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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2421822, member: 488"] Take it easy with what? That this board insists on downplaying his contributions baffles me. I get that this isn't a Samuel family re-union and we're not obligated to pretend he was something he wasn't, but who the hell cares? No matter what combination of circumstance it took to thrust him into the role he played and no matter how much of an anomaly it might have been, it happened. He was there, playing in front of 100,000 people, balling in a situation where a lot of better players would have soiled themselves. We had no right to expect him to perform in those moments the way that he did. Dude was a gift from the God's and if he was never able to duplicate that again than it kind of makes it all the more charming. The people who didn't think he was important to the team are probably the same ones who think David Tyree wasn't important to the '08 Giants. People are just spoiled. [/QUOTE]