Dumb Decisions: The STUPIDEST Extra Point Ever | Broncos @ Cowboys (NFL Thanksgiving- 2001)

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

“You thought Jason Garrett at 8-8 was consistent? Dave Campo says hold my beer.”

[@fredleeland2464]

Crazy he was the 4th ever coach for the Cowboys...the guy betwern Switzer and Parcells, such a rando coach choice

[@dennismonk9559]

@@fredleeland2464 he was 5, parcells was 6. You forgot Chan Gailey, who was coach after Switzer. Campo coached for Jimmy Jonson with Miami and joined him on the cowboys, and stayed with the Cowboys when he left. He was Defensive coordinator for the Super Bowl win under Switzer and stayed in that role through Switzer and Gailey's tenure. It's not that random, kinda the same thing Jerry did with Jason Garret. He just wasn't a good choice as HC, even worse than Garret hah.

[@jimhyman8544]

"We're taking a look at the mind of Dave Campo." Yeah, good luck with that.

[@baxatakbaxatak2014]

The only reason he was here was so that Jerry could actually coach the team.

[@msarzo]

I'm surprised JG9 was able to escape from that Great Abyss!

[@pronkb000]

Incredibly, Campo compounded this decision by coming to a 4th-and-10 with 3 minutes left in the game, and he PUNTED. Down 26-17. Yes, really.

[@alec1115]

Jerry Boy should have fired him on the spot.

[@MarshallYTGaming]

"The crowd is booing, which they should" You know your decision is bad when the announcers are encouraging fans to boo lol

[@littleblackduck3134]

Wow! Dave Campo and Ryan Leaf, now there's a winning combination

[@charlescritchfield8242]

Yeah I'm surprised they won 3 more games after this one that year. Just STUPID.

[@MrPhilm00r]

I know, right?? The cowboys must have been trying to prove something that year, because that combination is such a disadvantage right out of the gate.

[@scotthopkins9458]

Or a laughingstock🤣

[@allthingssports4957]

@@scotthopkins9458r/woooosh

[@marcus813]

As hard as 2-point conversions are, onside kicks, even back in '01, are even more difficult.

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

“WHY ARE THEY SENDING OUT THE KICKER?!”

[@msarzo]

"WHY ARE THEY SENDING OUT THE KICK-?!" That's Dave Campo for ya! That decision was worse than if you did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play.

[@NillyNilly546]

Ouch, that's something you'd accidentally do in Madden, but can fix easily.

[@BachBeethovenBerg]

How can you fix it?

[@ajk]

@@BachBeethovenBerg Mulligan?

[@CTubeMan]

When I thought of this video before you posted it, I was thinking it would be a Broncos game. However, I thought it would have been their game in 2006 against the Chiefs in the first night Thanksgiving game. The Broncos said that would be the last start for Jake Plummer as they would start Jay Cutler the next week. The Broncos lost to the Chiefs. They then lost three of their last five, losing a playoff spot in a tiebreaker to...wait for it... the Chiefs.

[@joerules829]

Dave Campo’s postgame press conferences always reminded me of Principal McVickers on Beavis and Butthead. “Uhhhhhhh”

[@TheEWFX29]

To be fair they lost by 2 so even if they got the 2 point conversion they would have lost by a point anyway. Might have been a bad move but it didn't cost the game.

[@smoothALOE]

In the history of the Dallas Cowboys, I think it’s safe to say that Dave Campo is the worst HC they’ve ever had. All he had was three straight seasons of 5-11. That’s 15-33. Their defense was pretty good, but they had a lot of trouble being consistent on offense in those days. The QB position was like a revolving door of mediocre, on down to bad talent. The only decent QB once Aikman was done was Randall Cunningham and he was on his last legs, too.

[@thomascrowley9122]

Dallas fans probably have selective amnesia about 00-02

[@r.williamcomm7693]

It gets even dumber. HC Campo has the offense out there for the 2 point conversion & he had EXTRA time due to a player injury to think about it & he called the offense off the field!! Even dumber was Jerry Jones not firing Campo at the end of the season do stupidity.

