I have to say 2008 was the worst for me at the time. Obviously now you look and say 2008 set the stage for the current Jets team we have and the teams that got to two AFC Championship games. But right at the end of 2008 I felt the Jets totally blew it. They ran over the undefeated Titans and were flying high at 8-3. To then go 1-4 and lose to teams like Seattle, San Fran, Denver, and Miami who were clearly average to below average teams was just a disgrace.
I was referring to pre-season expectations vs outcomes (i.e., SB vs. no-play-offs and no excuses except our own ineptitude) As for the most disappointing ending itself, yeah, '86 was the worst
This season was an absolute disaster for the New York Jets franchise. The Giants could be good for a long time, while the Jets are looking like a train wreck. The majority of NY fans are bandwagoners. There are loyalists of course, but they are not filling the stadiums at $90-$200 a ticket. Why would anyone possibly follow/support the Jets when the Giants are on the brink of a dynasty? IMO, we will see games blacked out next year if the team is bad. Right now the Jets are the Clippers of the NFL. If the team doesn't start winning soon, I think there will be talk of moving the team.
That year was BRUTAL!!!!! I think it wasn't as bad as '99 because the AFC was so clearly inferior to the NFC during that stretch that the Jets wouldn't have had a chance vs the Giants, 'Skins or 49ers that year IMO.
You don't follow basketball much do you? The Clippers are the hot team in LA with a huge bandwagon fan base right now. Probably more so than the Lakers at the start of the season and going on according to reporters in LA. Lots of Clippers fans popping out of nowhere too.
As bad as this season was, the Giants are not on the brink of a dynasty and there is no chance the Jets will relocate. Jets are far from the Clippers of the NFL. Is this a serious post
This is quite an exaggeration. Yes, the Giants are a better franchise, but they won't run us out of town. It's not like we went 0-16. Although all the trash talking and locker room problems made it seem worse, a .500 season after two consecutive AFCCG's is nothing to scoff at. No, we haven't won 2 Super Bowls in the past 4 years. Does that mean our team is going to fall through the gutter and move some place else? Absolutely not. I'm with you on this one. Too risky.
Yeah you are right but that was an effing brutal season. I mean you never expect a 1-15 campaign right? I just feel like some of these people are to young to even remember that painful year.
While the Doug Brien game hurt, im pretty sure the Patriots would have killed us in the AFC championship game that year.... ....last year we were better than Pittsburgh, and Im 100% confident we wouldve beaten Greenbay. Too bad the refs love the Steelers
The 1983 and 2011 seasons were alike in that both teams hierarchy's got full of themselves and made stupid changes. The 1983 team fired Walt Michaels after the Al Davis idicoy in the Divisional Round playoffs. Joe Walton was an excellent OC who was an maybe one of the earliest good/great OC's who were TERRIBLE as HC's. AT the time, Jet fans and most of the writers thought it was a good deal because they didn't want to lose Walton to another team (he was the hot property that year). They got off to a great start in beating a tough San Diego team on the road and yet finished 7-9. Hess decision to move to the Meadowlands didn't help. We know about the changes the 2011 Jets made and how they blew up.
I was coming here to say 2008. That was a year where we were 8-4 and at that point was looking like the best team in the AFC after beating the titans. Then we only win one more game.
Worst years I thought the Brett Favre year was kind of funny looking back on it. Doug O'Brien missing those kicks was awful. But I agree last year was the worst, because after beating the Pats the Jets should've won the whole thing. This year they didn't seem like contenders at all.
This To this day the Doug Brien game haunts me more then any other game in history. We had that game won and we managed to give it away. What people always forget about that game is that had we won we would have gone to New England who got 2 feet of snow that weekend. We were a ground team and had a pretty good defense. We may have lost but we woulda had a shot. Instead the Pats went to Pittsburgh where the Steelers shit the bed. 86 would have ended badly regardless, I was too young for the Mud Bowl but this was my 1st real understanding of heartbreak. The Cleveland game was awful but just imagine us winning the game, beating Elway and the Broncos which would have been tough and then getting clobbered by the Giants in the SB? I understand making it there is the key but losing to them in the SB would be unimaginable. As a Met fan losing to the Yankees was bad but nothing would compare with losing to the Giants in the SB.
That's a good point. That game was hard to take, but I came to grips with it when I figured the Pats would have spanked us. I forgot the weather might have given us a fair shot to be competitive in that game.
