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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
But Denver doesn't sustain it. They were really bad before Elway, and did little between Elway and Manning. Since Manning, they've been arguably the worst franchise in the league other than the Jets.
To me, there's a big difference between a great organization and an organization that signed a few great players.
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Again, you can look at these things from all sorts of perspectives.
They were terrible from '62-76.
They made the SB in '77 and then in the next 5 years before Elway, they won 10 games in 3 of those years.
Elway comes to town, they go to the playoffs 10X with 5 trips and 2 wins in the SB. Denver had the 2nd highest winning percentage during 83-98, second only to the 49ers.
They fell to 10th highest in winning percentage in the years between Elway and Manning. However in those 13 years, they were .500 or better in 10 of those years with 5 trips to the playoffs.
We know the Manning years and it wasn't until 2016 that the franchise took a true downward spiral, putting up 3 consecutive losing seasons for the first time since Bowlen bought the team in the early 80s.
Sure, the last 6 years have been brutal with 5 of those years being consecutive losing seasons. So, yeah recent history sucks, but throughout my lifetime, they've been a winning organization pretty consistently.