[@joerules829]

I know. He actually got another year after this.

[@BachBeethovenBerg]

The injury delay caused him to overthink it too much

[@bjchit]

I remember watching this game live wondering what the hell was he thinking.

[@MrPhilm00r]

Man, looking back at games back then as compared to now you can really see the huge difference in QB play across the board. It's amazing how much better some of todays lower tier QB's are compared to average starting QB's 15 or more years ago.

[@CTubeMan]

My Top Ten NFL Thanksgiving Day moments: 10. Ahmad Rashad proposes to Phylicia Ayers-Allen, 1985 9. 2011 (Suh kicks Dietrich-Smith, Cowboys beat Dolphins on late FG, Harbaugh Bowl) 8. Lions destroy defending NFL Champion Packers for their only loss that year, 1962 7. LT Pick-Six, 1982 6. 1998 (Phil Luckett botches coin toss, Randy Moss torches Cowboys) 5. Mike Tomlin slide step, 2013 4. Leon Lett slides in the snow and costs Cowboys against Dolphins, 1993 3. Buttfumble, 2012 2. Clint Longley relieves an injured Roger Staubach and leads Cowboys to comeback win over Redskins, 1974 1. Bears-Lions 1980 (Bears QB Vince Evans scores the tying touchdown on the final play of regulation, Dave Williams of the Bears returns the overtime kickoff for a touchdown).

[@pronkb000]

#6 should read "Jerome Bettis botches coin toss."

[@ppsh43]

Aaron Rodger’s 50 yard Hail Mary.

[@OBESPRING1982]

Do one on Mike Martz letting the clock run down and kicking a FG at the end of regulation in the 2003 NFC divisional playoff at the Trans World Dome vs. Carolina in January 2004.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

and then burning all three of his timeouts before the second overtime

[@y2films]

Fuck that game

[@MatthewChristianMurray]

This is the most recent time the Broncos have worn their full Orange Crush throwbacks, right? (Not counting the Color Rush look, which still uses a navy blue helmet and isn’t quite historically accurate.)

[@y2films]

It may very well be. The return of throwbacks was very brief. 1 shell rule and color pallet mandate killed it entirely

[@richsheer4905]

McCarthy almost made an even worse error in the 2013 finale at Chicago. Down 8 with 11 minutes left, the Packers scored a TD and then kicked the extra point! Good thing for him that Rodgers connected with Cobb on 4th & 8.

[@ajk]

I'd forgive that actually....given it was a 1 possession at the time of the score, and there were 11 minutes to play still, which is a long time. Getting the ball back down one with a shot at a field goal to win it, is not out of the realm of possibility there. This is way worse.

[@msarzo]

@@ajk Yeah, considering the time left and whom McCarthy had at quarterback and the tools Kaaron Rodgers had, it was hardly a dumb decision. He figured he could get the ball back and score with it, which was a pretty reasonable assumption.

[@sbproroofing]

what, are they doing, WHY ARE THEY KICKING IT

[@vict4451]

Campo had no business as head coach, but nobody wanted to put up with Jerry's nonsense.

[@baxatakbaxatak2014]

Campo wasn’t the coach, Jerry was.

[@RawwkinGrimmie64]

You see, it's funny that you should bring up Mike McCarthy when he pulled something damn near as stupid as what Campo did in this game. Down 0-20, the Cowboys were on the verge of an amazing comeback, having just scored a touchdown to make the game 30-39, trailing by nine points. Instead of going for the extra point to easily make it an eight point game, McCarthy sends the offense on the field to go for two and try to make it a seven point game. But they failed the conversion, meaning they trailed by two possessions instead of one, with a little over five minutes left in the fourth. If it weren't for the Cowboys amazingly recovering an onside kick down 37-39 and driving down to field to hit the game-winning field goal as time expired, McCarthy would have gotten just as much heat as Campo did. The best part about all of this? This video was uploaded in November 2020, while the Falcoms-Cowboys game happened in September of 2020, so the Mike McCarthy mention probably warranted a bit more than the fact that he was currently in his first season as the Cowboys head coach.

