There was a time when the Dan Marino-led Miami Dolphins and Jim Kelly-led Buffalo Bills had one of the NFL’s best rivalries in the 1990s. Both teams were talented and led by future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, which meant usually playoff implications were on the line when these AFC East rivals met twice a year.
But those memories have long faded over the past two decades as both teams struggled during the post-Marino, post-Kelly era. Buffalo has the NFL’s longest playoff drought of 17 years and counting, and Miami has just two playoff appearances in the same span.