(01-08-2023, 09:27 PM)RicoTx Wrote: [ -> ]I was a professional sports fan long before I moved to Jacksonville and the 1996 run was the most awesome thing I’ve ever witnessed. Only thing that will top it is WHEN we win a Super Bowl.
I’ll have what he’s having!
(01-08-2023, 09:29 PM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-08-2023, 09:27 PM)RicoTx Wrote: [ -> ]I was a professional sports fan long before I moved to Jacksonville and the 1996 run was the most awesome thing I’ve ever witnessed. Only thing that will top it is WHEN we win a Super Bowl.
I’ll have what he’s having!
Make that 2
'96 was just before my time but it seemed that magical underdog story and going to places like Denver with Elway and Buffalo as #1 seed and shocking the world put the Jags on the map.
'17 was a great season and to see the team, especially the D turn into this force was awesome and the playoffs game in Pittsburgh while always be special. I went crazy after that PA to Bohannon to seal it.
But let's dive into this run. Just absurd and crazy and absolutely insane. So this was our first 8 weeks
Week 1-@Washington L 28-22
Week 2- Clots W 24-0
Week 3-@Chargers W 38-10
Week 4-@Philly L 29-21
Week 5- Houston L 13-6
Week 6-@Clots L 34-27
Week 7- Giants L 23-21
Week 8- Denver L 21-17
And it looked like it was going to be a growing pains year. We were in every game right until the death but just couldn't get on the winning side. And then
Week 9- Raiders W 27-20
Now this was the game that turned the team around. Down 17-0 halfway through the 2nd Q, Adams destroying us with over 100yds receiving, we managed to get to halftime down 20-10. Then completely turned it around 2nd half. Shut them down and started scoring with Lawrence making big plays
Week 10-@Chiefs L 27-17
Week 11- BYE
Then, the magic happens
Week 12- Baltimore W 28-27 (2pt play to win)
Week 13-@Detroit L 40-14
Week 14-@T*tans W 36-22
Week 15- Dallas W 40-34 ( Walk off Pick 6)
Week 16-@Jets W 19-3 ( Short week in the rain)
Week 17-@Houston W 31-3
Week 18- T*tans W 20-16 (FR TD winner)
With arguably our hardest run of games, with every team in playoff contention, except Houston, we rattled off 6 wins against those teams. This is what I love with this current team, they find a way to win and they fight like crazy in these games.
This season has been a brilliant roller coaster where we have seen a team develop and emerge stronger and now we are on the winning side of these games.
Can't thank the players and staff enough and who knows where this crazy ride takes us.
(01-08-2023, 10:22 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: [ -> ]'96 was just before my time but it seemed that magical underdog story and going to places like Denver with Elway and Buffalo as #1 seed and shocking the world put the Jags on the map.
'17 was a great season and to see the team, especially the D turn into this force was awesome and the playoffs game in Pittsburgh while always be special. I went crazy after that PA to Bohannon to seal it.
But let's dive into this run. Just absurd and crazy and absolutely insane. So this was our first 8 weeks
Week 1-@Washington L 28-22
Week 2- Clots W 24-0
Week 3-@Chargers W 38-10
Week 4-@Philly L 29-21
Week 5- Houston L 13-6
Week 6-@Clots L 34-27
Week 7- Giants L 23-21
Week 8- Denver L 21-17
And it looked like it was going to be a growing pains year. We were in every game right until the death but just couldn't get on the winning side. And then
Week 9- Raiders W 27-20
Now this was the game that turned the team around. Down 17-0 halfway through the 2nd Q, Adams destroying us with over 100yds receiving, we managed to get to halftime down 20-10. Then completely turned it around 2nd half. Shut them down and started scoring with Lawrence making big plays
Week 10-@Chiefs L 27-17
Week 11- BYE
Then, the magic happens
Week 12- Baltimore W 28-27 (2pt play to win)
Week 13-@Detroit L 40-14
Week 14-@T*tans W 36-22
Week 15- Dallas W 40-34 ( Walk off Pick 6)
Week 16-@Jets W 19-3 ( Short week in the rain)
Week 17-@Houston W 31-3
Week 18- T*tans W 20-16 (FR TD winner)
With arguably our hardest run of games, with every team in playoff contention, except Houston, we rattled off 6 wins against those teams. This is what I love with this current team, they find a way to win and they fight like crazy in these games.
