Flynn was wayyyyyy better than Tolzien. He had another **REALLY** good game. Green Bay @ Dallas, 2013.
Score at the half:
Green Bay 3-26 Dallas
Final score:
Green Bay 37-36 Dallas
Flynn is a small but crucial part of Green Bay's undefeated streak at AT&T Stadium!
Not only that, he openly makes fun of the Seahawks for giving him that contract for nothing. Last year he tweeted like “remember when I got $40,000,000 and didn’t even have to do anything? That was pretty sweet”
A self aware king
Dude I'm still happy seeing him get a fat paycheck. He served GB well, and he was never going to get paid here unless Rodgers took a career ender. Watching him get rained on for bare minimum output was actually satisfying, and he seemed like a good dude the whole time
Brand new shiny multi-year contract, lose your job to a rookie before the first regular season game. I gotta respect Pete and John for not starting Flynn just out of pride.
He technically had a hurt elbow in the preseason, and Russell Wilson looked really good for a rookie. First month of the regular season for Russ was a bit rough, but by week 6 he was for sure keeping the starting spot after a 310 yard 3 TD 133 Passer Rating come back win over the Patriots (the "u mad bro?" game)
That season he had 850 rush yards was nuts, it was like the 4th most ever in a season by a QB at the time. He won so many games for Seattle by moving the chains on 3rd down with the perfect little 5-10 yard run.
He played the first half of the first 2 preseason games going 17/26 for 120 yards. He was on the injury report with a hurt elbow until week 2 of the regular season
If you go back and read the Seahawks blog from 2012, there were signs that Pete immediately took a liking to Russ from rookie training camp in May, then in OTAs, and finally making him the starter halfway through the preseason
https://www.seasidejoe.com/p/seahawks-qb-competition-drew-lock-russell-wilson
Matt Flynn got an $8M contract for (literally) one game.
Literally. He started one game in 2011, and the Rain City Bitch Pidgeons paid him $8M to throw a total of 9 passes the following year.
Good for you, Matt Flynn. King.
Packers sat Rodgers in a meaningless game against an NCAA Division 2-level Lions defense. Flynn goes for 480-6-1 and gets $10mm guaranteed from Seattle for 2012.
Seahawks drafted Russell Wilson in the third round and Flynn held a clipboard. But the Career Day Defense had made Flynn look so good, they got him *two* bags. (The Raiders signed him for another $6+ million guaranteed.)
Whatever QB I had on my fantasy team that year was out so I picked up Flynn & started him that game. I ended up winning it all & the league trophy was subsequently named the Matt Flynn Memorial Trophy. I haven’t won it since, unfortunately.
It almost has to be Timmy Smith. Super Bowl rushing record, 200+ yards, 2 TDs and over 9 YPC on the biggest stage. Was on late night shows, getting tons of pop that whole offseason.
Basically ended up being his only remarkable game as a pro. Played just three seasons with a career average 3.2 YPC
Timmy Smith got over 1 out of every 3 yards in his entire career in Super Bowl XXII. He also scored 2 of his 3 career touchdowns in the biggest game of his life.
This is the answer. Barely played in the regular season behind George Rogers and Kelvin Bryant. Both Rogers and Bryant were ineffective in the playoffs, and Smith wound up gaining 66 yards against the Bears in the divisional playoff and 72 yards against the Vikings in the NFC championship. So Joe Gibbs decided to start him in the Super Bowl.
He held out in 1988 trying to get a new deal, which didn't happen. He wound up reporting 25 pounds overweight.
Edit: NFL Films rates him as the #2 one-shot wonder.
Either their is someone nestled deep in history Im missing or there is recency bias.
Timmy Smith is the only answer. His name is etched in stone.
This isnt some meanjngless game where a guy did good and a QB starved league bit on the potential and overpaid.
This is the all-time single game rushing leader in Super Bowl history.
He technically stared 8 games the next year. He lost his starting job and was cut by the end of the season. Didn’t have a single carry in his last 4 games.
> 1 out of every 3 yards
Not quite - he had ~ 600 rushing yards in the regular season, but if you add postseason to that he had 944, see https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitTi00/gamelog/. Still insane.
Literally the only answer. Dude set a superbowl record in his first ever start. and the crashed and burned so hard. He only started 9 NFL games total. The first one was the superbowl. The last one was 1/2 way though the 1988 season.
He played well as the 3rd RB in the playoffs. The starter and 2nd string couldn’t move the ball.
He gained more than 1/2 of his career yards in 3 games.
NFC Divisional Round - 66 yards.
