Anyone else think the media is being overly harsh towards Peyton?

[brdmaverick]

Trust me, I am a die hard Pats fan, but I actually think the media is being overly harsh on Peyton Manning.

I've been hearing "Peyton choked". Instead, the way I view it is "the defense rose to the occasion."

Over all, Peyton Manning had a good game (300+ yards and a touchdown). The game will be remembered for the back breaking interception, but it was not a bone headed play. It was just good defense.

Even with the loss, Peyton Manning is STILL every bit as good as he was going into the game, and deserved his fourth MVP.

Yes, I do understand that having a two Super Bowl Championships certainly upgrades' a players' status in terms of being ranked among the all time great. I don't think, however, that yesterday's performance should DOWNGRADE him in any way though, which is what most media types are doing.

The Boston Globe described Manning's pick six as being a Favre-esque throw. I think a Favre-esque throw could be described as an ill advised throw. I would not describe Manning's throw in that manner. The blitz was on, Manning went to his hot read, but the Saints defense was able to read the play.

He played a solid game, and regardless of how good he and Drew Brees are, one of them had to lose.

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

Anyone else think the media is being overly harsh towards Peyton?

No! Loving it.

 

[Jackson 2]

Trust me, I am a die hard Pats fan, but I actually think the media is being overly harsh on Peyton Manning.

I've been hearing "Peyton choked". Instead, the way I view it is "the defense rose to the occasion."

Over all, Peyton Manning had a good game (300+ yards and a touchdown). The game will be remembered for the back breaking interception, but it was not a bone headed play. It was just good defense.

Even with the loss, Peyton Manning is STILL every bit as good as he was going into the game, and deserved his fourth MVP.

Yes, I do understand that having a two Super Bowl Championships certainly upgrades' a players' status in terms of being ranked among the all time great. I don't think, however, that yesterday's performance should DOWNGRADE him in any way though, which is what most media types are doing.

The Boston Globe described Manning's pick six as being a Favre-esque throw. I think a Favre-esque throw could be described as an ill advised throw. I would not describe Manning's throw in that manner. The blitz was on, Manning went to his hot read, but the Saints defense was able to read the play.

He played a solid game, and regardless of how good he and Drew Brees are, one of them had to lose.

My apologies, but the way the media has roasted the Patriots in the past few years, particularly, after the SB loss to the Giants, I'm not really inclined to offer any sympathy bouquets to the Manning or the Colts. This is especially true when one compares the treatment the Colts historically have gotten from the media to that which has been afforded the Patriots. Sorry, you're knocking on the wrong door.

 

[Mosi Moose]

I definitely hear what you're saying, but I don't think the bashing is too harsh. The issue I have is that they (the media) went SO far the other way before this game, that this "bashing" sort of evens it out in my mind. Don't get me wrong, Manning is an amazing QB, but to me, you have to have stepped up in BIG games to be considered to be one of the GOAT. The fact is, he's 9-9 in BIG games. He's average when it REALLY matters. In the same amount of BIG games, Montana and Brady are each 14-4. I'm glad that the media is realizing that they went WAY overboard before this game and this is all of them doing a HUGE mea culpa now and I, personally, love it.

 

[Deus Irae]

The media is not being harsh enough.

 

[Disco Volante]

Manning was being built up as the greatest QB in NFL history for two weeks.

He then proceeds to throw a pick 6 during the most important drive of the Super Bowl, clinching the 26th pass defense Saints upset victory.

He choked.

 

[spacecrime]

Once when Drew Bledsoe was being ravaged by the press for losing a game by throwing a late INT, he was asked if he thought the negative press was unfair. He said that QBs get more credit than they deserve for a win, and more blame than they deserve for a loss, and that's just the way it is.

In Peyton's case, the media went overboard annointing him the best QB in the history of the NFL, so when he choked the game away (call it what you want, but that INT ended the game), the media pendulum swung WAY back.

He is somewhere in the middle. Better than most QBs, certainly not the best.

It is in the Post Season he is failing. Montana, Brady and others raise their play in the post season. manning has his drop off.

I kind of felt bad for him just before the INT. I told my wife it must be hard on him when he must change his playcalling when time is running out and he can't do his yelling and hand waving. I don't see that stuff as necesary, but for him, playing under a time constraint must have an effect.

Reggie Wayne didn't help, but Wayne has made some impossible grabs of poorly thrown Manning passes that made manning look good, so you can't blame Wayne. Manning has gotten more credit than he deserved over the years by having great players around him, now he is getting more blame than he deserves.

So that's the way it is.

 

[pwes]

Absolutley not. I wont add to the mess but i'm certainly not going to have a problem with it either.

 

[Patriot_in_NY]

Nope............... everyone's been blowing smoke for the past how many weeks, months, years about how Manning is the GOAT, not just QB, but some are even dumb enough to say PLAYER ever.

Sorry, the GOAT doesn't throw a pick-6 in one of the biggest spots in his entire career...... It's unacceptable. Sure, I think you can lose a SB and still be in the equation, ala Tommy. But he didn't just lose a SB, he personally gave the SB away. At least Tom scored in the last couple minutes to take the lead and you can say "He didn't lose the game, the defense just couldn't hold the lead".

Peyton can't hide.......... He handed that game away.

 

[blackglass3]

I think the media is angry with him, because for years and especially the last two weeks they told us he's so incredible he eats nails and craps roses. They've been making different excuses for him the last few years (no D, bad luck, other teammates fault, ect) and finally, in what was to be his crowning, GOAT, end all discussion moment he crapped the proverbial bed and lost the game. They've finally had enough of him making them look stupid for the constant love fest, and they are turning their daggers on him.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Trust me, I am a die hard Pats fan, but I actually think the media is being overly harsh on Peyton Manning.