This season has been a brilliant roller coaster where we have seen a team develop and emerge stronger and now we are on the winning side of these games.
Can't thank the players and staff enough and who knows where this crazy ride takes us.
Good teams find a way to win. We are in the process of being the good team for once.
Feels good,
Don’t it?
(01-08-2023, 10:53 PM)Jags Wrote: [ -> ] (01-08-2023, 10:22 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: [ -> ]'96 was just before my time but it seemed that magical underdog story and going to places like Denver with Elway and Buffalo as #1 seed and shocking the world put the Jags on the map.
'17 was a great season and to see the team, especially the D turn into this force was awesome and the playoffs game in Pittsburgh while always be special. I went crazy after that PA to Bohannon to seal it.
But let's dive into this run. Just absurd and crazy and absolutely insane. So this was our first 8 weeks
Week 1-@Washington L 28-22
Week 2- Clots W 24-0
Week 3-@Chargers W 38-10
Week 4-@Philly L 29-21
Week 5- Houston L 13-6
Week 6-@Clots L 34-27
Week 7- Giants L 23-21
Week 8- Denver L 21-17
And it looked like it was going to be a growing pains year. We were in every game right until the death but just couldn't get on the winning side. And then
Week 9- Raiders W 27-20
Now this was the game that turned the team around. Down 17-0 halfway through the 2nd Q, Adams destroying us with over 100yds receiving, we managed to get to halftime down 20-10. Then completely turned it around 2nd half. Shut them down and started scoring with Lawrence making big plays
Week 10-@Chiefs L 27-17
Week 11- BYE
Then, the magic happens
Week 12- Baltimore W 28-27 (2pt play to win)
Week 13-@Detroit L 40-14
Week 14-@T*tans W 36-22
Week 15- Dallas W 40-34 ( Walk off Pick 6)
Week 16-@Jets W 19-3 ( Short week in the rain)
Week 17-@Houston W 31-3
Week 18- T*tans W 20-16 (FR TD winner)
With arguably our hardest run of games, with every team in playoff contention, except Houston, we rattled off 6 wins against those teams. This is what I love with this current team, they find a way to win and they fight like crazy in these games.
This season has been a brilliant roller coaster where we have seen a team develop and emerge stronger and now we are on the winning side of these games.
Can't thank the players and staff enough and who knows where this crazy ride takes us.
Good teams find a way to win. We are in the process of being the good team for once.
Feels good,
Don’t it?
Your 100# right, good teams find a way. No teams dominate for 60 minutes and win by 20+ every week. You hit those hurdles in games and have games like last night where you have to hang in there and keep giving yourself a shot.
It feels absolutely amazing and I thought this would take another year or two to get to this level. I've never demanded playoffs or SB's, my hopes were being in games for 60 minutes, occasionally being able to beat teams. Last few years we've gone down multiple scores early and you knew that was game over.
Just everything around those team feels different and I love it.
Call it lucky bc the Chargers were injured in week 3, call it lucky that the defense had to win us a few games. That’s all part of pro football.
The bubblegum catch with David Tyree against the undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl. Clyde Simmons int in ‘96. Shannon Sharpe’s clank in ‘96 on their 2 point attempt. Hollis’ doinks off the goal post in 3 consecutive weeks in ‘96. Willy Clay’s int at the goal line in the ‘96 afc title game. Myles Jack wasn’t down in 2017. Butler’s int vs Seattle, Eldeman’s catch vs the Falcons. Montell Owens’ catch that was tipped that set up Scobee’s game winner. Bill calling an timeout with 19 seconds on the clock to set Underwood’s catch, Garrard’s 4th down run where Barnes was holding. Mike Thomas’ Hail Mary vs Texans. And there are a hundred other examples. Just win baby.
It takes a few lucky breaks to win the big games. Being lucky is part of the game of football. There’s too many bodies out there and so many variables and moving parts. Blitz calls vs screens, etc.
2007 Playoff run. I spent the year at Amelia Island. I was a die hard Dolphin fan, but they had done so many stupid things that I was basically out without a team.
My step dad said we should get season tickets for that year. I had nothing better to do...
