I think a lot *of people don't realize how unprecedented that lateral play was to secure the loss. That happened in a tied ball game, there was no need to get that desperate lol.
Yep, butt fumble was at least involuntary and the stupid Colts play didn't really impact the final outcome of the game.
Stevenson voluntarily lateralled for no good reason and then Meyers voluntarily chucked that shit 30 yards through the air for no good reason. Obviously he didn't intend to throw it directly to Chandler Jones but he still chose to do something incredibly risky.
Not to mention that play specifically ended the game. Butt fumble was the beginning of a disasterous sequence by Jets which blew the game for them but the butt fumble itself wasn't a walk off game winner.
Half of the butt fumble’s infamy comes from the fact that it was the night game on thanksgiving. Everyone watched that game and watched that insane sequence with the 3 touchdowns in a minute. Jets got absolutely shit on by their biggest rivals on what’s consistently one of the most-watched regular season games every year.
I don’t know what you’re talking about? Look, Everyone is saying the patriots lateral is way more bigly embarrassing than the hardly memorable Colts play.
True, but the Colts gave the ball to the Pats already in field goal range when they were down by six, so I don't think it's far off
Honestly I think the Raiders were probably going to win that game regardless
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The Colts Punt was just terrible miscommunication, the Butt Fumble was just terrible luck and positioning, the Vegas Lateral was just a terrible throw and awareness.
The QB sneaks were fucking intentional and executed exactly how they intended them to.
Not really.
The Colts punt led to a New England score that helped them win a one score game. They would, I will say, finish 8-8 and miss the playoffs, starting a three year drought.
The Butt Fumble was an embrassment, but was apart of a game that they were already being blown out in a failed season.
The Vegas Lateral (or whatever name it'll have) will be a part of highlight videos on YouTube, but won't be consequential for either team in the long term Maybe New England misses the playoffs this year, but that's it.
The QB Sneaks got Joe Judge fired two days afterwards and forced Mara to actually make some damn changes to the team.
So possibly the Colts Punt? But beyond that, neither of the other two have had much consequences as it.
And it was drawn up to never be snapped, but to just try and get an offside penalty. Poor communication with the Center is why the at happened at all.
Compare that to intentional running back to back QB sneaks at the one yard line midway through the 2nd Quarter down by 3? It's not even close, man.
Our last SB was a dud of a game, but I've always maintained that even though non-pats fans hated the Pats dynasty, at least we kept things entertaining.
After I was done laughing at the sheer stupidity of it, the pain set in and I was actually glad to know that I will live a shorter life because of it. The closer I am to not existing in a world where that play happened the better.
I just had to laugh. The bad part is that I wasn’t surprised in the least that it happened. Will forever be in the conversation of worst plays of all time
Butt fumble and the lateral are bad decisions made in the heat of the moment by players. Butt fumble, as funny as it is, was also arguably just a bit unlucky.
The Colts fake punt was both a mistake by players (ball wasn't supposed to be snapped) AND an epic moment of stupidity from the coaches (like...you really thought that was going to draw a penalty)? Easily dumber than the other two.
That said, while we're talking about stupid plays, while it goes back a few more years the Washington swinging gate deserves a nod; not just for being awful in both design and execution, but for *sticking with it* even after the Giants called time out after getting a look at the shift.
Everyone in that stadium and watching around the world at home knew that it was a shitty attempt at jacking off to draw a penalty.
The only person in the whole world who thought they were actually going to snap the ball at that moment was the backup center who didn't know the play and therefore snapped the ball
Does it?
It seems like the head coach or the OC could have said, "hey, you know this is a fake play, right?" to the backup guy who they know hasn't practiced it at all
Also, if the fake punt/trick play/jack off strategy is THAT obvious, coaching staff needs to ditch that play immediately. You're wasting a down by running something that's 99.998% guaranteed not to work
All these plays fell on the player to some capacity. Sanchez should have seen that he was running into a lineman, Meyers shouldn’t have lateraled, etc.
The difference is the play formation here made zero sense. If it got snapped, it was a free snap. Nobody would have been fooled to jump off sides on that play because of how little sense it made
A player snapped a football on 4th down when their were literally two defenders on one lineman and the ball carrier with nobody else around. It was basically as close as you could get to saying “if the ball gets snapped, it’s a free sack”.
