No! Flacco and Eli among others stepped up to help their teams win lots of games especially in the playoffs.. where often they drove the bus on the journey through the postseason. According to Westhoff, from his view on the field, and the best coach on the jest side, Sanchez NEVER drove the bus in the postseason... he was a passenger along for the ride on a bus powered by others. In what other postseasons has the QB, - in the savviest coach's opinion had no part in powering the bus onward other than The Buttboy? Oh and a persuasive argument can be made that Bill Polian and Jim Caldwell did more to advance the jest than did Sanchez, even as a passenger.
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Flacco did step up w/o a doubt, he had a great postseason last year but he had poor postseasons earlier and if Bal got '09/'10 Sanchez postseasons they make SBs.
Stop playing around w/ Westhoff's words please.
Eli's 2 SB runs:
2007:
Eli's D/STs created 7 TOs
TB: averaged 21 PPG, held to 14
Dal: averaged 28, held to 17
GB: averaged 27, held to 20 in 5 qtrs and D set up chip shot FG to win
NE: averaged 37, held to 14
differential: -48, average -12
But yeah it was all Eli b/c a ball stuck to a helmet.
2011:
D/Sts created 7 TOs
Atl: averaged 25 PPG, held to ZERO
GB: averaged 35, held to 20
SF: averaged 24, held to 17 in 5 qts and STs set up both 2nd half/OT scores for Eli including GW FG
NE: averaged 32, held to 17 plus D scored 2 pts
differential: -62, average -16
Eli was clearly driving the bus.
Now let's compare that to the title game runs
2009:
D/STs created 5 TOs
Cin: averaged 19, held to 14
SD: averaged 28, held to 14
Ind: averaged 26, held to 30
differential: -15, average -5
2010:
D/STs created 3 TOs
Ind: averaged 27, held to 16
NE: averaged 32, held to 21
Pit: averaged 23, held to 17 plus scored 2 pts
differential: -28, average: -9
but yeah it was all Eli and Mark was along for the ride w/ his '85 Bears D