“Whose
the best?” That’s a continuing refrain
throughout, “Top Gun”, 1986, Tom Cruise.
I think the movie supports the idea that winning is a team solution and
credit to all: all heroes win.
We,
here in the Bay Area, have a new hero.
Well, we’ve had many heroes – let me clarify – a new football hero. Not since Joe Montana, have we had such a
hero. Still, it’s a team heroism.
A
real hero, going back to Greek and Roman mythology, must have many flaws. Jimmy Garoppolo has many flaws. Just like Joe, we may never see the end of
them. But just like Joe, he was able to
overcome his flaws, by sheer talent and will.
Today we watched will and talent.
Jimmy
G had a terrible 1st half, and wound up throwing two INTs, by game’s
end. Yet he acquired a 115 QB rating;
threw for over four hundred yards and four TDs.
What explains this mercurial performance?
It’s
the same thing that Joe had.
They
both saw/see the field, in an instant, and with continuous brain updates; they
both had lightening speed brains that could adjust to the field, and defensive
conditions; they both could re-adjust the play to what was happening on the
field. These days we might call them
robots. But Jimmy G and Joe had/have GUT
WILL to win.
People
will still be talking about Jimmy G in thirty years, just as we still talk
about Joe. He’s flawed, but we love him anyway. He’s trying all the time. He is a great
passer, the best in the league, I think.
But it is his game presence that makes him a hero. He knows, and will run a QB sneak, when
conditions call for it. He can also
execute a trick play to a fake back to make the winning score.
We
will win the Super Bowl this year.
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