A Look Back At Other Jets Week 15 Collapses

1997: won 31-0 the following week vs. TB
2000: collapsed losing final 2
2002: beat up NE the following week in NE then crushed GB to win div
2009: beat Indy and Cincy to reach playoffs

50% of the time we have made playoffs in those 4 years

 

50% of the time, it works every time.

 

sicne 2002 it's 100%

 

:sad:Thanks for that trip down memory lane Murrell...

 

lol, just shows that we've been here before....

 

Here's something positive to balance off the negative article, below are results of how the team did following what seemed to be dagger losses(in my lifetime):

1982: lose in final week of reg season to drastically affect our seeding, win 2 road playoff games and reach AFC Championship Game

1988: lose game in last minute at KC to knock us out of playoff contention, win final 2 games including knocking Giants out of playoffs in week 16 and we finished w/ winning record.

1991: lose 6-3 at home to bad NE team then bounce back to win in Miami in final week in what was a playof to get into the playoffs.

2001: lose to bad Bills team at home to drop to 9-6, win in oak the next week(a place we had never won before) to earn trip to playoffs

2002: lose to Chicago in week 15, come back to beat up NE and GB to win division/

2004: lost 3 of last 4 in reg season, won WC game

2006: lost to bad Buf team at home to drop to 7-7, won last 3 to earn WC berth

2009: lost to Atl at home, won last 2 games to reach playoffs

2010: lost 45-3 to NE then 10-6 to bad Miami team, rebound to make playoffs and another title game

 

Yeah it does.. It also shows we still have a ghost or two to put to rest..

 

1998 still annoys me....by far the best Jets team of my lifetime. Those Bronco teams were tough unfortunately.

 

New York Jets collapses:

1984 = started 6-2, finished 7-9
1986 = started 10-1, finished 10-6
1991 = started 7-5, finished 8-8
1993 = started 7-4, finished 8-8
1994 = started 6-5, finished 6-10
1997 = started 8-4, finished 9-7
2000 = started 9-4, finished 9-7
2008 = started 8-4, finished 9-7
2011 = started 8-5, finished ???

 

Why do you say it was a negative article? I wrote "that despite last week’s loss – as bad as it was – we can still get into the playoffs and make a run. This can go either way. Let’s go Jets!!"

 

Negative in that we are discussing some old bad losses.

 

It's a hot topic. We just had one (again).

 

I'm past it, it's not something I want to discuss 2 days before the next game. I just want to beat the Giants.

 

and they talk about the giants.....

 

most of those are in the past, the giant ones are current

Under Coughlin:

2004: started 5-2, ended up 6-10(missed playoffs)
2006: started 6-2, ended up 8-8(lost WC game)
2008: started 11-2, ended 12-4(lost at home in div rd)
2009: started 5-0, ended up 8-8(missed playoffs)
2010: started 6-2, ended up 10-6(missed playoffs)
2011: started 6-2, currently 7-7

 

It's a little early to put 2011 on that list. Here's a positive stat, in the years ending with 1 since I've been a Jet fan:

1981: Made playoffs
1991: Made playoffs
2001: Made playoffs

Let's do it.

 

and each of those years we won in the final week to make the playoffs.

'81 crushed GB(which got the Giants into the playoffs for the first time in 18 years)
'91 the great OT win at Miami
'01 the John Hall long FG at the gun at Oakland

 

It's entirely possible that the loser of the Jet-Giant game could make the playoffs and the winner not make it. Food for thought.

 

All great memories.

Here's one for your 1982 memory banks, junc. Jets linebacker Stan Blinka nearly killed GB WR John Jefferson during that game:

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/02/s...s.html?scp=1&sq=Jets+Packers+roughness&st=nyt

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/09/s...l.html?scp=3&sq=Jets+Packers+roughness&st=nyt