[@diaz5292]

The league decided if Jones wants to exit the revenue sharing plan, then his Cowboys can kiss their Superbowl appearances goodbye. And so Dallas and the Superbowl have been social distancing for more than a quarter century.

[@matsugo24]

Anytime the Cowboys are covered, post 1995, it’s going to be a joke of a story Ike this

[@82dorrin]

Dave Campo even had some decent rosters to work with in Dallas.

[@stephengrinkley9889]

I use to feel bad for Dave Campo. He was obviously in way over his head.

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

Even if Campo went for 2 and missed that STILL would have been better.

[@deadend1041]

How? You'd be down by 11 and need 2 touchdowns. Tocuhdown and a field goal to win is orders of magnitude more likely than 2 touchdowns with that much time left.

[@nickoftime602]

@@deadend1041 he’d have been down 10. Not 11. The score before the try was 26-16. Missing the two point conversion still makes it a td and fg deficit

[@gluserty]

I'm a Cowboys fan, but in this era (2000-2002) I knew they were bad and accepted it, happy that at least they won a few games. Picturing these sad sacks running the table @ 2-7 is beyond my scope of thinking, but not past my sense of humor.

[@ericveneto1593]

Once I explain the scoring rules to my nephew Jonathan, he'd understand why this decision is terrible! Did I mention, my nephew is 7?!

[@baxatakbaxatak2014]

Ahh, Dave Campo. Jerry Jones’ avoidance of conflict of interest so HE could be the head coach.

[@scotthopkins9458]

I remember this. I’m a huge Denver Broncos fan and I couldn’t believe Dallas did this

[@dawndacquisto]

haha great vid thanks

[@Earthshaker513]

I remember watching both of these games and my dad and I, as Packers fans, were laughing our butts off at the Lions and the Cowboys. BTW, I miss teams wearing their retro uniforms on Thanksgiving.

[@Tubewings]

Have there ever been any Dumb Decisions that led to the coach being fired immediately afterwards? And I'm not counting the Miracle at the Meadowlands. In that case, it was the offensive coordinator that was fired immediately after the game and not the head coach.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Mariucci was fired after the 49ers lost to the Bucs in 2002, but it wasn’t a direct result of the play in question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmmVhGNsfrCleaM

[@ericfitzgerald9214]

Gregg Williams was Jets def coordinator when Carr and the Raiders hit that hail Mary. Williams lost his job the next day

[@littleblackduck3134]

Jack Pardee with the Oilers after losing to the Bills

[@hunterwade9030]

Both teams wearing throwbacks

[@y2films]

Yeah this was beautiful to watch. I wish the NFL did more of these

[@MillionaireWizard]

And 20 years later, Urban Meyer would pull this off as well, albeit down by 18.

[@MothOnFire]

I think he might have literally just forgotten and then just said to go for 1 not thinking about it. Not sure how that would happen but nothing can explain it anyways

[@NillyNilly546]

I'm surprised you haven't touched what Falcons did against 49ers in 2015.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

SB Nation already did a pretty good job covering that awful decision. It’d be pretty redundant if I made a vid on it, though we’ll see later down the road if I can add anything new to it

[@RichV20]

I saw the name on the back of the QB was "LEAF". I was like, Ryan Leaf, he was still in the league??? And starting in 2001?

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

And the strangest part is the Dallas Cowboys, won’t even the only team to sign Ryan Leaf to a contract that year.

[@guttmana9767]

love the brady joke

[@jlh4jc]

Those Cowboys teams in the early 2000s until Parcells were a laughing stock. After Jimmy Johnson left, the Cowboys made some bad draft decisions with picks like Shante Carver, Eric Bjornsen, and whoever they picked over Randy Moss in 1998. They sucked!

