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Originally Posted by NJChiefsFan
Who do you consider clutch then in today's NFL?
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I don't really use that term in the NFL.
Eli Manning is clutch because Wes Welker dropped a ball, Mario Manningham made a great catch (on a great throw), and a helmet catch on a play the officials often whistle dead because the QB was in a grasp of a defender...
seriously
Tyree could have dropped that ball, or Samuel could have picked the ball a play earlier and Eli would have been a nothing.
Manningham could have not kept his feet in bounds.
Because of 3-4 fluky plays we think of Eli Manning is the ultimate playoff QB.
Tom Brady should be 5-5 in Super Bowls and without his kicker he may very well have been 1-5 instead of 3-5.
It's a ****ing team sport. The fact this board narrows it down to the QB every time a team loses is ****ing ridiculous.
I don't consider Peyton Manning any more of a choker than Tom Brady. I don't consider Tom Brady to be any more clutch than Matt Ryan.
I will say this was the first year where I doubted Peyton Manning when it got to OT after that Moore debacle. He just didn't have it...his arm was dead. I knew the game was over after Moore made that play. Or didn't make that play.
EITHER WAY...the NFL isn't like the NBA. One player can't win you a game. Aaron Rodgers lost in the playoffs.
Any team that wins a Super Bowl now needs luck. The Giants needed a Welker drop. The Ravens needed Rahim Moore and then the worst playcalling ever on the last drive in the Super Bowl by the 49ers.
there is no such thing as a Michael Jordan in the NFL...it's too much of a team sport