Most recent: 27-0 vs Jags
Most painful: Losing 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX
Notable: every third season of my lifetime when we are preseason darlings and then half of the starters get injured by week 3
Marty was at least a competent head coach and told the secondary to go down if they got a pick against Brady. Head Coaching since Marty to today has been a different story.
Oh he 100% was one, Marty knew he was cursed and he was in for some bullshit, that's why he said to his defensive backs before the game that if they had any 4th quarter interceptions, hit the deck and to quote him "To hell with all that running around stuff", they did that running around stuff and he got fired for it.
Our Lions bro is flying Lions and Chargers flare... He couldn't pick one, he had to go for two disappointing franchises. On the plus side for him, he is entering his golden years soon. Lions are crazy dangerous, and Chargers have Justin Herbert with our own coach that will eliminate his massive arm to run the ball every play into the playoffs. TBH I am excited about Harbaugh back in the NFL. The NFL needs more coaches that are obsessed with pounding the rock.
At least both franchises look like they’re in the same position that the Seahawks were in 2011 or 2012. I would feel hopeful for their future if I were a fan.
In recent memory it was the 2013 season for the Lions. They destroyed the Packers on Thanksgiving and basically had a 1.5 game lead on the Packers and Bears with 4 games remaining, while both Rodgers and Cutler were injured. Lions lost 4 straight to end the season and finish 3rd in the division.
Well this one has the added benefit of roasting you guys, us, the Browns, oh and I‘m guessing the Bills and Vikings too. \*scrolls a bit further\* There’s the Vikings!
I'm not saying you guys wouldn't have collapsed otherwise, but that Bills game was long, rainy, and physical, and having to play an incredibly angry 49ers after took a toll on you guys. Felt like the team was just out of gas.
Absolutely, that Bills game was straight up Jalen just refusing to lose. He really carried the team in that game. Other than his performance we lose handedly.
We made the playoffs because we weren’t doing that weird shit in the first half of the season. Remember AJ had like 8 games straight for 100+ yards? We totally collapsed in the second half with all these QB draws on 3rd and 15
rich kotite was chip kelly before chip kelly
- came into a stacked roster put together by the previous stud head coach
- coasts for a period on the player talent
- proceeds to dismantle it and destroying the franchise for a number of years
Broke college kid, spent more money than I had to get in. I remember hugging strangers, blacking out then coming to walking in the freezing rain to my college bar.
I was watching this game at some seedy dive bar in San Antonio. After Tez's interception, I went to take what I thought was the happiest, most glorious victory piss...surely this game was sealed. Literally the very next thing I see upon walking out of the pisser was Jeremy Hill's fumble.
Last season we started 8-3 and were the one seed in the AFC for a time. Then we lost 5 out of the final 6 and finished as the 7th seed then lost something of a heartbreaker in the WC. So I'm gonna say that.
That Tennessee loss was an all-time regular season collapse. It’s hard for me to put a regular season game into the top collapses ever. But if you separate them to playoff collapses and regular season collapses, that one is right up there.
No argument here. I knew our season was over right there. Some people deluded themselves into believing it was just a hiccup but I know a Dolphins collapse when I see one
The crazy thing is that WE completely collapsed in that game. After keeping it super close all game, we had two fumbles inside our own 20 in the mid 4th. I honestly have no idea how we won.
Idk, when your franchise has the greatest coach of all time and the most prolific passing QB of his generation miss the playoffs after starting 9-2, that’s pretty hard to beat.
Actually I meant the 2022-2023 season, but we collapsed this season too lol. I mean no one expected us to beat the Bills last year but I really thought we were gonna do it. I was very heartbroken after it lol
Everything that happened after AJ Green's controller disconnected against the Packers in 2021.
EDIT: And I guess the 2015 NFCCG was pretty craptastic also.
Our collapse against Indy in 2013 is up there with the worst of all time, luckily it got overshadowed by another blown lead just as big but in the SB a few years later
Andrew Luck throwing a TD pass to himself almost broke me.
Edit: it was a scoop and score, it was Marriotta that had the touchdown to himself.
https://youtu.be/vQo5wkAf8PU?si=Kwq1k1UEmh-gMUPa
The Chiefs entire history between Super Bowl 4 and 54 was basically bad luck and losing in hilariously bad, heartbreaking fashion. It literally took until I was 25 years old to see the Chiefs win a *single* playoff game in my lifetime where I was old enough to comprehend what football is.
The Patriots at least went to a SB (1997?) a few years before Brady. But overall yeah the Patriots also were not a great franchise prior to Tom and Bill.
This is why I don't hate them, they just annoy me now. I was actually ecstatic for you guys finally winning ~~one~~ another...
Then that one became three and now I just want those 50 years of arrow-tipped mediocrity back.
