My first post in this topic is a complain about GB's situation... But the thing that separates us is the QB. Our pass defense is better than yours, but your run D is better. Overall your D is better, but we're not that much apart. Your run game is one of the best, but our run game is very capable. But our passing game is top 5, and that's the reason we can be contenders and you cannot. With the 9th pick in the 1st and 2nd round, we can easily fix our D problems and turn that unit in a top 15. But with what you have right now, it's very unlikely you'll be contenders. Of course, if you trade for Cutler, then it's a different conversation, but nothing in the past years leads to that.
About the time frame, again, i'm talking about this, the XXI century. More precisely about this decade, which is not over. 01-02 we won SF and lost to the rams, 02-03 lost to falcons, 03-04 won seattle lost philly, 04-05 lost to you, 05-06 weren't, 06-07 weren't, 07-08 we all know and last year weren't. So in 8 years we've been to the playoffs 6 times, we won 3 games and we've been to the championship game.
You: 01-02 weren't, 02-03 weren't, 03-04 weren't, 04-05 won us and lost eagles, 05-06 weren't, 06-07 weren't, 07-08 weren't, 08-09 lost to eagles. So it's 2 out of 8 and 1 win.
In the recent history, we have far more sucess than you, and we were mediocre. If you look at last decade, we won a superbowl and you...
Of course, 70's and 80's we were bad, but you didn't won either. And in the 60's, there haven't been a franchise with more sucess in a decade than us in the 60's. You are a mediocre franchise, you were good in the late 90's, but in the mid 90's we won it all...