Mr. WEO

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This is PFT quoting a football HC as saying the scoreboard, in his opinion, could affect the wind. Naturally, PFT headlines: "Gillette Stadium's giant new video board changes wind patterns, affects kickers." right on cue, everyone bites.

call me when he plants some trees...

let me search the threads from March and April..

it's not a trump card. nor was it offered as proof that the Seattle DBs didn't play close/dirty/whatever in another SB. It was a comment to say the Broncos D sucked in the Seattle game and Manning sucked in both SBs, but they won a SB where he really sucked....without any supposed dirty play by the opposing Carolina DBs. So, to summarize, a solid Broncos D was able to compensate for a disastrous Manning performance vs the Panthers, winning a Lombardi. The D could not compensate for a bad SB performance by Manning vs Seattle. Put another way, 2 bad SB showings by Manning. The difference was the Broncos Defense, not Seattle's Defense (which as you are keen to point out, did not play in SB 50). This is Manning's MO in SB's. He's, to put it kindly, clutch. In 4 SBs, he has thrown 3 TDs total, and 5 INTS. But yeah, it must have been the Seahawks DBs in that one SB that wrecked Manning's otherwise typically solid SB play over a career. Does that more the point more clear? I know there are more stats for you to dismiss in place of what you "saw", but I can't describe it in a simpler way. Own your lazy take and move on.

SoFi is not an indoor/enclosed stadium. It has a canopy. It is open on the sides.

this was a hot take a week ago

this is too easy

mall the stats I listed but one were from the SB in question. the obvious point is that Mannings performance in the SB in question wasn’t solely due to DBs mugging his receivers on every play. I’ve made it explicitly a few times now.

So pretty much all stats are "utterly meaningless".....except that you "saw" receivers getting mugged on every play. Manning did toss a TD pass to Knowshon Moreno though.... I was talking about any receiver.

he was 1st team All Pro last season. That’s national recognition

Not 80% no. Most past plays are to a receiver not within grasping distance of a DB

Because he kept turning the ball over. I thought you watched the game. Manning won a SB with Broncos with 13 passes completed

Burning bridges with who? Nate Hackett? He's a bum. At least Payton has the nuts to say what really was going on there. It's what most football fans could plainly see.

Manning completed 69% of 43 passes. The problem was he turned the ball over 3 times leading to 3 scores.

grabbing a jersey should be a called hold 10/10 times.

Getting signed and cut over and over again isn't a strong argument. The only team that played hardly ever did and now they have cut him a second time. The film and analytics--at least of the Bills organization, who know him better than anyone---led them to conclude he's not worthy of even a camp spot. They cut him again. My conclusion is easy to arrive at. Yours is simply a feeling you have. Why make this something it's not? Good for this kid, he keeps getting a few checks.

Might as well hand him the one year contract as soon as he gets out of his Uber to camp

it's the vicodin taking.. he's gonna run out of shoeboxes for all those receipts

Diggs is done sharing received footballs.....

how are they even practicing in Miami?? How many players dead so far? I know a potential cramp or sprain is bad but...are they piling up the fallen??

No he didn't. Vick was a journeyman. Reid won 20 and lost 20 with Vick. Maybe you if want to call Alex Smith a journeyman (he really wasn't). He was 38-36 in SF, 11-5 in Washington. Reid and McNabb went to the NFCC championship 5 times and lost 4 times--including 3 in a row. Belichick brought a 3-13 Browns team a few years later to 11-5 and the playoffs and beat NE....with Vinny Testeverde as QB.

Culpepper's best year by far was 2004 when he rushed for his fewest yards as a full season starter (just over 400). If a Qb is only a "huge running threat", he stinks. This is what we saw in RG3. Once healed, it wasn't lingering injury that slowed him down. Defenses wouldn't let him run. Once the league saw his game isn his rookie season, they easily defended him vs the run. Disrespecting him as a passer, they shut down his run game.

name 5 better

it’s indicative of what his coaching staff thought of his play. That and getting serially cut with little or no play from 4 teams. what contradictory stats do you have?