Find out with these mind-blowing stats. Despite Tom Brady's great record of against Peyton Manning, he is in his career vs. The Broncos are one of only two teams in the NFL to have a winning record against Brady the Giants are vs Brady, including playoffs.
Sunday's game will feature passers with the most combined TD passes in NFL history entering the game, topping their matchup from earlier this season when Manning and Brady had combined to throw TD passes. Manning's winning percentage against the rest of the NFL. The team that has scored first has won 11 of the 14 games between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
The coaches, the defense, the special teams, the trainers—everybody. Tom Brady did not win those three Super Bowls alone. The Patriots won those three Super Bowls. Some people would say that the Pats defense is the reason the Giants beat them that day.
If that is true, then those same people must then credit the defense for the three wins. Is that his fault? No, of course not. Having a Super Bowl victory does not make any one QB decisively better than the next, as no one in his right mind would ever claim Trent Dilfer is better than Dan Marino, but it certainly does make its mark on the discussion, and having three rings compared to one puts this aspect in favor of Brady over Manning.
Edge: Brady. All of the above also applies to the playoffs in general, as it is still a team sport and playoff games are both won and lost by entire teams, not individual players.
In addition, there is also a widely regarded myth that Manning chokes when it comes to the playoffs. Tom Brady has played for just one head coach, Bill Belichick , his entire career.
After many years of serving under and learning from surefire Hall of Famer Bill Parcells, Belichick is now widely considered one of the greatest coaching minds the NFL has ever seen.
Peyton Manning has played for three head coaches during his tenure, each a little bit different than the other. First there was Jim Mora, for whom Manning played his first four years in the league.
Mora was a relatively decent regular-season head coach, but he lacked the football acumen it took to get his team over the hump playoff record with the Saints, with the Colts.
On top of that, he was also regarded as being just a little bit loopy. Even though Dungy was very much a defensive-minded coach he was a defensive backs coach or defensive coordinator for 15 years in the NFL prior to becoming a head coach , Manning would end up going in the regular season winning the AFC South five times in seven years and in the playoffs under Dungy, while also winning Super Bowl XLI.
The last coach Manning has played for is his current coach, Jim Caldwell. Caldwell was a first-time NFL head coach this past year, though he did work as the assistant head coach to Tony Dungy from It is yet to be determined how good a coach he is, but he certainly has started out well, going and taking the Colts to the Super Bowl in his rookie campaign.
His philosophy is much along the lines of his predecessor. Though Manning has by no means been bereft of good coaching, Brady has had the privilege of working with a football genius his entire career.
Playing for the best coach in the NFL the past 10 years gives Brady an advantage Manning could only dream of having, which makes what Manning has done over his career that much more special. In the 12 seasons Manning has been running the show, the Colts defense has ranked in the Top 10 just twice, coming in with an average ranking of Defense is a major factor when it comes to winning games in the NFL and can play an even larger factor come playoff time.
Some of the defenses that the Colts have put out on the field over the past 12 years have been downright atrocious. However, the edge must go to Manning here. Both Manning and Brady make the players around them better, as evidenced by guys like Deion Branch and Pierre Garcon, but when it comes down to it, they can only do so much as quarterbacks.
Like anyone else, they depend on everyone around them to do their jobs well for the team to be successful as a whole, and the Patriots have been much more dependable in those areas throughout their respective careers. Edge: Manning. Peyton Manning consistently puts up statistical seasons that most quarterbacks can only dream of having. His 12 seasons of throwing for plus TDs is also the most all-time, with Favre coming in second with 11 seasons while Dan Marino and Joe Montana sit tied for third with six apiece.
By no means is Brady a slouch when it comes to the numbers, but he simply does not reside in the same class as Manning. In fact, we would be hard-pressed to find ANY other quarterback in history who can hang with Manning statistically. Which meant that Peyton's Colts were one-and-done in the playoffs five out of the six years he had taken them to the postseason.
It certainly did not quiet down the chatter of Manning being a choke artist up until that point. While it was a typical season for Peyton —statistically efficient, excellent regular season record, falling short in the postseason —it was a change for Manning's counterpart, the three-time champion, Brady. Entering the season, the Patriots were a dynasty. They had won three Super Bowls in four seasons, and were looking to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Lombardi Trophies.
Linebacker Tedy Bruschi suffered a stroke before the season started. Cornerback Ty Law was released before the beginning of the regular season, and New England was forced to start 42 different players during the season —an NFL record for a division champion. The blueprint for New England's Super Bowl-winning teams was a strong defense, aided by Brady's ability to manage the game.
The blueprint would completely change in Gone was the strong defense that led the Patriots to three Super Bowl victories. In its place was a makeshift defensive unit which ranked 17th in the league in points per game allowed, and 26th in yards allowed —during its Super Bowl years, New England had never ranked any lower than sixth in points allowed.
Key running backs such as Corey Dillon, Kevin Faulk and Patrick Pass went down to injury at various points of the year. With the lack of stability on the defensive side, and a lack of stability in the running back corps, the Patriots were forced to rely on Brady like never before —and Brady performed. The season saw the Patriots quarterback lead the league in passing yardage, while ranking third in touchdowns en route to an AFC East crown. In his first season of 'carrying the team,' much as Manning was seen as 'carrying' the Colts, due to their inability to play defense during Manning's MVP years, Brady posted the stats to go along with the winning pedigree that he had made a trademark of his career up until that point.
After , Brady had proven he wasn't just a 'winner,' but a guy you could build your team around. Manning would do the same the following year in Peyton would once again lead the league in passer rating and touchdowns in Not only that, but he would finally get 'the monkey off of his back. The season would mark the final major evolution of this debate —Brady would cement himself as a "stat machine" capable of winning MVP awards akin to what Manning did years prior, while falling short of the ultimate goal —winning the Lombardi Trophy.
Surrounded by an excellent supporting cast at the receiver position for the first time in his career, Brady broke the record for touchdown passes set by Manning three years prior with 50 touchdowns. Receiver Randy Moss broke the receiving touchdowns record with 23, while the offense established an NFL-record points scored during that season. New England would finish the season , win their first two playoff games, before losing in one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history, falling to the New York Giants.
Through the years, Manning and Brady evolved from quarterbacks with 'given labels', to the complete quarterbacks that they are today. Neither quarterback has won a championship since the season, but both are still regarded as the top quarterbacks in the game today. But which one is truly better? When it comes down to the Manning vs. Brady debate, most experts don't want to come to a definitive pick when it comes to two of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. It's like in politics.
You'll never see a liberal convince a conservative his way is the right way. No one in the Peyton camp will ever be convinced that Brady's better. Both of these guys will go to the Hall of Fame -- and their graves -- with a smile on their face. Why argue?
In the final analysis, it's not final. But that's the problem —whereas fans have no problem picking a side, experts are afraid to toe the line by picking one of the two, as if a certain amount of backlash would ensue. In that same article, while on the topic of the value of Super Bowl rings, Bill Polian, who was team president of the Colts from , seems to add more questions rather than answers to the debate:.
That is to me an artificial argument. The three Tom won were largely because of a phenomenal defense. The two he lost was because the defense wasn't as good. The one Peyton won was because of how well the defense played through the playoffs, when we finally got things straightened out. The Super Bowl we lost, the defense played as poorly as it did all year.
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