Please don't be biased and just pick the Jets. Think about it. Jets: 8-3, beating 2 of the top teams in the NFL on the road. Finish 9-7, miss playoffs. Team was very healthy. Broncos: Suffered a ton of injuries, but they are still the first team in NFL history to lead the division from week one to week 16 and then miss the playoffs entirely at 8-8. Lost last three games. Buccaneers: 9-3 record, dropped each of last four games, culminating in a home loss to the Raiders to miss the playoffs. If they had won one game in their last four, they would have been in. Suffered a decent amount of injuries, but defense died when Monte Kiffin announced he would go to U-Tennessee next year. Cowboy: 14-2 last season. 8-4, lost 3 of last 4. Missed Tony Romo for a few games, but still lost last two when they controlled their own destiny.
Bucs or Cowboys is the choice for me - I went with the Cowboys, because they were Super Bowl favorites, and they really have to wonder now if Romo is capable of winning a big game.
Who had it worse? The Jets or the Cowboys? This is pretty much a tossup, I lean towards the Jets because they lost such awful games
yep...I love watching Jerry Jones suffer....especially when the Cowboys dropped that turd AFTER he gave Phillips a vote of confidence....football poetry at its best
We lost to the Broncos, 49ers, and Seahags, when a win against any of those teams would have gotten us into the playoffs. Awful.
Nobody worse than the Jets. The Bucs and Broncs have worse talent (highly overrated teams) and the Boys had some injuries. Meanwhile, the Jets are sitting home after spending $140 million in the offseason, and sending 7-12 guys to the probowl. 1-4 down the stretch against teams with WHAT combined record?!? No major injuries, no freaking excuses.
Cowboys without a doubt. Although of course the Jets are leading in poll voting right now by 40%, and will get the most votes, because ... that's just the way this board is. Anyone who thinks that the flameout of the Jets ending up 9-7 -- a 4-12 team last year, who no one picked to win the Superbowl in preseason, and was ranked in the top 10115 teams in media power rankings for only 2-3 weeks of the 17 week season -- was a bigger collapse than ... the #1 NFC seed last year, returning all key players to be annointed the consensus NFC/overall Superbowl pick of this year finishing with the exact same record of 9-7, also with lots of losses to finish the season and going into the final game with their destiny in their control, only to give up statistically one of the worst losses in their long team history, with players pointing fingers at each other afterwards ... ... well, anyone who thinks the first situation was a bigger collapse than the second is pretty much convincing me more of their lack of judgement, knowledge, and perspective on the NFL and the Jets, and/or their complete absorption in self-pity and narcissism, than of how bad this year was. Just calling manure by it's rightful name here, sorry.
bucs, hands down.controlled their fate 4 final games and a home loss to the raiders? no. cowboys close second, supposed super bowl pick preseason. romo goes down, defense becomes inconsistent and jason garrett's offense surprises nobody anymore.
