So, five SBs, 8 INTs, and only 3 TDs. Like I said before, clutch and John Elway don't belong in the same sentence.
"zombieslayer" wrote:
Thank you, thank you, thank you for having the courage to admit the emperor has no clothes. I've been biting my tongue ever since porky88 posted his statement that Elway was one of the best clutch QBs of all time, mainly because I figured it was someone else's turn to take the heat for "relying too much on statistics." I don't know how Elway got the reputation of being such a clutch QB, when he turned in two of the most horrific performances in NFL history and was only slightly better than passable in two others.
People point to the fact that Elway has the most come-from-behind victories. To me that just proves the point we're trying to make: if you have to come from behind so many times, it shows you're not getting it done in the first three quarters. The other day, I watched a tribute video series about Elway that recounted all his come-from-behind drives. They kept saying over and over how inspirational it was, yet I took exactly the opposite impression from it: what I saw was how mediocre he typically was in the first three quarters. The reason he turned it on in the fourth quarter is because he
had to; he was in desperation mode.
Elway wasn't an impressive regular-season QB either. It wasn't till his tenth season that he threw for more than 22 TDs, and he never -- not once -- threw for more than 28.
I don't get where all the Elway love comes from. But as The_Green_Ninja says, I have no soul. 😉