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Archie Manning rips Terry
Elder Manning accuses Bradshaw of cheap shot at Peyton because QB agreed blocking broke down
BY ARTHUR STAPLE
STAFF WRITER
January 17, 2006, 9:09 PM EST
As he stood outside the Colts' locker room Sunday, Archie Manning felt pride.
He had watched his son Peyton and the Colts lose their first playoff game, just as he watched in person a week earlier as his other quarterback son, Eli, went down in flames with the Giants. But Archie was happy to see Peyton face the barrage of questions as to why the Colts, the best team in the NFL all season, had lost to the Steelers.
After the news conference was over, the TV monitor he was watching flipped to the Fox studio. Archie Manning didn't like what he heard from his old quarterback counterpart, Terry Bradshaw, who criticized Peyton for saying that the Colts had "protection .problems."
Bradshaw saw that as a thinly veiled shot at the Colts' offensive line, a comment not befitting a leader. Archie Manning saw Bradshaw's comment as "a cheap shot."
"I know Terry well, and this isn't the first time," said Manning, who was in New York to promote a credit card. "He's taken shots at me, he takes a lot of shots -- he seems to like to take shots at Peyton. He wore me out two years ago on Eli's deal [forcing a draft-day trade to the Giants]. He wore me out.
"[Bradshaw] is not a bad guy. He's in a high-profile spot there. Maybe that's what he's supposed to do up there, get after people. I don't know. You just move on."
Bradshaw was traveling .yesterday and unavailable for comment.
Bradshaw did praise Eli after the Giants' 23-0 loss to the Panthers on Jan. 8, saying the future is bright for Archie's youngest son. But Archie Manning said Bradshaw and the Fox crew took Peyton's comments out of context.
"They took one segment of his press conference; I saw the whole thing," Archie said. "They riddled him, just .question after question. 'Whose fault was this protection?' He probably got sacked more than he ever has. Finally he said, 'Yes, we had protection problems.'
"If you saw the game, well yes, they did. He didn't say where the breakdown was or whose fault. So I thought that was a cheap shot. But again, that's kind of the world we live in sports today."
Archie Manning had no problem identifying some of Eli's late-season problems in his first year as a starter.
"I was a little surprised because the one thing Eli was in college was accurate, extremely accurate," he said. "All young QBs, their mechanics break down some. All QBs, their mechanics break down when they get pressured a lot. He got knocked down a lot this year.
"You can watch film and tell a young guy not to do that, but the best example is learning. And you think you learn it one week and then you get in a situation in the third quarter and you say, 'I'm going to make this play like I did in HS or college.' And you just aren't going to make that play in the pros."
But Eli will be just fine, according to his father. Archie said the sting of the playoff loss is already starting to fade down in the woods of Mississippi, where Eli is hunting with Peyton's best friend from college, Bills center Trey Teague.
"Probably the only good thing that's happened to a .Manning boy in the last week is Eli killed an 11-point buck last Friday," Archie said.
"You take the good with the bad. We believe in our kids and we're proud of them. That's what counts."
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Archie Manning rips Terry
Elder Manning accuses Bradshaw of cheap shot at Peyton because QB agreed blocking broke down
BY ARTHUR STAPLE
STAFF WRITER
January 17, 2006, 9:09 PM EST
As he stood outside the Colts' locker room Sunday, Archie Manning felt pride.
He had watched his son Peyton and the Colts lose their first playoff game, just as he watched in person a week earlier as his other quarterback son, Eli, went down in flames with the Giants. But Archie was happy to see Peyton face the barrage of questions as to why the Colts, the best team in the NFL all season, had lost to the Steelers.
After the news conference was over, the TV monitor he was watching flipped to the Fox studio. Archie Manning didn't like what he heard from his old quarterback counterpart, Terry Bradshaw, who criticized Peyton for saying that the Colts had "protection .problems."
Bradshaw saw that as a thinly veiled shot at the Colts' offensive line, a comment not befitting a leader. Archie Manning saw Bradshaw's comment as "a cheap shot."
"I know Terry well, and this isn't the first time," said Manning, who was in New York to promote a credit card. "He's taken shots at me, he takes a lot of shots -- he seems to like to take shots at Peyton. He wore me out two years ago on Eli's deal [forcing a draft-day trade to the Giants]. He wore me out.
"[Bradshaw] is not a bad guy. He's in a high-profile spot there. Maybe that's what he's supposed to do up there, get after people. I don't know. You just move on."
Bradshaw was traveling .yesterday and unavailable for comment.
Bradshaw did praise Eli after the Giants' 23-0 loss to the Panthers on Jan. 8, saying the future is bright for Archie's youngest son. But Archie Manning said Bradshaw and the Fox crew took Peyton's comments out of context.
"They took one segment of his press conference; I saw the whole thing," Archie said. "They riddled him, just .question after question. 'Whose fault was this protection?' He probably got sacked more than he ever has. Finally he said, 'Yes, we had protection problems.'
"If you saw the game, well yes, they did. He didn't say where the breakdown was or whose fault. So I thought that was a cheap shot. But again, that's kind of the world we live in sports today."
Archie Manning had no problem identifying some of Eli's late-season problems in his first year as a starter.
"I was a little surprised because the one thing Eli was in college was accurate, extremely accurate," he said. "All young QBs, their mechanics break down some. All QBs, their mechanics break down when they get pressured a lot. He got knocked down a lot this year.
"You can watch film and tell a young guy not to do that, but the best example is learning. And you think you learn it one week and then you get in a situation in the third quarter and you say, 'I'm going to make this play like I did in HS or college.' And you just aren't going to make that play in the pros."
But Eli will be just fine, according to his father. Archie said the sting of the playoff loss is already starting to fade down in the woods of Mississippi, where Eli is hunting with Peyton's best friend from college, Bills center Trey Teague.
"Probably the only good thing that's happened to a .Manning boy in the last week is Eli killed an 11-point buck last Friday," Archie said.
"You take the good with the bad. We believe in our kids and we're proud of them. That's what counts."
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