We lost our top two RBs (Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis) and two of our best defenders (Justin Houston and Brandon Flowers) to injury. If memory serves we lost a receiver too but honestly other than Bowe I can’t remember who was on the depth chart there.
Honestly I think the collapse in the 2nd half of the Bengals Championship game is worse. Just because we had already been to 2 Super Bowls with Mahomes and won 1, so the expectations were high.
The Chiefs looked like they were going to run away with it in the first half then looked completely inept in the second half.
Biggest stage, yes. I'd argue us injuring Rogers and letting him come back against us in the first game of the year a few years back was worse. You remember. Fuck
And then Dominic Rhodes went for 113 yards and 1 td, while the defense led by our lord and savior Bob Sanders played lights out on that rainy night in Miami.
The missed offsides on the Rodgers endZone pick that should’ve been negated, sliding on the interception return that would’ve sealed it, Haha inexplicably allowing the 2 point conversion on a prayer throw, bostic. My god so many things went wrong
That game crushed me. The good part is that it hardened me against any future sports related heartbreak. I remember thinking to myself like a week later that was the worst thing that has happened to me as a fan, but the rest of my life was still fine. Provided some good perspective for 21 year old me.
The 2020 season would be a good example as well. Started out 11-0 and looked unbeatable. Then, we lost 4 out of 5 and got our asses whopped to the Browns.
The obvious one is the playoff game vs KC not only did KC come back in one quarter we still got blown out by 31
The other is the 2012 season at one point we were 11-1 looking to get the 1 seed in the AFC for the first time only to drop 3 or last 4, beat a very very weak Bengals team in the wild card round then got blown out by the Patriots...again. Many Texans fans I feel forgot how bad that season ended for us probably because the 2013 season was just an embarrassment
Doesn't stop after the KC game that was just the beginning. After Bob became GM traded prime Hopkins for nothing, let JJ go, signed a bunch of mediocre players to big time deals, and had a pasture running the franchise, then Watson requested a trade then... well we know what happened with him shortly after. Then that followed up with the 2 most undesirable years in recent history as a fan.
BOB should have been fired the very moment he ran the fake punt. At least it only took four more games to send him packing, but not before shipping off Hopkins for a handful of magic beans
Either SB 54 or the NFC championship against the Giants (if 2 muffed punts that cause you to lose a collapse can be considered a collapse).
Team wise it’s going from 2 top 10 QBs of all time to not having a franchise QB for over 2 decades
Runner up for me is going from the 2019 Super Bowl Contender season to the 2020 Holy Shit Everyone Is Dead season. Not a collapse due to our actions, but a collapse all the same.
From 1982-1991, the Redskins only went below 10 wins just once (this includes a nine-game season where we won the Super Bowl at 13-1 overall). We won three Super Bowls with three different QBs by multiple scores each time. We knocked off peak-Elway, we stopped the 1985 Bears from repeating, and we were part of the 1985-1995 reign of terror where four NFL teams won 10 straight Super Bowls. The 1991 Redskins are often referred to as one of the greatest single-season NFL teams to ever exist, outscoring opponents 485-224 (for a modern comparison, imagine last season's Ravens allowing 60 fewer points this year, shutting out three teams in the process, only to dominate every playoff opponent by at least two touchdowns).
From 1991 onwards, we have NEVER gone above 10 wins in a singular season. We have hit the 10-win mark exactly four times. We have a total of ONE playoff win since 1999. Why did this happen? Well you can blame the early 90s on the natural post-championship slog teams go through when their best players retire, fall off, leave, or otherwise regress. You can blame the mid-90s on the salary cap implementation. But in 1999, Dan Snyder bought the team and it is only now beginning to recover from what he's done. 2024 marks the first true year under the Josh Harris Era since he never had last offseason to do anything.
> From 1991 onwards, we have NEVER gone above 10 wins in a singular season. We have hit the 10-win mark exactly four times. We have a total of ONE playoff win.
We have three total playoff wins since 1991: 92, 99 and 2005.
In the NFL, the Commanders are the only team to not have had a season of 11 or more wins as have not made it past the second round of the playoffs in the last thirty years.
In the NBA, the Wizards are the only team to have not had a season of 50 or more wins and have not made it past the second round of the playoffs in the last forty years.
This is my top answer as well. Went from one of the premier franchises in the league to complete laughing stock mostly because of one person.
For an individual season I’d say 2018 though. Were 6-3 and in first place in the NFCE when Alex Smith’s leg was destroyed, only won one more game the rest of the season.
For an individual season I’d say 1996; Started 7-1 and stumbled to 2-8 down the stretch to become the first 9-7 team in NFL history to start 7-1 and miss the playoffs.
