Every time I feel the least bit of sympathy for Peyton the media drives it out of me with the constant @ss kissing narrative. Faulk made the comment last night that it's not fair to judge Peyton against what he once was and that even at this stage he should come back because even at 90% he's still better than 98% of the QBs out there. Then went on to defend him in the GOAT conversation.
1. GOATS don't have 9 one and done's. GOATS go to their 9th conference championship game.
2. GOATS aren't favored in 8 of those 9 games and lose the one they weren't 41-0.
3. GOATS aren't 11-13 in the playoffs.
4. How is he better than 98% of the QBs out there when in the divisional around Brady, Rogers, Wilson, Luck, Flacco, Romo and even Stafford and Newton outperformed him. Can anybody make a case for taking him at this point over one of those? Really in the entire playoffs only Dalton and Lindley were worse.
5. Two years running he has the best skill set group in football and exits the playoffs scoring 8 and 13 points.
6. He was 6/21 in passes over 5 yards past the LOS yesterday.
He won't retire. He's a stat whore and wants them all. I don't think Elway will give up on him. This likely is the end of Fox.
Thank you. I'm kinda sick of all the ball-washing of Manning year after year. He's been a very good QB for a long, long time who can't perform when he's taken out of his comfort zone or when the pressure is highest.
He compiled the vast majority of his stats in a dome, with a consistent offensive approach and the same targets (elite targets) year after year. His six division games were routinely against creampuff opponents, and unlike the Patriots AFC East creampuffs the Jags, Texans and Titans had terrible defenses year after year.
Once Manning was forced outdoors, against a good defense, he folded. Time after time after time. His playoff wins?
2003- Blowout at home against a middling Denver team. Close road game against a very good KC team, that had a great offense (Priest Holmes) but a bad defense.
2004- Another blowout home win against a middling Denver team
2006- The SB run, in which the defense gave up 8, 6 and 17 points in the non-NE games and Manning threw 3 TD's to 7 INT's (admittedly he played well in the second half of the AFCCG).
2009- Home against a 9-7 Baltimore team, relying on the defense in a 20-3 win. Home against the 9-7 Jets, a legit good game from Manning against a dominant defense.
2013 - Home against 9-7 SD, close game (24-17) against a middling team. Home against NE, with no Gronk and losing their only good CB during the game.
That's it. That is every playoff win from Manning. Only two road wins, one a blowout against the Chiefs, the other a nailbiter against Baltimore that the defense stole. Year after year his worst performance of the season came in the playoffs, in a game his team lost because the offense didn't score enough points. Shut out on the road against the Jets (2 INT's), blowout loss on the road against the Pats (1 TD, 4 INT), 3 points scored on the road against NE (1 INT), 17 points on the road against SD (2008), 17 against in the SB against NO, 16 at home against the Jets, 8 in a blowout loss against Seattle last year and 13 against a crappy Indy defense yesterday.
Manning is a masterful QB when he's in his comfort zone. When he's not he's absolutely terrible and year after year kills his teams chances in the playoffs. He doesn't belong anywhere near the Montana/Brady level of QB elites and should instead be down with Favre, another playoff choke artists who managed to not puke on himself one season but otherwise sucked in the playoffs.