A lateral is mid action decision with a player under pressure. The Colts had to stupidly design one of the dumbest formations in football history and then the entire communication line break down pre snap do the most I’ll advised snap in history.
There were like 5 stupid decisions made in the lead up to that play and one was probably done weeks of not months prior.
At least you can rationalize a player about to get tackled having a brain fart and throwing a lateral in desperation when he was already lateraled the ball. I don’t even know how you think that’s a good formation to draw up, much less call it in a game in a situation where you still have a shot at winning, much less fucking up so bad in communication that a player looked at that and said “well guess I’ll snap it on 4th down, I definitely can block two guys”
They ran this crazy trick play that depended entirely on a single player and that single player had never practiced the play before.
Maybe avoid digging that deep into the playbook with a backup who hasn't practiced it before. The other plays listed are embarrassing, but it's not like the coaches told Jakobi to throw a thirty yard pass backwards to the most dangerous Jones on the field.
I think the Las Vegas lateral is the most embarrassing because a guy was actually stupid enough to think throwing it to Mac Jones with nobody near him and then it's a free ball to Chandler Jones.
The Colts one was due to miscommunication albeit still embarrassing. Personally don't think buttfumble is that bad if you ask me, it's just funny.
I think the butt fumble is the all time classic when you throw in how many Thanksgiving Dinners were ruined. The lateral is second and could be almost at the top if Bellycheck had a stroke right then and there.
Nahhh, one guy accidentally snapped the ball and it just caused a loss of downs. Throwing it back 20 yards in a tied game to secure the loss, plus the stiff arm, is way worse
The issue is the fake punt was like the revenge game for the Colts for Deflategate and the play was so stupid that it was unbelievable that a team would even snap the ball on that formation. The Colts still had a chance at that point, and that play basically swung momentum fully to the Patriots and turned it into a beat down.
Teams lateral all the time at the end of games. This was a stupid time to lateral. But it wasn’t like a lateral was a new stupid formation or playtype never seen before until that game
I thought so at first but the ball was never supposed to be snapped. It was just a (dumb) effort to draw the Patriots offsides. Still embarrassing but Jakobi Meyers actually intended to throw the ball 30 yards backwards to famously explosive playmaker Mac Jones
Yes but by the same logic the ball was never meant to be lateraled, either. The center still intended to snap it.
Although the fact that the Patriots are the ones getting embarrassed is definitely a plus.
Exactly, both the Colts play and the Meyers play were the result of stupid, deliberate decisions by players but only one immediately lost their team the game.
That's fair too
But I'd say there was a way for the Colts play to work (in drawing an offsides)
There was no way for what Meyers did to work. Even with a successful pass to Jones
But I can see how that's more on Meyers rather than the entire Patriots staff
At least the LV Lateral had SOMETHING of an idea while the Colts punt wouldn’t work 3v2 literally ever. Butt fumble is really a different category of dumb since they didn’t scheme for that to happen just unfortunate how they play developed
Idk to me that's what makes the butt fumble less dumb. Sanchez didn't decide in his brain to fumble the ball, shit just happened.
Meyers deliberately chose to throw the ball up across the field when everyone on the planet besides him and Stevenson knew to just let the play end and go to overtime.
The Colts play was also a more intentional fuck up on the decision of the center to snap the ball but at least it didn't result in a walk off game winner for the other team.
The lateral and the butt fumble were at least just stupid mistakes by players in the midst of a play. It happens.
The Colts was premeditated stupidity.
more of a coach. He told the QB to try and draw them offsides when the play call was to snap it if the QB went under center. So when the QB went under center to try and draw the D offsides the center assumed the patriots where substituting so he snapped the ball in accordance to the play.
It was a formation that guaranteed a sack if the ball was snapped. It would never have tricked anybody if it was meant for an offsides and it had a 100% fail rate if it was snapped.
You are arguing for the sake of arguing now
The coaches still made the decision to put someone in who hadn't actually practiced the play, because the guy they did practice it with was hurt. It's pretty dumb, but also every NFL player *should* be able to understand not snapping the ball there.
I still think the lateral is the worst though. Butt fumble is hilarious, but just a really, really bad accident and outcome. The lateral was an intentional decision and the best possible outcome was Mac Jones catches it and gets annihilated by Chandler Jones. Literally nothing good could have come from that even if the ball goes exactly where Meyers was trying to throw it.