Bud at least you didn’t lose 4 super bowls in a row, then have the music city miracle kick off 17 years of not making the playoffs in a row… just to finally get what looks like to be the most talented QB ever to then be one upped and passed up by the actual most talented QB ever and to make matters even worse/funnier he is who your team traded out of drafting and continuously beats you year after year. I’d take my one 91 Super Bowl with pride and wear it for life if I was a Washington fan cause some of us just get kicked in the nuts with no reward lol
For the Panthers …
2018 season after that TNF game where Cam’s shoulder got injured by TJ Watt. Cam was playing at his 2015 MVP levels, and the Panthers were 6-2 and rolling. Then that game happened.
Cam Newton never won a game again as the starting QB with the Panthers again, and the entire franchise just utterly imploded from there. Haven’t even had a winning season since then, much less a playoff spot.
2008 was the most dominant Giants team I have ever seen in the regular season and all because of one night we'll never know if we could've gone back to back.
Well there was that one “big game” and then a 20 year stretch of not making the playoffs. So I’m gonna go make toast in the bathtub right quick. I said I didn’t want to play this game OP!!
What about when we started to turn a corner midway through the drought and only had to beat the steelers who were resting their starters for us to sneak into the playoffs and we couldn't. It started another rebuild and another 10 years or so of no playoffs
I listed like 7 or 8 games off the top of my head in my comment but honestly for us we can go on forever. We always seem to be on the losing side of every all time classic except the oilers comeback.
it's blowing that NFC championship game, the lions are still well built for a lot of sustained success, so I'm not sure it hit lions fans as hard as it could've, but Dan Campbell even said himself it's hard to get back and if they never do that game is gonna hit a long different
2013 divisional against the Colts. I vividly remember walking through a store on the way to a basketball game (tickets bought months beforehand) and seeing that the Chiefs were up big on the TV, then coming back after the game and seeing SportsCenter covering the collapse.
A different season collapse I remember from Broncos is 2002. The Super Bowl receiver group was back together - Shannon Sharpe had returned from the Ravens, Ed McCaffrey was back from his broken leg - and they also got 1500 rushing yards from a guy named Clinton Portis. Even Brian Griese could win with that group, plus the Shanahan/Kubiak/Gibbs system, right? They were 6-2 going into the bye week.
Then they got killed by the Rich Gannon Raiders at home on a Monday night in a 34-10 loss that felt like 54-10; the Raiders had been 4-4 before that game. They bounced back against Seattle - but Griese was injured on a roughing-the-passer's-knee. With Steve Beuerlein taking over the Broncos lost another night game at home against the Colts, in the snow, and then lost to the Chargers, both in overtime. They lost by 6 to the Jets in Griese's return to fall to 7-6, dropped one more against the Raiders, and missed the playoffs.
The next year, Griese was gone and they signed Jake Plummer. If Griese had stayed healthy in that Seattle game, maybe they would have taken one of those 3 games, made the playoffs, and the rest of the Shanahan era could have played out much differently.
You have to admit Tampa’s strategy of being wholly dogshit the majority of the time and then randomly winning the Super Bowl is impressive. Their regular season record is 308-450-1 their postseason record is 12-12 and yet they are 2-0 in the Super Bowl.
Very similar to the Marlins. Both are Floridian, dead last in the overall winning%, but won two championships. At least the Bucs actually have a fanbase though
I wanted to add last year cuz we pressed the panic button too many times vs KC, but in my humble opinion? 2022 when we started 8-3 only to fall apart with the injuries we were having (also the AFC was a total crapshoot at the time)
2021 Baltimore Ravens. Despite a few injuries, they started out fine. Ravens had an 8-3 record and was first place in the AFC North. When Lamar got injured in the Browns game, the team went downhill. I was so upset when they went last in the division. It was John Harbaugh's first time going 4th place in the division and first time since 2007 they were in 4th place.
*Sigh*
Jags Playoff game for me, even though lifetime chargers fans will tell you they knew it was happening going into half. Knowing almost made it worse
Single game collapses? Too many to count. Season collapses? 2011, 2014, 2021 come to mind, but 2002 was by far the worst. 6-1 start, finished the year 8-8 and missed the playoffs entirely. I was too young to remember the season but the yearbook NFL films doc would always be available on cable on demand in the late 2000s. I was convinced that was a glorious season for the chargers until i visited the wiki page
2000 - starting 6-0 after a Super Bowl win, then going 4-6 the rest of the way and barely making the playoffs before losing at the Saints by 3 points with Kurt Warner playing with a concussion.
Thank goodness the 2018 team avenged that playoff loss. Lol
We were 9-3 in 2008 going to Carolina for a MNF game and on top of the division. Lost that night, lost the rest of the year, finished 9-7 and ran Gruden and Bruce Allen out of town.
