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Actually, I thought the Pats defense was underrated last year. And you can't simply go by yards allowed per game (as these rankings do). They were better than what their 31st ranking indicated. The Pats defense showed up big in the playoffs. You can't deny that.
In one post you say that the 2011 Patriots defense was "very good", and in the next you say that they're not as bad as their #31 ranking indicated. Which is it? If it's both, then apparently Peyton Manning has had a "great" defense (by your definition) every single season of his career.
BTW, Matt Cassel made a Pro Bowl in KC. He's by no means a system quarterback, and as Andrew Luck is showing right now, Indy is just fine with a competent QB in the lineup as well. Last year was an indictment of Curtis Painter and Dan Orlovsky, not a vindication of Peyton Manning. In any case, I'm pretty sure you're a troll.
For the record, Tom Brady is a better QB both indoors and outdoors than Manning is, and the stats back it up. Literally the only advantage that Manning has over Brady is that, at career's end, he will have played in more games than Tom, and will have played a whole lot more of them in a dome. That's it. Brady is a better quarterback in every intelligently measurable way and in every intangible way. It is what it is. Manning's an all-time great, but he just had the misfortune of playing at the same time (in the same conference) as one of the very few who's better than him.
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