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Originally Posted by transplant99
I will never understand the fascination with this statistic.
All it means is that the QB in question didnt have his team in the lead to begin with, therefore it wouldn't be a "telling" stat on who is better than who.
Seriously, are we really going to say that QB X was better than QB Y, when QB Y had his team ahead the whole time? It seems that is what that comes down to.
Guys like Young, Montana, Bradshaw and even Manning never got as many chances to "come from behind", because they had their teams well ahead to begin the 4th Q. Something, I would think, is a much better way to judge a QB on since a football game isnt one quarter long, its 4.
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NO, that's not all it means.
I don't recall Elway having too many 4th quarter comebacks in the last few years of his career. The bulk of those came in the years when he had absolutely no weapons.
Put Montana or Manning on those teams. Would they have had the success that they had with Elway? I have serious doubts. Of course, we have no way to know.
People can punish Elway for his mediocre stats all they want to. They will assume those are a function of his suck, when in fact they are a function of a severe lack of a supporting cast.
Like I said, pick your QB when your team HAS to have a score. Mine's Elway, every time, and his play during his career supports my stance very, very well.
Unfortunately for Elway, he didn't get the opportunity to play with hall of fame players at every position like Montana and Manning have. If he had, maybe he wouldn't have any 4th quarter comebacks and a few more Super Bowl rings.
Why can it be used as a negative but can't be used as a positive?
