PMENFAN said:
Crucial plays at crucial times. It defines champions in a game like this. Brady put his team up. He made the plays. Last year Switz and co were saying Brady was only good to come back and get in position for the kick. That's proven not to be true, so now it's something else. In this game, at crunch time the Pats O outdid the Giants D and they had the lead, regardless of what had transpired to that point. Then the Giants got the ball and the Giants O outdid the Pats D.
Yes, Brady had the ball with :29 left and 3 TO's. He almost made the plays, but didn't, He gave his WR a chance to get a long ball, but it didn't happen. So, the pats are 3-1 in the last 7 superbowls and 4-1 in the last 7 AFCC games. Sad we lost, but in reality is there much to be that upset about? The other teams have professional players as well, and most years they're gettin gbetter draft picks. Regardless of what happens going forward, it's been a phenomenal run. Unprecedented in fact, for the era of free agency
I'm wondering how that's been proven untrue. When,
in crunch time, did Brady drive the team to a TD??Not in this SB... that was a 12 play drive that took 5:42 to do. There was no pressure of time expiring. There was likely going to be enough time on the clock, if they failed to score, to drive again (and in fact, there was...).
To compare, Manning had 2:07 to drive his team to score. He too took 12 plays, but completed them in 1:42, for a TD.
And while 30 seconds to make it down the field to a TD even with 3 TOs is ridiculous, it's not too short to get into FG range, especially when only 30 yards are needed (it would have been a 54 yard FG). Brady couldn't even do that this game.
In all of the games where they've needed a score at the end, they've driven 40 yards or so and kicked FGs.
Brady still, in crunch time, has not driven them for a TD needed to win.