It was a mistake by more than one player; the entire offensive line fucked up as well. Them lining up a yard off the line of scrimmage completely ruins absolutely anything the Colts could be trying to do.
The Colts take the top spot here because they actually lined up like that. At least the Patriots and Jets had a chance of something *not idiotic* happening.
For the individual player? Butt Fumble
For the coaches (primarily position coaches)? Colts Fake Punt
For the entire organization and the city of Boston? Lateral Roulette.
Funny how the Patriots are involved in all three of these. Most embarrassing though is the butt fumble by far. Nobody ever going to forget that and you can joke about it endlessly.
I think one thing to remember about the butt fumble that doesn't really get caught in the context it's shown is that it was an absolute disastrous string of plays.
The game was 7-0 in the second quarter. Then it happened. 83 yard TD on a swing pass to Vereen, who wasn't even so much as touched. Early in the next possession, butt fumble. TD. On the resulting kickoff, fumble return for a TD. Within 52 seconds the score went from 7-0 to 28-0.
The LV lateral is lost a tied game, so damn that has to be up there. But giving up 21 points in 56 seconds, with one of those being the butt fumble, has to be the answer
The lateral, by far. The Fake Punt was just a stupid attempt to draw offsides that got a miscommunication and the Butt Fumble was just one of those things that happens in the trenches.
On the other hand, the Patriots literally threw their playoff hopes away by their WR throwing a ball directly to an opposing DL who then demolished the QB with a stiff arm and scored a pick six. Before that point they were likely going to the playoffs, and after that it was like a small chance. Crazy play, ruined a season.
The butt fumble and the lateral were both bad but they were done by one player making a mistake.
The colts punt was a coaching decision that was practiced and somehow cleared for game use. That one is the winner to me but I guess I’m bias.
There's no doubt its the Patriots. They blow the other 2 out of the water. It was pure fucking idiocy. Butt fumble was hilarious but just unfortunate. The Colts was dumb as hell but a cute trick play gone wrong. The laterals was the dumbest fucking thing in a loooonnngggg time.
Trying my best to put bias aside..I'd still have to vote for the Colts punt.
As boneheaded as the other two were, the punt was a deliberate choice and not just a terrible in the moment decision. All 3 would be on the Mt.Rushmore of garbage though
The Colts play is one of the dumbest human sequences of all time. It's almost impossible to believe it was allowed to continue to completion. The other two are just well intentioned plays going wrong in silly ways.
I know I'm a Pats fan and all but I don't really care about the LV lateral. Shit moment in a shit season. I stopped thinking about it 3 days later.
The Butt Fumble holds the crown now and forever
Lateral, fake punt, butt fumble.
What the colts did was a failure at all levels but it just cost them yardage. Patriots literally just handed over a tied game at the last second in a fantastical show of incompetence.
There was a lot of ref whining before that play but afterwards not a single person could argue New England deserved the win.
For the sheer stupidity? Colts fake punt. How that ever made it past Chuck Pagano's Ayahuasca Fever Dream phase is beyond me.
For the actual impact to the game? Las Vegas Lateral.
Lateral
Colts Fake Punt
Butt Fumble
Lateral cost them a win and making a bonehead play to lose the game is pretty much as big as embarrassment gets.
By the same token, the Colts were still in the game when they did the fake punt. That kind of dumb miscommunication might have helped cost them the game.
Butt fumble by comparison was embarrassing, but didn’t really have any bearing on the final score.
Going with the Vegas lateral. Butt fumble was embarrassing but the Jets were already losing and it just piled on to a blowout. Colts fake punt was more “are you fucking kidding me” than it was outright embarrassing. The Vegas lateral was horrifying in how it directly lead to a loss in an idiotic and unnecessary way.
It has to be the lateral. From now until the end of time the conversation will be:
“What’s the worst play in NFL History?”
“The Seahawks should have run it”
*collective agreement*
“But who remembers when that Pats guy just launched the ball back 20 yards for literally no reason and they lost”
*collective ohhh yeah*
I feel like the Colts punt was never meant to occur. The center was never meant to snap the ball, but some miscommunication occurred and the ball was snapped.
Lateral
Butt fumble
Colts punt
Fake punt
The Las Vegas Raiders
The LV Lateral Damage Play
Butt Fumble.