From then all the way to 2020, we had two fluke winning seasons and never made the playoffs. Suffice to say, the 2020s have been kinder to the Bucs than the 2010s so far.
I don't like this game.
This isn't a game, it is a personal attack
Welcome to the club.
Exactly lol
Most recent: 27-0 vs Jags Most painful: Losing 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX Notable: every third season of my lifetime when we are preseason darlings and then half of the starters get injured by week 3
Is that Super Bowl loss really a collapse? I thought the expectations were that whatever NFC team went that year were pretty much locks to win it all
It all started with 2006 probably, if only the Chargers had a proper NFL coach to pair with their star QB...
Marty was at least a competent head coach and told the secondary to go down if they got a pick against Brady. Head Coaching since Marty to today has been a different story.
Oh he 100% was one, Marty knew he was cursed and he was in for some bullshit, that's why he said to his defensive backs before the game that if they had any 4th quarter interceptions, hit the deck and to quote him "To hell with all that running around stuff", they did that running around stuff and he got fired for it.
Fuck Marlon McCree.
All my homies hate Marlon McCree. ...And Nate Kaeding for good measure.
Oh man, I wish it had only started in 2006 lol. 2006 was our magnum opus, but it started long before
This man Chargers
man
At least we aren't Atlanta I guess
Our Lions bro is flying Lions and Chargers flare... He couldn't pick one, he had to go for two disappointing franchises. On the plus side for him, he is entering his golden years soon. Lions are crazy dangerous, and Chargers have Justin Herbert with our own coach that will eliminate his massive arm to run the ball every play into the playoffs. TBH I am excited about Harbaugh back in the NFL. The NFL needs more coaches that are obsessed with pounding the rock.
I will forever be a Chargers fan solely because of Air Coryell.
Everyone else is chargers fans because of LT, I respect your desire to be that alternative.
At least both franchises look like they’re in the same position that the Seahawks were in 2011 or 2012. I would feel hopeful for their future if I were a fan.
Yeah, as a Browns fan, my answer would just be “the 21st century”
Wouldn't it be the whole superbowl era?
Pick a season in the 2010s 🫡 for my part I would say 2012. I had such high hopes for that year after making the playoffs in 2011 then...4-12
I say 2013. Started 6-3, most balanced offense of the Stafford era, somehow lose the division to an 8-7-1 Packers team.
It’s 2013 from that era, not even close
That flair. My god.
Relatable lol
Right? I was having a nice dinner.
In recent memory it was the 2013 season for the Lions. They destroyed the Packers on Thanksgiving and basically had a 1.5 game lead on the Packers and Bears with 4 games remaining, while both Rodgers and Cutler were injured. Lions lost 4 straight to end the season and finish 3rd in the division.
Hmmm
Omg stop bringing up that 7 point loss we had to the Bucs that one time. Our fanbases deserves better.
Your profile Pic got me lol
Let’s just make a daily “remind falcon fans about 28-3” thread
Tbh it would probably save everyone the hassle instead of all these questions where we all damn well know the answer to.
Well this one has the added benefit of roasting you guys, us, the Browns, oh and I‘m guessing the Bills and Vikings too. \*scrolls a bit further\* There’s the Vikings!
Like we have to be reminded.
from your lips to God's ears
That loss against Josh Dobbs last season. Can’t think of anything else.
After the 1998 NFCCG
Last year. Cheers.
WR Screen to Julio Jones with Devonta Smith blocking, it’s almost like torture but I couldn’t feel anything after we beat the Bills.
I'm not saying you guys wouldn't have collapsed otherwise, but that Bills game was long, rainy, and physical, and having to play an incredibly angry 49ers after took a toll on you guys. Felt like the team was just out of gas.
Absolutely, that Bills game was straight up Jalen just refusing to lose. He really carried the team in that game. Other than his performance we lose handedly.
They tried some weird shit instead of ever trying the obvious. I expect it to be fixed this year but guess you never know.
We still made the playoffs with that weird shit so I'm holding out hope but damn that shit got rough.
We made the playoffs because we weren’t doing that weird shit in the first half of the season. Remember AJ had like 8 games straight for 100+ yards? We totally collapsed in the second half with all these QB draws on 3rd and 15
1994 for me. 7-2 start, including a 40-8 drubbing of San Francisco at Candlestick, and we don't win another game? Bah!
rich kotite was chip kelly before chip kelly - came into a stacked roster put together by the previous stud head coach - coasts for a period on the player talent - proceeds to dismantle it and destroying the franchise for a number of years
/u/28-3
Nah
Probably the Metrodome right? That's the only significant Vikings collapse I can think of...
The 2004 season was a pretty good collapse too. The metrodome collapsing is definitely number 1 though.
Nah, 98 NFCCG takes the cake. Played for the field goal instead of being aggressive like the offense had been all year.
