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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
This is as excited as Mitch has been all year.
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I am in awe about this play. Yeah, Patrick played poorly. Yeah, Green Bay likely wins if they have Aaron (sorry, screw them, because the opposite would have been true in 2019 had Mahomes played). But you know what? Sometimes it's just amazing to step back and appreciate that we have a QB capable of super-heroic plays like that in the moments that matter most.
A lot of people forget that horseface Elway actually played a
terrible game against us in the 97-98 playoffs. Why do they forget it? Because on the only drive they were down against the Chiefs, Elway hit a clutch 43 yard catch and run to ****ing Ed McCaffery against Gunther's blitz on 3rd down and that iced the game for the Broncos. One throw, in the clutch, was all Elway and the Broncos needed to beat us that day (in addition to cheating the salary cap, lubing up in Vaseline and being the benefactors to a bad call in the end zone, but I digress) -- because when it was time for Elway to deliver,
he did. He went on to have a similarly terrible game but delivered an even more signature play to win them that year's Super Bowl.
Sometimes, you just need a QB who can make the throws to win you the game. We do not have one other QB in the last decades before Patrick who could hit those. Not
one. Bono (95), Gannon (95), Grbac (97), Green (06), and Alex (13, 16, and 17) all had the chance to make heroic 4th quarter drives in the playoffs to win us those do or die games. Not a single one could make the throws they needed to in the clutch to lead us to win.
We finally have a QB who not only can, but did to win us our
first Super Bowl in 50 years -- and I'm sorry, but if anyone still thinks after that that Patrick doesn't know how to play QB -- they need to take a long look at their fan card and re-watch our 1995, 1997, 2006, 2010, 2015, 2016 and 2017 playoff loses as a long, soulcrushing meditation and punishment for forgetting what Patrick has delivered to our franchise.
We finally have a QB who can take us to the top -- and it's still an amazing feeling.