That year, Freddy Taylor and MJD. Garrard taking over for Byron. Stroud and big John. That entire defense. Jack Del Rio going for 4th downs in an era when nobody was going for 4th downs!
And then we destroyed Pittsburg at Pittsburg!! Garrard with huge runs. MJD with huge returns!!!
It was a Cinderella season. That was the season that hooked me. To me, the 2007 playoff run was the greatest Jaguar season of them all. This season has been pretty great, no doubt. But it's too early to call it better than 2007 since we haven't even won a playoff game yet.
don't we need to win games in playoffs first to go on a playoff run? I'm just asking.
if not i would say 2022 because dad, and i were there when Jags won afc south .
Can i ask favor please from any of the mods? can you send me a private messege of a way i can send you a pic from dad,and i being at game so you could post on the board please.
This one isn't over yet, so it's hard to rate it, but when I was in the stadium and Morten Andersen missed that FG, that was the best feeling I've ever had in my life.
From 4-7, and everyone wanting to fire Coughlin, and then a totally unexpected 4 game winning streak, then in the last game, only needing to beat a 3-12 team to make the playoffs, and at the end, a point-blank FG by a Hall of Fame kicker, to put us out of the playoffs, and he missed.
I've never felt anything like that feeling that I had after he missed that kick.
So, for now, my answer is '96. But this one might catch up depending on future events.
The funny thing about '96 was Andre Rison was our starting WR, and he made Brunell so mad running the wrong routes that Coughlin cut him loose and brought in a guy off the bench- Jimmy Smith.
(01-08-2023, 10:22 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: [ -> ]'96 was just before my time but it seemed that magical underdog story and going to places like Denver with Elway and Buffalo as #1 seed and shocking the world put the Jags on the map.
'17 was a great season and to see the team, especially the D turn into this force was awesome and the playoffs game in Pittsburgh while always be special. I went crazy after that PA to Bohannon to seal it.
But let's dive into this run. Just absurd and crazy and absolutely insane. So this was our first 8 weeks
Week 1-@Washington L 28-22
Week 2- Clots W 24-0
Week 3-@Chargers W 38-10
Week 4-@Philly L 29-21
Week 5- Houston L 13-6
Week 6-@Clots L 34-27
Week 7- Giants L 23-21
Week 8- Denver L 21-17
And it looked like it was going to be a growing pains year. We were in every game right until the death but just couldn't get on the winning side. And then
Week 9- Raiders W 27-20
Now this was the game that turned the team around. Down 17-0 halfway through the 2nd Q, Adams destroying us with over 100yds receiving, we managed to get to halftime down 20-10. Then completely turned it around 2nd half. Shut them down and started scoring with Lawrence making big plays
Week 10-@Chiefs L 27-17
Week 11- BYE
Then, the magic happens
Week 12- Baltimore W 28-27 (2pt play to win)
Week 13-@Detroit L 40-14
Week 14-@T*tans W 36-22
Week 15- Dallas W 40-34 ( Walk off Pick 6)
Week 16-@Jets W 19-3 ( Short week in the rain)
Week 17-@Houston W 31-3
Week 18- T*tans W 20-16 (FR TD winner)
With arguably our hardest run of games, with every team in playoff contention, except Houston, we rattled off 6 wins against those teams. This is what I love with this current team, they find a way to win and they fight like crazy in these games.
This season has been a brilliant roller coaster where we have seen a team develop and emerge stronger and now we are on the winning side of these games.
Can't thank the players and staff enough and who knows where this crazy ride takes us.
You're absolutely right about the unexpected way this thing unfolded. I remember back at the beginning of the season, when I was predicting 7 wins, I thought we would have to get most of those wins early in the season because the back end of the schedule looked impossible. And when we were on that losing streak, I seem to recall that I lowered my prediction to 5 wins, although I couldn't really see 5 wins, given the remaining schedule.
I "prefer" the '96 run for the reasons I have already stated, but I do think the win against the Titans last Saturday was the biggest win in franchise history because of the circumstances- hated rival, division on the line, playoffs on the line. And what a game- wasn't that everything we hoped for and everything we aspired to? That's what a successful NFL franchise looks like.
in order:
2022 - Trevor gives us hope that this is the first of many. Confidence in the coach, QB and supporting cast makes this one so much more delightful.