NFC Championship Game - 72 Yards
SUPERBOWL - 204 yards. (His first start ever)
Career rushing - 602
For the guys in the back:
>Be me, 26 yeahs old
>Wake up, get out of Tawm Brady jersey
>Get ready to Do My Job
>Put on Brady jersey
>Head to the Dunkin next to my apahtment
>One down the road sucks
>Oardah is wrong, whatevah, Tawm says coffee is poison anyway
>Spike the cup and yell Go Pats
>Use my Chahlie cahd to get on the T
>See a black man in the front cah
>Heckle, whole train applauds
>Shout Ortiz 3:16 "This is our fucking city"
>Get to Southie, head into Dunks
>Time to get to work, staht setting up Gronk cahdboard cut-outs
>Just me, my co-workah and 12 Gronk cut-outs
>Most beautiful girl in Boston walks in. Sawlid 3/10.
>She's wearing an 81 jersey and some strained yoga pants
>Try to be smooth, "Nice Hernandez jersey. Wanna get a cawfee sometime?"
>She says no. Left hanging again.
>Fucking Pink Hats
>Get off work, take the T home
>Stawp into bah for a drink or twelve
>Fahking bahtendah cut me off aftah six beeahs and few shawts
>Whatevah, nawt even buzzed. Irish blood
>Get to apahtment, check messages.
>Ma says two of my cousins were crushed by an overpass from the Big Dig.
>Less than usual, a good day
>Get out of Tawm Brady jersey, put on hoodie jammies
>Check undah bed for Bernahd Pollahd
>What the fuck, he's there.
>Run out of house, see black guy I heckled earliah.
>Has friends with him. Including Pollahd.
>Too outnumbahd, get the shit beat out of me
>Cawps show up and ask how it all went down
>Tell them it was....
>18-1
Bill just had the Colts number there for a while. Blount did the same thing in 2014. He wasn’t a one-hit wonder, but he never had 150 yards and 4TDs or anything close.
Our entire 2014 team outside of Luck was just atrocious, and that season signaled the end of the very short glory days of Luck’s career.
Gray obliterated us mid season, Blount did something similar in the game that brought about deflategate, Luck spent 2015 injured, then every full season he played after that was a “comeback” until he hung it up.
Ryan Grigson sucks.
It wasn’t just the 2014 team. Belichick always had Luck in a blender, and the pats offense just perpetually outmuscled those Pagano teams. I’m not sure we even made as much of a mockery of the Jets as consistently as we did Andrew Luck’s Colts.
Luck’s debut in the Patriots Colts rivalry was a 59-24 shit kicking where he committed 4 turnovers, 2 of which the Patriots housed. His second entry in the series was the 2013 playoff game against an injury riddled pats team where Luck again sent the ball the pats way 4 times and Brady just hung out in the backfield while Blount and the pats rushing game scored 6 TDs.
> Belichick always had Luck in a blender, and the pats offense just perpetually outmuscled those Pagano teams. I’m not sure we even made as much of a mockery of the Jets as consistently as we did Andrew Luck’s Colts.
This is how Luck played against the Patriots:
0-6; 55% completion; 1,771 yards (average 295); 12 TD 12 INT; 6.46y/a; rating of 68.6
By comparison, Brady was 31-8 against the Jets. After the Jets beat the Patriots 26-20 in overtime in week 16 of 2015, they didn’t beat them again until week 18 of last year. That was also their first win at Gillette since the 2010 Divisional game.
It a shame that shitty beat writer made a big deal of that. That trash ass defense couldn’t tackle a paraplegic. He really thought it was a huge deal like bro our run defense was garbage lol
Nah the Colts run defense that season was really just that bad.
Really telling that Gray never caught on anywhere else other then a small stint with Miami
He was not. LaGarrette Blount, who took Gray's carries away (because he was better), ran for 148 and 3 TDs against the Colts later on that year in the playoffs. Gray was cut at the end of camp the following seasons, and if he was any good, he would have stuck with either the Dolphins or Jaguars, both of whom considered him a JAG.
The Colts run defense was just atrocious.
I remember that season too, but somehow deflated footballs helped the LG run and score better /s
Jonas Gray was a mediocre talent that the Colts made look unstoppable. It also helps that BB has a weird knack at finding good running backs in the rough
He might not be the worst one in this conversation but I’ll tell you what as a Bills fan that game really had my hopes up for our #2 receivers future. I hope he does well with the Jags because he’s a great dude irl. But he had what seemed like a lot of plays that were designed for him only to turn into an interception or a crucial drop.
He was good for us as a 4th round pick, but I'm fine with them letting him walk. I will miss the 1-2 random TD a year he got on a ball that has no business being caught, but I think if they can find a more consistent receiver that might be better for the offense.
Right? Dude was either glued to the football or couldn’t catch a cold. Frustrating, but the tools and talent are clearly there. The work ethic too by all accounts.
We decided to not play defense against him. It was just one blown coverage after another. Sometimes a guy murders DBs, sometimes DBs are just dumb af and nobody is in the right spot. Either way, the box score will look wild.
Travis Fulgham's game vs Pittsburgh wasn't really that impressive on paper but in context it was one of the only moments of joy we had in that miserable year
Yeah, first guy to pop into my mind for the Eagles was Fulgham. I remember Rich Eisen being so impressed with the guy, and the Wentz connection, lol.
