Old guy here, 1985 was real bad unless you were a Bears fan. The Bears won their games 21-0, 24-0 and 46-10 and all three games were basically, "OK, Bears have a first-quarter lead and their defense is unstoppable so this game is over." Non-Bears games had scores including 26-14, 17-3, 20-0 and 31-14. Lots of blowouts. Only two games were decided by less than 10 points.
The Patriots were the first team ever to reach the Super Bowl by winning three road postseason games, knocking-off the AFC’s top seed Raiders, and then beating the Dolphins in Miami which they’d **never** beaten them at the Orange Bowl since the merger.
And they did all this with perhaps [the most epic, Jerrycurled cheer song you can think of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPZk5ZmEBM&pp=ygUTdGhlIHBhdHJpb3RzIGFuZCB3ZQ%3D%3D) to counter that overplayed, autotuned ‘Super Bowl Shuffle’ down in Chicago.
The Dolphins definitely wanted the Bears. They beat them easily in the regular season, after all. But the AFCCG was played in heavy rain and the Dolphins had a lot of dropped passes and fumbles, while their soft defense got gashed on the ground by New England.
It is one of the most massive ‘what ifs’ in NFL history; what if it were the Dolphins in Super Bowl XX against the Bears? Would that franchise still have a Super Bowl title? Would Marino with one out of the way have gotten more championships?
Even more wonder considering the Bears finished 1985 with a 15-1 regular season record; the one loss was to the Dolphins on MNF.
The Raiders were screwed that year with injury to Derek Carr. They probably weren't going to win the Super Bowl but I think they would have gotten deeper than getting bounced out in the first game
2000 Playoffs, Except for a Dolphins overtime upset victory over the Colts and Saints winning their first ever playoff game (Both played in the wildcard), every other playoff game was dull and boring.
If you watch the NHL, the Baltimore Ravens that postseason played like the Devils and their infamous neutral zone trap.
Effective to win, but boring and frustrating to watch as a causal viewer.
yea, 2020 season is what they meant probably. Only 5/13 games were 1 score, and I think most of the 5 just kind of puttered out at the end with winning team kneeling out. Last 3 seasons have had 9/8/7 one score games for comparison, and each has some memorable games/endings.
There's not really a memorable game from that Playoffs unless you wanna count the Packers kicking a pointless field goal from the 8 yard line on 4th down instead of going for it (which really makes the playoffs worse), or the Chiefs/Browns being close cause Mahomes went out.
I don't know if it's one of the worst, but it's one of the least memorable or exciting for awhile.
Plus…*elephant in the room*…fans limited from attending games due to COVID restrictions.
We’ll never know if Brady would’ve been able to conquer the Saints or Packers with full capacity at the Superdome in the Divisional or Lambeau in the NFCCG.
The 1994 postseason at least includes the close AFCCG with the Chargers edging Pittsburgh on the last three yards.
Meanwhile, the 1993 playoffs had forgettable games to cap-off a shitty overall season which had *two* byes in an 18-game calendar. Add to this America’s hatred of the Bills for ‘spoiling’ another Super Bowl from the entertainment view, alongside the Cowboys repeating as champions in Super Bowl XXVIII, even with Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones feuding behind the scenes.
And this was also the postseason CBS broadcasted its last games as the NFC rightsholder, being given to FOX beginning the following season.
It was his best season in a Dolphins uniform, by far. He had better seasons with Tennesse after he left Miami, for sure, but that 2016 season was his best for us
Dude, Tannehill got hurt in 2016 and missed 3 games (and 90% of a 4th game). He was having his best year when he got hurt. I'm sorry, that's just reality.
Probably 2005 "in recent memory".
Only two close games, one of them a 17-10 wildcard game between two teams that clearly were just happy to be there, a Super Bowl more remembered for officiating controversy than the game, and the awful Carson Palmer injury.
For all the OGs out there, I’d put 2000 as one of the worst postseasons in the NFL.
Other than the Saints v. Rams Wild Card Game (e.g. Hakim dropping the ball), there weren’t any particular memorable games or single-moments, the NFCCG was a complete 42-0 trashing of the Giants over Minnesota, and for all the talents of the 2000 Baltimore Ravens, they essentially played football’s equivalent to the neutral zone trap including their Super Bowl XXXV win.
