Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Drew Brees have this year been, at one point in time, underrated. Peyton Manning has been looked at as being washed up, weak, too old, yet his team is 7-0 and he delivers when his team needs him the most. Tom Brady was terrible in the preseason and with Jimmy Garapollo looking good, had some people wondering if Brady was on his last straw but somehow he is playing the best football of his career and maybe in NFL History. Drew Brees, with an underachieving Saints team, went a pathetic 7-9. Some people were looking at Brees and thinking that his best years were behind him, with rumors of him being traded. Yet yesterday Brees played the best statistical game as a quarterback in NFL History with 511 Yards and 7 TDs. Everyone seems to give up on these Hall of Fame quarterbacks so easily and worship the younger QBs of the league, like Luck, Ryan, and Rodgers forgetting that the 3 1st ballot hall of famers can still ball themselves.
Quote:Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Drew Brees have this year been, at one point in time, underrated. Peyton Manning has been looked at as being washed up, weak, too old, yet his team is 7-0 and he delivers when his team needs him the most. Tom Brady was terrible in the preseason and with Jimmy Garapollo looking good, had some people wondering if Brady was on his last straw but somehow he is playing the best football of his career and maybe in NFL History. Drew Brees, with an underachieving Saints team, went a pathetic 7-9. Some people were looking at Brees and thinking that his best years were behind him, with rumors of him being traded. Yet yesterday Brees played the best statistical game as a quarterback in NFL History with 511 Yards and 7 TDs. Everyone seems to give up on these Hall of Fame quarterbacks so easily and worship the younger QBs of the league, like Luck, Ryan, and Rodgers forgetting that the 3 1st ballot hall of famers can still ball themselves.
I don't think anyone is forgetting the older qbs can still ball but its fairly obvious from watching them all they tend to dink and dunk their way down the field game managing more than anything with occasional shots. The worship for the younger guys is because they are all still on the way up, not down. All three of those older qbs play in offenses specifically tailored to hide their limitations, which is something the younger studs do not need.
... also it was one week of football revisit this end of season