Some interesting or just random stats........

Tom Brady has thrown 136 career interceptions, If all 136 were TDs instead of Interceptions then he and Manning would be level on 513 TDs.

If Tom Brady is to throw for 268+ yards against the Broncos on Sunday then he will overtake a watching John Elway (51,475) for Career yards.

Tom Brady and Drew Brees are currently tied on 377 TDs.

Only 10 Number 1 draft picks are in the Hall of Fame, whereas 12 Undrafted free agents are in the Hall.

Please feel free to add your own.

Tom Brady is the career leader in game winning drives in the post-season with 7. A game winning drive is defined as a drive in the 4th quarter or OT that puts the player's team ahead for good.

Peyton Manning? He has exactly 1, while little brother Eli has 5 such drives.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/gwd_career_playoffs.htm

goheels22002 said:

Peyton Manning? He has exactly 1, while little brother Eli has 5 such drives.

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Regrettably, three of those six came against the team I root for.

Shed83 said:

Only 10 Number 1 draft picks are in the Hall of Fame, whereas 12 Undrafted free agents are in the Hall.

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This is interesting on the surface, but not much with closer inspection. There have been 78 first round picks in NFL history whereas the Cowboys themselves signed 23 UDFAs this past year. The sheer magnitude of UDFAs makes this almost a certainty.

The career winning drive in the playoffs stat answers the question, "Who would you want as your quarterback down 3 points with two minutes left and the ball on your own 20-yard-line in the Super Bowl?

Actually, Peyton Manning is pretty far down the list according to the chart. Mark Sanchez has more winning drives in the playoffs.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/gwd_career_playoffs.htm

Here is an interesting one:

In the playoffs, 36 drives (excluding game-ending/kneeldown drives, in which there is no purpose of scoring) led by Tom Brady started after a takeaway by NE defense.
12 of them ended in TD (33.3%). Twice vs IND last year, for example.
7 of them in field goals
= 19 scoring drives (52.7%)
2 ended in a turnover (5.6%)

For the same circumstances, 31 drives led by Peyton Manning started after a takeaway by IND/DEN defense.
2 ended in TD (6.5%). None since 2000 @ MIA (17-23 L)
7 in FG
= 9 scoring drives (29%)
6 ended in turnover (19.4%)

On the other hand, 30 drives started by the opposing team after a Brady's offense turnover.
9 ended in TD (30%)
7 in FG
= 14 non-scoring drives (46.7%)
2 ended in takeaways (6.7%)

For the 27 such drives on Manning's offense turnovers.
7 ended in TD (29.6%)
4 in FG
= 16 non-scoring drives (59.3%)
4 ended in takeaways (14.8%)

In other words, Brady's offense took advantage (52.7%), and rewarded the defense, after the takeaways much more often then Manning (29.4%), while, at the same time, NE's defense (46.7%) couldn't have his back more often than IND/DEN did (59.3%) with Peyton.

Also, you can see that Peyton turned the ball back after his defense gave it to him more often than Brady, while IND/DEN recovered the ball after a turnover more often than NE defense.

None of this includes the all-time playoff record for most pick-sixes in the history of the NFL, held by Manning, with 4.

So why does people keep saying that Peyton's defenses "let him down" so much, while it is completely the opposite, as he let them down so many times?

Tom Brady holds the NFL record for most playoff wins at: 18-8

Peyton Manning holds the NFL record for the most playoff losses at: 11-12

Shed83 said:

Only 10 Number 1 draft picks are in the Hall of Fame, whereas 12 Undrafted free agents are in the Hall.

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This needs to be investigated and emphasized. I find that hard to believe.

EDIT: Ok, that is not anywhere close to being true. Could you explain what you found that you thought represented that "stat?"

Re EDIT I guess you meant 1st overall picks, which is still wrong, but close (13). Easy to see why, since there can be only 1 #1 per year, but an infinite number of UDFA.

