This, too, is bullshit—the Belichick-era Patriots had strong defenses in five of the six years in which they made the Super Bowl. The only exception was Super Bowl 46, in which the Patriots still managed to rank 16th in terms of points allowed. And even then, they did a passable job in the playoffs of keeping points…

This is bullshit. Brady put up a better statistical line in their first championship game matchup, and that was mostly because Belichick completely baffled Manning that day—Brady’s numbers themselves weren’t that impressive. In the other three championship games, Manning’s put up the better stat lines-better…

Conversely, the Brady-era Patriots had four playoff games in which they scored less than 20 points on offense and yet still won, compared to only one such game for the Manning-led Colts and Broncos. In the past, if Manning and the offense had an off day, the rest of the team generally wasn’t able to bail him out.

It’s an exaggerated narrative, but not inane—I’d say the Colts had no business being in the playoffs in 2000, 2002, 2008 and 2010, for instance.

The more accurate narrative is that there were several postseason games in his career in which he did enough to put his team in position to win, but then other players blew it in the critical moments. Multi-turnover games were exceptions, not trends.

You can always hope Manning gets ground into a fine paste in the Super Bowl, unless you’re a New England fan, in which case you might as well be a goddamn Nazi.

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It took 20 years, but at long last Atlanta can breathe a sigh of relief—Whatizit is no longer the worst sports host mascot ever.

That's how Brady got his first few Super Bowls, fittingly enough.

Actually, I think the fact that I, unlike you, am making well-supported arguments rather than empty assertions and am exhibiting perfect spelling and grammar in my posts (along with reasonably sophisticated vocabulary) is fairly convincing evidence that I am not suffering from brain damage.

To this day I remain convinced that if the Colts had recovered that kick (and they were the first ones to touch it, after all) they would've won that Super Bowl.

My posts present factual example after factual example, while your posts have literally contained nothing but empty assertions. Ergo, nothing could be derpier than your posts.

Brady has been the goat of several playoff games, yes—his two Super Bowl chokes against the Giants, multiple chokes against the Ravens, that monster choke against the Jets in 2011, several other shitty games in which his defense bailed him out...

Price has had plenty of good postseason performances that people ignore or attempt to downgrade because of their blind allegiance to a pre-set narrative, so yeah, that’s a good comparison.

Charles Johnson certainly seemed to be complaining, for one.

I have no clue how you drew that out of anything I said. While I personally find their antics annoying, I hardly believe they should be punished for it. They're free to do whatever they want—but then they shouldn't complain when other players mock their celebrations.

Nah, the problem is that Carolina’s too snivelly and butthurt to ever taste their own medicine or congratulate an opponent that soundly outplayed them. All they can retort with is “DURR BUT WE’RE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS AND YOU’RE AT HOME.” Wow, so by your own admission, you choked so badly that you lost to a…

He can stay on the field long enough to shake hands like most other players do, for one. Panthers got in everyone’s faces and rubbed it in after every single win, but as soon as someone else does it to them they start complaining. They’re putzes, and it’ll be awesome when they choke against Seattle or Arizona in the…

I didn’t say that all nine losses were flukes. Some of them happened because he legitimately played like shit and deserves to bear much of the criticism. But in other games, his overall performance level was high enough that people would probably be lauding him for it if not for the final score. In three of his…

Newton being in the spotlight on a successful team this year has resulted in a nauseating and unending spree of bland, crusty white people trying to dab. Bland, crusty white people trying to dab is objectively the worst thing ever. That alone is a sufficient reason to hate him. Fuck Cam, fuck the Panthers, and fuck…