Via Kuharsky, Peyton, not Brady, is the QB of the ’00s
Manning was superb not for what he did, but for what he didn’t do.
If you caught Manning’s postgame news conference and watched his poise and professionalism in the immediate wake of what had to be one of the most heart-wrenching, gut-twisting outcomes of his sporting career, then you know why this player is the finest the NFL had to offer us — in every possible aspect of the game — over the past 10 seasons.
A quarterback who has engineered 43 fourth-quarter/overtime game-winning drives in his NFL career couldn’t pull out this finish standing on the sideline. But the league’s ultimate game manager was too classy, too dignified and too much of a leader to point fingers, complain or publicly question the decisions made by those who rank above him.
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