Why Melty Ice is relevant to WV's OCD-fixated "critiques" on Tannehill.. and to anyone else who's still pissing and moaning about not taking the choker.
It's about credibility. Every time Melty Ice has had an opportunity to extend a postseason, he's crapped the bed big time. Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, but 6 times going back to being shut out in the second half of the ACC title game vs VT - a team he beat during the season. Does that sound familiar? With Melty, almost no lead is safe. And that includes the 20-0 lead vs Seattle in 12 he took into the second half and ended up having to "come from behind" on a good Gonzalez effort to set up a field goal (I believe.). Going back to the VT game, and then forward, he's been offensively shut out in one game and in 8 of the final 12 third and fourth quarters he's played. And that's with elite receivers and the greatest of all time Tight End! He's put up mid 70sQBR, 2TD, 1 Int, and an avg 105/avg yds cumulatively for his second halfs. Of the 140 QBs who have won at least 1 playoff game in history, he ranks 140 out of 140.
Why does he have a Tannehill equivalent approx .425 winning percentage vs playoff teams in-season, yet has won 1 out of 5 NFL postseason games (.200)?? Here's the reason, he's a choker. His testicles do not descend when he knows it's win or go home. He's no Flacco (who would have been a better trade down or up cuz he actually rises to the occasion time and again.). Sorry, but when Melty does so well in season with his elite weapons but tanks so badly especially by being outscored by only 6 points in 5 playoff first halfs but over 80 in those same 5 second halfs, it's not an anomaly but instead the reality! The first time he does better than producing 10 points in a 2nd half will be the first time... and still must be considered the anomaly (if it ever does happen!)
Now, if WV was as "objective" over his admitted fanboyism over Melty, he would admit that there's something serious lacking between his ears and legs instead of declaring "he's a winner." And that's the crux of it. If he can't admit what as obvious as the nose on his face because of his fandom, it discredits any opinions he might have on other QBs as subjective, including Tannehill. So anytime he goes off which is often, he needs to be reminded how oblivious and damn disingenuous he is when it comes to Melty Ice. And anyone who thinks that the "Blue Ball QB" who couldn't succeed with elite weapons would have thrived in the 08-12 version of the Fins, well hell, I've got some commercially-zoned swampland in the Everglades I can sell you cheap before the first building wave gooses up land value.
Now there's nothing wrong with being a fanboy. I'm one too when it comes to Aaron Rodgers and I curse another one of his favorites, the inept HC and de facto GM liar and quitter, every time I watch Aaron perform miracles because it not for the love of the SEC, a part time running back and thinking that a QB best known for banging his head against concrete walls could be our future, any arguments about who we should have taken afterwards or the QBs we have would have been blissfully moot.
