What was the last team to miss the NFL playoffs as good as SD?

[ThaSaltCracka]

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And Denver lost to Miami.

So?

[/ QUOTE ]and the Giants! HA! OMGH~!@!!@!

[Momo]

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it makes up for last year when they got in because their schedule that year was a joke.

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1 Sun, Sep 12 at Houston W 27-20
2 Sun, Sep 19 NY Jets L 28-34
3 Sun, Sep 26 at Denver L 13-23
4 Sun, Oct 3 Tennessee W 38-17
5 Sun, Oct 10 Jacksonville W 34-21
6 Sun, Oct 17 at Atlanta L 20-21
7 Sun, Oct 24 at Carolina W 17-6
8 Sun, Oct 31 Oakland W 42-14
9 Sun, Nov 7 New Orleans W 43-17
10 BYE WEEK
11 Sun, Nov 21 at Oakland W 23-17
12 Sun, Nov 28 at Kansas City W 34-31

13 Sun, Dec 5 Denver W 20-17
14 Sun, Dec 12 Tampa Bay W 31-24
15 Sun, Dec 19 at Cleveland W 21-0
16 Sun, Dec 26 at Indianapolis L (OT) 31-34
17 Sun, Jan 2 Kansas City W 24-17

Mind showing me where the joke of a schedule is? Tenn, Oak, and No. Those games I guess you could call a joke. Cleveland, was away and in the snow, not easy when your a team used to 70 degree weather all year round.

One thing no one has pointed out is the way the chargers schedule was set up. They play 3 teams in a row to come off their bye weeks, and then the following week they played KC who get a couple extra days when they had to play Miami early cause of the hurricane that was coming. I look at the ones they gave up and the big one was Miami. The two wins that stand out above the rest are the NE and Indy games. Both on the road, both with "records" on the line. NE up until that point hadn't lost at home in like 22(?) straight games, and the chargers just dominated them. Indy, well we know how the Chargers D just manhandeled the colts. One other fact that you should know about the colts game. The only time Indy scored a TD was when they got the ball starting inside the 5 and on the like 22 i think it was. Unless they had an extremely short field they couldn't score a TD.

Yes I live in San Diego, and yes I am a Charger Homer.

[CarlSpackler]

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1991 Philladelphia, 10-6

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That Philly team was very good. Unfortunately for them they played in a division with the previous season champion (Giants), current season champion (Redskins), and next season champion (Cowboys). Yikes!

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91 Philly, was a very good team, but should not be included in this conversation. Their 10th win was the last game of the regular season against Washington who had already locked up home field advantage, and Gibbs rested all of their starters (and if I remember correctly, Philly still only won by less than a td).

IMO, the best team to not make the playoffs since 1990 is the Patriots, when they missed the playoffs that one year during their current Super Bowl run (was it '02?).