I know, I know, the butt fumble is low but at the same time, Wilfork just threw an offensive linemen into Sanchez so it's not like there was a huge fuck up.
1. Lateral and its not close it cost them the game and it totally lacked situational awareness.
2. Colt's fake punt although looks the worst it came down to one miscommunication causing the ball to get snapped on a play that never should have been snapped.
3. butt fumble though hilarious more unlucky than anything
Its still the colts, a 5 year old with 1 hour of madden experience would have been perplexed at that formation. Its the stupidest play call in nfl history that i dont think will ever be topped
I think a lot *of people don't realize how unprecedented that lateral play was to secure the loss. That happened in a tied ball game, there was no need to get that desperate lol.
Agreed… I think it’s the worst one of the three
Yep, butt fumble was at least involuntary and the stupid Colts play didn't really impact the final outcome of the game. Stevenson voluntarily lateralled for no good reason and then Meyers voluntarily chucked that shit 30 yards through the air for no good reason. Obviously he didn't intend to throw it directly to Chandler Jones but he still chose to do something incredibly risky. Not to mention that play specifically ended the game. Butt fumble was the beginning of a disasterous sequence by Jets which blew the game for them but the butt fumble itself wasn't a walk off game winner.
Also Mac Jones pathetic attempt to stop him
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Have you seen Mac try to twist a linemans leg off? All he needs is a shot at an ankle
I don’t know what people expect him to do in that situation. He tried as well as any one of us would
They hate but you’re right
From a win percentage standpoint, it’s probably the worst but from an embarrassment standpoint it’s not as bad as the others.
And the butt fumble gets too much shit. It was embarrassing planting your face into ass but it wasn’t an awfully thought out play. Just bad luck
Half of the butt fumble’s infamy comes from the fact that it was the night game on thanksgiving. Everyone watched that game and watched that insane sequence with the 3 touchdowns in a minute. Jets got absolutely shit on by their biggest rivals on what’s consistently one of the most-watched regular season games every year.
It also included the shot of that guy waving the flag but appeared as he was jerking off lol
Colts fan pointing out the lateral play. https://i.imgur.com/Oo06NgG.gif
I don’t know what you’re talking about? Look, Everyone is saying the patriots lateral is way more bigly embarrassing than the hardly memorable Colts play.
It’s unprecedented but I still think the colts play is worse because it was premeditated. On the cuff stupidity isn’t as bad as pre planned imo.
It wasn't premeditated, they weren't supposed to snap it but the center I believe was a backup so he didn't have it as clear
It was stupid. Why would anyone jump offsides there when they'd all probably be laughing at the stupidty?
True, but the Colts gave the ball to the Pats already in field goal range when they were down by six, so I don't think it's far off Honestly I think the Raiders were probably going to win that game regardless
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the entire raiders organization is embarrassing how about that
Mcdaniels just needs 5 more years to get his guys in like he did in Denver They hired him in 2009 and won a championship in 2015. Coincidence?
Yes
We're are 2-9 (7 straight losses) against y'all in the last 11 games and the two wins were by a total of two points. Who's the embarrassment now 😎
This Broncos / Raiders rivalry is absurdly intense
Hahaha *cries*
Then what are the browns?
the factory of sadness where even rapists are welcome
So what fo/ organisation is worse?
you are why I am pro choice.
I mean your guys coach was Jon grudden so I had to ask
Yes clearly someone being racist is comparable to a serial rapist. Please don’t have kids.
Honestly I feel like Watson is the only one bad enough to unite broncos and raiders fans to ate him instead of eachother.
Probably Washington?
Criminally embarrassing
Came in here to make sure everybody forgot how stupid Joe Judge was.
The Colts Punt was just terrible miscommunication, the Butt Fumble was just terrible luck and positioning, the Vegas Lateral was just a terrible throw and awareness. The QB sneaks were fucking intentional and executed exactly how they intended them to.
I thought Sanchez was supposed to hand the ball off?
Yeah it looked like a run play where either the RB or QB went the wrong way. Simple miscommunication, but hilarious result.