15 is the new udfa figure, but a lot are from the 40s-60s when drafting was less sophisticated.

http://www.profootballhof.com/history/general/draft/round.aspx

Career Rating in Playoff games for Manning.. 89.2
Career Rating in Playoff Games for Brady... 87.5

# of TD's in Playoff Games for Manning... 37
# of TD's in Playoff Games for Brady... 43

Number of Passing Yards for Manning in Playoffs.. 6,589
Number of Passing Yards for Brady in Playoffs... 6,424

Number of int's in playoff games for Manning.. 24
Number of int's in playoff games for Brady... 22

Number of game winning drives in playoffs for Manning .. 1(a lonely number)
Number of game winning drives in playoffs for Brady... 7

Overall playoff record Manning.. 9-11
Overall playoff record Brady... 18-7

Proving the adage that there is a difference between Fantasy Football QB's and Winning QB's.. I would choose the latter..

Tom Brady is #2 among active QBs in being sacked (356), 50 sacks behind behind Ben Roethlisberger (406). Roethlisberger sets himself up to get sacked by running around and extending plays in the backfield. But Brady getting sacked the most of the active pocket passers says a lot about the quality of the offensive line. Last season Brady was sacked 36 times, more than any in his career except 2001, his first season as a starter. Those two seasons account for 22% of the sacks in his career.

Peyton Manning has only been sacked 278 times in three more seasons than Tom Brady ( starting with 2001 when he got on the field.) Manning is tied with Drew Brees who has been playing the same number of seasons as Brady.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/pass_sacked_career.htm

goheels22002 said:

Tom Brady is #2 among active QBs in being sacked (356), 50 sacks behind behind Ben Roethlisberger (406). Roethlisberger sets himself up to get sacked by running around and extending plays in the backfield. But Brady getting sacked the most of the active pocket passers says a lot about the quality of the offensive line. Last season Brady was sacked 36 times, more than any in his career except 2001, his first season as a starter. Those two seasons account for 22% of the sacks in his career.

Peyton Manning has only been sacked 278 times in three more seasons than Tom Brady ( starting with 2001 when he got on the field.) Manning is tied with Drew Brees who has been playing the same number of seasons as Brady.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/pass_sacked_career.htm

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So you are saying QB's that play for a long time tend to have higher career sack counts?

I bet Derek Carr had double that sack amount.

Oswlek said:

This is interesting on the surface, but not much with closer inspection. There have been 78 first round picks in NFL history whereas the Cowboys themselves signed 23 UDFAs this past year. The sheer magnitude of UDFAs makes this almost a certainty.

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Umm.. I think you are confusing first round picks with the number of first overall picks..
There have been a lot more than 78 first round picks. There were 64 first round picks just in the past 2 drafts..

And, I am pretty sure there have been more than 78 #1 overall picks due to the time when there were two leagues..

chasa said:

So you are saying QB's that play for a long time tend to have higher career sack counts?

I bet Derek Carr had double that sack amount.

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I don't get your point. Derek Carr is a rookie and he's been sacked 7 times in 7 career games. Brady's been sacked 13 times already and Matt Stafford 24. Carr isn't even on the radar.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2014/passing.htm

goheels22002 said:

I don't get your point. Derek Carr is a rookie and he's been sacked 7 times in 7 career games. Brady's been sacked 13 times already and Matt Stafford 24. Carr isn't even on the radar.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2014/passing.htm

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then David Carr.

Those Carr brothers all look alike

in 5 years in Houston David Carr was Sacked 249 times

Project that out to the amount of years Brady has played as a starter and you have a QB that is probably deceased.

Career Sacks loses a ton of weight when you only compare it to people who have had shorter careers. Look at Sacks per year for a better gauge of offensive line play, or comparing it to manning who the league goes out of their way to protect.

DaBruinz said:

Umm.. I think you are confusing first round picks with the number of first overall picks..
There have been a lot more than 78 first round picks. There were 64 first round picks just in the past 2 drafts..

And, I am pretty sure there have been more than 78 #1 overall picks due to the time when there were two leagues..

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Typo, no confusion. And the number of leagues barely moves the needle, but I appreciate the correction.

Through week 12 the Patriots and the Saints have the same total of 4245 offensive yards.

Strangely the split is also exactly the same, Both teams have thrown for 2998 yards and both have rushed for 1247 yards.

it should be mentioned that the saint have played 10 games thus far and Pats 11.