Look at the stage(s) the NFL has set for Peyton Manning

[PATRlOT]

It's ridiculous. Look at the stage they set for him to start the season...

Week 1: NFL Opener vs. defending SB Champions, the Ravens (big stage, big story)

Week 2: 4:15 game vs. the Giants (huge because of the Manning vs. Manning story)

Week 3: Monday night game vs. the dreadful Raiders. Couldn't be a greater opportunity to pound the stats and make Manning look good in front of a big audience

 

[RhodyPatriot]

.....and look at the stages the NFL has set up for the Patriots.
Cupcake #1 Buffalo away
Cupcake #2 Jets home
Cupcake #3 Tampa home
And don't forget the weekly homage ALL NFL networks pay to Robert Kraft.
I expect it from CBS because they have a biz arrangement with Robert but even Fox was using KraftCam last Sunday.
Is that a contractual thingy or what?? Weird!!

 

[Joker]

sorta like the NFL copyrighting "Harbaugh Bowl" back in February of 2012 and then beating the airwaves to death with the insinuation the entire 2012 season...

 

[RhodyPatriot]

BTW strongly encourage "football fans" (Patriot pinkhats will throw a tantrum) to check out ESPN's "The Book of Manning".
Outstanding documentary about Archie Manning and his family. You'll come out of that show with a great level of respect for the man Archie Manning is. And what a QB...he was the original running and gunning QB.
Tremendous player and person.

 

[sb1]

It's ridiculous. Look at the stage they set for him to start the season...

Week 1: NFL Opener vs. defending SB Champions, the Ravens (big stage, big story)

Week 2: 4:15 game vs. the Giants (huge because of the Manning vs. Manning story)

Week 3: Monday night game vs. the dreadful Raiders. Couldn't be a greater opportunity to pound the stats and make Manning look good in front of a big audience

Week 1: the Ravens as SB champs would traditionally open at home against the conference runners up but there was a scheduling conflict with MLB. So they made a logical choice to open the season up with Ravens @ Denver. I don't have a problem with that. I'd rather open up against the Bills than the Ravens and it worked out just fine...

Week 2: I doubt a lot of NFL fans really care about the Manning vs Manning story after the first time they met. And they play the NFC East anyway so that game was going to happen regardless.

Week 3: The Raiders are in their division. No different than the Pats getting an "easy" game against the Jets early on.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

more of this crap huh? :bricks:

 

[Froob]

If the NFL did the reverse....WOW look how the broncos got an easy schedule right before the playoffs!

 

[nabwong]

Relax. It's already Friday morning. Get laid tonight and watch college football Saturday and it's patriots football Sunday again.

 

[Yehoodi]

Week 1: the Ravens as SB champs would traditionally open at home against the conference runners up but there was a scheduling conflict with MLB. So they made a logical choice to open the season up with Ravens @ Denver. I don't have a problem with that. I'd rather open up against the Bills than the Ravens and it worked out just fine...

Week 2: I doubt a lot of NFL fans really care about the Manning vs Manning story after the first time they met. And they play the NFC East anyway so that game was going to happen regardless.

Week 3: The Raiders are in their division. No different than the Pats getting an "easy" game against the Jets early on.

There was a scheduling conflict last year and they moved the game to Wednesday . . . not sure why the NFL did not do the same thing this year and give Baltimore a home game on Wednesday against a home opponent . . .

As for game 3, the raiders have always been terrible and were 4-12 last year . . .

whether you agree with the OT or not, but the Broncos have had two prime time games in the first two weeks at home . . .

 

[Tunescribe]

BTW strongly encourage "football fans" (Patriot pinkhats will throw a tantrum) to check out ESPN's "The Book of Manning".
Outstanding documentary about Archie Manning and his family. You'll come out of that show with a great level of respect for the man Archie Manning is. And what a QB...he was the original running and gunning QB.
Tremendous player and person.

I don't think I could handle this even if it's good. I'm overdosed on "Manning" and it's only week three.

