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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
As your username would remind us, it's far more important and conducive to success to have a dominant defense than a great QB. It's also far more difficult to sustain defense year to year. Like the Redskins.
Also the Pats do have a better team and Brady can't win every time. It's true. Which will win out? Tune in on Sunday (That's GTripp for "it ain't that simple").
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I will agree that Brady has benefitted from a better a slightly better team defense only if you agree that Manning has choked in really big games through out his entire carreer.
Examples: (his QB ratings are most alarming)
1) Wild card lose to Jets in 2002: 2 int's ; Zero Td's and a QB rating of 31.3
2) Confrence Playoff loss to NE in 2003: 4 int's; 1 TD; QB rating 35.5
3) Confrence Playoff loss to NE in 2004: 1int; zero TD; QB rating 69.3
4) Divisional Playoff WIN to Bal 2006; 2 int; zero TD; QB rating 39.6
Brady's worst playoff QB rating in his career was last weeks San Diego game 57.6, otherwise his INDIVIDUAL PLAY and stats IN THE BIG GAMES is way better than Mannings. You can say all you want about their team mates talent, but the Colts defense did not throw 4 ints to NE. It was Manning that made the decisions, read the defenses and threw the ball that earned him those failing QB ratings. Not his teamamtes. Manning has to take responsibilty for his actions.
Oh, and wasn't it Manning that in frustration during their end of regular season 5 game losing streak called out the defense during a post game interview?
Pot to kettle your black.