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Lamar Jackson is a superstar with something to prove in the playoffs. So was Peyton Manning.
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Seventeen years ago, a two-time NFL Most Valuable Player on a third-seeded playoff team left home, fighting for a berth in the AFC championship game and a new career narrative.
In the regular season, he had left no doubt: He was one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks. In the playoffs, there were questions.
“This is his moment, nine years into a Hall of Fame career that has been built on the regular season and not the postseason, to change the perception (and the reality) that he has never been a special quarterback in the playoffs,” a local newspaper columnist wrote.
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