Brady's Two playoff INTs And They Lose Now What Would Be Said?

[King Colt]

If the Chiefs had won the game with Brady throwing two interceptions what would the narratives be then? Brady is old? Time to retire? He and Brees need to throw in the towel? You know this type of talk would pop up on every show for months. Take a look at the talk now about the coin flip. Colin Cowherd said on his show the team winning that flip has won 52% of the time so what is the issue?

[dodsworth]

He could throw 5 or more interceptions and the refs would

still keep Lord Brady close enough to win the game. 

[JimJaime]

23 hours ago, dodsworth said:

He could throw 5 or more interceptions and the refs would

still keep Lord Brady close enough to win the game. 

Not in that game, outside of the one bad Roughing the passer call they were allowing the Chiefs D get away with anything.. especially illegal contact and PI.. and they sure didn’t let the Pats get away with PI..  2 scores because of it and 1 TO negated by them.. if anything the refs were keeping the Chiefs in the game by calling it ONE WAY.. (not saying were bad calls just they missed just as blatant PI etc the other way)

[chad72]

Brady has thrown 2 INTs before and won a playoff game, Peyton has as well. It does not matter whatsoever, as long as the team wins and the QBs make the plays when they count.

 

If the Patriots had lost, it would have been more about how good Mahomes was than how bad Brady was, IMO.

[dodsworth]

24 minutes ago, JimJaime said:

Not in that game, outside of the one bad Roughing the passer call they were allowing the Chiefs D get away with anything.. especially illegal contact and PI.. and they sure didn’t let the Pats get away with PI..  2 scores because of it and 1 TO negated by them.. if anything the refs were keeping the Chiefs in the game by calling it ONE WAY.. (not saying were bad calls just they missed just as blatant PI etc the other way)

I will take your word for it. I haven't watched a Patriot game in over 

two years, regardless of who they are playing. 

[lollygagger8]

If they would've lost, they would've blamed the 2 extra almonds Giselle let him eat that week before.

 

[GoPats]

 

I think the first INT may have changed the narrative a bit. That was 100% on Brady. Not sure what he was thinking there. Looked like he was impersonating Big Ben or something. 

 

The 2nd INT (and what would have been the 3rd had the Patriots not been fortunate to get that offsides call) was really on Edelman. Throw was a bit high but certainly catchable. Seems like there were a lot of those this year, not just for NE, but other QBs as well. 

 

 

[GoPats]

1 hour ago, JimJaime said:

Not in that game, outside of the one bad Roughing the passer call they were allowing the Chiefs D get away with anything.. especially illegal contact and PI.. and they sure didn’t let the Pats get away with PI..  2 scores because of it and 1 TO negated by them.. if anything the refs were keeping the Chiefs in the game by calling it ONE WAY.. (not saying were bad calls just they missed just as blatant PI etc the other way)

 

Finally re-watched the game. The long completion from Mahomes to Watkins on the Chiefs' final TD drive --- the play where Romo pointed out the illegal pick --- was completely ridiculous. Especially since they called Dorsett for offensive PI on an earlier play where it wasn't as blatant as the Watkins reception. 

 

So the Patriots had a very fortunate roughing the passer call on a 2nd-and-7, while the Chiefs got away with one on a 2nd-and-10, both on 4th quarter drives. I'd say that basically evens out. 

 

The other SMH penalty was the PI call on JC Jackson, also on Watkins, on the throw down the right sideline. I can understand why they called him on the play where Kelce fumbled (that would have basically ended the game right there), but the call on the throw to Watkins was really marginal at best. 

 

I also noticed while re-watching that Kelce also basically pushes off on every route. I know most TEs (including Gronk) do that, but some of his were really blatant. 

 

 

 

 

[Narcosys]

2 hours ago, JimJaime said:

Not in that game, outside of the one bad Roughing the passer call they were allowing the Chiefs D get away with anything.. especially illegal contact and PI.. and they sure didn’t let the Pats get away with PI..  2 scores because of it and 1 TO negated by them.. if anything the refs were keeping the Chiefs in the game by calling it ONE WAY.. (not saying were bad calls just they missed just as blatant PI etc the other way)

Hardly

[buffalo34]

5 hours ago, chad72 said:

Brady has thrown 2 INTs before and won a playoff game, Peyton has as well. It does not matter whatsoever, as long as the team wins and the QBs make the plays when they count.

 

If the Patriots had lost, it would have been more about how good Mahomes was than how bad Brady was, IMO.

 

Peyton gets completely roasted for making the slightest mistake in the playoffs, even if he makes up for it later (the 2010 one-and-done vs. the Jets get blamed squarely on him for example, and not on the special teams giving up a return to midfield and then the defense getting carved up by Sanchez to setup the chipshot FG after Peyton drove them to a go-ahead FG with 50 seconds left, for example). He also gets roasted for other players on his team screwing up.

 

Brady's mistakes in the playoffs normally get brushed off and overlooked.

 

If Peyton was in Brady's shoes in Super Bowl 49 for example, you'd hear a lot about the two interceptions that were thrown (one was in the end zone and took points off the board for the Patriots, the other interception was in Patriots territory and led to a Seahawks TD) and less about the comeback.

 

Peyton's 06 run for example is discredited by screaming 3 TD/7 INT with no context behind it. His statline in the AFCCG was only 1 TD/1 INT as the Colts ran it in each time they got down to the goal line. He led the team down the length of the field on each drive but the 1 TD/1 INT line doesn't reflect that. He had to go into Baltimore who arguably had the best defense in the league that season and grinded out a win there (anybody expecting a light-it-up performance against that team that year was crazy).

[Jackie Daytona]

10 hours ago, chad72 said:

Brady has thrown 2 INTs before and won a playoff game, Peyton has as well. It does not matter whatsoever, as long as the team wins and the QBs make the plays when they count.

 

If the Patriots had lost, it would have been more about how good Mahomes was than how bad Brady was, IMO.

Not in that game, Kermit was very average, until late.