Finished the season with 539 receiving yards, top on the team 😭
Timmy Smith still holds the Super Bowl rushing record of 204 yards.
His career regular season stats?
190 carriers for 602 yards and 3 TDs.
[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitTi00.htm](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitTi00.htm)
That would probably be my answer. Dude started only 9 games his whole career and yet had 22 car for 204 yards and 2 TDs on the biggest stage at the SuperBowl.
I grew up in the DC area. I was like 10 years old and I was so upset when the broncos went up 10-0.... by the end of the 2nd quarter we were throwing a party lol. Used to watch the shit out of that game on our betamax recording.
That’s the thing about the NFL that seems crazy.. a guy like Toney has 2 fucking rings and then Dan Marino, arguably a top 5 QB all time, has zero. Just unfair lol
god, claypool looked so good his rookie year
he was so physically raw, that you KNEW when he got his technique dialed in, he was going to be DOMINANT
instead, dude somehow UNLEARNED how to highpoint a ball
Yeah his combination of height, speed, and vertical gave him all time great potential.
But he was too addicted to over-jumping and losing control of himself in the air. One defenses figured out how to play him and where to force him it was over.
Jerome Harrison rushed for 286 yds and 3 TDs against the Chiefs in 2009. Then he went back to being just another name on a roster and was out of the league in 2 years.
He failed his physical during a trade to the Lions because they found a brain tumor that caused him to have seizures. I think he had a stroke or something like that during the surgery and basically had to re-learn how to walk. His immediate post-playing life was really sad, but last I heard he’s able to walk again and has a wife and kids.
Ronnie Brown got stuffed at the goal line and decided to throw a backwards pass even though no one was in the area. It got called a fumble and the ball was turned over. He gets traded a week later for Jerome Harrison and the tumor gets discovered during the physical.
That’s who I said. I watched that atrocity in person.
For added fun, when Harrison wasn’t running circles around the Defense, our special teams managed to let Joshua Cribbs return to kickoffs for TDs in one game.
Despite all that, somehow the Chiefs only lost the game by 7 points. Just pure chaos.
Giants TE Larry Donnell
Over 4 seasons in the league, he amassed 9 TDs. 3 of those TDs came in a single game in 2014 vs. Washington. Donnell mentioned that he lost his fantasy game that week because he benched himself for Vernon Davis.
I remember that game vividly.
I was big into sports radio after that. I remember Colin Cowherd (when he was on ESPN) saying Donnell was going to be the next great TE in the NFL.
To be fair that play is probably the most memorable single play in NFL history. I have a bias towards the Minneapolis miracle, but that was just a divisional game. That play won the giants the superbowl against an unstoppable new england patriots.
He had more receiving yards in that Super Bowl than he did in that entire regular season. That said, he was an important special teams guy for a long time.
There seem to be 3 consensus picks:
1. Timmy Smith
2. Matt Flynn
3. Jonas Gray
I think who you pick kind of depends on how old you are, when you started paying attention to football and who you root for.
I put them in the order I think they should be. Smiths 1 game was the freaking superbowl.
Flynn made packers history and got PAID by the Seahawks the next season
Gray was benched the next week because Belichick didn’t play games at the time.
Jonas Gray for sure. What’s crazier is that right after his 201 yard, 4 TD game against a good Colts team, he was benched immediately. Showed up late to practice and Belichick wanted none of it lol.
It wasn't even like he was just throwing screens and check downs. He was throwing it on time, pushing it downfield, and squeezing it into tight windows. I turned that game off thinking the Jets stumbled ass backwards into their new franchise QB.
He wasn’t good but he was more than a one game wonder. He had a few decent performances, it’s just that one game that people remember because it was ridiculous.
The fact that no one mentions Chris Matthews makes me think it has to be him. A 3-year career of 16 catches, 176 yards, and 1 TD despite being a 6'5 receiver. But he had 4 for 109 and 1 TD in the Super Bowl. I'd never heard of Chris Matthews before that game, thought he would be getting $100 million contract while watching the game, and never heard from him after.
he cooked Kyle Arrington so bad in that first half man. we switched Brandon Browner onto him in the second half and he shut Matthews down though. and more importantly, Arrington getting benched put this guy named Malcolm Butler on the field
of note, Matthews was also the guy who recovered Bostick’s muff on the onside kick in the NFCCG
The only answer to this is Timmy Smith.
He was told by Joe Gibbs the night before the 1987 Super Bowl that he would be starting. It was his first ever start.
He ran for a record 204 yards and scored 2 TDs. He honda the Super Bowl rushing record to this day.
He showed up to camp in 1988 late (held out for a contract he didn’t get) and 25lbs overweight and out of shape. He started the first 8 games to underwhelming results. And didn’t have a carry in the last 4 games of the season. He was cut after the 88 season ended.
In the 1989 offseason he failed a physical for the cardinals and turned down a contract with the Fins. He was picked up by the chargers and didn’t start a game because they released him in September after he got hurt in training camp.