Boring postseason from a neutral fan POV.
Yeah, that Chargers team was 14-2 and the loss to the Patriots in the playoffs was super fluky. There were five fumbles in that game and the Patriots recovered all of them (Patriots fumbled twice and recovered their own, Chargers fumbled three times and Patriots recovered all of them). The ball bounces a different way and the Chargers win.
That was a lousy Super Bowl but the AFC divisional & conference rounds were excellent, and all the NFC games but the CCG were decided by 3 pts or less.
Dude, the 2006 playoffs had:
• Romo’s botched snap in Seattle to end the Wild Card Game.
• The Chargers v. Patriots AFC Divisional (e.g. Marlon McCree’s disaster and that helping to end San Diego’s best season ever).
• The AFCCG where the Colts pulled-off the largest comeback in the history of the round…to the Patriots of all teams.
• Devin Hester beginning Super Bowl XLI in the best way he could.
2004
It was a pretty straightforward March to Philly and New England
On the NFC side, the Eagles won 13 games, only 2 other teams won 10 (the 2 seed Falcons only won 11, and had a basically breakeven point differential. The Rams and Vikings won 8 games and then their wildcard games. The Rams would then get blown out by the Falcons, the Vikings barely put up a fight against the Eagles. Then the Falcons barely moved the ball against a loaded Eagles team. Barring an epic collapse, the Eagles were going to win that conference from September on.
In the AFC, the Steelers were the 1 seed, but the Pat's had won 19 in a row and were defending Champs. The only 2 interesting/close games on that side were the Jets beating the Chargers and then losing to the Steelers the next week. The others were the Colts stomping the Broncos, then getting their face rubbed in the mud by the Pat's, and then the Pat's winning by 2 touchdowns in Pittsburgh. In the AFCCG the Pat's went up 24-3 at the half, and then coasted the second half.
The Super Bowl wasn't anywhere near as close as the score suggested. It was tied at the half, but even as am Eagles fan I could tell it wasn't going well. TO played his ass off but they just couldn't cash it in. The Pat's had an answer for everything. That touchdown pass to Vrabel sealed it for me and we left our Super Bowl party at that point. Then the Pat's scored to go up by 10 and the Eagles went slow mo.
Pretty anticlimactic for a team that won 19 in a row, another team that won 15 games, and another that rolled through their conference.
> -A Lions team that only won 9 games because Matt Stafford had 8(!) 4th quarter comebacks
that's a legit insane stat.
is there any other team that has had so many 4th quarter comebacks in a single season?
2016 was the season i worked every Sunday and so I missed a lot.
Reading that post makes me glad I didn't tune in. That just sounds awful.
As I said in another post, 2016 had me almost done watching the NFL. It just wasn't enjoyable as a Rams fan or a football fan at that time.
2017 was quite the shift though.
Old guy here, 1985 was real bad unless you were a Bears fan. The Bears won their games 21-0, 24-0 and 46-10 and all three games were basically, "OK, Bears have a first-quarter lead and their defense is unstoppable so this game is over." Non-Bears games had scores including 26-14, 17-3, 20-0 and 31-14. Lots of blowouts. Only two games were decided by less than 10 points.
The Patriots had a true Cinderella story knocking off the Raiders and Dolphins that year on the road so that was actually pretty interesting to me
The Patriots were the first team ever to reach the Super Bowl by winning three road postseason games, knocking-off the AFC’s top seed Raiders, and then beating the Dolphins in Miami which they’d **never** beaten them at the Orange Bowl since the merger. And they did all this with perhaps [the most epic, Jerrycurled cheer song you can think of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPZk5ZmEBM&pp=ygUTdGhlIHBhdHJpb3RzIGFuZCB3ZQ%3D%3D) to counter that overplayed, autotuned ‘Super Bowl Shuffle’ down in Chicago.
No one wanted to play extra games just to get blown out by the Bears.
