See this takes great, and something I have said.. the whole tua sucks in the cold, cannot beat winning teams.. its not a simple HE thing.
its simple cold weather slows a humans metabolism, makes them slower... and better teams are usually there cause of top 10 or sometimes top 5 dl's and olines.. look at all the consistent playoff appearance teams defenses and olines, bills/chiefs (minus last year) lions eagles ravens always always good in the trenchs..so whats this mean, it means they slow recievers down at the line, or block running routes slowing the wr.. at the same time there pressuring tua faster, so tua has less time to throw in situations where wr arent gettin as much separation anyways.. this equals trouble
in big games and cold games its more physical, hell its why most cold teams have strong run games.. big games are won and lost in the trenches, and if your playin offensive mainly passing based, run around pure timing these facts are gonna make it a tough ask.
sure in some big games tua coulda done better for sure. a few loses are completely on him.. but its not this whole evry big game, every cold game narrative people wanna harp on bout. Reason showed tuas stats in big games, hell his performance against the bills last year in buffalo was one of top 3 best ever offensive performances against a mcdermote defense since he has been in buffalo.
the def in that game was one of the worst performances .. again I am not sayin Tua is without blame.. for sure he is at times, but its no where nearrrr the level people wanna state.. hell 2023 i could point to key mistakes in every game that cost us the game and maybe one of them was on tua