Here’s the thing: This list is very unkind to Dawson, who for many years was the rock of the team, partially because the sample size of losses is huge. At the same time, he’s the only reason we have some of the wins we have. In a quick scan of boxscores, I count a total of 24 game-tying or game-winning kicks by Phil…

Well, since the supposed criterion is “emotional impact”, there have definitely been Ravens losses that have gotten inflated. That hasn’t changed much with time—oddly enough, before tonight, there wasn’t a single Ravens loss in the top 25, because most of our close games with the Ravens we’ve actually won (think the…

Is that...better or worse?

Yeah—I need to actually watch the few seconds before the snap again to confirm, but my recollection is that it was half of the left side of the line. The Davis slide was silly and definitely a but-for cause of the problem, though (although I have little enough faith in Johnny at this point that I would not expect him…

Oh, I’m not saying that it should have been called. I’m just saying that it was probably not helpful to their subsequent blocking for the Browns linemen to look at the refs and point.

Perhaps the most fitting picture of the Browns’ ineptitude of the last 16 seasons is Antonio Brown kicking Spencer Lanning in the face. And that game, a game in which the Browns had an improbable comeback to tie and then stopped playing defense for 40 seconds so that the Steelers could kick the GW FG, couldn’t even…

Hi. I’m the author of that post. Now that I’ve been asked this question over text and IM a half dozen times, I think I would slot it between #9 and #10.