1. Manning had a 1500+yd rusher in Edge that year to help keep defenses honest.
1a. Yet, somehow, Manning, presumably calling his own plays, only saw fit to get Edge into the endzone 9 times rushing.
1b. The Colt's team had only 10 rushing td's all season. The Pats as a team had 17.
2. The Pats broke the NFL scoring record for a team, while having the fewest offensive possessions in the league. If you want to talk td's per attempt, how about looking at it from this perspective.
3. Peyton Manning played 1 game in bad weather. That is, if you call 40*+ in Chicago in November bad weather.
Brady, after the 11/4 Indy game played all his Nov/Dec games outdoors in cold weather cities like Foxboro, Baltimore, NY.
#3 is so important, it's not even funny. Remember how may passes were inexplicably dropped by guys once they started playing in bad weather? Watson, Welker, Stallworth & Moss were all guilty of dropping catchable passes.
If you look at Brady's #'s before the weather got bad, he was playing Madden '08, and on pace for like 60 td's.
At the end of the day, 50>49 and on top of that, Brady led in the most important stat of all.... wins!