Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning: The Bigger Picture

the Pats' D was their front three. Both teams have defensive head coaches, so why is it that Belichick’s teams have had more success defending and Dungy’s have had none at all? We already know who the better coach is...and I'm pretty sure your gunna bring up Spygate but that's something for another discussion

I'm my opinion you can’t decide a winner on stats alone. You have to add in the intangibles as well. It’s clear that Brady is the tougher quarterback of the two. Not only has he been sacked more from 01-07, but he’s shown his willingness to stand in the pocket to the very last second, knowing that a big hit was certain, and for the most part he would always get up and perform as if he was unaffected.

He also plays in cold weather, and the mindset of his team is very defensive therefore he’s been in a lot more close games. The knock on Manning on the other hand, was he gets rattled easy and he doesn’t like to be touched, let alone hit.

I myself will acknowledge that, that notion is no longer the case with Manning. But I remember one season, Belichick said the key is to give him (Manning) "happy feet" meaning to keep his feet shuffling because he makes poor decisions when his feet are not set.

Another knock on Peyton was he couldn’t win when it really mattered. Brady is far more clutch. Brady has 26 fourth quarter comebacks in seven seasons to Manning's 31 in 11 seasons. With four extra seasons Manning has only produced five more comebacks, that's an average of one per season.

Brady is averaging three comebacks per season to Peyton’s two. So that means if Brady played 11 seasons he’d have 38 fourth quarter comebacks, seven more than Peyton, but that's just in theory. Oh and not to mention the two that provided his team with jewelry.

For Brady to be as successful as he is, in my opinion I think he’s worked way harder to get where he is as a sixth-round draft pick. Not only did Peyton go number one, but quarterbacking is hereditary for him. He comes from a family of starting NFL quarterbacks, it’s pretty much his destiny.

Here's a helping hint on who's better. For the most part of his career Manning was compared to Marino, and Brady was compared to Montana. Now we wouldn't dare to say Marino was better than Montana would we? Why not, because of the rings, right? Listen in all honesty Peyton would tell you himself that he would trade his stats with Brady if he could get Brady’s three titles.

Oh yea, one more thing for those of you who will state that manning was the inherent of a terrible team, and Brady got to watch Bledsoe, I’ve got two things to say to that. As I mentioned Peyton got his quarterback mind from his genes. Brady got to watch Bledsoe for one season, not to mention he took Bledsoe’s job while Bledsoe was healthy!

Bledsoe was a relic gunslinger who could no longer compete in this league. He never won anything, and finished his career by getting replaced by three quarterbacks. Romo, Lossman, and Brady.

As far as Manning picking up a 3-13 team, Brady picked up a 5-11 team who lost the first two games of the season he started in. So technically they were 5-13 when he took the helm.

In 11 seasons Manning has two losing seasons and has exited the playoffs seven times. Of those times he went one and done.

In seven seasons Brady has never lead his team to a losing season, nor has he exited in the first round of the playoffs.

…Brady by a landslide

 

 

 

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