(08-16-2022, 04:42 PM)Mikey Wrote:

(08-16-2022, 03:45 PM)Rockman1966 Wrote: How great were those AFC Central days?  Those steeler games were wars.  Fred had a gazillion yards rushing at 3 Rivers.
Cowher lurching our onto the field during TD return.  Could go on and on.
If we could only have stayed in that division.  Guess Houston would have had to find someone else to wear their Battle Red jerseys.

I vote Baltimore, then the Colts could have had a rival. (I fully understand why Baltimore had no chance of leaving the AFCn)

Yeah the AFC North is and has been a sexier division than the AFC South largely because of the Steelers/Ravens rivalry.  That can change though.  Need us and another team in the division to have sustained success for an extended period of time.  As much as I hate the tacks, it would do wonders for the jaguars national profile for us and them to both be good year in and year out and to have those 2 games on the calendar each year mean more and be considered as potential perennial prime time games.

When the clots dominated the division for as long as they did, I don’t think there was really one other team within the division that asserted itself year in and year out though it was probably the tacks that was the next most consistent.  All of their big rivalries were outside of the division.

I’ll take the Jaguars success any way I can get it, but a prolonged, competitive, rivalry within the division with perennial playoff implications would be good for us in my opinion.

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