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Chiefs and Jags most interesting for me. I forget about the Jaguars as winning a playoff game. They had two or three really good years that I forget about in the 2000s. I don't hold the Chiefs in the same regard as the Bills, Bengals, or Lions when it comes to playoff futility, but there they are. I remember Priest Holmes, Trent Green, Dante Hall, I guess I just figured they snuck a playoff win in there somewhere.
Enough with the fucking Sanchez blame. You know who is to blame for the eagles not being in the playoffs? Chip fucking Kelly. When your a coach and have Sanchez throwing the ball 40+ times with Sproles and McCoy your the one to blame
they are a lot like we were - we both just needed good QB play. biggest surprise for me was the Lions - they seem to have been decent to good for ages.
Jags used to be a team you didnt want to play. Like the 2007 Jags started of 8-3....beat Pittsburgh in pittsburgh.
I don't know if I'd say "a team you didn't want to play" but, they won 9, 12, 8, and 11 games in a 4 year stretch, making the playoffs in the 12 and 11 win seasons as WC teams.
I'd say that's false. Their last winning season pre-Stafford was 2000, while qualifying as winning, was barely such at 9-7. Some "decent" teams in the 1990's with 12, 10, 9, 10, 9, and 8 win teams and 6 playoff berths. Only the 1991 team won a playoff game, advancing to the NFCCG and losing to the Redskins 41-10 (also the Redskins last truly successful season, picking on a Bills team that became the NFCE's bitch for 4 straight years). Recently, they've made the playoffs twice since 1999, winning neither game they appeared in, and recording only 3 winning seasons, 9-7 in 2000 (no playoffs), and 10-6 in 2011, 11-5 in 2014, both resulting in WC round losses. Their best non winning seasons in the past 14 years were 7-9 in 2007 and 2013. In the Stafford era they posted 2-4, 6-10, 4-12, and 7-9 records in his non winning seasons. I feel like the Lions' are a team that is talked about simply because of Calvin Johnson and Ndamukong Suh. They've barely had anything you could consider success in the last 15 years though, which includes the 0-16 season and a most memorable QB running out of the back of the endzone for a safety on accident. I will say that they're a team that's close to being scary if they can keep Suh. If not, good luck. He's an asshole, but he's an asshole that everyone wants on their team.
We are in the same class as Chicago, and Pittsburgh. How about that? It does put the Marvin Lewis situation on blast though. He needs to go.
Since they won SB IV in January of 1970 the Chiefs have a total of 3 playoff wins, 2 of them coming in one postseason w/ Joe Montana in 1993. KC has a reputation as a top franchise but it's not reality.
Lewis has struggled in postseason but they weren't even close to postseason when he got there. They went 15 years w/o a playoff app, they have made it 6 times with him.
Lewis has only survived this long because the Bengals have an unusually cheap owner. Any decent owner would have fired him after last year's home playoff loss to the Chargers.
*shrugs* its just my perception based on not really following or caring about the Lions - given my borderline awareness of them they just seem to have been a decent team in recent times - clearly not.
This is very true but at the same time he's done a good job while having an unusually cheap owner. Maybe if they had a owner willing to spend a little they'd sign him a few pieces to get over the top.
