Least favorite season your team had?

[Brian wolf]

Maybe thats why Mayfield made the comments about Brady?
Maybe the frustrations of losing Arians, his wife, the chance of going to Miami, made Brady more ornery with his teammates, who frankly, didnt respond enough during games. You cant blame Brady though, for wanting to get the ball to those receivers, rather than building a better running game. I still would take an old Brady over most of the QBs in this league and really wouldnt be surprised if he gave up broadcasting to try and come back next year?

[JameisBrownston]

With the median level of QB play around the league this year being as it's been, Brady would probably improve the situation of the majority of teams right now. Remarkably, I don't think the Buccaneers are one of them. The Dolphins are certainly back on the menu, though!

[Throwin_Samoan]

It's easy to say the 0-14 season of 1976, but, honestly, they were going to be terrible (and were unlucky not to win three games). The 1977 team was actually harder to watch, despite the two wins.

Gotta go with 1985. They'd been in the playoffs three times in four years from 1979-82, regressed mightily after letting Williams walk (you thought Jack Thompson could play? Really?), but had gone 6-10 in McKay's last year and 1985 maybe kinda sorta could have been a case for optimism? Leeman Bennett was a terrible choice to succeed McKay (they could have had Spurrier, what was left of the Bandits would have let him go in that whole morass), but, maybe?

Nah, bro. Started 0-9, had the Snow Bowl in Green Bay, lost to the Jets 62-15, and just when it looked like maybe this Steve Young guy would make something happen at the end of the year (he won his first game), they dropped the last four for a 2-14 mark. And did it again the next year.

[74_75_78_79_]

It's easy to say the 0-14 season of 1976, but, honestly, they were going to be terrible (and were unlucky not to win three games). The 1977 team was actually harder to watch, despite the two wins.

Gotta go with 1985. They'd been in the playoffs three times in four years from 1979-82, regressed mightily after letting Williams walk (you thought Jack Thompson could play? Really?), but had gone 6-10 in McKay's last year and 1985 maybe kinda sorta could have been a case for optimism? Leeman Bennett was a terrible choice to succeed McKay (they could have had Spurrier, what was left of the Bandits would have let him go in that whole morass), but, maybe?

Nah, bro. Started 0-9, had the Snow Bowl in Green Bay, lost to the Jets 62-15, and just when it looked like maybe this Steve Young guy would make something happen at the end of the year (he won his first game), they dropped the last four for a 2-14 mark. And did it again the next year.

Yet they give the Bears a game both times!

[Ten Minute Ticker]

The Packers really tested my resolve as a kid/teen.

When they "declined" off those 8-8 seasons in the 80s that seemed to be their peak to me as a child, our family had moved to Indy, so I missed the up-close-and-personal experience of the meltdown years from 1986-88.

The 1989 season got a lot of Packers fans back on the bandwagon, myself included, as I was in college by then. The 1990 season was sorta, kinda explainable as Majkowski held out and then later got hurt.

So entering 1991, there was, well, maybe not optimism, but at least some hope of recovery. Majkowski was back in the fold. Let's get the band back together.

Oh no. A 1-6 start quickly put paid to hope. Majkowski got hurt again and wasn't any good when he did play.

One of the worst NFL games I watched start to finish - because I'm apparently a masochist - was when the Colts played the Packers in Milwaukee.

The 1991 Colts do not get enough run as one of the worst teams in NFL history - they were utterly incompetent in almost every phase, especially on the offensive line - and the Packers struggled in a big way to beat them 14-10. Mike Tomczak completed 5 of 17 passes for 50 yards in a win, but the Packers had seven sacks against that porous Colts line.

That 1991 Packers team was when I wondered if there would ever be any hope. The 1991 Packers were built on Plan B free agents and lottery tickets with a couple of legitimate pieces (Sterling Sharpe, LeRoy Butler) mixed in. Green Bay's reputation at the time was at a nadir. Many of the traditions lauded once the team got good were ridiculed as old-fashioned.

Ron Wolf was obviously a steady hand on the tiller and Mike Holmgren was a great hire after Lindy Infante was heave-ho'd. It seems pre-ordained from today's view that the Packers were destined for winning stability, but it sure didn't feel that way in 1991.

[74_75_78_79_]

The Packers really tested my resolve as a kid/teen.

When they "declined" off those 8-8 seasons in the 80s that seemed to be their peak to me as a child, our family had moved to Indy, so I missed the up-close-and-personal experience of the meltdown years from 1986-88.

The 1989 season got a lot of Packers fans back on the bandwagon, myself included, as I was in college by then. The 1990 season was sorta, kinda explainable as Majkowski held out and then later got hurt.

So entering 1991, there was, well, maybe not optimism, but at least some hope of recovery. Majkowski was back in the fold. Let's get the band back together.

Oh no. A 1-6 start quickly put paid to hope. Majkowski got hurt again and wasn't any good when he did play.

One of the worst NFL games I watched start to finish - because I'm apparently a masochist - was when the Colts played the Packers in Milwaukee.

The 1991 Colts do not get enough run as one of the worst teams in NFL history - they were utterly incompetent in almost every phase, especially on the offensive line - and the Packers struggled in a big way to beat them 14-10. Mike Tomczak completed 5 of 17 passes for 50 yards in a win, but the Packers had seven sacks against that porous Colts line.

That 1991 Packers team was when I wondered if there would ever be any hope. The 1991 Packers were built on Plan B free agents and lottery tickets with a couple of legitimate pieces (Sterling Sharpe, LeRoy Butler) mixed in. Green Bay's reputation at the time was at a nadir. Many of the traditions lauded once the team got good were ridiculed as old-fashioned.

Ron Wolf was obviously a steady hand on the tiller and Mike Holmgren was a great hire after Lindy Infante was heave-ho'd. It seems pre-ordained from today's view that the Packers were destined for winning stability, but it sure didn't feel that way in 1991.

If I were a Packer-fan, '91 would be a good choice for me as well. '90 was, yes, explainable. They could have ended up being like '89. Maybe they didn't start off quite as good, and instead of barely beating San Fran they barely lost to them, but after ten games - like '89 - they also were 5-5. But that tenth game, in Phoenix, was the game that Maj went out for the season and that was that despite it being a win, and despite they winning one more game the following week with Dilweg under center.

Yes, with Maj back in 1991, it had to seem optimistic-enough. But it would be the very final year of that 'dark ages' quarter-century of theirs, so that would be the bright side of it.