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It's Only Happened ONCE!
What the NFL’s four surviving teams still in the Super Bowl tournament have in common is about as subtle as a slap in the face. It is a reminder more than a revelation, and it should be sobering to Miami Dolphins fans trying to figure out, after the franchise’s first playoff season since 2008, how near or far their team still is from playing into February.
Great quarterbacking.
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That is the difference that gets you there most assuredly, most directly. It is the ultimate answer and solution. It has the ability to overcome deficiencies elsewhere on your roster. It has the power to lift and carry cities and teams.
Not pretty solid quarterbacking. Not maybe-good-enough quarterbacking.
Great quarterbacking.
Pittsburgh at New England and Green Bay at Atlanta are this Sunday’s AFC and NFC Championship Games mostly because of Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan.
But what’s compelling about this final four starts with the men taking the snaps and in charge. With Brady, the all-time great who seeks to raise the Vince Lombardi trophy as a metaphorical middle finger to the NFL for (he believes) wrongly suspending him four games over Deflategate. With the swaggering gunslingers Roethlisberger and Rodgers. And with Ryan, having one of the greatest individual seasons ever to lead the league’s highest-scoring team.[FONT="]
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All four made the Pro Bowl. Brady, holder of every significant postseason passing record, is a certain first-ballot Hall of Famer and so is Rodgers, of the highest career passer rating ever. Big Ben, two-time champion, is on a likely path to Canton. Can’t say that yet of Ryan, although the season MVP award he should be getting and the Super Bowl ring he might could invite him into that conversation.
These four averaged 4,186 passing yards, 34 touchdowns and a 107.2 rating this season. No final-four teams’ quarterbacks have ever had composite averages that high in all three major categories. By measure of career résumés or season dominance, this is the most pedigreed quarterback final-foursome we have ever had playing to reach the Super Bowl.
This foursome personifies an NFL air-first era that soars on unabated, and it invites every franchise that didn’t get this far, including Miami, to wonder and assess if it is good enough at the most important position — or great enough in other areas to make that matter less.
More at LINK: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/greg-cote/article126862349.html
Your thoughts?
Great quarterbacking.
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That is the difference that gets you there most assuredly, most directly. It is the ultimate answer and solution. It has the ability to overcome deficiencies elsewhere on your roster. It has the power to lift and carry cities and teams.
Not pretty solid quarterbacking. Not maybe-good-enough quarterbacking.
Great quarterbacking.
Pittsburgh at New England and Green Bay at Atlanta are this Sunday’s AFC and NFC Championship Games mostly because of Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan.
But what’s compelling about this final four starts with the men taking the snaps and in charge. With Brady, the all-time great who seeks to raise the Vince Lombardi trophy as a metaphorical middle finger to the NFL for (he believes) wrongly suspending him four games over Deflategate. With the swaggering gunslingers Roethlisberger and Rodgers. And with Ryan, having one of the greatest individual seasons ever to lead the league’s highest-scoring team.[FONT="]
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All four made the Pro Bowl. Brady, holder of every significant postseason passing record, is a certain first-ballot Hall of Famer and so is Rodgers, of the highest career passer rating ever. Big Ben, two-time champion, is on a likely path to Canton. Can’t say that yet of Ryan, although the season MVP award he should be getting and the Super Bowl ring he might could invite him into that conversation.
These four averaged 4,186 passing yards, 34 touchdowns and a 107.2 rating this season. No final-four teams’ quarterbacks have ever had composite averages that high in all three major categories. By measure of career résumés or season dominance, this is the most pedigreed quarterback final-foursome we have ever had playing to reach the Super Bowl.
This foursome personifies an NFL air-first era that soars on unabated, and it invites every franchise that didn’t get this far, including Miami, to wonder and assess if it is good enough at the most important position — or great enough in other areas to make that matter less.
More at LINK: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/greg-cote/article126862349.html
Your thoughts?
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