JDSal45
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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A lot of people like to say Peyton Manning finally shed his choking ways last year as the Colts won the Super Bowl. Bull. He sucked in the playoffs last year, again, and only a remarkable revitalization at exactly the right time by the Colts defense allowed them to win it all.
Witness the evidence. In the playoffs last year, Peyton Mannings QB rating was a wretched 69.8. He threw 3 TDs and 7 INTs. In the Super Bowl, he tried his best to choke it away, throwing an early pick and fumbling away another. But only the worse performance by Rex Grossman allowed the Colts to win. Basically, in 16 playoff quarters last year, Manning played 14 awful quarters. Only in the second half against the Patriots did he play well. But that was against an exhausted defense riddled by the flu and injury (no Harrison or Seymour) that had just had to criss-cross the country numerous times. It was more the Pats defense just hit the wall of injuries and exhaustion than Manning. Even the final TD was a run, not a pass. Manning could have easily done one of his patented choke throws in the playoffs had he been given the chance to throw there.
The bottom line is, he still brought his game down, not up, when it mattered most. When your QB rating falls from 101 in the regular season to 69.8 in the playoffs, you're choking again. When you all of a sudden have a 3-7 TD/INT ratio in the playoffs when it was 31-9 in the regular season, you're choking again. He's damn lucky his defense stepped up for him, as well as the running game, or he would have been remembered for yet another embarassing post-season performance, because that is what it was. Now people don't really remember that.
Bottom line, he still has always choked when it matters. Or almost always, especially in post-season. Super Bowl ring he tried to choke away or not. And thats the facts.
J D Sal
Witness the evidence. In the playoffs last year, Peyton Mannings QB rating was a wretched 69.8. He threw 3 TDs and 7 INTs. In the Super Bowl, he tried his best to choke it away, throwing an early pick and fumbling away another. But only the worse performance by Rex Grossman allowed the Colts to win. Basically, in 16 playoff quarters last year, Manning played 14 awful quarters. Only in the second half against the Patriots did he play well. But that was against an exhausted defense riddled by the flu and injury (no Harrison or Seymour) that had just had to criss-cross the country numerous times. It was more the Pats defense just hit the wall of injuries and exhaustion than Manning. Even the final TD was a run, not a pass. Manning could have easily done one of his patented choke throws in the playoffs had he been given the chance to throw there.
The bottom line is, he still brought his game down, not up, when it mattered most. When your QB rating falls from 101 in the regular season to 69.8 in the playoffs, you're choking again. When you all of a sudden have a 3-7 TD/INT ratio in the playoffs when it was 31-9 in the regular season, you're choking again. He's damn lucky his defense stepped up for him, as well as the running game, or he would have been remembered for yet another embarassing post-season performance, because that is what it was. Now people don't really remember that.
Bottom line, he still has always choked when it matters. Or almost always, especially in post-season. Super Bowl ring he tried to choke away or not. And thats the facts.
J D Sal
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