MustketFire.com: The New England Patriots: A Decade of Frustration

Nice thorough and fair recap of the last decade of disappointment. No one wants to hear Patriots fans complain, but I think it’s worth asking, what’s harder to go through as a fan? When your team consistently stinks, your expectations aren’t very high. You make the playoffs and it’s a good year even if you bow out in the conference championship.

Remember when the Jets went to back-to-back AFC Championship games in 2009 and 2010 and everyone was making it out as a sign they were ready to take the next step in 2011 and then everything fell apart. We don’t hear the Pats getting much love for losing the last two AFC Championships this offseason, do we?

The Pats have fell short on the biggest stages over the last decade. They had late fourth quarter leads in both Super Bowls they lost. They’ve been to the conference championship in six of the last ten seasons. They lost three of them.

No one will feel bad for Pats fans, but to know we’re in the the prime of the greatest run the Patriots might ever have and to continually fall just short for the last decade sure isn’t fun.