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Originally Posted by CardClub2Elect
1999 Bills. Doug Flutie leads the Bills to a 11-5 season. Big money QB Rob Johnson plays the final game of the season and plays ok so Wade Phillips starts Johnson over Flutie in the playoffs and the Bills lose first round to the Titans. I watched a lot of Bills games that year and I will admit to being a Flutie fan. He wasn't great and his numbers probably look pretty bad by modern standards but were fine for the era. The fact is that the Bills were his team that year, the team responded to him and he was a true leader.
His playoff benching will always be one of the biggest NFL coaching blunders in my mind.
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To this day, I cannot think of a single example of a QB starting all the games during the regular season (except the meaningless game at the end), making the playoffs, and being benched for the playoffs (with, like, no injury or anything like that).
There was something going on behind the scenes which I guess we will never know.
03-31-2025, 06:15 PM
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