Defense wins championships is a myth.
Teams win championships.
Just looking at the Super Bowl as a basis for John Elway is ridiculous. That's it. Since when is one game a judgment of an entire career? I'm not taking anything away from the Super Bowl because after all Elway has two rings, but the demonizing of John Elway by Packer fans seems like bitterness more than anything to me.
Stats determine who the best fantasy football QB is. Not who the best QB is. Keyword is fantasy.
The arguement goes from Elway isn't clutch look at the Super Bowls to well yeah he was good in the AFC Title games, but Starr followed up his Ice Bowl with a Super Bowl MVP.
Elway followed up two championship games with two Super Bowl wins and an MVP too. That's pretty good.
Elway has 40+ career come from behind victories. He has one of the biggest drives in the history of the game in yes a big game. So he didn't do it in the Super Bowl.
Neither did Brett Favre. Bart Starr neither had to either.
Starr's coach was Vince Lombardi though and he played on a team with what is it 10 or 11 Hall of Famers. Maybe there is a reason why he never had too.
Does that take away from Starr? I don't think it does. Yet some take away from Elway because of Terrell Davis. One player and Elway's Super Bowls are a "never would've" and Starr had like 10 players of that caliber and the greatest coach ever.
Just looking for consistency.
My point wasn't to compare the two players or teams for that matter. My point was to say Championship Games are big games. I hardly doubt Packer fans would consider the Ice Bowl as a minimal game. It wasn't. It was huge.
Elway rose to the occasion on those games especially near the end in of course one of the greatest games ever played.
So what if his moment came in the AFC Title game instead of the Super Bowl.
Why would Denver put the ball into Elway's hands when Green Bay couldn't stop Terrell Davis?
Is that Elway's fault?
Personally, that's Green Bay's fault.
Is it Brett Favre's fault the defense couldn't stop Terrell Davis?
I don't think it is which is why that game doesn't make me think anything less of Favre. Same reason why I don't think anything less of Elway when he loses with the No. 1 defense especially when that defense gives up 55 points. Yet that is on Elway?
Denver overwhelmed Atlanta anyways in which Elway threw for over 300 yards and a touchdown.
Not bad for someone who does poorly in the Super Bowl.
I think what makes Elway great is the fact that he was able to go from "the man or president" to I guess the vice president. He put his ego aside for a Championship and let Terrell Davis carry them.
Not many players will do that.
That's why Elway is in my top three with Montana and Tom Brady when he retires.
Brady does the exact same thing in New England. He let's Belichick by "the man" because he rightfully is.
Montana would do it too. Jerry Rice was the most explosive weapon on that team.
Not Montana and that's the way Montana wanted it.
Those QB's are great and clutch because they can manage the game or take it over and win it if they have too. They don't over do it and they don't do to little. They do what they're told and rise the occasion.
Stats don't tell you that.