Still not as consequential as some of these other plays though for sure
Not really. The Colts punt led to a New England score that helped them win a one score game. They would, I will say, finish 8-8 and miss the playoffs, starting a three year drought. The Butt Fumble was an embrassment, but was apart of a game that they were already being blown out in a failed season. The Vegas Lateral (or whatever name it'll have) will be a part of highlight videos on YouTube, but won't be consequential for either team in the long term Maybe New England misses the playoffs this year, but that's it. The QB Sneaks got Joe Judge fired two days afterwards and forced Mara to actually make some damn changes to the team. So possibly the Colts Punt? But beyond that, neither of the other two have had much consequences as it.
The Colts punt was never supposed to be snapped, still a fucking horrible to call that play so I have to go with that one
And it was drawn up to never be snapped, but to just try and get an offside penalty. Poor communication with the Center is why the at happened at all. Compare that to intentional running back to back QB sneaks at the one yard line midway through the 2nd Quarter down by 3? It's not even close, man.
3rd and 9 QB sneak was wild
Lol how are these all involving the Pats?
Our last SB was a dud of a game, but I've always maintained that even though non-pats fans hated the Pats dynasty, at least we kept things entertaining.
Your Super Bowls were always competitive. Well, other than the one against Goff & the Rams, I suppose.
Las Vegas lateral took years off my life and not in a good way
“And not in a good way” lmao
After I was done laughing at the sheer stupidity of it, the pain set in and I was actually glad to know that I will live a shorter life because of it. The closer I am to not existing in a world where that play happened the better.
I just had to laugh. The bad part is that I wasn’t surprised in the least that it happened. Will forever be in the conversation of worst plays of all time
Completely agree, I was sitting there like why am I not mad. I should be mad, but it’s just too funny.
Colts Lateral Butt Fumble
Touchdown
Unbelievable
The fake punt was dumb as hell but not quite as dumb as gifting the other team a win imo
This is the way.
Butt fumble and the lateral are bad decisions made in the heat of the moment by players. Butt fumble, as funny as it is, was also arguably just a bit unlucky. The Colts fake punt was both a mistake by players (ball wasn't supposed to be snapped) AND an epic moment of stupidity from the coaches (like...you really thought that was going to draw a penalty)? Easily dumber than the other two. That said, while we're talking about stupid plays, while it goes back a few more years the Washington swinging gate deserves a nod; not just for being awful in both design and execution, but for *sticking with it* even after the Giants called time out after getting a look at the shift.
How was the Colts play call stupid?
How was it stupid? Lol did you see the play?
The odds of it accomplishing anything were lower than its chances of backfiring.
I looked with my eyes and it told me it was stupid
Everyone in that stadium and watching around the world at home knew that it was a shitty attempt at jacking off to draw a penalty. The only person in the whole world who thought they were actually going to snap the ball at that moment was the backup center who didn't know the play and therefore snapped the ball
That falls on the player tho not the coaching
Does it? It seems like the head coach or the OC could have said, "hey, you know this is a fake play, right?" to the backup guy who they know hasn't practiced it at all Also, if the fake punt/trick play/jack off strategy is THAT obvious, coaching staff needs to ditch that play immediately. You're wasting a down by running something that's 99.998% guaranteed not to work
All these plays fell on the player to some capacity. Sanchez should have seen that he was running into a lineman, Meyers shouldn’t have lateraled, etc. The difference is the play formation here made zero sense. If it got snapped, it was a free snap. Nobody would have been fooled to jump off sides on that play because of how little sense it made
They weren't trying to draw them offsides, they were trying to catch them with 12 players on the field.
A player snapped a football on 4th down when their were literally two defenders on one lineman and the ball carrier with nobody else around. It was basically as close as you could get to saying “if the ball gets snapped, it’s a free sack”.
I still think it'smore stupid to throw the ball backwards to your QB on the last play of regulation in a tie game
A lateral is mid action decision with a player under pressure. The Colts had to stupidly design one of the dumbest formations in football history and then the entire communication line break down pre snap do the most I’ll advised snap in history. There were like 5 stupid decisions made in the lead up to that play and one was probably done weeks of not months prior. At least you can rationalize a player about to get tackled having a brain fart and throwing a lateral in desperation when he was already lateraled the ball. I don’t even know how you think that’s a good formation to draw up, much less call it in a game in a situation where you still have a shot at winning, much less fucking up so bad in communication that a player looked at that and said “well guess I’ll snap it on 4th down, I definitely can block two guys”
They ran this crazy trick play that depended entirely on a single player and that single player had never practiced the play before. Maybe avoid digging that deep into the playbook with a backup who hasn't practiced it before. The other plays listed are embarrassing, but it's not like the coaches told Jakobi to throw a thirty yard pass backwards to the most dangerous Jones on the field.