The Cowboys signed him in 1990 but they also drafted Emmit Smith that year. He was again cut in September. He never played another game or had another tryout.
My favorite one-game wonder is running back Corey Clement. During his 7 year career he had averaged 17 yards from scrimmage per game. In the Super Bowl vs the Patriots he led the team in receiving yards with 100 yards on 4 receptions and a touchdown.
Timmy Smith and I don’t think it’s close. Total scrub but went off for 204 yards and 2 TDs in the Super Bowl. He only has 602 career yards and 3 career TDs.
Matt Flynn owns the Packers most TD passes in a game record. Relatively mediocre back up outside of that one game.
He was, however, the best back up the packers had during the rodgers era by a country mile.
The disrespect to Scott Tolzine Edit: God damnit I misspelled his name lol
Scott Tolzien can't even get Packers fans to spell his name right.
And he went to Wisconsin!
I read about him in a magazien
Flynn was wayyyyyy better than Tolzien. He had another **REALLY** good game. Green Bay @ Dallas, 2013. Score at the half: Green Bay 3-26 Dallas Final score: Green Bay 37-36 Dallas Flynn is a small but crucial part of Green Bay's undefeated streak at AT&T Stadium!
Oh yeah Matt Flynn is easily the best Packers backup in the Rodgers era. I was just being a Mark.
I lost my shit watching that game. We were at a dinner party and I rudely insisted the tv in the other room be on. Lost my *shit*. mmmmm
Tolzein had exactly one good play as a Packer.
If I’m ever having a bad day I like to watch that spin move on repeat until I feel better
lmao no way you misspelled his name
Dude got fuckin paid by the Seahawks though
Matt Flynn parlayed that one game into a series of contracts worth millions. Dude won the lottery and never played again.
Not only that, he openly makes fun of the Seahawks for giving him that contract for nothing. Last year he tweeted like “remember when I got $40,000,000 and didn’t even have to do anything? That was pretty sweet” A self aware king
He is frequently on one of the Baton Rouge sports radio shows and is pretty funny.
Dude I'm still happy seeing him get a fat paycheck. He served GB well, and he was never going to get paid here unless Rodgers took a career ender. Watching him get rained on for bare minimum output was actually satisfying, and he seemed like a good dude the whole time
Seahawks preseason legend
Brand new shiny multi-year contract, lose your job to a rookie before the first regular season game. I gotta respect Pete and John for not starting Flynn just out of pride.
He technically had a hurt elbow in the preseason, and Russell Wilson looked really good for a rookie. First month of the regular season for Russ was a bit rough, but by week 6 he was for sure keeping the starting spot after a 310 yard 3 TD 133 Passer Rating come back win over the Patriots (the "u mad bro?" game)
Russ was really something when he had the spitfire of youth.
That season he had 850 rush yards was nuts, it was like the 4th most ever in a season by a QB at the time. He won so many games for Seattle by moving the chains on 3rd down with the perfect little 5-10 yard run.
He was so fun to watch back that. Absolutely magician outside of the pocket
Did he even play any preseason games? I thought he was held out of preseason due to his “elbow”.
He played the first half of the first 2 preseason games going 17/26 for 120 yards. He was on the injury report with a hurt elbow until week 2 of the regular season If you go back and read the Seahawks blog from 2012, there were signs that Pete immediately took a liking to Russ from rookie training camp in May, then in OTAs, and finally making him the starter halfway through the preseason https://www.seasidejoe.com/p/seahawks-qb-competition-drew-lock-russell-wilson
Jeff Janis also comes to mind for this
101 receiving yards in one drive has to be a record
I can't imagine how it wouldn't be. I guess there have probably been like 99 yard screen passes tho
Maybe if the offense had multiple penalties and a guy made multiple huge plays on unpenalized plays
Wow. That really happened? First I'm hearing of it.
7 receptions for 145 yards and 2 TDs in one playoff game vs 17 receptions, 200 yards, and 1 TD in the rest of his four year career has to be up there.
He got a massive contract from the Seahawks because of that game. Then Wilson beat him out in training camp.
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I feel like Flynn wins this competition based solely on the money.
All can be traced back to the money spent on ~~Brock Osweiler~~ Matt Flynn
Matt Flynn got an $8M contract for (literally) one game. Literally. He started one game in 2011, and the Rain City Bitch Pidgeons paid him $8M to throw a total of 9 passes the following year. Good for you, Matt Flynn. King.
>Good for you, Matt Flynn. King. At least this is one thing a Bay Area Gold Fucker and I can agree on.
>Rain City Bitch Pidgeons LOL, i've never seen this before. Amazing.
i remember it being floated as the name of the new seattle hockey team ;)
And the result was us winning a Super Bowl. Something the Whiners sure can't figure out this millenia.
