Not sure I follow.
The Patriots have been to a total of seven Super Bowls. All the games were decided by six points or less.Six by four or fewer.
They could very easily be 7-0. Or 0-7. That they are 5-2 is about one win ahead of where they should be. Odds dictate they should be about 4-3.
Kurt Warner threw two pick-sixes in Super Bowls. And yet ... each time ... he was key in putting his team in position to win the games with under two minutes to play. In both situations, his team lost.
On the other hand, the sainted Tom Brady threw a pick-six against Atlanta in the last Super Bowl. And yet ... he somehow managed to bring his team back from a ridiculously large deficit and win the game. His pick-six is lost to history. Does Brady get the credit for that comeback ... or is Atlanta due some big-time culpability?
Who remembers the almost-sure interception Joe Montana threw on the 49ers' final drive of Super Bowl XXIII? Joe Cool ... who never threw an interception as an NFL quarterback ... threw a dart right into the hands of Lewis Billups. If Billups hangs on, the Bengals win. But ... he ended up dropping the ball. Montana came back and threw the pass that won the game to John Taylor ... a shot we are "treated" to hundreds of times each year.
My point?
The game of football has as much to do with one team's failure as it does another's success.
Winning coaches always talk about how well their team executed. How well they followed the game-plan.
And yet, in the other locker room, the head coach bemoans this missed-assignment and that dropped pass.
Which is it?
Neither.
Or both.
This search for the perfect player ... the perfect team ... the perfect season ... while admirable, I suppose ...
is just a lost cause, imo.
There are no such things.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/23/2017 11:10AM by The_Bad_Guy.