I've been hearing "Peyton choked". Instead, the way I view it is "the defense rose to the occasion."

Over all, Peyton Manning had a good game (300+ yards and a touchdown). The game will be remembered for the back breaking interception, but it was not a bone headed play. It was just good defense.

Even with the loss, Peyton Manning is STILL every bit as good as he was going into the game, and deserved his fourth MVP.

Yes, I do understand that having a two Super Bowl Championships certainly upgrades' a players' status in terms of being ranked among the all time great. I don't think, however, that yesterday's performance should DOWNGRADE him in any way though, which is what most media types are doing.

The Boston Globe described Manning's pick six as being a Favre-esque throw. I think a Favre-esque throw could be described as an ill advised throw. I would not describe Manning's throw in that manner. The blitz was on, Manning went to his hot read, but the Saints defense was able to read the play.

He played a solid game, and regardless of how good he and Drew Brees are, one of them had to lose.

what makes you think that the media is being harsh?

 

[thenepatsrule]

so let me get this straight, when the media calls him the best qb ever through out the course of the season you donot have a problem? but when he chokes/fails on the biggest stage of em all and the media rightfully dethrones him..... u ask if they are being too harsh?
i say NO
the bottom line is manning is only good during the regular season.
even when he knows that his team is thru to the playoffs he plays for records like most consecutive games started etc........ while ppl like brady , ben ,rivers do whatever is in the best interest of the team.Manning will always be remembered for his numbers.......by the time manning is done with football i am pretty sure he will have one of the highest winning percentages among qbs for regular season and THE WORST winning percentage in the post season of all the great qbs..........

 

[bigfandan]

If you think this is too harsh, how about being called a team of evil by Easterbrook pushed by ESPN for millions to read?

How about getting called cheaters while you are preparing for the superbowl, and having a made-up taping story breaking out on national headlines the night before your superbowl, or having to play superbowl not knowing if the title could be striped by Roger Godell?

Media being too harsh, you are talking to the wrong crowd. The national media robbed us of a superbowl, have you thought of that?

Trust me, I am a die hard Pats fan, but I actually think the media is being overly harsh on Peyton Manning.

I've been hearing "Peyton choked". Instead, the way I view it is "the defense rose to the occasion."

Over all, Peyton Manning had a good game (300+ yards and a touchdown). The game will be remembered for the back breaking interception, but it was not a bone headed play. It was just good defense.

Even with the loss, Peyton Manning is STILL every bit as good as he was going into the game, and deserved his fourth MVP.
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He played a solid game, and regardless of how good he and Drew Brees are, one of them had to lose.

 

[Nikolai]

No problems with the treatment now. Let the good times roll.

 

[RayClay]

Trust me, I am a die hard Pats fan, but I actually think the media is being overly harsh on Peyton Manning.

I've been hearing "Peyton choked". Instead, the way I view it is "the defense rose to the occasion."

Over all, Peyton Manning had a good game (300+ yards and a touchdown). The game will be remembered for the back breaking interception, but it was not a bone headed play. It was just good defense.

Even with the loss, Peyton Manning is STILL every bit as good as he was going into the game, and deserved his fourth MVP.

Yes, I do understand that having a two Super Bowl Championships certainly upgrades' a players' status in terms of being ranked among the all time great. I don't think, however, that yesterday's performance should DOWNGRADE him in any way though, which is what most media types are doing.

The Boston Globe described Manning's pick six as being a Favre-esque throw. I think a Favre-esque throw could be described as an ill advised throw. I would not describe Manning's throw in that manner. The blitz was on, Manning went to his hot read, but the Saints defense was able to read the play.

He played a solid game, and regardless of how good he and Drew Brees are, one of them had to lose.

You're right. Of course you will be attacked.

 

[rbh24]

If any Colts fans want to get pitty from me or any other Pats fans forget it...

 

[Kontradiction]

No they aren't. They and every other fairweather football fan out there washed Manning's balls for the entire season saying that he is, without a doubt, the GOAT. Whoops.

 

[fair catch fryar]

Bullsh!t! Manning did choke and anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves. He gets all the credit in the world and then some when he wins and now he deserves everything he gets for a ball he shouldn't have thrown when he did. End of story!

 

[Snake Eyes]

The media tears people down, that's what they do, if it seems like they're building someone up it's just so that they can later tear them down.

They were building him up all season, ready to crown him and he didn't deliver, so now the only logical thing to do is throw him under the bus.

 

[ausbacker]

Trust me, I am a die hard Pats fan, but I actually think the media is being overly harsh on Peyton Manning.

I've been hearing "Peyton choked". Instead, the way I view it is "the defense rose to the occasion."

Over all, Peyton Manning had a good game (300+ yards and a touchdown). The game will be remembered for the back breaking interception, but it was not a bone headed play. It was just good defense.

Even with the loss, Peyton Manning is STILL every bit as good as he was going into the game, and deserved his fourth MVP.

Yes, I do understand that having a two Super Bowl Championships certainly upgrades' a players' status in terms of being ranked among the all time great. I don't think, however, that yesterday's performance should DOWNGRADE him in any way though, which is what most media types are doing.

The Boston Globe described Manning's pick six as being a Favre-esque throw. I think a Favre-esque throw could be described as an ill advised throw. I would not describe Manning's throw in that manner. The blitz was on, Manning went to his hot read, but the Saints defense was able to read the play.

He played a solid game, and regardless of how good he and Drew Brees are, one of them had to lose.

No. Manning threw the interception that will forever define Superbowl 44.

Btw, Drew Brees should have been the NFL MVP this season.