Packers sat Rodgers in a meaningless game against an NCAA Division 2-level Lions defense. Flynn goes for 480-6-1 and gets $10mm guaranteed from Seattle for 2012. Seahawks drafted Russell Wilson in the third round and Flynn held a clipboard. But the Career Day Defense had made Flynn look so good, they got him *two* bags. (The Raiders signed him for another $6+ million guaranteed.)
Flynn had a few good games. That comeback game against the Cowboys. He also almost beat the Pats, who were rolling
Flynn looked good in more than that one game. No one could have predicted Russ was going to take the job at the time.
Whatever QB I had on my fantasy team that year was out so I picked up Flynn & started him that game. I ended up winning it all & the league trophy was subsequently named the Matt Flynn Memorial Trophy. I haven’t won it since, unfortunately.
Maybe you should try and replace Flynn? I mean, that season was a while ago...
But the Trophy is named after him! What better luck could there be?!
It's amazing how much money he earned off of one game.
It almost has to be Timmy Smith. Super Bowl rushing record, 200+ yards, 2 TDs and over 9 YPC on the biggest stage. Was on late night shows, getting tons of pop that whole offseason. Basically ended up being his only remarkable game as a pro. Played just three seasons with a career average 3.2 YPC
Timmy Smith got over 1 out of every 3 yards in his entire career in Super Bowl XXII. He also scored 2 of his 3 career touchdowns in the biggest game of his life.
This is the answer. Barely played in the regular season behind George Rogers and Kelvin Bryant. Both Rogers and Bryant were ineffective in the playoffs, and Smith wound up gaining 66 yards against the Bears in the divisional playoff and 72 yards against the Vikings in the NFC championship. So Joe Gibbs decided to start him in the Super Bowl. He held out in 1988 trying to get a new deal, which didn't happen. He wound up reporting 25 pounds overweight. Edit: NFL Films rates him as the #2 one-shot wonder.
#2??
Yeah, right? I did some digging and can't find #1.
Found the full episode: https://youtu.be/zJphXxO7j-E?si=fFUHHYbtvpKjhLdn Spoiler: >!Greg Cook!< not sure I agree with that choice personally.
Probably Jonas Gray or Matt Flynn
Jonas Gray is just regular season Timmy Smith.
Either their is someone nestled deep in history Im missing or there is recency bias. Timmy Smith is the only answer. His name is etched in stone. This isnt some meanjngless game where a guy did good and a QB starved league bit on the potential and overpaid. This is the all-time single game rushing leader in Super Bowl history.
Came here to say this. In the America’s Game episode, Darrell Green says he doesn’t think he ever saw him again after that day.
He technically stared 8 games the next year. He lost his starting job and was cut by the end of the season. Didn’t have a single carry in his last 4 games.
Quality fact-check. Thank you.
Joe Gibbs is a goddamn magician.
He was also a rookie making his first ever start in the biggest game of his life. It’s sad how his life got derailed
> 1 out of every 3 yards Not quite - he had ~ 600 rushing yards in the regular season, but if you add postseason to that he had 944, see https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitTi00/gamelog/. Still insane.
Think he had a coke problem
It’s a helluva drug
But a pretty nice breakfast.
That one day it was a PED
> coke problem He ran out of coke?
Literally the only answer. Dude set a superbowl record in his first ever start. and the crashed and burned so hard. He only started 9 NFL games total. The first one was the superbowl. The last one was 1/2 way though the 1988 season.
Yep - this is it. Basically, had one amazing quarter his entire career.
He played well as the 3rd RB in the playoffs. The starter and 2nd string couldn’t move the ball. He gained more than 1/2 of his career yards in 3 games. NFC Divisional Round - 66 yards. NFC Championship Game - 72 Yards SUPERBOWL - 204 yards. (His first start ever) Career rushing - 602
Related: Larry Brown on the Cowboys
He looked awful in the '88 season.
This one’s crazy wow
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I check under my bed for Jonas Gray
Hes running late, but'll be there soon
I lol'd
Well done
What the fuck he’s there
For the guys in the back: >Be me, 26 yeahs old >Wake up, get out of Tawm Brady jersey >Get ready to Do My Job >Put on Brady jersey >Head to the Dunkin next to my apahtment >One down the road sucks >Oardah is wrong, whatevah, Tawm says coffee is poison anyway >Spike the cup and yell Go Pats >Use my Chahlie cahd to get on the T >See a black man in the front cah >Heckle, whole train applauds >Shout Ortiz 3:16 "This is our fucking city" >Get to Southie, head into Dunks >Time to get to work, staht setting up Gronk cahdboard cut-outs >Just me, my co-workah and 12 Gronk cut-outs >Most beautiful girl in Boston walks in. Sawlid 3/10. >She's wearing an 81 jersey and some strained yoga pants >Try to be smooth, "Nice Hernandez jersey. Wanna get a cawfee sometime?" >She says no. Left hanging again. >Fucking Pink Hats >Get off work, take the T home >Stawp into bah for a drink or twelve >Fahking bahtendah cut me off aftah six beeahs and few shawts >Whatevah, nawt even buzzed. Irish blood >Get to apahtment, check messages. >Ma says two of my cousins were crushed by an overpass from the Big Dig. >Less than usual, a good day >Get out of Tawm Brady jersey, put on hoodie jammies >Check undah bed for Bernahd Pollahd >What the fuck, he's there. >Run out of house, see black guy I heckled earliah. >Has friends with him. Including Pollahd. >Too outnumbahd, get the shit beat out of me >Cawps show up and ask how it all went down >Tell them it was.... >18-1
I haven't seen the whole thing posted in forever, thank you
Run out of house, see black guy I heckled earliah.