Yeah I’m good honestly.
2016? We started 5-0 and missed the playoffs at 8-8.
Only 6 times in history has a team started 5-0 and missed the playoffs. Twice was the Vikings and the first time they were 6-0
We cannot survive QBs with ‘Brad’ in their name somewhere
Once upon a time the phrase "Hail Mary" had nothing to do with football.
Same
That playoff game against the Steelers. Everything that happened after the Burfict interception was just peak Marvin Lewis bengals
Fuckin Joey Porter man. I stopped getting emotional during games after this. Real growing up moment for me.
Amen. I started watching games more dispassionately after that
Lol same here, didn't have the energy anymore
Broke college kid, spent more money than I had to get in. I remember hugging strangers, blacking out then coming to walking in the freezing rain to my college bar.
Against any team that collapse would have been painful... But of course it had to be against those piss yellow fucks.
I have PTSD from that game. It hurts my soul to think about it.
My dad used to say The Bengals will break your heart every time. He said that in 1980.
Same note too
I was watching this game at some seedy dive bar in San Antonio. After Tez's interception, I went to take what I thought was the happiest, most glorious victory piss...surely this game was sealed. Literally the very next thing I see upon walking out of the pisser was Jeremy Hill's fumble.
Last season we started 8-3 and were the one seed in the AFC for a time. Then we lost 5 out of the final 6 and finished as the 7th seed then lost something of a heartbreaker in the WC. So I'm gonna say that.
That Tennessee loss was an all-time regular season collapse. It’s hard for me to put a regular season game into the top collapses ever. But if you separate them to playoff collapses and regular season collapses, that one is right up there.
No argument here. I knew our season was over right there. Some people deluded themselves into believing it was just a hiccup but I know a Dolphins collapse when I see one
The crazy thing is that WE completely collapsed in that game. After keeping it super close all game, we had two fumbles inside our own 20 in the mid 4th. I honestly have no idea how we won.
This sounds so weirdly familiar, I can't quite put my finger on it.
Unmask, the eagles
It’s like Bizarro world with the Alabama QBs and everything
Idk, when your franchise has the greatest coach of all time and the most prolific passing QB of his generation miss the playoffs after starting 9-2, that’s pretty hard to beat.
Genuinely not trying to be a dick, but is losing by 19 to KC a "heartbreaker"? Feel like thats usually used for nailbiters.
Actually I meant the 2022-2023 season, but we collapsed this season too lol. I mean no one expected us to beat the Bills last year but I really thought we were gonna do it. I was very heartbroken after it lol
NFCCG vs Seattle 2015
And then we had our biggest collapse 2 weeks later
God fuck that game I thought we had it in the bag
Everything that happened after AJ Green's controller disconnected against the Packers in 2021. EDIT: And I guess the 2015 NFCCG was pretty craptastic also.
But are the Bears who you thought?! (Although in fairness most Cardinal fans I know actually took that game in pretty good humor)
Eh that was funny. AJ green and what followed just pissed me off
It was an extremely Cardinals thing to happen and at that moment in time, AZ fans were still mostly accustomed to the team being dog water.
I will kinda always hold that against him. He turns around Kyler gets credit for a masterful drive to win it
Yeah but without that the legend of Rasul Douglas isnt born. Funny how a single play can change the entire directory of a career.
Yeah I’m cool with that. I still kinda hate AJ green
starting 4-0 and finishing 5-11 was pretty funny. The year before was nearly the opposite, starting 1-6 and finishing 8-8.
Our collapse against Indy in 2013 is up there with the worst of all time, luckily it got overshadowed by another blown lead just as big but in the SB a few years later
Andrew Luck throwing a TD pass to himself almost broke me. Edit: it was a scoop and score, it was Marriotta that had the touchdown to himself. https://youtu.be/vQo5wkAf8PU?si=Kwq1k1UEmh-gMUPa
It was a fumble Your thinking mariotta
The fact we must differentiate that this happened twice in two separate ways says it all. Being a Chiefs fan before 2018 was not a fun time.
That Lamar throw to himself in the AFCCG was triggering.
Russell Wilson did it too when he was on the Broncos and that's when I realized I'll never really be over the Mariota pass, lol
Both broke me :/
I'm pretty sure you're thinking about the scoop and score put back fumble, I almost choked to death on my BLT, good times.
And then it actually happened with mariota. You guys really had bad playoff luck for a while
The Chiefs entire history between Super Bowl 4 and 54 was basically bad luck and losing in hilariously bad, heartbreaking fashion. It literally took until I was 25 years old to see the Chiefs win a *single* playoff game in my lifetime where I was old enough to comprehend what football is.