 

[sb1]

There was a scheduling conflict last year and they moved the game to Wednesday . . . not sure why the NFL did not do the same thing this year and give Baltimore a home game on Wednesday against a home opponent . . .

I guess the NFL felt the President's speech at his convention less than two months from an election is more worthy of changing its schedule than a major league baseball regular season game.

I don't know why this decision really matters to any Patriots fan, really.

As for game 3, the raiders have always been terrible and were 4-12 last year . . .

The Jets were 6-10 last year, is it a conspiracy that the Pats got a prime time game against them in week 2?

whether you agree with the OT or not, but the Broncos have had two prime time games in the first two weeks at home . . .

Good for them. The Pats are 3-0 and I'd rather pay more attention to that than what the Broncos are doing.

 

[SVN]

These manning threads are becoming like the tebow threads......

 

[condon84]

BTW strongly encourage "football fans" (Patriot pinkhats will throw a tantrum) to check out ESPN's "The Book of Manning".
Outstanding documentary about Archie Manning and his family. You'll come out of that show with a great level of respect for the man Archie Manning is. And what a QB...he was the original running and gunning QB.
Tremendous player and person.

Saw it. It was great.

Archie comes off really well. He was more concerned about being a great dad than being a celebrity athlete. I did not realize what a great athlete and college football player he was.

 

[Banjo]

Broncos vs. Raiders was great for ESPN. Peyton got to light it up and ESPN got to promote their Book of Manning doc at the same time.

I'm very interested to see how Denver does against Chiefs, Pats, then Chiefs again

 

[patsfan-1982]

it would be nice not to have any new treads on Denver and Peyton until the pats play them

 

[PATRlOT]

.....and look at the stages the NFL has set up for the Patriots.
Cupcake #1 Buffalo away
Cupcake #2 Jets home
Cupcake #3 Tampa home
And don't forget the weekly homage ALL NFL networks pay to Robert Kraft.
I expect it from CBS because they have a biz arrangement with Robert but even Fox was using KraftCam last Sunday.
Is that a contractual thingy or what?? Weird!!

I'd like to think our first 3 games of the schedule were more of a gift from the football gods, due to our significantly different, learning & injured offense, rather than the NFL setting a stage

 

[BSR]

BTW strongly encourage "football fans" (Patriot pinkhats will throw a tantrum) to check out ESPN's "The Book of Manning".
Outstanding documentary about Archie Manning and his family. You'll come out of that show with a great level of respect for the man Archie Manning is. And what a QB...he was the original running and gunning QB.
Tremendous player and person.

What?? Talk about pink hats. Tarkenton was doing it even better nearly a decade before.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Saw it. It was great.

Archie comes off really well. He was more concerned about being a great dad than being a celebrity athlete. I did not realize what a great athlete and college football player he was.

Absolutely. What was also so impressive is how he did not let his father's suicide derail him as a person. He used that as inspiration to become the great father he has been to his own boys. For those who did not see the program, Archie Manning's father killed himself when Manning was a sophomore in college. Archie found his father's body (he had shot himself at home) and then proceeded to tidy up the scene before his mom and sister got home in an attempt to lessen the horror for them. Somehow he never let that awful experience set him back in life.
And how about those home movies showing little kid Peyton whining and crying because his older brother would pick on him. Too funny. Peyton has been perfecting his whining skills for over 30 years.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

What?? Talk about pink hats. Tarkenton was doing it even better nearly a decade before.

Tarkenton had much more NFL success because he played for much better teams. In terms of athleticism Tarkenton was comparable to Doug Flutie and Archie Manning to RGIII.

 

[Kontradiction]

It's Peyton Manning. Most major news outlets will look for any way to ram him down your throat. Before the Monday night game against the Raiders (not sure you can call that a "game", but I digress), ESPN updated their facebook saying "The sherriff is back in town", with a picture of Manning riding a horse and wearing a cowboy hat. Out of curiosity, I checked the comments section to see if anybody else was as sick of him and the Broncos as I am. To my surprise, I saw more ballwashing in there than I do when I play 18 holes of golf. It's absolutely ridiculous.