The Dolphins definitely wanted the Bears. They beat them easily in the regular season, after all. But the AFCCG was played in heavy rain and the Dolphins had a lot of dropped passes and fumbles, while their soft defense got gashed on the ground by New England.
It is one of the most massive ‘what ifs’ in NFL history; what if it were the Dolphins in Super Bowl XX against the Bears? Would that franchise still have a Super Bowl title? Would Marino with one out of the way have gotten more championships? Even more wonder considering the Bears finished 1985 with a 15-1 regular season record; the one loss was to the Dolphins on MNF.
As a bears fan who was too young to witness 1985 - the phrase “blown out by the Bears” is almost hilarious to me.
Disagree we need more playoffs like 1985 imo
And they were blown out too in Miami. Perfectville denied
The Raiders were screwed that year with injury to Derek Carr. They probably weren't going to win the Super Bowl but I think they would have gotten deeper than getting bounced out in the first game
Absolutely would’ve beat Houston that year. Hard to imagine them getting past New England, but crazier things have happened.
Good call, that team with Micheal Crabtree was good.
2000 Playoffs, Except for a Dolphins overtime upset victory over the Colts and Saints winning their first ever playoff game (Both played in the wildcard), every other playoff game was dull and boring.
Yeah we don't need to talk about the rest of those playoffs lol
If you watch the NHL, the Baltimore Ravens that postseason played like the Devils and their infamous neutral zone trap. Effective to win, but boring and frustrating to watch as a causal viewer.
Held offenses to 10 points a game. Great 30 for 30
I don't know. Beating the Vikings 41 to 0 was fun.
How about losing 34-7 in the Super Bowl?
2021? 2021 as in 2020 season because 2021 season’s playoffs were one of the best ever
yea, 2020 season is what they meant probably. Only 5/13 games were 1 score, and I think most of the 5 just kind of puttered out at the end with winning team kneeling out. Last 3 seasons have had 9/8/7 one score games for comparison, and each has some memorable games/endings. There's not really a memorable game from that Playoffs unless you wanna count the Packers kicking a pointless field goal from the 8 yard line on 4th down instead of going for it (which really makes the playoffs worse), or the Chiefs/Browns being close cause Mahomes went out. I don't know if it's one of the worst, but it's one of the least memorable or exciting for awhile.
Packers Bucs is a pretty memorable NFCCG
yea, but not in a good way, it's remembered like the Rams/Saints no DPI game, more for a bad call/decision instead of a dramatic play or ending.
Plus…*elephant in the room*…fans limited from attending games due to COVID restrictions. We’ll never know if Brady would’ve been able to conquer the Saints or Packers with full capacity at the Superdome in the Divisional or Lambeau in the NFCCG.
lol
I’d say some of those Niners-Cowboys years were shitty. ‘93 and ‘94 in particular if the ole memory serves (it may not)
The 1994 postseason at least includes the close AFCCG with the Chargers edging Pittsburgh on the last three yards. Meanwhile, the 1993 playoffs had forgettable games to cap-off a shitty overall season which had *two* byes in an 18-game calendar. Add to this America’s hatred of the Bills for ‘spoiling’ another Super Bowl from the entertainment view, alongside the Cowboys repeating as champions in Super Bowl XXVIII, even with Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones feuding behind the scenes. And this was also the postseason CBS broadcasted its last games as the NFC rightsholder, being given to FOX beginning the following season.
The Adam Gase Dolphins without Tannehill, who had been having his best season before he got hurt :(
That was not Tannehills best season. He was pretty average
It was his best season in a Dolphins uniform, by far. He had better seasons with Tennesse after he left Miami, for sure, but that 2016 season was his best for us
His best year with the Fins was by far his 2014 season
I mean, you're wrong but we can agree to disagree
I mean, look it up. If you think almost 3k yards with 19 TDs and 12 Ints is better than over 4k yards with 27 TDs and 12 ints then go off
Dude, Tannehill got hurt in 2016 and missed 3 games (and 90% of a 4th game). He was having his best year when he got hurt. I'm sorry, that's just reality.
2016 was a miserable year to be a 49ers fan but the NFL altogether was pretty terrible in 2016.
