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It's Peyton, Not Tom, Who Is NFL's Player of the Decade -- NFL FanHouse
Well, first of all, "unquestioned winners" ??? Maybe if you don't count the post season I guess. I've always viewed winners as guys who finish more often than they don't finish.
But, more importantly, what about this?
One could argue there's never been a more "heart-wrenching, gut-twisting outcome" in anyone's career, EVER. And yet there Tom Brady is, praising the Giants, the team that just crushed the soul of the entire Patriot nation and ruined what would have been the unquestioned best season ever in the history of the league. But hey, it didn't happen 5 days ago so easy enough for the writer to forget right?
If you want to argue stats, fine. I argue rings but that's my personal feeling, But don't try to spin the B.S. that Peyton is more of a leader than Tom Brady, cuz it just doesn't hold water.
And, yes I apologize for posting the 10 billionth Brady v. Manning thread, but this crap article <expletive>'d me off.
It's a close call -- both players are consummate leaders, unquestioned winners and superlative athletes. But this decision, while fairly set in stone in September, was cemented in Week 16 of the 2009 regular season.
Yes, the Colts lost 29-15 to the New York Jets, sending the AFC's playoff picture into turmoil and ruining Indianapolis' dreams of 16-0...
...Manning was superb not for what he did, but for what he didn't do. If you caught Manning's postgame news conference and watched his poise and professionalism in the immediate wake of what had to be one of the most heart-wrenching, gut-twisting outcomes of his sporting career, then you know why this player is the finest the NFL had to offer us -- in every possible aspect of the game -- over the past 10 seasons.
Well, first of all, "unquestioned winners" ??? Maybe if you don't count the post season I guess. I've always viewed winners as guys who finish more often than they don't finish.
But, more importantly, what about this?
Patriots Postgame Quotes - 2/3/2008Tom Brady: The Giants certainly deserve it; it’s a great football team. As difficult as it is for us, you got to hand it to them. They made more plays than we did.
They are a great team. They are very good on defense. They have some great pressure schemes, obviously some great pass rushers. Once we kind of got the idea of what we were doing, I thought we handled it much better but we just didn’t get the ball in the end zone enough. You score 14 points. I think that was our lowest total of the year and that got us beat.
I thought they had a very good game plan, they executed it very well. It was a three-point win. We usually are on the better side of those three-point wins. We just have to regroup and come back and try to make it stronger next year.
Like I said, I think we all could have done things better. I could have made better reads and made better throws. We will try to improve that moving forward next season.
One could argue there's never been a more "heart-wrenching, gut-twisting outcome" in anyone's career, EVER. And yet there Tom Brady is, praising the Giants, the team that just crushed the soul of the entire Patriot nation and ruined what would have been the unquestioned best season ever in the history of the league. But hey, it didn't happen 5 days ago so easy enough for the writer to forget right?
If you want to argue stats, fine. I argue rings but that's my personal feeling, But don't try to spin the B.S. that Peyton is more of a leader than Tom Brady, cuz it just doesn't hold water.
And, yes I apologize for posting the 10 billionth Brady v. Manning thread, but this crap article <expletive>'d me off.