1996 - disclaimer, I wasn't around for this one, but the league did make it easy for the expansion franchises to build quickly. I missed out on this run, I'm sure, but I have no idea if the feeling during that year was "we gonna be here for a while" or more "holy crap we got lucky!"
2017 - definitely a magical, unexpected run, but always felt like it was a fluke. The D had swagger, but between big egos and leaning heavily on FA, never seemed to be a unit that we expected to have around for the next half-decade or more. Bortles was ok, but not one to instill confidence from one week to the next. It didn't really hit me until the NE game that they might actually deserve to be on that run.
(01-08-2023, 06:20 PM)Bullseye Wrote: [ -> ]I know some of you weren't around in 1996, so my apologies, but you are still more than welcome to participate.
But, for those of us with the benefit of having experienced all three of three of those largely unexpected playoff runs, which is your favorite and why?
'96 for me. I was 14 at the time, obsessed with the hometown team in a family that didn't watch football, and didn't really make allowances for me to spend time on Sundays watching it either. That winning streak at the end of the regular season and then the playoff run helped them come around letting me spend time doing so. Also the '96 run had one big (pun intended) thing the others didn't...
NATRONE MEANS BUSINESS.
(01-08-2023, 06:48 PM)rfc17 Wrote: [ -> ]Hard to rate this year because we don't know how the playoffs will go. 2017 didnt have quite the same exciting regular season finish as we had it clinched with a week to go. But the playoff run was great. I have enjoyed the stretch run of this regular season more than 1996 though just because of how bad things have been for 15 or so years. And to see the hope we have the for the future. In 1996 didnt realize how hard it was. It was just fun but didnt have the years of misery to compare it to. This just tastes so much sweeter.
But it'll take a super bowl appearance and/or victory to ever top the entire 96 season for me. Mom had just moved me out to Denver a year or two before and being at that Jags/Broncos playoff game is still the single most exciting game I've ever been to. It'll take a lot to top the combination of that stretch run to the make the playoff, the playoff run, and then being there for that upset.
I wasn't a fan in 96 or 99 but in 2017 after all the losing it was a great run, but this year is so much different because we will not suck next year with Lawrence and Pederson at the lead
I’m convinced that had Denver beaten us in 96, they would have been the first team to win three straight Super Bowls.
Those great Buffalo teams of the 90’s went to four straight Super Bowls. They had never lost a playoff game in Buffalo—until the Jags beat them in 97.
Only two teams have been the Steelers twice in one year at home—the 2007 Jaguars and the 2017 Jaguars.
'17 was by far the closest we ever got to the big game.
96 was really special. The team was so young. The franchise being so new along with the unexpected success was just insane. The point up until the post season was magic and continued from there. The Mortan Anderson miss, beating the heavily favored bills, then going up to Denver and beating that broncos team. Their local media called us the jagwads. New England's defense shut us down but it was a fun ride
(01-11-2023, 01:21 AM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote: [ -> ]96 was really special. The team was so young. The franchise being so new along with the unexpected success was just insane. The point up until the post season was magic and continued from there. The Mortan Anderson miss, beating the heavily favored bills, then going up to Denver and beating that broncos team. Their local media called us the jagwads. New England's defense shut us down but it was a fun ride
Means got hurt in the game. Brunell threw a horrible INT in the end zone, throwing to I believe Derrick Brown. James Stewart tossed a fumble to NE for a touchdown. We outgained NE.
(01-11-2023, 08:55 AM)RicoTx Wrote: [ -> ] (01-11-2023, 01:21 AM)OG-JAGFAN Wrote: [ -> ]96 was really special. The team was so young. The franchise being so new along with the unexpected success was just insane. The point up until the post season was magic and continued from there. The Mortan Anderson miss, beating the heavily favored bills, then going up to Denver and beating that broncos team. Their local media called us the jagwads. New England's defense shut us down but it was a fun ride
Means got hurt in the game. Brunell threw a horrible INT in the end zone, throwing to I believe Derrick Brown. James Stewart tossed a fumble to NE for a touchdown. We outgained NE.
Yeah, I recall it was unreasonably cold during that game which may have played into the turnovers a little bit.