A winner

Brilliant article about “just winning games”

Let’s go one step farther with Manning.  No other team has won more than 12 games in 4 consecutive years, and Manning has led the Colts to 7 in a row.  If you want to win games in the NFL, Manning is clearly one of the best ever to get that done for you.  You’d think he would be trumpeted far and wide about how he is a winner.  But he isn’t.  Not even close, actually.

I’m going to run a simple experiment here:  How many times does the phrase “Peyton Manning is a winner” appear on the interwebs?  Hundreds, if not thousands, right?  I mean, all the guy does is win games.

It appears 8 times.  No, that is not a typo.  Eight whole times, and 3 of them have been since January.  So why doesn’t anybody describe him as a “winner”?  Because nobody has to.  Manning has numerous other qualities that can be used to describe him, both statistically and subjectively, that kind of takes care of the winning part.  If he didn’t have those specific qualities, he wouldn’t be winning games.  In other words, play the Quarterback position well, put up statistics proving it, and the winning takes care of itself