Who wins if Brees and Manning both go down?
Former Bengals quarterback Boomer Esiason, himself a onetime Super Bowl starter and now an analyst for CBS, fairly well shudders at the thought of a XLIV matchup without Manning or Brees for any meaningful portion of the game.
“The only doomsday scenario for any team in this game would be to lose your quarterback early,” Esiason said Sunday night, before calling the Pro Bowl for CBS radio. “Can you imagine if this game lost one of the two quarterbacks? What a downer that would be. It would ruin everyone’s expectations for what we think is going to be a really great Super Bowl.
“If anybody else goes out early, the teams would pick up and move on with them. Even with the big thing for Indianapolis right now being whether Dwight Freeney will be 100 percent or not, it’s not the same. The Saints chances would go way up without Freeney, because him and (fellow defensive end) Robert Mathis are so powerful. But I don’t know what we’d do if Manning or Brees went down.”
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