Manning’s Greatest Season?

CHFF says it’s possible this could be it

Again, folks, it’s only three games for the Colts. It’s not fair to compare the full season of numbers of the 1989 49ers to the three games worth of numbers put up by the Colts so far. Plus, Indy has faced Jacksonville, Miami and Arizona. Not exactly a murderer’s row of pass defenses. The Jaguars, for example, have been victimized by the two most accurate passing days in history in their last 20 games alone. The Cardinals stumbled and bumbled their way into the Super Bowl last year, despite the fact that they went just 9-7 and surrendered a league-high 36 TD passes. They’re probably not a whole better this year.

The victory over the Dolphins, however, as we noted at the time, was a performance for the ages by Manning.

It’s also not fair to compare the types of pass rushes the 49ers faced 20 years ago. Teams got after the quarterback much more successfully back than they do today. But that’s a story for another day.

And, finally, it’s doubtful that Manning and the gang can keep up this record-setting pace over 13 more games.

But they’re already so far ahead of the historic 49ers, they don’t need to keep up the pace. They just need to be somewhere close.