Even a casual glance at Favre's performances in the playoffs the past decade and a half could lead one to the reasoned conclusion that the Packers could conceivably have won more titles had it not been for the repeated meltdowns of their quarterback at the most inopportune times.
Favre is probably the third best regular season quarterback of all time, after Manning and Marino. A great postseason quarterback he is not and never has been. Every time I re-watch the Super Bowl XXXI, it becomes more obvious to me that the Packers won that night not because of Favre's play but because Holmgren kept Favre firmly leashed.
"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:
Edit, before you pick on my choice of words, I do not mean that you are necessarily one of these "people" mentioned below.
I love how some how people only look at one of side of the coin on the whole Favre playoffs thing.
What if we had a defense that could stop a 4th and 27 against the Eagles?! 4th and 27! Not 4th and 15, not 4th and 20, a 4th and 27. Don't you think we would have likely won that game if we had stopped a 4th and 27.
What about Super Bowl XXXII. Favre threw 3 TDs but the Packers D allowed 157 yards and 3 TDs down to TD. Don't tyou think that we would have likely won that game if we could stop TD?
What about the 49ers-Packers game where Favre gave the Packers the lead with like a minute something left. And some how our defense gave up a horrible drive that ended with Young to TO? I'm pretty sure we would have won that if it wasn't for the D.
Or even the Falcons-Packers game, people keep blaming Favre for it. Favre was a BIG part of the problem but VICK, yes VICK DESTROYED the Packers D, we were NOT winning a SB that year with that D. But people only have selective memories or they never watched those games and look at box scores. Even go to the play by play on NFL.com for that game and you'll see how much Vick destroyed that D.
It goes both ways, Favre blew really good SB possibilities (the Giants-Packers 2007 game) but there were SB yeras were Favre was fine and others blew it. Namely, Super Bowl XXXII and the 49ers-Packers game. I really feel people over-state how good Packers teams were.
Just like Rodgers, yeah it sucks we lost that game against the Cardinals on that play where Rodgers missed Jennings in OT but in the grand scheme, we were NOT winning a SB with that defense.