After the Wild Card Round of the NFL playoffs, Baker Mayfield and Jared Goff have etched their names in history, joining a short list of quarterbacks to win a postseason game with two different teams.
They’ll square off this weekend, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers travel to Motown to take on the Detroit Lions. With that, let’s look back at the other signal-callers to have picked up playoff dubs with two franchises in the Super Bowl era.
In the pre-Super Bowl era, Rote guided both the Lions and the Chargers to championships in 1957 and 1963, respectively.
That was Detroit’s last title — which of course, came before the merger — and the Bolts’ only championship (AFL) in franchise history.
We know enough about the guy. Brady won 35 playoff games and seven rings before retiring.
Even if he ends up in the broadcast booth, that’s too close to football for us.
Alex Smith only won two career playoff games — and they each came with two different franchises.
He was the first QB to lead Kansas City to three straight postseason appearances since some guy named Joe Montana.
Manning and the aforementioned Brady are the only quarterbacks to win Super Bowls with two different teams.
The gunslinger (we’ll refrain from any other name-calling) could have been the first QB to guide three teams to the postseason, but the Jets collapsed during Favre’s lone season in the Meadowlands. He was traded to Minnesota and went 1-1 in the playoffs for the Vikings, throwing a pick to cost his team the 2009 NFC Championship Game.
Johnson also had a shot at leading three teams —Minnesota being the other to postseason wins.
While he didn’t have the same type of success as the other QBs on this list, he did win a ring with Tampa Bay as the starter. It was the franchise’s first title until TB12 took his talents to Florida.
Testaverde was the last Cleveland QB to win a playoff game before Mayfield.
And Vinny and the Jets were one game away from the Super Bowl, losing to the eventual champs, the Denver Broncos.
The only other postseason victories he was a part of came as a backup.
The same year Testaverde had Gang Green in the AFC title game, Cunningham and the Vikes lost a heartbreaker to the Falcons in the NFC Championship game.
Tom Brady’s choice as the GOAT, Montana couldn’t replicate his Bay Area success, but he was the last Kansas City QB to lead the Chiefs to the AFCCG until Patrick Mahomes came along.