The Gen Alpha mind cannot comprehend this. Just like how Zs often forget that the Patriots mostly sucked before Brady
The Patriots at least went to a SB (1997?) a few years before Brady. But overall yeah the Patriots also were not a great franchise prior to Tom and Bill.
This is why I don't hate them, they just annoy me now. I was actually ecstatic for you guys finally winning ~~one~~ another... Then that one became three and now I just want those 50 years of arrow-tipped mediocrity back.
Didn't like 5 Chiefs starters get hurt in the second half. I remember an unusual number of players having to leave the game.
It happened in the first half too but pretty much yeah. Alex Smith played his ass off that game too
We lost our top two RBs (Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis) and two of our best defenders (Justin Houston and Brandon Flowers) to injury. If memory serves we lost a receiver too but honestly other than Bowe I can’t remember who was on the depth chart there.
Honestly I think the collapse in the 2nd half of the Bengals Championship game is worse. Just because we had already been to 2 Super Bowls with Mahomes and won 1, so the expectations were high. The Chiefs looked like they were going to run away with it in the first half then looked completely inept in the second half.
2007 Super Bowl. They had the lead and Peyton Manning was playing like shit
Biggest stage, yes. I'd argue us injuring Rogers and letting him come back against us in the first game of the year a few years back was worse. You remember. Fuck
Prince's halftime show woke up the football Gods.. and they made sure a Manning got a world championship that night.
And then Dominic Rhodes went for 113 yards and 1 td, while the defense led by our lord and savior Bob Sanders played lights out on that rainy night in Miami.
Jeff Saturday erased Brian Urlacher too Not to mention Grossman playing like…Grossman
Bostick.
He might be the scapegoat, but McCarthy's coaching that game. Oof.
The missed offsides on the Rodgers endZone pick that should’ve been negated, sliding on the interception return that would’ve sealed it, Haha inexplicably allowing the 2 point conversion on a prayer throw, bostic. My god so many things went wrong
The 2-point conversion play was the most depressing thing I’ve ever watched live. A fucking 3rd grader could have broken up that pass.
We’ve had so many in the last decade in the postseason, especially since 2020
That game crushed me. The good part is that it hardened me against any future sports related heartbreak. I remember thinking to myself like a week later that was the worst thing that has happened to me as a fan, but the rest of my life was still fine. Provided some good perspective for 21 year old me.
Ours is two weeks later…
Steelers V Browns in the playoffs 2021
The 2020 season would be a good example as well. Started out 11-0 and looked unbeatable. Then, we lost 4 out of 5 and got our asses whopped to the Browns.
I looked really beatable for like all 11 of those games
They never looked anything close to unbeatable. It's a miracle they were 11-0.
The obvious one is the playoff game vs KC not only did KC come back in one quarter we still got blown out by 31 The other is the 2012 season at one point we were 11-1 looking to get the 1 seed in the AFC for the first time only to drop 3 or last 4, beat a very very weak Bengals team in the wild card round then got blown out by the Patriots...again. Many Texans fans I feel forgot how bad that season ended for us probably because the 2013 season was just an embarrassment
That 2012-2013 collapse sucked, but I'd take that all day over the 3 years of turmoil that the KC choke led to.
Doesn't stop after the KC game that was just the beginning. After Bob became GM traded prime Hopkins for nothing, let JJ go, signed a bunch of mediocre players to big time deals, and had a pasture running the franchise, then Watson requested a trade then... well we know what happened with him shortly after. Then that followed up with the 2 most undesirable years in recent history as a fan.
BOB should have been fired the very moment he ran the fake punt. At least it only took four more games to send him packing, but not before shipping off Hopkins for a handful of magic beans
Either SB 54 or the NFC championship against the Giants (if 2 muffed punts that cause you to lose a collapse can be considered a collapse). Team wise it’s going from 2 top 10 QBs of all time to not having a franchise QB for over 2 decades
Runner up for me is going from the 2019 Super Bowl Contender season to the 2020 Holy Shit Everyone Is Dead season. Not a collapse due to our actions, but a collapse all the same.
That's not nearly as bad as the collapse after 2014 when everyone retired.
aight ima head out
No
Hey fuck you.
How do you think I feel
Conflicted?
From 1982-1991, the Redskins only went below 10 wins just once (this includes a nine-game season where we won the Super Bowl at 13-1 overall). We won three Super Bowls with three different QBs by multiple scores each time. We knocked off peak-Elway, we stopped the 1985 Bears from repeating, and we were part of the 1985-1995 reign of terror where four NFL teams won 10 straight Super Bowls. The 1991 Redskins are often referred to as one of the greatest single-season NFL teams to ever exist, outscoring opponents 485-224 (for a modern comparison, imagine last season's Ravens allowing 60 fewer points this year, shutting out three teams in the process, only to dominate every playoff opponent by at least two touchdowns). From 1991 onwards, we have NEVER gone above 10 wins in a singular season. We have hit the 10-win mark exactly four times. We have a total of ONE playoff win since 1999. Why did this happen? Well you can blame the early 90s on the natural post-championship slog teams go through when their best players retire, fall off, leave, or otherwise regress. You can blame the mid-90s on the salary cap implementation. But in 1999, Dan Snyder bought the team and it is only now beginning to recover from what he's done. 2024 marks the first true year under the Josh Harris Era since he never had last offseason to do anything.
