I have never seen a year like this where so many team in a division, in this case the NFC North, have continually tried so hard throughout the year to lose each game they are in. Whoever comes up winning it will be by default. All for of them are acting like the Lions this year.
I never said I wouldn't pick Rodgers or Brady, I said I wouldn't pick Manning. He's a choker, people need to fucking accept it.
Do you have any actual sensible analytical evidence that Manning is a "choker"? I'm going to guess no.
I put Rodgers and Brady up there because quite frankly over the past six or so years they have been as much of a "choker" as Manning has. (Not to mention both are not even having great years now.) Remember both of their near undefeated seasons where they were knocked off by a much inferior team? Remember the Pats two Superbowl loses to the Giants? When was the last time Brady won a Superbowl by the way? Does his winner sauce from the Pats beating the Rams, Panthers, and Eagles (barely in each case) years and years ago before he was an elite QB who won by good fortune and a good defense make up for not living up to expectations for the better part of a decade now when he really is one of the best in the league.
Going by your definition of choking why would you now put Brady ahead of Eli, or heck anybody over Eli if your going by your convictions for that matter, who must now the most clutchiest clutch performer that ever clutchy won clutch games considering his team was barely a top ten team the years he won? Although I thought Flacco might be up there now also in the annals of clutchiness (How's that working out for Baltimore? Did the magic clutch fairy forget to sprinkle magic dust on Flacco this year or is this always been his real level of performance and he just got lucky for a few games? Hey remember In Big Ben was also clutch? It must be somebody else the magic fairy passed over?) I don't put any more negative blame on Brady than he deserves for that than I do Manning for anything in his career.
Of course I don't believe in notions like clutch performance without proof, which there is none although there is proof it's probably an illusion, and true choking is probably extremely rare and overrated in professional level sports. Weird things happen in sports. The worse team sometimes loses. The better player sometimes plays with worse talent than others around his sport, and on any given Sunday the worse teams might win. It's even more striking when one considers the very little amount of games one has to statistically judge people by each year. There is often not that much difference between a team that 8-8 and one that 12-4 other than a few plays here and there. It's hard for a lot of people to accept this, but much of happens in football it is just dumb luck combined with small sample size, not all but A LOT. If not Peyton really needs to hunt down and have a talk with that magic fairy that's been unfair to him.