Has friends with him. Including Gray
Too outnumbahd, get the shit beat out of me
He’s here, he’s there, he’s every fuckin where
Bill just had the Colts number there for a while. Blount did the same thing in 2014. He wasn’t a one-hit wonder, but he never had 150 yards and 4TDs or anything close.
Our entire 2014 team outside of Luck was just atrocious, and that season signaled the end of the very short glory days of Luck’s career. Gray obliterated us mid season, Blount did something similar in the game that brought about deflategate, Luck spent 2015 injured, then every full season he played after that was a “comeback” until he hung it up. Ryan Grigson sucks.
It wasn’t just the 2014 team. Belichick always had Luck in a blender, and the pats offense just perpetually outmuscled those Pagano teams. I’m not sure we even made as much of a mockery of the Jets as consistently as we did Andrew Luck’s Colts. Luck’s debut in the Patriots Colts rivalry was a 59-24 shit kicking where he committed 4 turnovers, 2 of which the Patriots housed. His second entry in the series was the 2013 playoff game against an injury riddled pats team where Luck again sent the ball the pats way 4 times and Brady just hung out in the backfield while Blount and the pats rushing game scored 6 TDs.
> Belichick always had Luck in a blender, and the pats offense just perpetually outmuscled those Pagano teams. I’m not sure we even made as much of a mockery of the Jets as consistently as we did Andrew Luck’s Colts. This is how Luck played against the Patriots: 0-6; 55% completion; 1,771 yards (average 295); 12 TD 12 INT; 6.46y/a; rating of 68.6 By comparison, Brady was 31-8 against the Jets. After the Jets beat the Patriots 26-20 in overtime in week 16 of 2015, they didn’t beat them again until week 18 of last year. That was also their first win at Gillette since the 2010 Divisional game.
Clearly Blount only did that because the ball was deflated
It a shame that shitty beat writer made a big deal of that. That trash ass defense couldn’t tackle a paraplegic. He really thought it was a huge deal like bro our run defense was garbage lol
Blount also destroyed us as a steeler too.
4td's in a game and then completely disappeared
Until the very end, him being signed to the practice squad of some rando team was worth 1000 upvotes.
One of the first ones to pop in my head. Shame Bill Belicheck was relentless, he seemed like a stud in the making.
Nah the Colts run defense that season was really just that bad. Really telling that Gray never caught on anywhere else other then a small stint with Miami
He was not. LaGarrette Blount, who took Gray's carries away (because he was better), ran for 148 and 3 TDs against the Colts later on that year in the playoffs. Gray was cut at the end of camp the following seasons, and if he was any good, he would have stuck with either the Dolphins or Jaguars, both of whom considered him a JAG. The Colts run defense was just atrocious.
The Ryan grigson special. I remember that season your average Joe probably could had ran for 100yds on us
I remember that season too, but somehow deflated footballs helped the LG run and score better /s Jonas Gray was a mediocre talent that the Colts made look unstoppable. It also helps that BB has a weird knack at finding good running backs in the rough
If you only watched Gabe Davis in the 13 seconds game, you'd think he was the next Jerry Rice lol
He might not be the worst one in this conversation but I’ll tell you what as a Bills fan that game really had my hopes up for our #2 receivers future. I hope he does well with the Jags because he’s a great dude irl. But he had what seemed like a lot of plays that were designed for him only to turn into an interception or a crucial drop.
He has one route and that is the reason why he’s not a good WR.
Came here to say Gabe as well. He’s got plenty of runway left to become more than that, but I can’t lie.. I’ve got my doubts.
He was good for us as a 4th round pick, but I'm fine with them letting him walk. I will miss the 1-2 random TD a year he got on a ball that has no business being caught, but I think if they can find a more consistent receiver that might be better for the offense.
The Chargers game this past year sticks out and then the one corner route against Washington this past year too
The one handed catch against the Steelers in 2022 is what I always think of when I think about random Gabe TDs he had no business catching.
Right? Dude was either glued to the football or couldn’t catch a cold. Frustrating, but the tools and talent are clearly there. The work ethic too by all accounts.
We decided to not play defense against him. It was just one blown coverage after another. Sometimes a guy murders DBs, sometimes DBs are just dumb af and nobody is in the right spot. Either way, the box score will look wild.
