He’s not wrong about how stupid the death match is. Frankly, I think it causes people to overlook Roethlisberger who I would take in a heartbeat over Brady.
Football isn’t a game of numbers. It’s not baseball. Football is a game evaluated with your eyes, a game in which intangibles such as toughness matter more than 40 speed. Before his knee injury, Brady was tougher in the pocket than Manning. Brady’s courage in the pocket permeated the entire Patriots football team, and that gave New England an advantage in the critical moments of tight playoff games.
This season I’ve seen Manning fall to the ground at the hint of pass-rush pressure. He’s Indy’s most valuable commodity, and he’s probably coached to avoid contact. This year we’ve seen Brady beg the refs for roughing-the-passer calls and look a lot less comfortable with defenders at his feet.
Brady and Manning have a lot more in common this season than previous years.
I’m going to watch Sunday’s game focused not on how Brady and Manning compare to each other but how they stack up against Brees and Favre. The NFC QBs look like the Super Bowl threats to me.
This last part, however, is utter nonsense. Brady is the same guy of whom the Giants said, “he had a look in his eye like he didn’t want any more”
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