Yesterday, we had one of the worst blowouts in modern day NFL football.
The Miami Dolphins defeated the Denver Broncos by a mind boggling score of 70-20, which marks the most points scored in an NFL game since 1966.
And the worst part about it? The Dolphins still had nine minutes left in the game when they reached 70 points. IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE.
Needless to say, it’s a testament to how good the Dolphins offense is, which features the likes of Tua Tagovailoa at quarterback, Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle at wide receiver (Waddle didn’t play in this game), and Raheem Mostert at Running back. Rookie running back De’Von Achane also racked up a whopping 203 yards on 18 carries, and four total touchdowns in yesterday’s game as well.
And for the Broncos? Well, this is downright embarrassing. You fire head coach Nathaniel Hackett and bring in Super Bowl winning coach Sean Payton, who verbally bashed Hackett’s job last season along with the rest of the coaching staff…
Only to get 70 points hung on you this season, with your team appearing to get worse with each and every game.
Nevertheless, it’s still been impressive to see what second year Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel has done this season, and the team is just fun to watch all around.
Incase you don’t know much about McDaniel, he was born in Aurora, Colorado, and actually got his NFL start as a ball boy for the Broncos back in the day, after realizing he didn’t have much of a playing future in the NFL while playing football for Yale from 2001 to 2004.
He worked his way up through the ranks over the years, ultimately going from the very bottom to the very top of the NFL, becoming the new Dolphins head coach in 2022.
A pretty cool story if I must say so myself, and how cool is it that he almost got to hang a record in his home state, at the stadium he got his NFL start in?
When asked why he didn’t go for the record, McDaniel said:
“I try to think through all of my decisions and hold them with the importance that they do have. It felt like chasing points and chasing a record. That’s not what we came to the game to do.
That doesn’t have a bearing on the overall season outcome. I saw it as a—10 times out of 10—you concede and kneel down in those situations. Because there was an attainable record, that was cool.
But the message that I thought it would send wasn’t really in line with how I view things. It’s awesome to, I think it was the most points since ’66 or something, I think that’s awesome. For a regular-season record, you can have that and suffer the same fate as we had last year. I don’t care about that regular-season record.
It would have been cool, but what we’re trying to do, I think that would be talking out both sides of my mouth if we would have tried to send the field-goal team on and squeeze the extra three. It’s not really what I’m about.”
Back in 2000, the Denver Broncos did a little profile on this nine year old kid named Mike who lost his hat watching training camp. So when he asked someone if they found it, an assistant video director bought him a new one.
The assistant video director then invited Mike to training camp the next day, where he met Mike’s mom and his future wife. Young Mike eventually found himself on the sideline as a ball boy, and he gained a new step father in the process.
From Broncos ball boy to Broncos owner… what a story:
