This year's update to the playoff drive stats show that the football gods may have been on Peyton Manning's side this time. Also: Cam Newton and Alex Smith enter the mix, and why we should be comparing Andrew Luck to Dan Marino.
Many great offenses have crashed and burned on the game's biggest stage, the Super Bowl, and often it happened against a great defense. The Parcells/Belichick Giants held back the K-Gun Buffalo Bills. The 2002 Oakland air show imploded against a legendary Tampa Bay defense. The most recent Super Bowl blowout featured the 2013 Seahawks shutting down the high-flying Broncos.