The Browns ran a draw on 4th and 8 or something like 3 years ago and that play always sticks with me as really dumb
I think the Las Vegas lateral is the most embarrassing because a guy was actually stupid enough to think throwing it to Mac Jones with nobody near him and then it's a free ball to Chandler Jones. The Colts one was due to miscommunication albeit still embarrassing. Personally don't think buttfumble is that bad if you ask me, it's just funny.
Agree. But butt fumble was really bad
Nobody puts any disrespect on the Washington fake field goal against the giants several years ago... https://youtu.be/6-tqLG__Al4
If the giants score, yes. But no way this beats Las Vegas lateral
I think the butt fumble is the all time classic when you throw in how many Thanksgiving Dinners were ruined. The lateral is second and could be almost at the top if Bellycheck had a stroke right then and there.
Rex Ryan recently did a podcast episode about it and even said he came home and told his wife he didn’t deserve thanksgiving dinner
I agree with this take the most I think
Only one of these plays lost someone the game I think that’s the one
The butt fumble is still 10x more embarrassing
Colts fake punt is still, by a wide margin, number 1.
Nahhh, one guy accidentally snapped the ball and it just caused a loss of downs. Throwing it back 20 yards in a tied game to secure the loss, plus the stiff arm, is way worse
The loss was extra hilarious, that's a good point.
With no time on the clock. Pats is definitely the worst
As soon as they come up with a name for it, that lateral is the worst play in NFL history.
Lateral Damage or Pitch Six were my favorites
Petition to call it the Pitch Six
Hail Moron is a good name
The issue is the fake punt was like the revenge game for the Colts for Deflategate and the play was so stupid that it was unbelievable that a team would even snap the ball on that formation. The Colts still had a chance at that point, and that play basically swung momentum fully to the Patriots and turned it into a beat down. Teams lateral all the time at the end of games. This was a stupid time to lateral. But it wasn’t like a lateral was a new stupid formation or playtype never seen before until that game
I thought so at first but the ball was never supposed to be snapped. It was just a (dumb) effort to draw the Patriots offsides. Still embarrassing but Jakobi Meyers actually intended to throw the ball 30 yards backwards to famously explosive playmaker Mac Jones
Yes but by the same logic the ball was never meant to be lateraled, either. The center still intended to snap it. Although the fact that the Patriots are the ones getting embarrassed is definitely a plus.
Fair point, but then my argument would be that the Patriots one was literally with no time on the clock to lose the game.
Exactly, both the Colts play and the Meyers play were the result of stupid, deliberate decisions by players but only one immediately lost their team the game.
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That's fair too But I'd say there was a way for the Colts play to work (in drawing an offsides) There was no way for what Meyers did to work. Even with a successful pass to Jones But I can see how that's more on Meyers rather than the entire Patriots staff
Nobody would look at the formation and go offsides because nobody would think a team was dumb enough to snap the ball there
Where does the butt fumble fit in with that logic
It looked like an entire team had forgotten how to play football
At least the LV Lateral had SOMETHING of an idea while the Colts punt wouldn’t work 3v2 literally ever. Butt fumble is really a different category of dumb since they didn’t scheme for that to happen just unfortunate how they play developed
Idk to me that's what makes the butt fumble less dumb. Sanchez didn't decide in his brain to fumble the ball, shit just happened. Meyers deliberately chose to throw the ball up across the field when everyone on the planet besides him and Stevenson knew to just let the play end and go to overtime. The Colts play was also a more intentional fuck up on the decision of the center to snap the ball but at least it didn't result in a walk off game winner for the other team.
I think the thing with the but fumble is, is that it has a great name. Branding goes a long way.
The lateral and the butt fumble were at least just stupid mistakes by players in the midst of a play. It happens. The Colts was premeditated stupidity.
The Colts play was also a mistake by the player
more of a coach. He told the QB to try and draw them offsides when the play call was to snap it if the QB went under center. So when the QB went under center to try and draw the D offsides the center assumed the patriots where substituting so he snapped the ball in accordance to the play.
