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5.Manning vs. Shanahan. This isn’t a match-up, exactly, but one theme whenever the Colts play a team coached by Redskins Head Coach Mike Shanahan is the obvious respect Shanahan has for Colts quarterback Peyton Manning. A coach typically gets a quarterback such as Manning once in a career – if the coach is very, very fortunate. Shanahan had his Hall-of-Fame quarterback in Denver, John Elway, in the mid-to-late 1990s, and being appreciative of offensive football, Shanahan very much appreciates Manning. This week, he gave Manning some of the highest praise you’ll hear an opposing coach give a quarterback. “I don’t believe I’ve ever been around a guy who studies the game or knows the game as well as Peyton,”

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