Chicken Boo

Manning came into the league in 1998. The massive shift of the NFL becoming a passing league happened around 2011, as evidenced by the 5,000 yard passers. Peyton had Marshall Faulk and Edgerrin James from '98-'05. His career high in passing attempts was in 2010. Tom Brady's passing attempts jumped sharply in 2011 throughout the rest of his career. Per Wikipedia: "The 2011 season saw an unprecedented amount of passing offense: Three of the nine highest passing yardage totals of all time were established: No. 2 Drew Brees (5,476), No. 3 Tom Brady (5,235), and No. 9 Matthew Stafford (5,038); Eli Manning threw for 4,933 yards, which places him 14th all time.[1] It also saw Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers establish the all-time single-season best quarterback rating of 122.5.[2] Further cementing the modern NFL's reputation as a "passing league"[3][4][5] was the fact that, for the second consecutive year, the league overall set a record for most average passing yards per team per game, with 229.7, breaking 2010's record by more than eight yards per game.[6] (For comparison, the league-wide average rushing yards total finished the 2011 season at 57th all-time.)" The defense rests.

Brady played for 20 years. There's been a ton of rules changes in that time. From 1984 to 2008 there were two 5,000 passing seasons. From 2011 to current, there have been 13. The rule changes paved the way for this shift.

More the safeties than the corners, but they were no slouches. Hell, just on the Bills and Phins you had Clemments, Winfield, Surtain and Madison.

The 2000s is arguably the greatest era of linebackers ever. I stand on that statement. Safeties too.

It was a different era. Peyton's receivers were also allowed to get mugged on their routes and killed after the catch. The linebackers of that time are better than the linebackers today.

We get it. Josh is good, BUT it was a vastly different game in the late 90s-2000s and yes, Peyton threw a ton of pics early in his career.

Awful is losing 4 Super Bowls in a row. I was an elementary school kid in Maryland that had to deal with Washington, Giants and Cowboys fans. Unpleasant core memories...

He threw a great deep ball, but by the end of his time here, I was done with him. He lost whatever magic he had. Shame he didn't get more games with Sammy, Woods and Clay all on the field.

It was awful. How can anyone see it differently? Some of you are nuts.

That was my argument from the start, had you been paying attention. How do they win the SB without finally getting past the juggernaut Pats?

Gabe will get in the 12-15 million range, probably.

The AFC Championship game, chief.

Without the defense stepping up the way they did in the 2nd half and the zone on the final series, the Colts lose. It's that simple.

A random playoff game, in which Manning and the Colts overcome a 21-3 deficit to beat Brady and the Pats in the AFC Championship? It was a memorable one. Not for nothing, they were 2nd in the league against the pass.

Did you watch the game? Do you remember it? Literally, a defensive play is what sealed it.

The Dungey defense that held the Patriots to 13 points in the 2nd half, yes.

Without Dungy's defense, Manning doesn't win a Lombardi in Indy.

A Super Bowl victory.

You aren't being forced to celebrate anything. It's simply being celebrated by those who support those certain groups.

Josh will be 31 by the end of this deal. I don't feel I need to elaborate on what needs to happen between now and then.

The only part I winced at is "Proud, Christian, determined man." Like his religious beliefs have anything to do with anything. If he were Buddhist, would it have been mentioned?

McDungy...I can dig it.

More than that, I think Stef just wants to win.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the restructure prolongs his time here, giving Stef and the team fewer avenues for an out.

Give it a day or 2. I'm sure there's more. People on here complain about the media, but they feed into and fuel everything they hear when the situation suits them. Never about the franchise as a whole or Josh though. That's blasphemy.