The Eagles are 8-point underdogs, and the ugly regular season performance is just one of the reasons why. But it’s hard not to draw comparisons to another team in green that once avenged a regular season embarrassment. Eight seasons ago, the Jets traveled to Foxboro for a Monday Night game with a potential division title hanging in the balance. Both teams were 9-2, and New York had defeated New England at home earlier in the year. But that night, the Patriots blew out the Jets 45-3, in a game that showed just how far the Jets still had to go to measure up to the league’s best teams.
Except, it hadn’t. Because 41 days later, in a rematch in Foxboro in the division round of the playoffs, the Jets shocked the Patriots, winning 28-21 as 9.5-point underdogs.
As it turns out, that’s the largest margin ever avenged in the playoffs in a rematch at the same site. The table below shows all postseason games featuring:
1) A rematch of a regular season game in the same location;
2) In the regular season, the winning team won by at least 14 points;
3) In the playoffs, the winning team lost the regular season game.
Won | Lost | Year | RS Marg | RS Wk | RS Boxscore | Loc | Line | Rd | P Boxscore |
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NYJ | NWE | 2010 | -42 | 13 | 45-3 | Road | 9.5 | D | 28-21 |
MIN | RAM | 1977 | -32 | 6 | 35-3 | Road | D | 14-7 | |
DEN | HOU | 1987 | -30 | 4 | 40-10 | Home | -10 | D | 34-10 |
KAN | HOU | 1993 | -30 | 2 | 30-0 | Road | 7 | D | 28-20 |
ARI | DAL | 1998 | -28 | 1 | 38-10 | Road | 7 | W | 20-7 |
PIT | HOU | 1989 | -27 | 7 | 27-0 | Road | 7 | W | 26-23 |
ARI | GNB | 2009 | -26 | 17 | 33-7 | Home | 2.5 | W | 51-45 |
GNB | NYG | 1944 | -24 | 10 | 24-0 | Road | C | 14-7 | |
RAM | DAL | 1979 | -24 | 7 | 30-6 | Road | 8.5 | D | 21-19 |
NYG | RAM | 1984 | -21 | 5 | 33-12 | Road | 4.5 | W | 16-13 |
BUF | BCL | 1948 | -20 | 15 | 35-15 | Road | D | 28-17 | |
BAL | PIT | 2014 | -20 | 9 | 43-23 | Road | 3 | W | 30-17 |
BUF | NYJ | 1981 | -19 | 7 | 33-14 | Road | 3 | W | 31-27 |
PIT | IND | 2005 | -19 | 12 | 26-7 | Road | 8.5 | D | 21-18 |
TAM | DET | 1997 | -18 | 7 | 27-9 | Home | -3 | W | 20-10 |
RAM | CLE | 1951 | -15 | 2 | 38-23 | Home | C | 24-17 | |
RAM | TAM | 1979 | -15 | 4 | 21-6 | Road | -3.5 | C | 9-0 |
CHI | NYG | 1946 | -14 | 6 | 14-0 | Road | C | 24-14 | |
WAS | DAL | 1982 | -14 | 13 | 24-10 | Home | 2 | C | 31-17 |
WAS | PHI | 1990 | -14 | 10 | 28-14 | Road | 4.5 | W | 20-6 |
SDG | KAN | 1992 | -14 | 1 | 24-10 | Home | -3 | W | 17-0 |
IND | DEN | 2003 | -14 | 16 | 31-17 | Home | -3 | W | 41-10 |
NWE | PIT | 2004 | -14 | 8 | 34-20 | Road | -3 | C | 41-27 |
IND | NYJ | 2009 | -14 | 16 | 29-15 | Home | -8.5 | C | 30-17 |