mediocre teams do not make 4 postseasons in 6 years. It sure beats the 70's, right? Considering we never won in oakland prior to 2001 and lost a few weeks earlier I'm not so sure. Hopefully we'll have more memories some day but that doesn't change the fact that Joe's teams lost to many teams they should have beaten so for him to act like his teams were perfect and to take shots at the current guys isn't right.
I've seen the one that he threw to Maynard at the sideline that set up the TD pass quite a few times and am still amazed he put the ball on the money considering he threw that into a stiff wind! Fortunately Maynard fumbled the ball out of bounds and not in play though.
The two most gifted athletes who I ever saw play for the Jets were Joe Namath and Al Toon. When they were in their zone it was a thing of beauty.
and in typical Jets fashion they both had their careers shortened by injuries. Some of the best playesr we have had their careers altered by injuries- Namath, Klecko, McNeil, Toon, Abraham, Mehl, ...
A team that backs into the playoffs during the last game of the season and than follows that up with a lossing seasons followed up by backing in on the last day followed up by a lossing season, followed up by backing in on the last day followed up by a lossing season is the definition of mediocre building nothing. Namath's team on the other hand drafted well and got better every year until they won a SB and than fell off the cliff do to age and injury. The Staff was better the players were better and the concept was better, it's as simple as that.
There's no such thing as backing in, you either win the games you need to win or you don't and last I checked in '01 we won at Oak for the first time sine we were the Titans, in '02 we beat up NE at NE and GB the final 2 weeks- how could that be considered backing in anyway? and if it's so easy how come we didn't back in at any point in the 70s? Namath's teams made just TWO postseasons and only needed to win ONE game to get to the SB. You make it sound like they built and built and became a superpower, they were basically a 1 year wonder.
am i seriously watching JETS fans argue about the quality of the lone super bowl win in the history of the franchise? i cannot stand most of our fan base its official. only jets fans could find themselves defending a super bowl win against other jets fans. you see its the jobs of people like bills fans to come in and say the super bowl win was a fluke, or cheap. its not our job to question our own franchises success.
I tell it like it is whether it's criticizing or praising or team. if you want fluff read someone else's posts. I am not tryin to take anything away from the SB team but Winston mentioned how they built for years and how great they were when that wasn't the case, they had a nice 2 year run and fell of the map for the next 12-13 years.
i really dont care what your arguing about to be honest. a super bowl is a super bowl. now if you wanna argue about how the team was built back than whatever. but you dont need to attempt to diminish the quality of that season just to attempt to make your point stronger. again thats the what the fans of other teams are supposed to do.
I am countering another argument about how strong we were and how built up to be this great team when that wasn't true. I speak the truth, if it is against us so be it. We only had to win 1 game at home to get to the SB. let's be honest that was a huge advantage especially since the team we beat had a better record and beat us that season.
The following year (69 season), they added an extra playoff game to the mix, because they thought it was joke that the JETS won the Super Bowl the year before. They played the Chiefs in the opening round and lost 13 to 6. The only reason they added that extra game that year was because the NFL had the extra game the previous years. The AFL wanted to make a point that it was not joke that they Jets won SBIII. The Chiefs went on to win, and the merger was complete. I will be posting some photos later this week from the 40th Anniversary of the Jets Super Bowl Team. It was a blast being there and I really enjoyed being on the field with my dad during the halftime ceremony. GO JETS!
you can get your point across about how the team was built back than simply by saying that the team fell off after the super bowl win. thats what you did and that was a fine argument on its own. what you did with the taking a stab at the super bowl win was an attempt to make your argument stronger by reaching for more evidence to support it. it doesn't do anything to help your argument to attempt to diminish the super bowl season. it just makes you seem desperate to make a point.
:rofl: Who is even talking about him in this thread besides you and your ugly avatar? Get a grip man.
What's wrong with that quote? He's right. Oakland had a better record and beat the Jets, they should have had the home game. That's a different thing entirely. In today's league the Jets would have had to go on the road and likely lost, or at least had to play another game or two and lost that. If the 2002 team only had to beat Indy at home to reach the Super Bowl it would have been a lot easier, right? That's his point, not how we got in the playoffs.
lol...good one. Every time I see Namath I think of that night. Here is our most notable figure in Jets history, drunk on national tv. Good times.....
That's not what I get from it. He's saying the 68 team had a much easier path to the championship, one home game and the Super Bowl, and he's right. The whole concept of backing in is stupid, if you have the credentials after 16 games you get in, if not you don't. It's all objective criteria, everyone knows the rules going in.
BS, that's not what I get from it at all. He's questioning the merit of a team that won the games it had to to win a championship while defending a team that won the games it had to to make the playoffs. You can't get more hypocritical than that.
