Quote:No kidding.

 

TMD has the crappiest attitude of any 'favorite team' attitudes of anyone that I've ever seen.  I can't think of a more negative poster, perhaps ever.  Yet, he's a big fan of the team?  He always manages to see the gray lining in every silver cloud.  Something just doesn't jibe for a fan.

 

Back to your point.  I don't give a rat's patoot about aay other team.  It's all about what happens here.  If Caldwell and Bradley build a winning team, who gives a crap about the rest of the division.  As a matter of fact, I liked it when we were considered one the best divisions in football.

 

What a downright pathetic excuse for a so-called fan.

 

Its not a negative attitude. 

 

I've just learned a lot from my decades of watching football. 

 

Having (wanting) the division you play in to be tough and filled with the best coaches & QB might be a "noble" way to look at it, but its also a STUPID way to approach it if you have any realistic thoughts / hopes of having success (division titles & more) in the near future. 

 

As said, How'd playing in the NFC East with the likes of the Giants/ Redskins & Cowboys fare for the Cardinals & Eagles over the 1980's and early 1990's?? The Eagles even had the best defense ever assembled and were still so exhausted by the time the playoffs arrived through fighting through such hard schedules that they never could get over the hump. 

 

Conversely, look at a team like the 1980's/ early 1990's San Fran 49ers, who benefited from weaker divisions and weaker schedule and they were able to win many divisions and gain higher playoff seeding with help from that. That ultimately made their playoff ride to the SB's easier and less taxing on their team, so they were fresher come playoff time. 

 

So you can label me with a bad attitude all you want. I know that the tougher this division gets the worse it is for the Jaguars chances of any real success. History proves it. Heck even the Jags themselves had their BEST success as a franchise when their AFC Central division was in a weak ebb. 

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