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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bogart" data-source="post: 355681" data-attributes="member: 3900">Last year I thought the Jets were like the 80's Browns, the way they use a very similar playbook. (Marty Schotienhiemer taught Brian very well I guess), but now I am really starting to think they are becoming the 1986-87 Browns.The last team to lose consecutive AFC Championships was the Browns, now it's the Jets. So way to go Rex!The Browns fans like to remember those games in a certain fashion. I ain't forgetting that they went on to lose yet another AFC Championship game to those damned Denver Broncos."The Drive"What made them lose it the first time. Elway's 70+ yard drive to tie the game and go into OT."The Fumble""I was like..Oh my F***in' God!" - Voice of a million Browns fansAnyone remember this or seen footage of it before? Just inches from the goal line of tying a game into OT, Earnest Byner FUMBLED! and the Browns went on to lose their 2nd consecutive AFC Championship game.Now I don't know what they call the 1989 loss, but my personal name would be "The beat down" since they were mostly dominated that entire game and eventually got blown out.The Jets on the other hand will do this backwards."The beat down" was their first AFC Championship loss"The Fumble" is what we can their latest AFC Championship loss, when you consider that Sanchez's huge fumble in the first half was 7 points, or we can call it the "Goal line stand" since they went for it on 4th down at the goal in the 3rd quarter and did not get it, (which could have been 7 points and won the game)Finally "The Drive" is going to be their 3rd and final AFC Championship loss, but it's not going to be next year. It's going to be year after next year.Looking at the Browns and Jets, they are VERY similar, except for one thing. Cleveland had a Quarterback. I would take Bernie Kosar over any Ravens and Browns Quarterback since his retirement, and his stats in their years of losing AFCC games makes it known he was an elite QB back then (Also led the league in passing in 1987 I think). On defense the Browns ran a 3-4, that was very dominant in blow out wins, but sure enough they had bullet holes, just like the Jets do. The most common thing though is the play call selection. Cleveland was a run, run, run, pass, run, pass, pass West Coast style offense that utilized the work of 2 running backs. The Jets only good thing on offense IS running the ball, and when the Browns couldn't get it going through the air, the running game kept them alive. After losing back to back AFC Championships the Browns promised to finally make it over the hump next year in 1988. But too bad for them, in 1988 they suffered more injuries than they could handle. They made the playoffs as a wild card team, only to barely lose to rivals Warren Moon and the rising Houston Oilers.So if history repeats itself, the Jets won't make the AFC Championship game next year, it will fall to their closest rival who will go to the Super Bowl and fall to a more dominant team on the edge of repeating. (Cincinnati is the closest to Cleveland, where in 1988 they FAILED to win the Super Bowl, only for the 49ers to go on and repeat the next year, in this case it's backwards, this is GB's repeat year). In the Jets case it will be New England. I could always be wrong, but I still think this is a realistic and very funny way to look at the Jets today.:happy0005::happy0005::happy0005:</blockquote>

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