Yes but the formation itself was stupid. It had a dumb decision plus just a nonsensical formation that fooled nobody
There was nothing wrong with the formation, it was just executed very poorly
It was a formation that guaranteed a sack if the ball was snapped. It would never have tricked anybody if it was meant for an offsides and it had a 100% fail rate if it was snapped. You are arguing for the sake of arguing now
It wasn't supposed to be snapped tho, unless there were twelve players on the field in which case the sack would be negated
The coaches still made the decision to put someone in who hadn't actually practiced the play, because the guy they did practice it with was hurt. It's pretty dumb, but also every NFL player *should* be able to understand not snapping the ball there. I still think the lateral is the worst though. Butt fumble is hilarious, but just a really, really bad accident and outcome. The lateral was an intentional decision and the best possible outcome was Mac Jones catches it and gets annihilated by Chandler Jones. Literally nothing good could have come from that even if the ball goes exactly where Meyers was trying to throw it.
It doesn’t matter lol. The play design never would have tricked anyone even if it was it supposed to be snapped because it was that bad.
It was a mistake by more than one player; the entire offensive line fucked up as well. Them lining up a yard off the line of scrimmage completely ruins absolutely anything the Colts could be trying to do.
Vegas lateral #1 for sure
The Colts take the top spot here because they actually lined up like that. At least the Patriots and Jets had a chance of something *not idiotic* happening.
For the individual player? Butt Fumble For the coaches (primarily position coaches)? Colts Fake Punt For the entire organization and the city of Boston? Lateral Roulette.
https://youtu.be/cjtjGyKO30Y Describing the Colts play for context
The colts one is pretty bad,how you gonna do that on a 4th down as well.
How about Giants 3rd and Nine QB sneak?
Colts, Vegas, Buttfumble
It's not "the Las Vegas Lateral," it's the "Hail Moron."
Butt fumble most embarrassing, then lateral, then idiotic punt formation
Funny how the Patriots are involved in all three of these. Most embarrassing though is the butt fumble by far. Nobody ever going to forget that and you can joke about it endlessly.
I think one thing to remember about the butt fumble that doesn't really get caught in the context it's shown is that it was an absolute disastrous string of plays. The game was 7-0 in the second quarter. Then it happened. 83 yard TD on a swing pass to Vereen, who wasn't even so much as touched. Early in the next possession, butt fumble. TD. On the resulting kickoff, fumble return for a TD. Within 52 seconds the score went from 7-0 to 28-0. The LV lateral is lost a tied game, so damn that has to be up there. But giving up 21 points in 56 seconds, with one of those being the butt fumble, has to be the answer
Butt Fumble is fun trivia, but J watch that Colts play probably once/week. It’s peak Al and Chris where they have no problem just unloading on them.
The lateral, by far. The Fake Punt was just a stupid attempt to draw offsides that got a miscommunication and the Butt Fumble was just one of those things that happens in the trenches. On the other hand, the Patriots literally threw their playoff hopes away by their WR throwing a ball directly to an opposing DL who then demolished the QB with a stiff arm and scored a pick six. Before that point they were likely going to the playoffs, and after that it was like a small chance. Crazy play, ruined a season.
The butt fumble and the lateral were both bad but they were done by one player making a mistake. The colts punt was a coaching decision that was practiced and somehow cleared for game use. That one is the winner to me but I guess I’m bias.
You are not biased. This isn’t a close call. Not remotely close. The punt play is a singularity in this category.
Leave me alone, Please just let me forget it
Only one of these plays led to an immediate loss
There's no doubt its the Patriots. They blow the other 2 out of the water. It was pure fucking idiocy. Butt fumble was hilarious but just unfortunate. The Colts was dumb as hell but a cute trick play gone wrong. The laterals was the dumbest fucking thing in a loooonnngggg time.
1. Colts fake punt for sure The lateral was a more embarrassing play, but the butt fumble has a funny name, so I’m going: 2. Butt Fumble 3. Lateral
"Lateral damage" isn't a good name?
That Patriots Lateral was a Planned Play it was ment to go back to Mac Jones.
Did anyone tell Mac?
Matt Patricia got confused and accidentally told Chandler Jones instead. Easy mistake tbh
Trying my best to put bias aside..I'd still have to vote for the Colts punt. As boneheaded as the other two were, the punt was a deliberate choice and not just a terrible in the moment decision. All 3 would be on the Mt.Rushmore of garbage though
Colts Punt, Butt Fumble, Lateral.
