Just different definitions then. To me choking is when you have a chance to win at the end but due to your own mistakes or questionable decisionmaking fail to do so. I guess choking could also be just totally being inept the entire game. Which he was not. Just a bit at the start and a fair amount at the end.
Patrick Ewing is often considered to be a choker. He would play well for an entire game and then totally screw up the last shot for the win.
I don't know whether throwing down the middle was good or bad alone, but when you combine throwing down the middle with failing to hurry up afterwards, it looks pretty bad. If your plan is to throw in the middle and take what they give you because the sidelines are too well covered, then you certainly should know that you have to hurry up afterwards. When you are down to under a minute with no timeouts, it makes no sense at all to even throw the ball in the middle of the field unless you are absolutely certain that it won't be caught by anyone.
The touchdown was impressive, but it was a long one. Up until that point it seemed like new england was doing ok. Obviously stopping them would have been preferred, but giving up time consuming plays in the middle would be second best. Imagine if it had taken 2 or 3 more passes to get into the end zone. The clock would have been pretty far down by then.
Overall mcnabb played ok. But when his team needed him to make some plays, he let them down. Which he knew. I am sure he places the blame on himself. I don't expect that it always be that way. I'd say he's equally likely to not let them down. Just that in this one game, the most important one he's played, he came up short and couldn't deliver.
Patrick Ewing is often considered to be a choker. He would play well for an entire game and then totally screw up the last shot for the win.
I don't know whether throwing down the middle was good or bad alone, but when you combine throwing down the middle with failing to hurry up afterwards, it looks pretty bad. If your plan is to throw in the middle and take what they give you because the sidelines are too well covered, then you certainly should know that you have to hurry up afterwards. When you are down to under a minute with no timeouts, it makes no sense at all to even throw the ball in the middle of the field unless you are absolutely certain that it won't be caught by anyone.
The touchdown was impressive, but it was a long one. Up until that point it seemed like new england was doing ok. Obviously stopping them would have been preferred, but giving up time consuming plays in the middle would be second best. Imagine if it had taken 2 or 3 more passes to get into the end zone. The clock would have been pretty far down by then.
Overall mcnabb played ok. But when his team needed him to make some plays, he let them down. Which he knew. I am sure he places the blame on himself. I don't expect that it always be that way. I'd say he's equally likely to not let them down. Just that in this one game, the most important one he's played, he came up short and couldn't deliver.
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