LOL! Rather be a Colts fan than a Brady cultist. Seriously. I would. I am glad I am neither.
I don't understand this. The animosity for Brady. You'll say it's for his "followers" but no really it's for Brady himself. How do you reconcile being a Patriots fan with your distain for the most important person in franchise history? How's that work?
You want to know why Manning sucked in the playoffs and it wasn‘t all his fault? Because the Colts never cared about defense with Manning.
Colts had the second ranked defense in 2005 and lost at home in the divisional round. Colts had the first ranked defense in 2007 and lost at home in the divisional round. Colts won the Super Bowl in 2006 because their defense got hot in the postseason and overcame Manning puking all over himself with 3 TDs and 7 INTs. Manning's other Super Bowl win with Denver, he had a passer rating of 56.6 in that game and was putrid that entire season, Denver's defense literally dragged him to a championship.
Take another look at Manning's postseason game logs, he pulverized Denver in two wild card games and then pretty much sucked otherwise unless he was in a Broncos uniform facing a Belichick defense.
I have to disagree with your take on Parcells.
It's not my take.
NYG had losing seasons 9 of 10 years before Parcells' arrival... they were above .500 in 6 of 8 seasons with Parcells and won 2 Super Bowls.
NEP had 4 losing seasons in a row including 1 and 2 win seasons... they were in the playoffs year two and in the Super Bowl two years after that.
NYJ had 8 seasons in a row of .500 or below... they were in the AFCCG in his second season.
DAL had 3 seasons in a row of 5-11... they made the playoffs in 2 of 4 seasons with Parcells.
Parcells turned all 4 of those franchises around and he did it with mediocre quarterbacks across the board.
Wrong. Brady had an opportunity in SB 42 with 27 seconds left AND 3 timeouts. He couldn't move the ball a single yard. So again, Brady simply does not have the ability to engineer a game winning or game tying drive like Mahomes did last year with 13 seconds left. Brady can do it with 3 minutes or even 2 minutes but under a minute to go in the 4th with the game on the line he has never done it despite opportunity to. Brady is methodical and requires more time on the clock.
Brady's the most clutch quarterback in the history of the NFL. There isn't anyone who genuinely disagrees with that.
Where are you getting your stats? Air Yards is not an official NFL stat, so I have no idea of verifying this. Besides, many sites that do keep track of air yards include incompletions as well. And since Brady threw the ball more than anyone (by a longshot), I wouldn't be surprised. I can throw the ball 5 yards to a receiver 20 times and I'd have 100 air yards. The eye test tells you that Brady is just not a great down field thrower, at least not like Allen or Mahomes.
Allen is in the midst of setting a new standard for elite quarterbacking. Mahomes is a phenomenal quarterback but he makes too many critical mistakes.
The stat is real. Those rankings are accurate. I'm sure you know how to use Google so look it up.