gains would have had a longer career but he had a devastating leg injury in 1980 that seriously hampered his career and even after the recovery, he was never the same and retired in 1982 due to the bad leg holding him back. He might have become a hall of fame running back equal the the likes of Walter Payton of he had stayed healthy with a good leg but sometimes injuries can end a career before it should have.
Do ya think ?? Let’s compare The 1st 5 years before the injury -Gaines 581 carries 2552 yards 8 TD / Payton- 1548 carries 6926 yards 59TD Yea if he would have played for 32 years probably 🤣😂
Those Jets' uniforms looked like a franchise that long since stopped trying.
So something went right for the jest and it turned out to be an accident. Makes sense to me.
9:25 didn't Gaines give the defender a rub block before slipping out for the pass?
Clark Gaines still holds the NFL record for most receptions by a running back with 18, no receiver will ever break that record, P.S. Clark Gaines had 18 targets during that game against the 49ers back in September 1980!!
How about "The Greatest First Play of a New Stadium Opening": Rich Stadium for the Buffalo Bills, and a kickoff return for a touchdown during a preseason game by a Washington player named Herb Mul-Key.
Gaines also had more rushing yards than any rookie RB in '76 despite going undrafted in a class that had Mike Pruitt, Chuck Muncie and Joe Washington.
7:05 Can someone plz explain why, in a home game in Foxboro between the Jets and Patriots, there is a NFC logo in the endzone?
The field art at Sullivan Stadium at that time represented the entire NFL.
@@alice_evermore so it had both conference logos in each endzone?
@@nickbradfordsr80 Each end zone had both conference logo's to the sides and the NFL logo in the centre. The "Patriot" figure was at the 50-yard-line.
@@alice_evermore thx
The fact that Broadway Joe is in the HOF with the numbers he put up still baffles me.
He's in the HOF because of Super Bowl III.
He’s not in because of stats. He’s in because he’s one of the architects of the modern NFL. BTW, if you ever saw him play when he was somewhat healthy, you’d have more understanding
@@TTony-tu6dm i was born in 69 so i didnt get to see him play, i just saw his pantyhose commercials.
@@Bruce12867 He was named the MVP of Super Bowl III, he had it so rough, handing the ball off to Matt Snell 30 times and watching him gain 121 yards and score the lone Jets TD, what a performance Broadway Joe!
@@davidcobb2693 His record for consecutive completed passes in a Super Bowl stood for quite a few years.
How about a series of head coaches rotating and 1rst round draft pick qbs without a team around them for starters?
I don't know. It looks like he hit the block, then rolled off for the pass. The blown assignment that was a danger Namath was on the other side of the line. That was a fun night, and a great season for the Pats.
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Ed marinaro was also coach Daniels on BMS
Lou Holtz being named Jets coach ... and not even lasting a full season is the biggest mistake the team ever made!
Description of the actual play begins about 8:33.
If only the Jets were as rich in good fortune as the Yankees, maybe then they wouldn't be the black sheep of the NFL. 😓
The Jets can’t outspend the competition like the Yankees can.
The Jets once had a guy named Klecko,Joe Klecko.Ever heard of him?
ny sack exchange.
This is second biggest in jets history, the second is the logo they have now
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JETS! JETS! JETS!
J-E-S-T
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WHAT about trading John Riggins to Washington?
Despite all the glorification heaped on Weeb Ewbank, he was a notorious tightwad in his role as GM, and pretty much wrecked the jets by letting their best offense player (Riggins) AND their best defensive player (DT Verlon Biggs) go, rather than giving the pay raises that they deserved.
Ed marinaro was actually a better actor.
To this day the jets continue to make mistakes in the hope that they will strike it lucky again
Why is half of the b-roll Jets vs. Seahawks?
He could have said that he knew what the play was he just whiffed on the block.
I guess Johnny “lamb” Jones didn’t qualify?
Personal foul unnecessary roughness JG9 piling on Wake Forest
Good news he made the jets bad news he made the jets
Looks like Gaines made a block on a linebacker and then released and made the catch. If he was supposed to block the backside linebacker, why wasn't he lined up on the backside of Namath? Just saying.
My 8th birthday--i don't remember it.
THE Jets are the biggest mistake in NFL history...🤮🤮🤮🤮😥😥😥😥
Except for the fact Gaines didn't miss his block, he blocked the LB who then went down the line and got blocked by someone else as Gaines released. Maybe you can go with the claim that he wasn't supposed to release, but if he wasn't, Namath would have never located him that quickly. Sorry dude, this video is bunk. We all have eyes and can see the play and how it unfolded. There was no whiff on the block.
this video is at least 15x longer than the play itself
i think it's the marino fake spike
Do you know what JETS stand for? Just End The Season!
The Jets were a joke in the 1970s
The GREATEST MISTAKE in New York Jets' history was the DRAFTING of TALENTLESS LOSER Quarterback Ken O'Brien in 1983. Sam Darnold is the 2nd WORST thing the New York Jets have EVER DONE. The New York Jets would be BETTER OFF SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!
I remember watching this game as an 11 year old Pats fan. That 1976 Pats team, if not for a bogus roughing the passer call late in the 4th quarter, of a playoff game would've beaten the eventual champs that year, the Oakland Raiders, who the Pats had thrashed earlier that season. I had to wait another 25 years to see the Pats win it all...
Fumbutt?
No, this video isn't about Mark Sanchez. 😆
Love your videos, but I hope you do something with the mic.
It sounds like you are in the toilet.
A happy accident