Denver Native (Carol)
01-12-2014, 02:33 PM
Don't tell Buick this, but Peyton Manning once earned a Cadillac for being selected Super Bowl MVP.
This might surprise the blanket-stating NFL analysts, but Manning has performed well enough in the postseason to play in two Super Bowls. It's not like Manning, the Broncos quarterback who just set all of the league's significant regular-season passing records, is adverse to playing well just because it's the postseason.
Yet, this is the kind of sweeping perception aroused when arguably the NFL's biggest star of the past 16 years has a 9-11 playoff record.
"I think football has so many layers to it that we want to direct a narrative to focus it simplistically and say he's 9-11 and Tom Brady is (17-7), so he's not as good as Tom Brady," said ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer, whose otherwise pedestrian NFL quarterback career was validated by a Super Bowl title with Baltimore in 2000. "That's the water-cooler talk that people want to make."
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_24893456/peyton-mannings-playoff-performance-gets-picked-off-by
This might surprise the blanket-stating NFL analysts, but Manning has performed well enough in the postseason to play in two Super Bowls. It's not like Manning, the Broncos quarterback who just set all of the league's significant regular-season passing records, is adverse to playing well just because it's the postseason.
Yet, this is the kind of sweeping perception aroused when arguably the NFL's biggest star of the past 16 years has a 9-11 playoff record.
"I think football has so many layers to it that we want to direct a narrative to focus it simplistically and say he's 9-11 and Tom Brady is (17-7), so he's not as good as Tom Brady," said ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer, whose otherwise pedestrian NFL quarterback career was validated by a Super Bowl title with Baltimore in 2000. "That's the water-cooler talk that people want to make."
rest - http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_24893456/peyton-mannings-playoff-performance-gets-picked-off-by