Peyton Manning- best QB? Yeah. Maybe 4 years ago.

I gotta go with Deuce on this one. Maybe if it was a younger version of Manning, but definitely not the 33 year old. He'll definitely play a while longer, but trading away our future at QB, RB, and WR for him would cripple our team for the years after Manning.

It's all hypothetical anyway though. We all know Polian would give the team away for free before he traded Manning.

 

I would normally have said this season, but after the Super Bowl, I'll happily agree that Brees had the best season. The biggest game of the year makes the most difference.

Since that one is settled, I'd still be glad to go over a career comparison of Brees and Manning. It's a lot more even after Sunday, but I still think Manning probably comes out on top.

I'm not up for the historical debate, didn't see enough of those guys play, and I think it's really difficult to compare such different eras when you start going pretty far back.

 

Rather than make a new thread, seems like the best place to post my opinion.


I think HAD Manning won the game last night, it would make it very hard to argue against him being the best ever. 2 Superbowl wins and all the stats in the salary cap era.

BUT, it wasn't just the Colts that lost, it was an INT returned for TD that ended the game. I think it really damages his legacy, almost unable to recover from that. IF he gets a few superbowl wins in the next few years, yeah sure, but that doesn't seem likely. All the old arguments about Peyton not winning the big game are back. And never beat Florida.

Certainly he isn't clutch like Montana.



He still goes down as one of the best to play the position ever, but "best ever"? It's going to be hard for him to earn that now.

 

Another blunder by Peyton. The timeout. Maybe one of the biggest blunders in superbowl history that went totally unnoticed. It essentially ended a game that was not yet over.