Alpe d'Huez said:
Yes, I definitely do. They came back from big deficits in both playoff games last year (down twenty to AT late in the 3d quarter), and they did it twice during the RS this year when it appeared they were going to be upset. Mostly on Wilson’s passing. They overcame a ten point lead against a very good 49er defense in the NFC championship game.
I think a lot of people have forgotten that at the end of last year their offense was frightening, scoring 150 points in three games. Obviously that was a flukish run, and one that happened a year ago. But the composition of the team is pretty much the same this year, and to do that even as an outlier, you have to be working off a pretty good base. Can anyone imagine AZ or CA scoring 50 points in even one game?
The big question for me is, how good is Denver’s defense? It was pretty weak for much of the RS, getting away with it because the offense scored so many points. They seemed to be much better in the postseason, shutting down two of the best QBs in the league for three quarters, but are they really better? They have lost Von Miller and some other key players, and neither SD nor NE was capable of testing their rushing defense the way SE will.
Favre, another 1-time SB winner, feels Manning’s pain:
FoxxyBrown1111 said:
The first one I saw, the first ever, was ranked only 35th here. But I guess Max McGee was Foxxy’s kind of player:
The 49ers had two of the bottom five worst, including the worst of all, which is high praise, because the worst SBs were ones in which one team was dominating the other.
My own choice for the best ever, Broncos-GB, only came in 11th. And can you guess which one was ranked 1st? I wouldn’t have, it wasn’t that close at the end, but it was a great game in many respects, a classic matchup between two dynasties at the time. Obviously, there are many possible factors that can go into a ranking other than how exciting the game was. The Jets-Colts game that set up the merger was ranked 3d.
Btw, Foxxy, did you know that the first three SBs Montana played, the opposing QB was MVP for the regular season that year? In his fourth and last, Montana himself was MVP, and the QB he faced, Elway, had been MVP two years earlier. So Montana faced 4 MVP QBs in SBs, and of course beat them all; their teams scored a combined just 63 points. Those MVP QBs (two of them HOFers) combined for 3 TD passes and 7 interceptions vs. 11-0 for Montana. That's a record of sorts that probably won't be broken. (Though Bradshaw faced an MVP in one SB, Tarkenton, and MVPs in two AFC championships, Stabler and Earl Campbell).
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