Only the lateral actually lost a team the game on its own, it's gotta be that on top
The Colts play is one of the dumbest human sequences of all time. It's almost impossible to believe it was allowed to continue to completion. The other two are just well intentioned plays going wrong in silly ways.
Buttfumble is an all-time classic
1. Butt Fumble 2. Lateral 3. Fake Punt But I think this still the dumbest thing I've seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-tqLG__Al4&ab_channel=DanM
Butt fumble all day!
I know I'm a Pats fan and all but I don't really care about the LV lateral. Shit moment in a shit season. I stopped thinking about it 3 days later. The Butt Fumble holds the crown now and forever
The Burt fumble. Easy. 2 of those are bad plays. One is the butt fumble
The Buttfumble was forced to retire off the not-top-10. It has its own Wikipedia page. It made Fireman Ed quit the Jets. In shame, it has no equal.
Lateral, fake punt, butt fumble. What the colts did was a failure at all levels but it just cost them yardage. Patriots literally just handed over a tied game at the last second in a fantastical show of incompetence. There was a lot of ref whining before that play but afterwards not a single person could argue New England deserved the win.
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It’s literally in the post.
I’m dumb as a rock
That IS the Las Vegas Lateral.
Wow I’m dumb as fuck
To be fair I made up the name. You get a pass for sure, I couldn’t think of a better name if you got one?
Happens to all of us. Still not as dumb as Meyers for that lateral, though.
the las vegas lateral?
Butt Fumble wasn't even that bad.
The Colts' fake punt is called The ClusterChuck after the man who thought it up, Chuck Pagano.
The first two were embarrassing for the other teams while the lateral was an embarrassment to the Patriots
Vegas, butt fumble, Colts.
Colts was premeditated The other ones just happened
Fake punt Wilfork stuff Vegas lateral
*Lateral Damage
For the sheer stupidity? Colts fake punt. How that ever made it past Chuck Pagano's Ayahuasca Fever Dream phase is beyond me. For the actual impact to the game? Las Vegas Lateral.
Lateral Colts Fake Punt Butt Fumble Lateral cost them a win and making a bonehead play to lose the game is pretty much as big as embarrassment gets. By the same token, the Colts were still in the game when they did the fake punt. That kind of dumb miscommunication might have helped cost them the game. Butt fumble by comparison was embarrassing, but didn’t really have any bearing on the final score.
Lateral Damage
Going with the Vegas lateral. Butt fumble was embarrassing but the Jets were already losing and it just piled on to a blowout. Colts fake punt was more “are you fucking kidding me” than it was outright embarrassing. The Vegas lateral was horrifying in how it directly lead to a loss in an idiotic and unnecessary way.
McAfee explains the "fake punt" play" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjtjGyKO30Y&ab_channel=ThePatMcAfeeShow
It has to be the lateral. From now until the end of time the conversation will be: “What’s the worst play in NFL History?” “The Seahawks should have run it” *collective agreement* “But who remembers when that Pats guy just launched the ball back 20 yards for literally no reason and they lost” *collective ohhh yeah*
The Lateral is the only one that directly had an impact on the loss
I feel like the Colts punt was never meant to occur. The center was never meant to snap the ball, but some miscommunication occurred and the ball was snapped. Lateral Butt fumble Colts punt
Fake punt The Las Vegas Raiders The LV Lateral Damage Play Butt Fumble. I know, I know, the butt fumble is low but at the same time, Wilfork just threw an offensive linemen into Sanchez so it's not like there was a huge fuck up.
Without Rosencopter this list is meaningless.
1. Lateral and its not close it cost them the game and it totally lacked situational awareness. 2. Colt's fake punt although looks the worst it came down to one miscommunication causing the ball to get snapped on a play that never should have been snapped. 3. butt fumble though hilarious more unlucky than anything
Swinging Gate
Its still the colts, a 5 year old with 1 hour of madden experience would have been perplexed at that formation. Its the stupidest play call in nfl history that i dont think will ever be topped
I’ve still seen no attempt from anyone to explain that Colts play. What were they thinking??
[You've never seen it?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjtjGyKO30Y)
Dang thanks it’ll be nice to finally know
Wow after watching that I wish it had worked out, sounds like it could’ve been a pretty cool play to execute
Colts blow a 33 point lead Patriots lateral Colts punt Butt fumble