How did the AFC East become such a dumpster fire?

Baltimore belongs in the East

Miami belongs in the South

Indianapolis belongs in the North

Apparently Now the Jets have their Jetsiah in Darnold and the Bills theirs in Allen, the division got a tad more interesting atm but I don’t think it’ll be sufficient to immediately overcome the Pats do anticipate more competitive games at least

Probably pretty difficult to build a "winning attitude" when you have to fight for the wildcard every year, and when you don't get it, your coach gets fired, beginning anew.

Draft a new QB again and rinse, repeat.

nobody has been able to find a decent QB during Brady's time in New England

Terrible QB play

BUF Post Jim Kelly

Flutie
Rob Johnson
Kelly Holcomb
Van Pelt
Bledsoes
Losman
Trent Edwards
Fitzpatrick
EJ Manuel
Kyle Orton
Tyrod

Miami post Marino

Fielder
Feely
Frerotte
Harrington
Cleo Lemon
Pennington
Matt Moore
Henne
Tannehill
Cutler


Jets since 2000

Pennington
Bollinger
Favre
Testeverde
Sanchez
Smith
McCown
Fitzpatrick

browns could actually win some games if they play cards right

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So are you going to compare their winning percentage against the AFC East against their winning percentage against every other division? Tom Brady does not have a losing record against any team in the NFL. They consistently show up in the biggest games on the biggest stage, advance far in the playoffs, and have represented the AFC in the Super Bowl 8 times, and a winning record there too. If your argument was true, they wouldn't have the best out of division winning record since 2001, which they do. They also wouldn't consistently progress far in the playoffs, which they do.

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Let's be honest: they do benefit from the ineptitude of the rest of that division, those teams suck but its not the Pats' fault its incumbent on those teams to improve themselves so they supplant them, the Pats TCB and have advanced to the Super Bowl 8x so they TCB in the AFC Playoffs as well, we have to accept things for what they are and apparently dominating in the AFC LEast hasn't been detrimental to the Pats come playoff time nor when it comes to submitting 13-3, 14-2 regular season records consistently the past 17 seasons, that's penalizing teams for TCB and doing their jobs and that's simply an unjust approach.

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There has likely never been a team in the history of sports that benefited more from the division in which they play.

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The Steelers have been in the same division Browns and Bengals for decades. Yes they have the Ravens, but they use to be the Browns.

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Probably pretty difficult to build a "winning attitude" when you have to fight for the wildcard every year, and when you don't get it, your coach gets fired, beginning anew.

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The sad thing is that it doesn't have to be that way. If you have patience and a plan, you can make things work.

Look at the Saints- a couple decades as arguably the worst franchise in the NFL. Mora comes in, and yes- he got an influx of talent from the USFL. But he also built from the draft, and the offense wasn't star-driven. Goal was stout defense and special teams. Biggest scoring threat was Morten Anderson.

Spent a decade chasing the 49ers, the best team in football. Never really caught them. Never won a playoff game. But the franchise elevated to one of the best regular season teams in that stretch, and stayed respectable afterwards (letting Payton work at raising them that last notch).