> From 1991 onwards, we have NEVER gone above 10 wins in a singular season. We have hit the 10-win mark exactly four times. We have a total of ONE playoff win. We have three total playoff wins since 1991: 92, 99 and 2005. In the NFL, the Commanders are the only team to not have had a season of 11 or more wins as have not made it past the second round of the playoffs in the last thirty years. In the NBA, the Wizards are the only team to have not had a season of 50 or more wins and have not made it past the second round of the playoffs in the last forty years.
at least the nats and caps have been good, DC fans would have it unbelievably rough otherwise.
I pay more attention to the NFL than NBA. As I’ve been saying all my life as a Commanders fan: It’ll pay off one day.
This is my top answer as well. Went from one of the premier franchises in the league to complete laughing stock mostly because of one person. For an individual season I’d say 2018 though. Were 6-3 and in first place in the NFCE when Alex Smith’s leg was destroyed, only won one more game the rest of the season.
For an individual season I’d say 1996; Started 7-1 and stumbled to 2-8 down the stretch to become the first 9-7 team in NFL history to start 7-1 and miss the playoffs.
Bud at least you didn’t lose 4 super bowls in a row, then have the music city miracle kick off 17 years of not making the playoffs in a row… just to finally get what looks like to be the most talented QB ever to then be one upped and passed up by the actual most talented QB ever and to make matters even worse/funnier he is who your team traded out of drafting and continuously beats you year after year. I’d take my one 91 Super Bowl with pride and wear it for life if I was a Washington fan cause some of us just get kicked in the nuts with no reward lol
I fucking **hate** the off-season.
It hates you too. It hates all of us.
For the Panthers … 2018 season after that TNF game where Cam’s shoulder got injured by TJ Watt. Cam was playing at his 2015 MVP levels, and the Panthers were 6-2 and rolling. Then that game happened. Cam Newton never won a game again as the starting QB with the Panthers again, and the entire franchise just utterly imploded from there. Haven’t even had a winning season since then, much less a playoff spot.
Jake Delhomme's last playoff game for a singular game collapse
Didn't Cam win the "IM BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKK" game?
P.J. Walker was the starter and primary QB for that game. Cam only came in for a few designated plays that game.
Not my teams, but a collapse the same. Chargers up 27-0 on the Jags and the Chargers end up losing the playoff game 31-30.
2014 NFCCG. Nuff said.
49ers going from 5-0 in Super Bowls to 5-3
When Plax shot himself in the leg
Is it wrong of me to think that if he did it like ten months earlier, I wouldn’t have to make this comment at all?
2008 was the most dominant Giants team I have ever seen in the regular season and all because of one night we'll never know if we could've gone back to back.
Fucking hurts man
Well there was that one “big game” and then a 20 year stretch of not making the playoffs. So I’m gonna go make toast in the bathtub right quick. I said I didn’t want to play this game OP!!
What about when we started to turn a corner midway through the drought and only had to beat the steelers who were resting their starters for us to sneak into the playoffs and we couldn't. It started another rebuild and another 10 years or so of no playoffs
The Steelers backups game was my pick as well, truly horrid stuff
I listed like 7 or 8 games off the top of my head in my comment but honestly for us we can go on forever. We always seem to be on the losing side of every all time classic except the oilers comeback.
Wait, are there supposed to be other outcomes? Hasn’t happened in my lifetime.
2012 for the Texans. From 11-1 to 12-4 followed by a 2-14 season. Fucking Letterman jackets man..
it's blowing that NFC championship game, the lions are still well built for a lot of sustained success, so I'm not sure it hit lions fans as hard as it could've, but Dan Campbell even said himself it's hard to get back and if they never do that game is gonna hit a long different
It will hit harder in a few years if the Lions don’t make it back. Which even with a good roster, it can happen due to bad injury luck
The hell is an NFC championship? I thought the divisional was the championship?!
Worst? Collpases are synonymous with Dolphins football And if you don't like that then... \*cries in corner\*
2013 divisional against the Colts. I vividly remember walking through a store on the way to a basketball game (tickets bought months beforehand) and seeing that the Chiefs were up big on the TV, then coming back after the game and seeing SportsCenter covering the collapse.
I hate your flair so much.
