Peyton Manning comparison

ya know, it's become very fashionable to beat up Peyton Manning cause he hasn't won 3 SBs like Tom Brady. I'm really getting disgusted at the way alot of people, the Sports Guy in particular, are jumping on the bandwagon and picking on him. the question i have is why are they so obsessed with manning and criticizing him?

 

in some respects the analogy to marino is unfair to marino. manning at least has some great offensive weapons in harrison and james. Can you even name a starting RB on the Dolphins during Marino's career there? A TE? A WR besides the Marks brothers?

 

to a certain extent i think this infatuation with the notion that only a championship can validate a player is rather silly, especially in such a team-oriented sport such as football. it's the michael jordan effect.

 

besides it is still too early to fully judge manning's career. the conventional wisdom of john elway was he was a great QB that couldn't win the big game, at the tail end of his career he wins 2 SBs on the back of Terrell Davis and vs. the Falcons...the Falcons! and all the sudden he's locked into the the first tier pantheon (i think he was regardless).

 

Is the best analogy Tom Brady: Troy Aikman as Peyton Manning:Brett Favre.

 

remember when the Pack couldn't get past the Cowboys in the playoffs in the mid 90s and where that scheduling quirk had them playing a regular season game in dallas each year too, which they lost. Favre those years had great numbers - he and Faulk were perennial fantasy top picks, but the knock was he couldn't win the big one. couldn't get over the hump. finally did when the Boys got a little old and the Pack finally got to the play the playoff games in Lambeau instead of that damned crowned field in dallas. all manning needs to do is get over the hump once and play the jan. games in the rca dome and not in -15 weather in foxboro.