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Originally Posted by DRM08
I think that's true for sure.
But there are also examples of elite guys stepping up later in games after looking pretty awful earlier in the game. Mahomes in the Super Bowl is an example. He's got other games like that during his career as well. I've seen a lot of comments on here about how Elway would do that to the Chiefs. Play like crap for 3 quarters and then do incredible stuff in the 4th quarter to win the game.
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Shooters shoot. Great players may not be great all the time, but sooner or later they'll get to their level.
Mahomes didn't take his game to a higher level in the Super Bowl - he simply got to his regular level of performance.
Same general argument really - players will eventually play to the back of their baseball card. A great player over any long enough timeline will eventually start playing great. It isn't that they 'rose to the occasion' is just that they're really damn good and eventually were able to prove it.