I'd like to see Brady take his team to the superbowl with
1) One of the top 10 worst defenses of all time
2) THE worst defense to ever play in and win a superbowl championship
3) Being the first team to EVER beat the #1, 2, and 3 ranked defenses in the playoffs
Wayne and Harrison have played with Manning their entire careers. While yes it's true they are both great recievers Manning enhances
everyone's ability on that offense
LOL, you're acting like Peyton was the only factor in the Colts playoff wins.
When the truth is that he was medicore to terrible until the AFCCG vs the Pats. And somehow the Colts, on the strength of smoke and mirrors and Bob Sanders inspired play, managed to play the best defense of all the playoff teams until the AFCCG clash.
Game 1
Colts vs Chiefs
23-8
Peyton throws 3 picks but the Colts defense shuts down LJ and the game goes downhill from there.
Game 2
Colts vs Ravens
15-6
Colts score ALL their points by virtue of AV's leg.
Peyton's performance hardly what I'd call blistering.
AFCCG
I'll give Peyton credit for gutting out this win.
Superbowl
Does the NFC even desreve a finals berth anymore?
We all knew who the champ would be after the AFCCG.
This was more a coronation than a football game.
The Bears and Grossman looked befuddled, confused, and out of place.
Now fast forward to 2007 offseason.
Colts have lost both starting corners and a starting linebacker and have replaced them with a 3rd round pick Daymeion Hughes?
You guys better hope Hughes can play 3 positions on the field at once because I think not even Bob Sanders can save this D. The 1st round pick of course went towards another wide receiver.
I'm sorry but I think that you will be remembering that 2006 Colts defense that you so lowly rated above with a great deal of fondness after you see the 2007 Colts defense in action.
I could be wrong, but really where are the replacements coming from?
Unless that is Polian has a secret cloning facility and plans to crank out 3 more copies of Bob Sanders.