Still the most heartbreaking Jets loss of all-time for me. That was the superbowl. Once Minnesota shit the bed against Atlanta, that game became the Superbowl.
It's a stupid question and I don't disregard his ONE bad season of 2012, I look at it realistically and could see no one could succeed under those circumstances but average fans want to blame the QB w/o looking at the entire picture. I do think Joe is vastly overrated and Mark vastly underrated but I wouldn't call Mark better.
10-0 lead in Denver, 3rd Q was the Jets best shot of a SB since they actually went. 17-6 lead in Indy was good, but 2nd Q and Peyton had plenty of time.
That year was something else. 12 wins, a rare AFC East title, a bye in the playoffs, a home playoff win, and coming damn close to a SB. Definitely, by far, my favorite season as a fan.
I think the closest we came was at Pitt, we were one stop away from having a chance to win. In Denver we were losing by 10 by the end of the 3rd qtr even after the 10-0 lead and we never had a shot late. I truly believe we had the better team but we made too many mistakes that day.
it was such a fun run, we were truly an elite team in the reg season and postseason for the only time in my lifetime.
I think we won 10 of our last 11 that year in the regular season. I wonder how the Conference Championship would have played out if the Jets hosted the game.
we win of we host I think. people forget we started 0-2 and were 3-3 at one point but that team got better and better as the season progressed.
I wouldn't say we were better than the 14-2 defending champs. but we were every bit as good and capable of beating them. the mistakes cost us. but the Pitt game haunts me more. despite the shitty first half we had a chance to win that game, and, according to Rex's book had the perfect defense on the final Pitt first down. we got pressure on Roethlesberger and the coverage defender was supposed to not bite on Roethlesberger if he scrambled and stay in coverage, but he came up on the scramble and left an opening to throw to. I still envision the INT that should have been on that play.
You know what else was fun about that season? Blowouts. Once they got rolling, they squashed bad teams on their schedule. I think 4-6 total blowouts. I remember how cool it was to be dominant and go into games without thinking SOJ.
Denver was an excellent team but we turned it over 6 times and had a chance on the road in one of the toughest buildings in the league. The Pitt game was really tough that day and has gotten worse since we haven't been close since. yeah but we lost to some mediocre/bad teams too. Of our 4 losses 3 came to teams that didn't even have winning records.