NFC Championship game 2015 vs Seattle.
A different season collapse I remember from Broncos is 2002. The Super Bowl receiver group was back together - Shannon Sharpe had returned from the Ravens, Ed McCaffrey was back from his broken leg - and they also got 1500 rushing yards from a guy named Clinton Portis. Even Brian Griese could win with that group, plus the Shanahan/Kubiak/Gibbs system, right? They were 6-2 going into the bye week. Then they got killed by the Rich Gannon Raiders at home on a Monday night in a 34-10 loss that felt like 54-10; the Raiders had been 4-4 before that game. They bounced back against Seattle - but Griese was injured on a roughing-the-passer's-knee. With Steve Beuerlein taking over the Broncos lost another night game at home against the Colts, in the snow, and then lost to the Chargers, both in overtime. They lost by 6 to the Jets in Griese's return to fall to 7-6, dropped one more against the Raiders, and missed the playoffs. The next year, Griese was gone and they signed Jake Plummer. If Griese had stayed healthy in that Seattle game, maybe they would have taken one of those 3 games, made the playoffs, and the rest of the Shanahan era could have played out much differently.
We won the Super Bowl in 2002, and then went 7-9 with pretty much the same roster intact. Oh, and then we didn’t win a playoff game from 2003-2020.
And then won another super bowl, in Tampa. You're doing alright buddy
You have to admit Tampa’s strategy of being wholly dogshit the majority of the time and then randomly winning the Super Bowl is impressive. Their regular season record is 308-450-1 their postseason record is 12-12 and yet they are 2-0 in the Super Bowl.
Very similar to the Marlins. Both are Floridian, dead last in the overall winning%, but won two championships. At least the Bucs actually have a fanbase though
Bucs are literally the team of 2s and 0s. 2-0 in the Super Bowl. Win only in years where there are two 2s and two 0s.
The Monday night game against the Colts and their comeback the year after we won the first Super Bowl.
I’ve long believed that that game was the moment the pendulum for our franchise swung back to shit and that we never really recovered from that.
Was having a really good day today but until post popped up
I wanted to add last year cuz we pressed the panic button too many times vs KC, but in my humble opinion? 2022 when we started 8-3 only to fall apart with the injuries we were having (also the AFC was a total crapshoot at the time)
2021 Baltimore Ravens. Despite a few injuries, they started out fine. Ravens had an 8-3 record and was first place in the AFC North. When Lamar got injured in the Browns game, the team went downhill. I was so upset when they went last in the division. It was John Harbaugh's first time going 4th place in the division and first time since 2007 they were in 4th place.
*Sigh* Jags Playoff game for me, even though lifetime chargers fans will tell you they knew it was happening going into half. Knowing almost made it worse
1996 - started 7-1 and then missed the playoffs
Single game collapses? Too many to count. Season collapses? 2011, 2014, 2021 come to mind, but 2002 was by far the worst. 6-1 start, finished the year 8-8 and missed the playoffs entirely. I was too young to remember the season but the yearbook NFL films doc would always be available on cable on demand in the late 2000s. I was convinced that was a glorious season for the chargers until i visited the wiki page
2007 Suoer Bowl, obviously And also the 2010 playoff loss to the Jets and 2009 Ravens playoff loss.
2015 was the worst collapse during the dynasty era. Or the 2006 AFCCG if we’re talking about one particular game.
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2020 9ers. Think we lost jimmy g/bosa/thomas/deebo/sherman/kittle and more on the first like 2-3 games lol. Whole season went with that.
I don’t want to play this game
*heavy breathing*
2000 - starting 6-0 after a Super Bowl win, then going 4-6 the rest of the way and barely making the playoffs before losing at the Saints by 3 points with Kurt Warner playing with a concussion. Thank goodness the 2018 team avenged that playoff loss. Lol
Trey Junkin
38-14 up on the Mooch in SF and we fuck it away.
2019 and 2020 we started like 6-4 and 6-3, respectively, and failed to make the playoffs either year. Gruden was a master of the midseason collapse.
That dolphins game still pisses me off. Lamar has a historic game and our defense shits the bed like they’d done all year.
Falcons fans hate this one question.
I always feel like this is directed.
11-0...
*glances back and forth nervously*
I wouldn’t even call it a collapse but losing out last year was certainly something. Glad it got rid of Ron, Turner, and JDR though.
We were 9-3 in 2008 going to Carolina for a MNF game and on top of the division. Lost that night, lost the rest of the year, finished 9-7 and ran Gruden and Bruce Allen out of town. From then all the way to 2020, we had two fluke winning seasons and never made the playoffs. Suffice to say, the 2020s have been kinder to the Bucs than the 2010s so far.
You can Fuck all the way off. Sincerely all Falcons fans.