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Originally Posted by tk13
I was hard on Flacco in previous years because he would win playoff games with terrible sub-50% passing performances and things like that... but you guys are brutal. The guy is coming off two postseasons where he missed a Super Bowl because of a dropped pass, and one where he won a Super Bowl and finished the postseason with 11 TD/0 INT. Hard to argue against that.
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but you're ignoring the fact he didn't play well against New England up until that last drive where Evans dropped that ball in 2011...
I mean, yay...I understand he came through in the end (or should have), but come on.
Tim Tebow wasn't elite because he won a bunch of flukey games and then won a flukey postseason game because teams got soft on him at the end.
In my world, an elite QB is elite from snap 1 to the final snap...at least on a consistent basis. An elite QB is the best player on his team, and the player the team expects to lead them to victory.
Joe Flacco has never had that claim to fame until he played out of his mind this postseason.
Can he replicate that for an entire season? If so, fine...he's elite.
I just don't see it happening.