(01-23-2018, 06:52 PM)jachba Wrote:

(01-23-2018, 05:30 PM)Phil Swift Wrote: I have to disagree....this one won't be argued ten years from now.  This chatter from some misguided homer fans who seem to think because they beat the Bills and Steelers they were destined to win a SB and start a dynasty.....will be blown away like dust in the wind!  Some of these people think their team is "special" because they won their devastated, injury-riddled Division and can't seem to come to grips with the fact that they are just another also-ran which happened to have a decent playoff performance.  Nobody outside of the Jackson city limits will be talking about it a year from now.

They have a ways to go before they will become memorable and significant, if in fact they even build on this year and repeat some of the recent new-found success.  It's just as likely they could fade back into oblivion....not easy to build a consistent winner.   Just ask the Giants, Seattle, Denver or the Steelers!  The Jags' fans have to learn, as Jalen may have this season, that success is detmined by whay you do on the field, not what you say at a pep rally or message board.

You really are trying to bait Jags fans aren't you? As I pointed out in my most recent post, consider yourself fortunate that the moderators on this board are extending you quite a bit of latitude. There are a number of teams whose moderators would have tossed your rear end off their board by now. You are, as I am as well, a guest on this board. Common decency and manners dictate that when you visit another team's board you show some respect to their fans. While you have a right to your opinions, it is also incumbent on you to express them in a way that that is not rude or offensive. The same rule applies to myself and every other fan of a visiting team.

And I suppose you think it isn't obvious what you are up to?   LOL.

I'm not baiting or being disrespectful to anyone.  It's just that you and a few others don't like my opinion or the fact that I don't agree with ridiculous notion that the NFL instructed the refs to go easy on NE so they could get to the SB again!

If in fact there is a shred of truth or logic to it, then please, someone, explain to us all WHEN exactly they decided that NE was so special, they simply had to help assure that the nation got to see them in the Big Game as often as possible!

Was it in 2001, when the perennial doormat, for the most part, Patriots earned their first trip?  Did the taping of an opponent from an unauthorized location in NY make somebody in the League Office sit up and say...."Hey, there's a team we should push for SB Champion this year, and while we're at it, how about we help them start a dynasty..."  I mean, it had to be a game plan from some point in time, early on no doubt, since NE won 3 out of 4 in that decade! 

As I said earlier, that's a lame concept, totally beyond all reason.

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