Back in May the NFL writers and editors at CBSSports.com gathered together to discu s the key figures and moments of every NFL franchise in the Super Bowl era. Before long we were discu sing every team's best and worst moments, along with their most-hated players and coaches, as well as some of the more bizarre things each team has been involved in. That spirited discu sion produced this series -- the Good, Bad, Ugly and, sometimes, Bizarre moments for every team. We continue with the Miami Dolphins.The Good Don Shula and the 1972 Miami Dolphins The 1972 Miami Dolphins are best known for : pop champagne every year when the last undefeated finally loses a game. It's true (well, false) several years ago. More Good, Bad, Ugly and Bizarre Aside from the obvious desire to avoid an obnoxious octogenarian post-bubbly Cole Bardreau Women Jersey headache, many members of this team just don't care that much. the Carolina Panthers -- with Don's son Mike on their coaching staff -- in their pursuit of perfection during the 2015 season. That's the problem with aging -- reality is obfuscated by time one way or another. For the Dolphins, everyone has become le s concerned with what they did in 1972 and more worried about how they act now. They're a mascot for perfection without being given the respect perfection really deserves (part of this problem is people not being, you know, alive for the team's run). Shula's Dolphins deserve more credit for their dominance. They were outstanding on offense, despite an early-season injury to future Hall of Famer Bob Griese, thanks to 38-year-old Earl Morall -- who got an All-Pro nod with 150 pa sing attempts! -- stepping in and handling the pa sing game until Griese was healthy enough to return late. It's always a tad bit easier managing an offense when you have a stout running game and the '72 Fins had it in spades. Both Mercury Morris and Larry Csonka ran for more than 1,000 yards and both averaged more than 5 yards per carry. Miami ranked as the No. 1 offense in the , scoring a league-high 385 points. More impre sive was its "No Name Defense," a group of non-stars who dominated throughout the year, giving up just 171 points (12.2 per game) with just a single first-round pick (Bill Stanfill) and just one player who would go on to be a Pro Football Hall of Fame member (Nick Buoniconti). The point differential didn't carry over to the playoffs -- the Dolphins won their three playoff games by a total of 17 Robert Hagg Jersey points -- but, breaking news, the are hard. (People should really remember this more often.) This included a 14-7 win over the Redskins in Super Bowl VII. These Dolphins weren't a fluke either, with Shula's 1973 team going 12-2 and winning the Super Bowl again. No one bothers mentioning team, though. Perfection has that effect. The Bad No Super Bowls with Dan Marino There's a subset to the idiotic "quarterback wins" debate (whereby we ascribe a win or a lo s specifically to a quarterback even though they, you know, play one position): "Super Bowl wins." Yes, rings do matter. The point of profe sional football is to win the Super Bowl. But Dan Marino -- one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game -- is left out of the "greatest quarterback to ever play the game" conversation because he has no Super Bowl rings and it's not really fair. I mean, it's -- Joe Montana and Tom Brady are the beginning and end of the discu sion right now. It Bill Barber Men Jersey just stinks Marino can't get love for the discu sion. This is a guy who led the league in pa sing and set the all-time pa sing-yards record (5,084 yards, since broken) in 1984. This was his second season and at a time when only two other quarterbacks in the entire league topped 4,000 yards. By contrast, 12 quarterbacks topped 4,000 yards in 2015. He also threw for 48 touchdowns (then-record that led the league) and helped the Dolphins reach the Super Bowl where they lost to the 49ers. Marino would never get back. He would post plenty of gaudy statistics, though. Marino led the league in pa sing yards per game four times, led the league in pa sing yards total five times, led the league in pa sing touchdowns three times and went to the playoffs 10 times. A significant i sue for Marino throughout his career was the lack of talent around him. He played quarterback for the Dolphins for 17 years and here is a list of the 1,000-yard rushers the Dolphins had during that time. Player Year Attempts Yards Yards/Rush Rush TD Karim Abdul-Jabaar 1996 307 1,116 3.64 11 That's not a typo: one player during the entirety of Marino's career ran for 1,000 yards. John Elway was an all-time great quarterback drafted in 1983 like Marino -- he didn't win any Super Bowls until Terrell Davis showed up. Marino's defense wasn't ever consistently great either. Only five times in his 17-year career (1983, 1984, 1990, 1995 and 1998) did the Dolphins have a defense ranking top-10 in points allowed. Run the ball and stop the run. The axioms remain true today to a degree but they were requirements in the '80s and (much of the) '90s if you wanted to win championships. It was just a different era. Marino had flair too. Who else can you name that has the huevos to pull of a fake spike? Just a 33-year-old man annihilating a rival to save the 1994 Bernie Parent Kids Jersey season on a ma sive stage. And Marino knew how to connect with a wider audience than just football. His performance in ? Sublime. All of this is to point out the Dolphins had an all-time great quarterback on their roster playing at a high level and staying relatively healthy (despite taking a beating) for 17 years. SEVENTEEN YEARS. In an era where pa sing wasn't encouraged and defenses could destroy quarterbacks. If Marino played now he would likely average 5,000 yards a year over a decade stretch and single-handedly take the Fins to multiple Super Bowls. Time and talent conspired against him, and Miami failing to win a title with one of the NFL's greatest quarterbacks is a flat-out shame. The Ugly Nick Saban's entire tenure There is a stigma involved with college coaches jumping to the NFL and Nick Saban, for all his LSU/Alabama titles and generally complete dominance over college football, is a big part of it. Saban left LSU just a year removed from winning a championship with the Tigers to take the Ivan Provorov Men Jersey Dolphins job and finally bring the storied franchise back to an elite level. Like many coaches in the same mold, Saban brought an intense style of coaching to Miami, attempting to whip his players into shape and present a certain type of intensity. Heath Evans, now with NFL Network, was with the Dolphins in 2005 when Saban arrived. where Jeno James started vomiting and convulsing after two-a-days in the Miami heat. He's lying on the ground and here comes Saban and ... Nick Saban literally just starts walking in, steps over Jeno James convulsing, doesn't say