CALIHAWK1":1h2b1k92 said:EastCoastHawksFan":1h2b1k92 said:For the people who keep pointing to the superbowl and if I saw it LOL. did we really need Harvin to win that game ???
You could say the same thing in every game Tate ever played in.
In theory you could say it about any player in every game ever, but scoring a TD when we were already up by 22 points in the superbowl, when the largest comeback in Superbowl history is 10 points is definitely something you can say had little impact on the game.
As for Tate impacting games, it's very rare that one player "single-handedly" wins a game for any team, given it's a team sport. But the only game I can think (for us) of where one player comes close in recent years is... Tate @St Louis 2013. There are games like @Chicago 2012 where we probably don't win without Wilson (though he had great plays from Miller, Rice, Baldwin and... Tate in that game too)
Scored both TDs - one 3rd down conversion after we'd failed to convert from the 1 yard line on 1st and 2nd down. (the only drive we had all game where we snapped the ball in STL territory at some point), then, since we couldn't drive down the field he scored an 80 yarder that gave us the 14 points we needed. Without that win we're the #5 seed in the playoffs. Yes, the defense held up in the closing seconds to prevent St Louis from scoring, but if we settle for a FG on that 3rd and goal or Tate doesn't make it to the end zone and we settle for a FG there... St Louis wins that game. Obviously Tate doesn't score without Wilson throwing passes to him - but he couldn't throw passes to anybody else in that game, and Lynch was shut down for some reason. That game is all on Tate