Eagles now 12-0 vs Jets! The beat goes on...
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:55 pm
This, if I heard it right, is the longest opening unbeaten/untied streak an NFL team has had over another NFL team in the "modern" era. So does this mean that in the non-modern initial era(s) of the NFL, there was a greater opening such streak? And how about outside the NFL albeit CFL or any other sport in-general; even collegiate?
Looking at each Eagles/Jets game, it's interesting to see that the only one in which both teams had a winning record heading into the game was, perhaps, the most well-known contest between the two...'93 when Eagles were 3-0 going in; Jets 2-1. That's it! Neither were both ever good simultaneously in either year they met.
'81 is a year that could've been an exception to all this. More specifically, had both teams met once Jets turned the corner with that Week #10 win over Colts. That's when they finally got above-500 at 5-4-1. AFC East matched up against NFC East that very year as well as both teams making playoffs (as well as both getting eliminated the same day). Just one problem...Jets finished 5th-place in their division the year before thus voiding them of dates with Philly along with Dallas, Washington, and Cardinals (they did play G-men though, who also finished 5th-place in '80).
As the case practically every year for the longest time now, both did meet in that '81 preseason which - quite ironically - is my very first impression of 'Eagles/Jets'. Ironic in that the Jets won that very game!
Thoughts? Comments?
Not just possible longer opening head-to-head streaks elsewhere, but ones which came close? Or maybe a tie, or two, wedged into such an unbeaten streak?
This, sadly, isn't the only case historically of the Jets losing their first so many games against a particular team. Seahawks & Steelers come to mind with NYJ finally taking care of that biz in both '85 & '88 respectively.
Looking at each Eagles/Jets game, it's interesting to see that the only one in which both teams had a winning record heading into the game was, perhaps, the most well-known contest between the two...'93 when Eagles were 3-0 going in; Jets 2-1. That's it! Neither were both ever good simultaneously in either year they met.
'81 is a year that could've been an exception to all this. More specifically, had both teams met once Jets turned the corner with that Week #10 win over Colts. That's when they finally got above-500 at 5-4-1. AFC East matched up against NFC East that very year as well as both teams making playoffs (as well as both getting eliminated the same day). Just one problem...Jets finished 5th-place in their division the year before thus voiding them of dates with Philly along with Dallas, Washington, and Cardinals (they did play G-men though, who also finished 5th-place in '80).
As the case practically every year for the longest time now, both did meet in that '81 preseason which - quite ironically - is my very first impression of 'Eagles/Jets'. Ironic in that the Jets won that very game!
Thoughts? Comments?
Not just possible longer opening head-to-head streaks elsewhere, but ones which came close? Or maybe a tie, or two, wedged into such an unbeaten streak?
This, sadly, isn't the only case historically of the Jets losing their first so many games against a particular team. Seahawks & Steelers come to mind with NYJ finally taking care of that biz in both '85 & '88 respectively.