http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/don_banks/06/01/decade/index.html 1. New England Regular season: 102-42, .708 Playoff wins/record: 14-3 Super Bowls won/appeared: 3 out of 4 Playoff seasons: 6 Winning seasons: 8 Losing seasons: 1 In the past six seasons, the Patriots have won an astounding 77 games in the regular season (one shy of 13 per year), and 11 more in the playoffs. And let's not lose sight of the fact that Bill Belichick's 2001 no-name club authored one of the most remarkable Super Bowl upsets in history. If the 2007 Patriots had just been able to close the deal against the Giants, the only debate would be whether that New England team is the NFL's greatest ever, not whether the Patriots are the best of the current decade. Alas, the Pats are one miraculous David Tyree helmet catch away from all of that. 15. New York Jets Regular season: 71-73, .493 Playoff wins/record: 2-4 Super Bowls won/appeared: 0 Playoff seasons: 4 Winning seasons: 6 Losing seasons: 3 The Jets crack the top half of our rankings because they've somehow scratched and fought their way to six winning seasons and four playoff trips in the first nine years of the decade. Having just three losing seasons should count for something, even though when it's bad, New York has a tendency to be very bad (three double-digit loss seasons). 17. Miami Regular season: 72-72, .500 Playoff wins/record: 1-3 Super Bowls won/appeared: 0 Playoff seasons: 3 Winning seasons: 6 Losing seasons: 3 Last year ended a six-year streak of missing the playoffs in Miami, and the Dolphins haven't won a playoff game since 2000, the year after Dan Marino retired. But despite conventional wisdom, it hasn't been all misery in South Florida. The Dolphins three times had winning seasons but missed the playoffs (2002, 2003, 2005), and last year's worst-to-first turnaround (11-5, after going 1-15 in 2007) was one for the record books. 29. Buffalo Regular season: 60-84, .417 Playoff wins/record: 0-0 Super Bowls won/appeared: 0 Playoff seasons: 0 Winning seasons: 1 Losing seasons: 6 Best I can tell, there's no truth to the rumor the Bills organization this season plans on staging a 10th anniversary reunion of the franchise's last playoff qualifier: the 1999 team. But if the Bills did decide to go that route, I'd make sure the celebration was at halftime of one of their Toronto games, thereby not needlessly reminding Buffalo fans it has been a decade since they had a playoff team to call their own.
Thats pretty good. It has been a good decade in Jets land. The Phins having a better record than us is not that crazy. Take their 1-15 season for instance, combine 2007 and 2008 and the Dolphins are 12-20 with the Jets at 13-19. However, it is crazy that the Jets are under .500 for the decade. Same Old Jets.
Man the potential we had in the 1980's to win a Super Bowl! Ugh!! We should have keep Walt Michaels instead of Joe Walton and we would have had a much better chance in 1983.
^ ^^ I wasn't around during that time. Its amazing of how many times this franchise had what could have been great success.... They had a franchise QB and a nightmare of a defense, along with a well respected Defensive Coordinator who became a head coach......... that sounds familiar.
haha. playoff years and playoff wins and the Jets still have a losing record for the decade. Its just warped IMO... but so fitting for this franchise.
Leon Washington Cotchery and Stuckey Dustin Keller NOT THIS TIME!!! :breakdance: June is a fun month for optimism :lol::beer:
Not quite as good as Freeman McNeil was. I love these two but Toon and Wesley were so much better I think Keller can be an elite pass catching TE I love your optimism!! I would love to see a comparison between the D's of the 80's with our D of today. I think position by position today's defense is better. DL - 80's LB - draw with edge to today's DB - Today's
Leon is more of a Bruce Harper back. If you never saw Freeman McNeil, picture Curtis Martin but not as durable, which we survived because we had Johnny Hector behind him who could have started for most teams. Cotchery and Stuckey don't belong in any comparison with Walker and Toon. The only other WR tandem I saw that was even close was Chrebet and Keyshawn for the couple of years we had them together, though I never saw Maynard and Sauer. Keller can approach Mickey Shuler and maybe even surpass him as far as catching the ball, he's more of a TE/WR hybrid. Shuler was an old school TE, which was all we needed with Walker and Toon outside.
I was being sarcastic with the comparisons. Walker and Toon don't get the credit they deserve from the rest of the league in terms of history. They both were at one point the elite WR in the game. Elite WR is no where to be found on this team.
I don't know if Walker was ever the elite WR (I know I'll get some heat about that), but he was very good. Al Toon on the other hand was arguably the elite WR (even better than Rice) until the injuries started to pile up.
You shouldn't get heat for that - Walker was very good, but Toon was almost certainly the most talented WR the Jets have ever had. Maynard and Sauer are still the best WR tandem the Jets have ever had, however.
