NFL playoff thread

Completely useless because it judges the quarterbacks solely on wins and losses.

 

When QB A plays QB B what is the record?

 

QB B is 3-2.

 

And it was a hell of a defensive play by QB B, somehow making Lee Evans drop that ball and preventing QB A from having the 3-2 edge.

 

Yeah ... I didn't take that chart to mean "JOE FLACCO IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS TOM BRADY!!!!!"

I took it to mean "Joe Flacco is better than the general public seems to think he is."

 

Exactly.

 

I think the gap between these QBs is so much smaller than people tend to think.

There aren't very many Super Bowls where I believe the result would have flipped had the QBs been flipped.

Maybe 49ers over Bengals II, Colts over Bears, Patriots over Panthers . . .

Of course, that doesn't count Earl Morrall throwing Super Bowl III ;D

 

The problem is that there are a lot of stupid people out there who insist that any time a team or a QB doesn't win a Super Bowl the season is a failure.

It's one thing to have a record like Romo in big games or be 0 for whatever as Ryan was before Sunday's game, but it gets beyond ridiculous when people are criticizing a QB who has won a playoff game every year he's been in the league. I'm spacing here, but did the Ravens ever lose a game where they were favored?

I would argue that Flacco has overachieved. Nobody expects the Ravens to win this weekend, so if they lose Sunday as expected, are people really going to blame it on Flacco?

If people want to harp on the comments Flacco made about being a "top 5 QB" then I get that. He's not a top 5 QB. But he's a solid QB who has won a shitload of playoff games.

 

Also, Brady usually doesn't have to play the first weekend. Flacco usually does.

 

I can't see how they would have. They have only played two home games in that time and have won both. Rare to see a road team favored in a late-round game and I certainly don't think the Ravens would have been.

 

Yeah, I can't imagine they would have been since most of those games would have been against the Pats.

 

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