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He was 18/25 which is 72% completion %, QBR 88.1(also top 8 in NFl SB history), QB rating 123.1 (8th highest in NFL SB history, 206 yards 8.2 YPA, 2 tds, (including answering Manning TDs), 26 yard rushing for 8.7 avg. Tied for youngest SB winning QB, and only the 3rd to do it in their first 2 years, and did it without a true running game.

I really believe we were sand bagging a little, after the NO game were we clinched the playoffs, and against SF we saw a little and tonight a lot.

Anthony wrote:He was 18/25 which is 72% completion %, QBR 88.1(also top 8 in NFl SB history), QB rating 123.1 (8th highest in NFL SB history, 206 yards 8.2 YPA, 2 tds, (including answering Manning TDs), 26 yard rushing for 8.7 avg. Tied for youngest SB winning QB, and only the 3rd to do it in their first 2 years, and did it without a true running game.

I really believe we were sand bagging a little, after the NO game were we clinched the playoffs, and against SF we saw a little and tonight a lot.

Not to bad for just a "game manager" right

depaashaas wrote:

Anthony wrote:He was 18/25 which is 72% completion %, QBR 88.1(also top 8 in NFl SB history), QB rating 123.1 (8th highest in NFL SB history, 206 yards 8.2 YPA, 2 tds, (including answering Manning TDs), 26 yard rushing for 8.7 avg. Tied for youngest SB winning QB, and only the 3rd to do it in their first 2 years, and did it without a true running game.

I really believe we were sand bagging a little, after the NO game were we clinched the playoffs, and against SF we saw a little and tonight a lot.

Not to bad for just a "game manager" right

"Game manager" who also passed up stat-padding by managing a lead for most of the 2nd half! Who managed to provide all of his team's offense without turning the ball over!

Peyton may have won the He With the Slobbiest Knob award from the press, but it's Wilson who was the best QB on the field today.

List of notable QB's that RW & the Hawks have beaten in the last two years.

Peyton Manning
Drew Brees
Tom Brady
Aaron Rodgers
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Cam Newton
Robert Griffen
Colin Kaepernick
Jay Cutler
Tony Romo
Eli Manning
Sam Bradford
Matt Schaub
Matt Ryan

Mathew Stafford & Andrew Luck are the only two significant losses.

Five foot ten and five-eights inches.
With big enough hands to hold the Lombardi.

Great thread, great posts!
5' 10 inches and with hands big enough to hold the Lombardi...that's brilliant! I am stealing that!

Nobody sand bags in the Super Bowl.

Pretty sure he meant the "down" time during the regular season that many media members were trumpeting about how bad our offense was the last month of the year. Though I don't agree with that entirely either. Have to give credit to those top ten defenses...

Heard Herm Edwards say that "he managed the game well". I.e. he was just a game manager.

Its okay. They won't even begin to understand how differently we see RW because they did not see all of RW like we have seen him over the past two years.
It will change, we just need to win a couple more Superbowls and we are set.

Anthony wrote:He was 18/25 which is 72% completion %, QBR 88.1(also top 8 in NFl SB history), QB rating 123.1 (8th highest in NFL SB history, 206 yards 8.2 YPA, 2 tds, (including answering Manning TDs), 26 yard rushing for 8.7 avg. Tied for youngest SB winning QB, and only the 3rd to do it in their first 2 years, and did it without a true running game.

I really believe we were sand bagging a little, after the NO game were we clinched the playoffs, and against SF we saw a little and tonight a lot.

We were absolutely sandbagging.
Pete hates turnovers.
Especially when you have a lead, or are close to obtaining a goal you've set, like winning a division, or wrapping up home field advantage etc...

I think it's painfully obvious that Pete wanted it that way at the end of the season. I have not a doubt in my mind.

c_hawkbob wrote:Nobody sand bags in the Super Bowl.

Absolutely, no one would DREAM of sandbagging in the Superbowl!
I think he meant that, roughly the last six games of the regular season, when Wilson's numbers seemed to tank a bit, that it was intentional.
I I won't rehash a long winded post I made about this in another thread, but I couldn't agree more.
I think we were "sandbagging", or as I believe Pete would say it, being careful with the ball.

c_hawkbob wrote:Nobody sand bags in the Super Bowl.

I did not mean in the SB but in games leading up to the SB starting after the playoff clinching NO regular season game.

depaashaas wrote:

Anthony wrote:He was 18/25 which is 72% completion %, QBR 88.1(also top 8 in NFl SB history), QB rating 123.1 (8th highest in NFL SB history, 206 yards 8.2 YPA, 2 tds, (including answering Manning TDs), 26 yard rushing for 8.7 avg. Tied for youngest SB winning QB, and only the 3rd to do it in their first 2 years, and did it without a true running game.

I really believe we were sand bagging a little, after the NO game were we clinched the playoffs, and against SF we saw a little and tonight a lot.

Not to bad for just a "game manager" right

Yes a game manager that put up points on his his first 3 drives, who completed 72# his passes, was 58% on 3rd down, That is not a game manager, that's a QB period