Pneumonic Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 He may very well announce his retirement, and that will be that. But I think your assessment of his performance today is off. He looked like you describe some of the time. At other times he perfectly dropped in perfectly placed passes on 20 yard throws. He's nothing close to what he used to be, make no mistake, but he is not Kyle Orton garbage level bad in my opinion. But Peyton's standards were never anything close to Kyle's. He may well want to hang 'em up... Then again, he may well want to prove something one more time. I don't know. I hope he hits the market. Would make things interesting, at least for a while. Knowing the stat lover that Peyton is I could see him coming back to pad his #'s. But, he'll have to pick a dome team and then conspire with the league to ensure that none of the away games he might play in, against cold weather teams, take place in Dec/Jan.
The Frankish Reich Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 JTSP, on 11 Jan 2015 - 8:09 PM, said: Honestly didn't think he looked that bad. Threw a beauty on the first TD to Thomas. Sanders failed to catch up with some of the deep throws, and then Thomas got the drops. Worst of all was welker, who's a complete non factor. I think he looked terrible and I am not even evaluating him based on his earlier work. He was flat out inaccurate, throwing wobblers and in general looked old and tired. I couldn't see his typical passion and competitive spirit. IMHO, he will announce his retirement in the next few days. I'm kind of in between these two opinions. Manning started fine, actually really sharp. Then Indy adjusted and started taking away the short crossing routes. Manning tried to go deep a few times -- overthrew Sanders on one I thought Sanders would catch up to, then missed badly on a few others. By then it was colder and Manning was feeling the rush, a deadly combination. What surprised me was that Manning, Gase & Co.had no solution at all for Indy taking away the short routes; after all, this is exactly how Seattle shut them down in the Super Bowl. Glad we missed out on that Gase as head coach thing.
Pneumonic Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 JTSP, on 11 Jan 2015 - 8:09 PM, said: I'm kind of in between these two opinions. Manning started fine, actually really sharp. Then Indy adjusted and started taking away the short crossing routes. Manning tried to go deep a few times -- overthrew Sanders on one I thought Sanders would catch up to, then missed badly on a few others. By then it was colder and Manning was feeling the rush, a deadly combination. What surprised me was that Manning, Gase & Co.had no solution at all for Indy taking away the short routes; after all, this is exactly how Seattle shut them down in the Super Bowl. Glad we missed out on that Gase as head coach thing. Outside of sitting Manning down for Orstwhatever what was Gase to do? His QB couldn't hit the broad side of a barn on his outside or downfield passes.
truth on hold Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 JTSP, on 11 Jan 2015 - 8:09 PM, said: I'm kind of in between these two opinions. Manning started fine, actually really sharp. Then Indy adjusted and started taking away the short crossing routes. Manning tried to go deep a few times -- overthrew Sanders on one I thought Sanders would catch up to, then missed badly on a few others. By then it was colder and Manning was feeling the rush, a deadly combination. What surprised me was that Manning, Gase & Co.had no solution at all for Indy taking away the short routes; after all, this is exactly how Seattle shut them down in the Super Bowl. Glad we missed out on that Gase as head coach thing. one thing no denying is that Luck was clearly the better passer
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