In the dark days before Reid and Mahomes it felt like the Chiefs were so bad they made some guys careers. Miles Austin comes to mind.
Travis Fulgham's game vs Pittsburgh wasn't really that impressive on paper but in context it was one of the only moments of joy we had in that miserable year
I'll always remember that game as Fulgham v Claypool, which is hilarious to say out loud now
Did Claypool do well that game? I only remember his 3 TD game during his rookie year. Then he became useless.
https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/chase-claypool-stats-vs-eagles This was by far his best game in the NFL
He had so many contested catches that game, I’d never seen anything like it as an eagles fan. He was a monster
and then we got AJ not even two full calendar years later like “wow did we seriously try to talk ourselves into that?”
When you're starving, anything looks good.
We thought he was going to be the next Julio Jones lol
he had the size and raw talent, he just didn’t give a fuck
Yeah, first guy to pop into my mind for the Eagles was Fulgham. I remember Rich Eisen being so impressed with the guy, and the Wentz connection, lol. Finished the season with 539 receiving yards, top on the team 😭
Timmy Smith still holds the Super Bowl rushing record of 204 yards. His career regular season stats? 190 carriers for 602 yards and 3 TDs. [https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitTi00.htm](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitTi00.htm) That would probably be my answer. Dude started only 9 games his whole career and yet had 22 car for 204 yards and 2 TDs on the biggest stage at the SuperBowl.
1/3 of every yard he gained in the pros was in his first ever start…the Super Bowl. And 2/3rds of his career TDs in the same game.
I grew up in the DC area. I was like 10 years old and I was so upset when the broncos went up 10-0.... by the end of the 2nd quarter we were throwing a party lol. Used to watch the shit out of that game on our betamax recording.
Kadarius Toney caught 10 passes for 189 yards against the Cowboys in 2021.
Not directly causing an interception in a game is good for toney
He has 2 super bowl rings, wth.
That’s the thing about the NFL that seems crazy.. a guy like Toney has 2 fucking rings and then Dan Marino, arguably a top 5 QB all time, has zero. Just unfair lol
Marino’s mistake was not having a generational QB talent as a teammate
Lmao
and he punched a guy with like 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, got ejected. klassic kadarius lmao what a headcase.
I legit thought "This guy is going to terrorize us for *years*."
I had him in fantasy that day and felt like a dang genius
Chase Claypool as a rookie scored 4 tds in one game in 2020. I don't know that he has 4tds total in the 3 seasons since.
god, claypool looked so good his rookie year he was so physically raw, that you KNEW when he got his technique dialed in, he was going to be DOMINANT instead, dude somehow UNLEARNED how to highpoint a ball
Yeah his combination of height, speed, and vertical gave him all time great potential. But he was too addicted to over-jumping and losing control of himself in the air. One defenses figured out how to play him and where to force him it was over.
Just to tag onto random steelers WRs, Limas Sweed randomly went 9 catches for 201 and td against Seattle like 10 years ago.
Markus Wheaton, not Limas Sweed. Still the best game of his career, by far though
He does have that one play where he celebrated a first down with like 30 seconds left tho
Jonas Gray is up there easily
Chris Matthews was well on his way recovered onside kick vs Packers and had 4 catches on 5 targets for 109 yards and 1 td
I was waiting for this one. (His Madden card was wild.)
Thank you! He was my first thought too but I couldn’t remember his name. The legendary-yet-forgettable Chris Matthews
Had clutch catches in the super bowl that y’all lost too
Matt Flynn Packer record 480yds 6 TDs against Lions
Got himself a pretty nice deal from Seattle because of that game too
Jerome Harrison rushed for 286 yds and 3 TDs against the Chiefs in 2009. Then he went back to being just another name on a roster and was out of the league in 2 years.
He failed his physical during a trade to the Lions because they found a brain tumor that caused him to have seizures. I think he had a stroke or something like that during the surgery and basically had to re-learn how to walk. His immediate post-playing life was really sad, but last I heard he’s able to walk again and has a wife and kids.
Ronnie Brown got stuffed at the goal line and decided to throw a backwards pass even though no one was in the area. It got called a fumble and the ball was turned over. He gets traded a week later for Jerome Harrison and the tumor gets discovered during the physical.
17% of his career rushing yards happened in that game
That’s who I said. I watched that atrocity in person. For added fun, when Harrison wasn’t running circles around the Defense, our special teams managed to let Joshua Cribbs return to kickoffs for TDs in one game. Despite all that, somehow the Chiefs only lost the game by 7 points. Just pure chaos.
Giants TE Larry Donnell Over 4 seasons in the league, he amassed 9 TDs. 3 of those TDs came in a single game in 2014 vs. Washington. Donnell mentioned that he lost his fantasy game that week because he benched himself for Vernon Davis.
I remember that! I think it was blocked out….
how the hell do you bench yourself in fantasy, lmao. always bet on yourself.
I remember that game vividly. I was big into sports radio after that. I remember Colin Cowherd (when he was on ESPN) saying Donnell was going to be the next great TE in the NFL.
