In my football fandom lifetime, I have witnessed the single-season Touchdown pass record being broken four times; Marino in '84, Manning in '04, Brady in '07 and Manning again in '13. Each of those offenses were seemingly unstoppable, they absolutely mowed down teams. It could be argued that Marino's was even more impressive as he shattered the previous record of 36 passes that had been in place since 1963. Regardless, each of these accomplishments are massive achievements by these men.

 

Here's what I noticed though; none of those men won the Super Bowl in their respective seasons. I am in no way claiming that these men are "chokers", "over-rated", "shy away from the big game" or anything else of that nature. I just find it very curious that in each case, none of those teams won the title.

 

Could it be because since they were so good throughout the season that the rest of the team simply atrophied since they weren't as necessary to the team's success? Maybe their -- the Quarterbacks -- performance was at such a high level that it simply glossed over fatal flaws throughout the rest of the team.

 

And here I was taught that this is a Quarterback-driven League.

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