NFC Championship Game 2014: Neither QB Has to Be Perfect in Old-School Slugfest

January 19, 2014   ·   Shehan Peiris   ·   Jump to comments

The recent history of the NFL has the sport trending toward an airborne game. An elite quarterback can cover up all kinds of ugliness on the rest of the roster, and it’s generally assumed that you can’t win a Super Bowl without a top-notch quarterback. In the NFC Championship game, however, we’re going to get a blast from the past.
It’s easy enough for the talking heads to declare that the game will come down to which quarterback plays better, but they’re wrong in one sense: neither QB needs to pitch a perfect game to win.
They just need to limit mistakes.
It is widely assumed that both Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick need to step up their level of play for this NFC Championship. They are certainly capable of posting monstrous numbers and filling highlight reels, but that’s not what they’ll need to do on Sunday.
There are sure to be game-changing plays made in the passing game, but neither team needs their signal-caller ...

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