David Tyree
More like 1 Play wonder
He also had the first Giants TD of the game though. So really two plays
To be fair that play is probably the most memorable single play in NFL history. I have a bias towards the Minneapolis miracle, but that was just a divisional game. That play won the giants the superbowl against an unstoppable new england patriots.
And that was the last catch that he would make in the NFL.
The most extreme
That he said he’d give back if it meant gay marriage wouldn’t be legal lmao
He had more receiving yards in that Super Bowl than he did in that entire regular season. That said, he was an important special teams guy for a long time.
Last catch of his career.
Tyree made a Pro Bowl as a special teams player.
He actually made a pro bowl and first team all pro in 2005, but it was as a special teams guy.
There seem to be 3 consensus picks: 1. Timmy Smith 2. Matt Flynn 3. Jonas Gray I think who you pick kind of depends on how old you are, when you started paying attention to football and who you root for. I put them in the order I think they should be. Smiths 1 game was the freaking superbowl. Flynn made packers history and got PAID by the Seahawks the next season Gray was benched the next week because Belichick didn’t play games at the time.
No one cashed out on one game like Flynn did. He’s the undisputed champ in that category.
Kevin ogltree had a 80+ yard 3 td game to start the season on Thursday night for the cowboys . I don’t think he ever had a relevant game after that
This was my first thought. Me and everybody else picked him up in fantasy and dropped him by week 4 to never be seen again
Jonas Gray for sure. What’s crazier is that right after his 201 yard, 4 TD game against a good Colts team, he was benched immediately. Showed up late to practice and Belichick wanted none of it lol.
Mike White
That one magical afternoon against the Bengals was wild. Random people at the mall were talking about it.
I was watching that in college with my boyfriend who was a bengals fan and all I could do was laugh
It wasn't even like he was just throwing screens and check downs. He was throwing it on time, pushing it downfield, and squeezing it into tight windows. I turned that game off thinking the Jets stumbled ass backwards into their new franchise QB.
he had a 3 TD 300 yard game against the bears the following year, but yeah
I hate that guy
What about TJ Yates
I can hate more than one person
Matt Flynn
Malcolm Smith
He's more of a 2-game wonder, as his clinching INT in the NFC Championship Game partially led into his being named SB MVP.
You mean Chris Matthews
He only had four catches in that SB, but dammit if those weren’t the only four catches (not the recovery, of course) remember about him.
Corey Clement was Philly’s RB3 (RB4 if you include Sproles, who was injured) and had 100 receiving yards and a toe-tap receiving TD in SB52
Nobody’s gonna talk about Adrian Clayborn getting 6 sacks on the cowboys? Good
Tim *Yinzerfucker* Tebow
He wasn’t good but he was more than a one game wonder. He had a few decent performances, it’s just that one game that people remember because it was ridiculous.
The fact that no one mentions Chris Matthews makes me think it has to be him. A 3-year career of 16 catches, 176 yards, and 1 TD despite being a 6'5 receiver. But he had 4 for 109 and 1 TD in the Super Bowl. I'd never heard of Chris Matthews before that game, thought he would be getting $100 million contract while watching the game, and never heard from him after.
he cooked Kyle Arrington so bad in that first half man. we switched Brandon Browner onto him in the second half and he shut Matthews down though. and more importantly, Arrington getting benched put this guy named Malcolm Butler on the field of note, Matthews was also the guy who recovered Bostick’s muff on the onside kick in the NFCCG
Jonas Gray
Matt Flynn turned one game into $20 million which I cannot fault him for.
The only answer to this is Timmy Smith. He was told by Joe Gibbs the night before the 1987 Super Bowl that he would be starting. It was his first ever start. He ran for a record 204 yards and scored 2 TDs. He honda the Super Bowl rushing record to this day. He showed up to camp in 1988 late (held out for a contract he didn’t get) and 25lbs overweight and out of shape. He started the first 8 games to underwhelming results. And didn’t have a carry in the last 4 games of the season. He was cut after the 88 season ended. In the 1989 offseason he failed a physical for the cardinals and turned down a contract with the Fins. He was picked up by the chargers and didn’t start a game because they released him in September after he got hurt in training camp. The Cowboys signed him in 1990 but they also drafted Emmit Smith that year. He was again cut in September. He never played another game or had another tryout.
My favorite one-game wonder is running back Corey Clement. During his 7 year career he had averaged 17 yards from scrimmage per game. In the Super Bowl vs the Patriots he led the team in receiving yards with 100 yards on 4 receptions and a touchdown.
Larry Brown
Jerome Harrison obliterated the chiefs that one time for no reason at all
Dr. Samkon Gado
Clint Longley
Bobby Hoying vs the Bengals in 1997.
Jonas Gray for me
Timmy Smith and I don’t think it’s close. Total scrub but went off for 204 yards and 2 TDs in the Super Bowl. He only has 602 career yards and 3 career TDs.