Time will tell to see where the Pats end up and whether the Det/Jax games were a sign of the season or just one off game (Det) and just beaten by a solid team (Jax) with a solid D. Jax almost beat the Pats last year in the AFCCG. My guess is the Pats run is on the back nine, be interesting to see if Brady sticks around after next season, and if the hinted riffs in the team are true and Brady walks. As a pats fan i hope he stays. Yes long runs can kind of be a bummer, Red Soxs fans had to deal with that long run of the Yankees from mid 90s to the present time.
Red Sox won two World Series (if I'm not mistaken) so it's not the same. NYJ had a GREAT shot in 2010 but blew it. I've never seen my team play in a Super Bowl I've seen them lose enough AFC Title games that I no longer care about magic carpet rides to a AFC title game loss.
I hear yah and agree the 2000s to present has been great for Boston sports. I was really referring to the end of a long run that we had of hardship and was not complete in my statement, my apologizes. For the most part Boston sports before 2000 was somewhat dry when it comes to championships with the exception of the Celtics run from mid 50s to mid 80s. For the Red Sox it was a few generations of heart break (86 years) until 2004 with some heart breaking looses to New York teams ending with the great Yankees run of the late 90s early 20s before we broke through to win in 2004, even though we were close to them for a handful of years before yet still came up short. The Bruins has not won since 1972 and the Pats for a good portion of their early history found every way to loose a game and even Monday Night Football appearances. So for a good 30 year span things were dry for my fan hood until 2001. So it was kind of a bummer. With that said does not change that fact that is it kind of the same bummer for Jets fans since 2000. And typically good runs by teams only last 3-5-7 years and do not go on as long at the Pats run. Had the pats faltered after its weak 2009 year and come back to the pack things would be different. I do understand where you are coming from as I had gone through a similar one.
The Jets had their Red Sox-Yankees 2004 moment in 2010 when they knocked off the 14-2 Pats in the playoffs but instead of letting that W fuel a SB run they celebrated like that was the Super Bowl then came out "flat" in the AFC Championship game. Now we're in this 10 years rebuild in a win now league with a ownership & regime seemingly afraid of announcing that we're competing for a championship. No mandate to make the playoffs = no expectations.
They won 8, 3 since 2004, but they didn't win from 1918 to 2004. That's almost 90 years, which makes the Jets drought not look so bad. When the Yankees were winning 6 titles from 1996-2003, Red Sox fans were suffering heavily.... until that huge comeback in 2004. Hopefully the Jets can follow that path and turn things around. I recon it won't be this year.
63 yard miracle attempt for the Panthers... HOLY SHIT that could've been good from 66-70!! Also, it doesn't matter now, but it looked like the Panthers runner was short on that 3rd and 1 play, without timeouts they wouldn't have been able to spike it.
Giants lost (screw you, haha), Buffalo squeaks it out, the Browns win in OT, Dolphins lost (good!). Cowher mentioning Kacy Rodgers. It has to be cancer. Sickle cell? Whatever it is, it's bad.
So Buffalo looked like the worst team in football weeks 1 & 2 somehow they demolished the Vikings on the road and beat Tennessee at home which beat the Jaguars & Eagles on the road in back-to-back weeks.
Gleefully rubbing hands together. Also gleefully rubbing feet together in my cushy socks at the same time. It's glorious.
