Interesting clash of playoff shrinking violets. Either Manning or Luck...one of them
had to win. Luck threw his usual int's at the other team but it wasn't enough this time. Manning just might be done.
I'm still not sold on Luck. I fully expect more int's next week.
DarthSkywalker said:
Except Peyton has had some really mediocre to bad defenses and plenty of crap O-lines. I know, I have watched every game he has ever played in the NFL.
Does Tony Romo get to use that excuse? He's spent his whole career playing behind subpar lines with teams that were built by Jerry Jones and coached by coaches hired by Jerry Jones.
I'm thinking Romo would have won at least one SB by now if he played for a team like the Broncos, Green Bay, or NE.
Agreed. When will the excuses stop? All he supposedly never had in Indy, he has in Denver. Solid defense, good running game and even more receivers. And he still folds up time and again. He's great but he's a robot.
No spontaneity or ingenuity to his game. Knock his timing off with his receivers or pressure him and he's done. He's reluctant to hang in the pocket and take a hit to deliver a strike, and he's not gonna throw on the run. If the play doesn't go exactly to plan, you got him. That's the one difference between him and Luck and why I believe Andrew will live up to the hype, eventually. He's not afraid to improvise or make something happen out of chaos, most of his career so far has consisted of that. In the playoffs, that's the mentality that wins...
Not to mention his "boy genius" thing where he's just gotta change the play most of the time at the line. That's fine for him....but I guess he never thinks about the fact that he has 10 teammates who have to process a new play at the last minute (less time than he has), adjust routes, blocking schemes....and not make a mistake. It got them bit hard on the first play of the SB last year. The first play...and Manning couldn't walk out there and run the play that was called. Nope...he had to play genius and throw a new play at 10 teammates who had just taken the field for the first play of the friggin' Super Bowl. Great idea there, Manning. What could go wrong?
His act works great in the regular season, but the playoffs are a higher level with better competition that demands a team play mistake-free. Manning's style forces his teammates to spend precious seconds thinking when other teams are thinking about what the defense is doing and how they can react to
that.
Godzilla2000 said:
I think this image shows why the Refs made the call that they made overturning Dallas' play as an incomplete pass. You can see the Receiver did not have that ball tucked in his hands the way it should be to be considered a complete pass.
Except that pic only shows the end. Hard to imagine he was reaching for the endzone if he didn't have the ball in his control.
But just like last week, that one play wasn't the reason they lost. A good start would be to not fumble so much? How about a pass rush? Just a thought. Last week Lions fans didn't want to talk about their team only scoring 6 points after the 1st quarter and making a ton of mistakes so I guess Cowboys fans will do the same this week.
Or are Cowboys fans allowed to act like Lions fans last week?
Best part is how this makes all the fans look really foolish who claimed the NFL tries to help the Cowboys win. This may not stop them though...they didn't notice all the plays that went against the Cowboys last week either. (including another one that took actual points off the scoreboard)
Before anyone gets too crazy about Rodgers, he was facing a team that has almost no pass rush and still only put up 26 points. He'd better be a
lot better next week.
At some point, fans are going to have to acknowledge that QB in Seattle. I won't be surprised one bit if he outplays all the "elite QB's" who are left.
