Manning’s success, Simms believes, has revolutionized thinking about the degree of control given to NFL quarterbacks. He sees Green Bay following that lead with Aaron Rodgers and other clubs trending that way with top young quarterbacks.
He sees even greater implications for the future.
“There are kids tonight, as you and I talk,” he said Wednesday evening, “who are in the seventh grade in practice running the no-huddle offense and making checks at the line of scrimmage and deciding whether to throw it, run it, this or that. And it wasn’t that long ago you couldn’t even let a pro quarterback do that.
“I’m a pretty good historian of the NFL. You think about who did it before Peyton. The answer is nobody.”
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