I have heard Cimini and others make this point and it always makes me laugh. Sure, the 1-15 team had some talent on it, but we sure as hell didn’t know that in 1996! Hopefully ten years later we are looking back at the 2020 Jets and saying “geez that team had Becton, Mims, Crowder, Quinnen Williams, etc. how did Adam Gase only get 2 wins”?
Williams and Crowder are the only ones on your list who are veteran talents. Becton and Mims are rookies. You can't point to them and say Gase should have won games with rookie talent. The 1996 squad had Adrian Murrell, Wayne Chrebet, Richie Andersen, Neil O'Donnell, Keyshawn Johnson (rookie), Webster Slaughter and Jeff Graham on offense. On defense they had Aaron Glenn, Ray Mickens, Mo Lewis, Chad Cascadden, Marvin Jones and Victor Green (one of my all-time favorite Jets.) While none of these are HOFers there is more than a mediocre level of veteran talent represented among them that should have won more than 1 game. IMO the current squad was lucky to win 2 games.
Have to agree... But AG IMHO was the worst jet HC ever and there are some really winners, like Charly Winner, Coslet, etc.
Mo Lewis was injured in the 2nd Quarter of the Jets' lone win of that season. He and Marvin Washington sacked Kent Graham for a 9 yard loss, and Lewis tore a pectoral muscle on the play. He was part of the first 8 losses, but not part of the last 7. Borderline useless information, I know--but I remember thinking Mo was the only Jet to finish well that year. He went out on a big play and with a win.
All good stuff. For some strange reason, I don't remember too much about the individual games that season. I just remember thinking, how could this team have won only 1 lousy game all season. BTW, Hugh Douglas was on that team too.
they won 2 games but easily could've won 4 or 5. The Raiders, Patriots and Broncos. Definitely not the worst team in franchise history. They played hard to the end too which is more than I remember of Herm Edwards last year, those guys won 4 games but quit on the season
