How does SuperBowl victory change Matthew Stafford's legacy? FrontOffice33 | RamsHouse
For the first 12 years of his professional football career, Matthew Stafford was a Detroit Lion. In those 12 years, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2009 NFL Draft earned just one Pro Bowl nomination, put together a 74-90-1 record, and never won a playoff game in three appearances.
He also had a level of “clutch” that’s hard to measure tangibly outside of a couple of statistics: fourth-quarter comebacks and game-winning drives. Stafford led the league in fourth-quarter comebacks twice and in game-winning drives three times. His best season-long clutch performance was in 2016, when he ledfourth-quarter comebacks and game-winning drives. Both marks were record-breaking and Stafford still holds both records today.
Well, it turns out that all Stafford needed to do was get traded to a team that was perfectly built at nearly every part of the roster. Or, in other words, a team that was the opposite of the Lions. The path to the Super Bowl was never going to be easy, but the 13-year veteran handled every obstacle that came his way. Stafford handled the Arizona Cardinals—a team that had been in contention for the same division title until Week 18—easily. He survived a Tom Brady-led, 24-point comeback from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with his rocket arm setting up a game-winning field goal.
Stafford was already, at best, a fringe Hall of Fame candidate. Don’t buy it? How about the fact he was the fastest quarterback to reach 20,000, 30,000, and 40,000 career passing yards? Or that if he throws for at least five yards in next year’s season opener, he’ll also be the fastest to reach 50,000 yards? That’s an impressive list of feats, especially given the lack of star offensive weapons around him for most of his career.
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