[@gl0087]

Didn't the broncos get fined after that game for wearing the wrong jerseys?

[@edl2nd]

This was during the *Dave's Not Here* Rain of Error ...

[@joeuribe8866]

I remember this game.

[@daveerhardt1879]

This is the last game that Ryan Leaf played in his career too.

[@EdgarReina2]

Dave Campo fue lo peor que le pasó a Dallas en muchos años

[@oldmanballer5088]

My question is what was the line Lin Vegas on this game? Maybe Campo had some money on it?

[@scottconner3726]

19 Years Ago

[@AutoRockinRacing94]

The Creed game lol

[@MrTrickster1984]

If you had a game between a team coached by Campo and a team coached by Rich Kotite, who would win at losing the game first?

[@scotthopkins9458]

That was the only game that Denver wore their throwback uniforms

[@y2films]

It's weird to me they chose to do it here and not in Denver

[@bryanglass5818]

In regards to the GB game mentioned first, it wouldn’t have been that close had the officials not made an error. GB was awarded two points via a safety. The Packers should’ve been credited with a touchdown. This would have put a Detroit comeback out of reach.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

You’re right. That really was bad decision making by the coach.

[@marcus813]

I remember reporters questioning him about this decision after the game. Campo didn't make himself look any better at that point. No wonder his 3 Cowboys teams were 5-11 each season.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

@@marcus813 Agree! Hey did you see his video on Matt LaFleur kicking the field goal on the Bucs vs Packers NFC title game. OMG it blows my mind that LaFleur said it was because they would get the equivalent of 4 time outs but then he lost his free clock stoppage by more kicking the ball out of the end zone!!! It’s rare that we as fans know more than a coach but OMG but that one took the cake. The Packers special teams coach was fired. These coaching staffs are now filled with subcontractors instead of a head coach running the games. 😀

[@marcus813]

@@r.williamcomm7693 I haven't watched that video yet, but I'll look for it. LaFleur is only one person to blame for that, but the Packers had plenty of chances to take control of the game in the 2nd half before the aforementioned FG. When you're facing a better team, coaching can make a difference.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

@@marcus813 Agree 100%. Bucs didn’t win that game, the Packers lost it. Lol

[@danielpennington6053]

My dad and I went to this game. We were cheering for the Broncos, but I agree I was confused why Dallas didn’t go for two. The Cowboys could have come back to win. Fun Fact: the last time the Cowboys beat the Broncos in a regular season game, was in 1995.

[@ecembrew]

Lol@some 6th round pick

[@dentonyoung4314]

Whiskey... Tango... Foxtrot???

[@PoliticallyIncorrect90]

They got the extra point. A 2 point conv would've netted 1 more. They lost by 2. It didn't matter. Good point about Campo's lack of logic though.

[@pcbullets8726]

This guy is pretty terrible, but you have to wonder if J. Jones vetoed Campos decision to go for 2. Just a thought.

[@erickennedy5993]

Campo was worst coach I seen in NFL history

[@ImTheCrew]

Grey video thanks

[@diaz5292]

I thought it was more of an orange video.

[@davidbrooks1724]

Dave cammpo . Worst coach ever

[@deadend1041]

No you are WRONG kicking the field goal was the right call because of the amount of time left. It is going to take 2 possessions to win either way. By kicking the field goal you put yourself in position to win with a touch down and field goal, missing on a 2 pt conversion means you need 2 touchdowns. Any coach who plays for a tie with that much time left should be immediately fired

[@littleblackduck3134]

No he's right even of its for the tie and O.T. you make it a one possession game. The offense has done nothing all game and now you'll roll the dice that they will score on 2 seperate possessions at the end of the game?..Nah

[@richardtherichard26]

Absolutely the right call to go for it. Idk what planet you’re from where you’d rather be down by more (9) than less (8) but going for 2 and making it a 1 possession game is ALWAYS the right call. You never take multiple scoring possessions for granted. That’s stupid