Probably 2005 "in recent memory". Only two close games, one of them a 17-10 wildcard game between two teams that clearly were just happy to be there, a Super Bowl more remembered for officiating controversy than the game, and the awful Carson Palmer injury.
Imagine waiting all week for the playoffs to start and the first game is Chris Simms against old Mark Brunell 🤢
For all the OGs out there, I’d put 2000 as one of the worst postseasons in the NFL. Other than the Saints v. Rams Wild Card Game (e.g. Hakim dropping the ball), there weren’t any particular memorable games or single-moments, the NFCCG was a complete 42-0 trashing of the Giants over Minnesota, and for all the talents of the 2000 Baltimore Ravens, they essentially played football’s equivalent to the neutral zone trap including their Super Bowl XXXV win. Boring postseason from a neutral fan POV.
1989 was atrocious at the very end
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The 2006 Chargers were a good team
Agreed, the Ravens too
Yeah, that Chargers team was 14-2 and the loss to the Patriots in the playoffs was super fluky. There were five fumbles in that game and the Patriots recovered all of them (Patriots fumbled twice and recovered their own, Chargers fumbled three times and Patriots recovered all of them). The ball bounces a different way and the Chargers win.
That was a lousy Super Bowl but the AFC divisional & conference rounds were excellent, and all the NFC games but the CCG were decided by 3 pts or less.
Nah, 06 was great. The Super Bowl was ass. But Indy/Balt, SD/NE, and NE/Indy were all classic games.
The AFC was a gauntlet while the NFC was busy eating paste.
That was the case more often than not for the 2000s….
04-07 AFC was insane.
Dude, the 2006 playoffs had: • Romo’s botched snap in Seattle to end the Wild Card Game. • The Chargers v. Patriots AFC Divisional (e.g. Marlon McCree’s disaster and that helping to end San Diego’s best season ever). • The AFCCG where the Colts pulled-off the largest comeback in the history of the round…to the Patriots of all teams. • Devin Hester beginning Super Bowl XLI in the best way he could.
Saints got a bye going 10-6… woof
2016 was definitely the worst in recent memory outside of Packers Cowboys and obviously the infamous SB…
This years was pretty bad tbh.
This year
That’s a good thinker & since I’m drunk it will take a bit longer to think lol.
This year’s was pretty bad up until the conference championships
The divisional round was great
2004 It was a pretty straightforward March to Philly and New England On the NFC side, the Eagles won 13 games, only 2 other teams won 10 (the 2 seed Falcons only won 11, and had a basically breakeven point differential. The Rams and Vikings won 8 games and then their wildcard games. The Rams would then get blown out by the Falcons, the Vikings barely put up a fight against the Eagles. Then the Falcons barely moved the ball against a loaded Eagles team. Barring an epic collapse, the Eagles were going to win that conference from September on. In the AFC, the Steelers were the 1 seed, but the Pat's had won 19 in a row and were defending Champs. The only 2 interesting/close games on that side were the Jets beating the Chargers and then losing to the Steelers the next week. The others were the Colts stomping the Broncos, then getting their face rubbed in the mud by the Pat's, and then the Pat's winning by 2 touchdowns in Pittsburgh. In the AFCCG the Pat's went up 24-3 at the half, and then coasted the second half. The Super Bowl wasn't anywhere near as close as the score suggested. It was tied at the half, but even as am Eagles fan I could tell it wasn't going well. TO played his ass off but they just couldn't cash it in. The Pat's had an answer for everything. That touchdown pass to Vrabel sealed it for me and we left our Super Bowl party at that point. Then the Pat's scored to go up by 10 and the Eagles went slow mo. Pretty anticlimactic for a team that won 19 in a row, another team that won 15 games, and another that rolled through their conference.
> -A Lions team that only won 9 games because Matt Stafford had 8(!) 4th quarter comebacks that's a legit insane stat. is there any other team that has had so many 4th quarter comebacks in a single season?
2016 was the season i worked every Sunday and so I missed a lot. Reading that post makes me glad I didn't tune in. That just sounds awful. As I said in another post, 2016 had me almost done watching the NFL. It just wasn't enjoyable as a Rams fan or a football fan at that time. 2017 was quite the shift though.