![]() "It could have been entirely different if we could have hung on and won that game. "I didn't feel it turn but the next couple of weeks we just couldn't get it right," said Carroll, who spent five seasons overall with the Jets, including the first four as defensive coordinator. The Jets didn't win another game and Carroll was fired after completing his one and only season as Jets head coach 6-10. It was a play that basically everyone in the building thought would end with the Hall of Fame quarterback spiking the ball to kill the clock, but instead it lifted the Dolphins to the victory. With the Jets sitting in the thick of the playoff hunt at 6-5 and nursing a 24-21 lead with 22 seconds left in regulation, Marino threw a stunning misdirection touchdown pass to Mark Ingram. But it was a moment where things turned." ![]() "There was a time in that game we were ahead and doing great and it just kind of went south on us. "When you look back at it, that's what you would point to because we lost four games after that as well,'' Carroll told reporters on Sunday in Jersey City, N.J., where the Seahawks are staying this week. ![]() The Seattle Seahawks head coach, who will lead his team against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday at MetLife Stadium, was the rookie head coach of the Jets that day. Pete Carroll knows the Dan Marino-orchestrated play better than anyone. Though times have changed somewhat since that ill-fated day in November of 1994, the play still, in a way, defines the Jets.Īnd it probably always will - until this franchise wins another Super Bowl. Twenty years later the "fake spike" still resonates as a symbol of a time in franchise history when the Jets just couldn't do anything right. Jets fans hope to one day forget the play. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - You know the play.
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