2016 Old Man, please don’t ever throw the ball, Peyton Manning
2015 Old Man, game in the balance on the 1 yard line, Tom Brady
2014 2nd year, please don’t ever throw the ball, Russell Wilson
2013 Joe, Flacco.
2012 Eli, Manning miracle on Manningham!!!!!
2011 Aaron Rodgers (elite QB!!!!!!!!)
2010 Drew Brees (elite QB!!!!!)
2009 Pre elite Ben (10-19 0 TD 2 INT AFC Championship game)
2008 Eli, Manning miracle on helmet!!!!!
2007 Peyton Manning (elite QB…….his worst playoff performance ever, but he managed to beat Rex Grossman so it's ok!!!!!!)
2006 2nd year Ben, please don’t ever throw the ball, thank God he tackled the defender to save a TD on the Bettis fumble)
2005 Tom Brady (elite QB!!!!!!)
2004 Tom Brady semi elite at the time????? (2 TD, 1 INT thru 2 playoff games to get to the SB, but threw 3 IN the SB)
2003 Brad Johnson
2002 Baby Brady, 1 TD in 3 playoff games, Tuck rule, Vinateri game winner, game manager extraordinaire.
2001 Trent Dilfer
2000 Kurt Warner from the grocery store, greatest show on turf.
1999 John Elway, yesterday’s Peyton Manning
1998 Terrell Davis, I mean, John Elway
1997 Brett Favre (elite QB!!!!!!!!!!)
1996 Troy Aikman
1995 Steve Young
1994 Troy
1993 Troy
1992 Mark Rypien
1991 Jeff Hostetler
1990 Joe Montana’s last ride (elite QB!!!!!)
It seems, it's not as difficult to build a complete team and make a go of it as people claim. Brady at 37 isn't as great as he was at 27-28-29-30, is he? Hell, elite Tom was a yard from losing 3 straight Super Bowl's to lesser QB's.
From this list, there aren't a lot of QB's in their prime's that flat out owned a season and ran the league week 1 thru the SB. Cam just found this out himself, last night.
Brees v Peyton is one of the few elite QB matchups we've seen. Rodgers v Ben might qualify depending on where you have Ben that year.
But hey, QB narratives, let them continue shall we?