Allen posted the highest passer rating in a single postseason all time (149.0) with last season's performance. The Bills looked like a team that could have won it all last year.Īllen (106.6) and Mahomes (105.7) also rank 1-2 all time in highest postseason passer rating, passing Bart Starr after last season's thriller. While Kansas City didn't win the Super Bowl in either of those instances, it definitely impacted the results. The Chiefs have eliminated the Bills in each of the last two postseasons. Playoff pedigreeīrady and Manning met five times in the postseason with the winner going on to win the Super Bowl in four of those matchups (2003, 2004, 2006, 2015).Īllen's and Mahomes' playoff performances also go beyond one game.
And even though Brady-Brees shared a division for a year and jockeyed for the all-time passing touchdowns record, it's hard to call their 2020 playoff matchup thrilling. Some haven't even met in the playoffs: Brees-Ryan, Rivers-Roethlisberger, Mahomes-Herbert, Mahomes-Jackson, Roethlisberger-Brady. These rivalries never produced a great playoff game. It was the latest start time for a game-tying or go-ahead drive in playoff history.
Several rivalries that didn't meet the bar here were Flacco-Roethlisberger, Eli Manning-Brady and Cam Newton-Russell Wilson. The only QBs to hold an outright lead not named Allen and Mahomes are Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson. Since 2020, either Allen or Mahomes has ranked first on the AFC's passing touchdowns season leaderboard for a total of 34 of 40 weeks. The AFC is loaded with young, superstar QBs but these two have been consistently at the top. Here's a list of categories where Allen and Mahomes rank 1-2 in the AFC since 2020, Allen's breakout season. You need to be among the game's best quarterbacks for several seasons to be considered a great rivalry. Joe Flacco-Ben Roethlisberger, Philip Rivers-Roethlisberger, Mahomes-Justin Herbert, Eli Manning-Brady have arguably never been the top-two quarterbacks in the game at the same time. This reasoning also immediately eliminates a good chunk of other QB rivalries I was considering. Each tossed four touchdown passes last week, and Allen's 348 first-half passing yards were a Bills franchise record.
They've had monster games this season, combining to win three of the five AFC Offensive Player of the Week awards handed out already. Their teams are also 1-2 in Super Bowl odds. Allen and Mahomes rank 1-2 in MVP odds and touchdown passes this season. That's something you probably couldn't say without a doubt in recent years with the performance of Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, who are off to slow starts this year. After all, Brady and Manning are two of the greatest QBs in NFL history.įor the first time, you can confidently say Allen and Mahomes are the best two quarterbacks on the planet at this very moment. You can't be mentioned in the same breath as Brady-Manning without at least being the best two quarterbacks in the game together at a certain point. You might not agree with me, but I'll guarantee you learn some things along the way that'll get you excited for Sunday's game. NOTABLE QB RIVALRIES SINCE PEYTON MANNING/TOM BRADY
It's not quite an exact science, but we looked at seven reasons related to Allen-Mahomes dominance, how it resembles Brady-Manning, all while comparing it with notable QB rivalries overlapping and extending past the Brady-Manning rivalry. To be clear, we're not saying Allen and Mahomes is on the Brady-Manning level, but a strong case can be made this is the best SINCE Brady-Manning, who last met in the 2015 AFC Championship Game. When Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes meet at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, you'll be witnessing the fifth installment of the NFL's best quarterback rivalry since Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.
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