By far the worst, and that's with many to choose from '67 loss to Chiefs Boozer hurt '69 play-off loss vs Chiefs '79 56-3 loss to Pats '78 55-17 loss to Pats First three losses of '81 '82 AFC Championship '81 play-off loss vs Bills Any of the last 5 games of' 86 '91 MNF OT loss to Bears '93 Last game vs Oliers Spike game '97 vs lions '00 season ender vs Ravens '04 play-off loss to Steelers '08 Last game of season vs Dolphins '11 vs Giants and yes '15 season ender vs Bills
Whoa... Yeah, Gastineau snatching defeat from the jaws of Victory. Brutal '82 is the worst and '86 right behind....for me
I've written about it many times on this message board, but the answer for me is the 98 AFC Championship game. It's not even particularly close.
Nope. The first jets game that I ever watched and cared about was the fake spike game as a 9 year old kid in 1994. How's that for an introduction into jets fandom? Lol. But, that Cleveland loss must have been torturous for the soul. I've seen the game twice on tape. I can only imagine the emotional suffering . . .
You know it when 47 puts it at the top of his list. The game was won for a brief moment And Gastineau, jeesh. If it was Klecko it might of made it easier to take. lol
Losing to the Broncos in the AFCCG will always sting. The Falcons were sitting ducks waiting for their opponent to be determined for that SB. Whoever showed up was gonna smoke them and walk out of there with the championship.
If you mean the roughing the passer call, I think it was the textbook definition of it. I was never crazy about Gastineau before the game, but he is my all-time most hated Jet because of it.
Honestly if I can bundle two together the worst loss was these two games against Rex.... I know ifs are ifs but I would say we should have won at least one of those games and if we won 1 we were in and if we won both we were the NUMBER ONE SEED. Plus with how vulnerable the entire AFC is this season if we had that bye and also home games...
The Doug Brein choke job at Pitt. That loss sent me to a dark place. 2nd would be the afc title can't wait game vs Pitt. And of course now the Steelers make the playoffs over us. God I hate the fucking Steelers.
'86 was By far the worst loss I've ever seen. I always thought Gastuneau took too much blame for that. Even after the 1st down we had chances to stop them ... Including a dropped INT in the endzone a few plays later, maybe by Russell Carter? It was thrown right between his damn numbers. Anyone on this board would have caught it 99 out of 100 times ... And he drops the goddamn football!! Aaaaarrrgghhhhhh!!! Also place some blame on the offense for doing absolutely ZERO for the rest of the game after the Browns tied it. The AFCCG loss to the Broncos in '98 was brutal because we had a SB level team and a SB coach that season. Vinny was the best player on the field that day, but we handed them the football game with ridiculous turnovers. We should have won that game by two touchdowns.
Everybody gets so upset about the 2004 Pitt game....I wasn't even mad. It took something like 132 miracles for us to win in San Diego the week before. I had no hope that our luck would hold for another game. Not only that, I was too emotionally exhausted from the week before, I couldn't get too deeply invested in it. Week 17, 2000 was a hard loss for me. I thought after the heartbreak in '98, redoubled on opening day of '99, plus the Parcells/BB abandonment issues from the off season were all behind us, and we were going to beat the Ravens invincible defense and roll into the playoffs. Vinny was torching them all day, but they wore down our Defense and destroyed our special teams....That was the same season as the big Monday Night comeback against the dolphins.
That's quite a Greatest Hits list, but you forgot one of my ATF's ... The Seneca Wallace game vs Seattle in 2008. That actually annoyed me more than the Dolphins game and it really was the loss that knocked us out. I'll never forget how furious I was when we took the opening kick and drove right down to the 3 yard line like the defense wasn't on the field, and the camera panned over to Mangini on the sideline mouthing "Field Goal" on 4th and 1. To me, one of the stupidest coaching decisions in Jets history. That was the exact second I knew I wanted him fired. 4th and 1 ... Not even 4th and goal!!! I can almost understand it if they had just stuffed us 3 times but I think we threw an incomplete pass and then ran for 9 yards on 2nd and 3rd down! Needless to say, we never got near the endzone again. Just Brutal
Why are there only two choices, one a regular season game? Now if you were asking what's the worst regular season loss I'd put last Sunday right behind the fake spike game and the only reason the fake spike game has as much lasting annoyance as it does was it was something unique that wasn't done, because it was the hated Dolphins and Marino, and because after that game the Jets went 4-33. But Sunday to me was actually worse than all the other late season disasters, worse than Cary Blanchard missing three FG's in Buffalo, worse than Leon Johnson and losing to Detroit, worse than John Hall missing a 35-yarder and losing to Detroit AGAIN, worse than the Raven game where we were up 14-0 then got torpedoed by Jermaine Lewis. The game in Buffalo was worse cause it was Rex with a bad Bills team and because it was a total pull the rug out at the last minute moment after winning five in a row and decidely NOT being same old Jets the previous few weeks, only to give us the most same old Jet moment possible. Not to mention this Jet team could have done some real damage in the playoffs, unlike most of the other chokers that died in December. Postseason's another animal but you gotta put 1986 Browns, 1998 Broncos and 2010 Steelers on the list of most painful postseason defeats. Maybe 1982 Dolphins for older fans.
Totally agree with you. The 98 Denver game crushed me as an 8 year old kid, and to be totally honest the Pittsburgh game I went through a slight lull where I didn't follow sports as adamantly, so the loss didn't crush me as much as the Broncos game, but at the time of the thursday night game this year vs Buffalo I thought to myself it was the worst game ever and then I thought it again this sunday. I've been at a point where my interested is vested more than ever and the ups and downs and late magic of this season made this sundays game really, really hard to take.
It was but even if the Jets had won that game they still would have had to get through the Pats and I don't think they would have done that with Chad having a bad arm. It was a borderline miracle they got through the Chargers and nearly the Steelers. If anything that was annoying cause it was the most losery coaching decision in a playoff game I can remember, settling for a 45-yard FG or whatever it was. And I love Herm but boy that was the epitome of coaching scared.
That, and the dumb fourth down call deep in their own territory down 10-3 with all three timeouts left plus the two minute warning are the only things that stick out to me from that fiasco. That and Shaun Ellis throwing snowballs into the crowd after the game while Holmgren was getting carried off the field after a 3-12 season. The end of the '08 season was just one disaster after another the last five weeks though...even the game they won was basically handed to them by a bad Bills team.
