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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Same thing that has me scratching my head in the Peyton vs. Brees debates. Brees NEVER takes shit for the number of god-awful playoff losses he has. He always gets a pass for some late-game catastrophe that wasn't of his making, but the 3 or 4 unproductive drives that led up to it sure were.
You stack the post-season performances of Manning and Brees side by side and they're really comparable. But Peyton gets labeled a choker while people call Brees unlucky. Doesn't seem rooted in fact to me. Watson's 2019 effort vs. the Colts was straight out of the Alex Smith 'dink and run' playbook (a post-season butthole pucker to say the least for a guy who's game is built around attacking downfield) and the Texans collapse against KC was made possible by Watson's inability to seize back any momentum.
Like I said - I just don't think Watson is as good as some say he is. Fine player who will have a very good career and will spend most of it as a top 10 QB in this league. But he's more than likely going to be forgotten to history...because he probably should be.
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The Peyton thing is probably because he was maybe the best regular season QB ever. We saw how valuable he was when he got injured and the Colts completely fell apart. Meanwhile Brady goes down and the Patriots still have a very good record with Cassle. Or the Saints recently with Bridgewater instead of Brees. Or even the Chiefs last year with a very competitive team led by Matt Moore.
In the playoffs, Peyton ran into Belichick & Brady. Struggled a lot with them early in his career. Plus he was not very good in the playoffs for both of his championship seasons. Brother Eli seemed to be a bigger factor in his team’s playoff success.