Oct 31 2006
Another QB With Great Touch on His Balls
In his latest Monday Morning QB column, Peter King has it all wrong:
It’s a heady thing, wondering if [Sunday's Colts-Broncos game] was the best game of [Peyton] Manning’s life, which includes 144 pro games (135 regular-season, nine postseason), 45 college starts and 39 high school starts in New Orleans.
What our caffeine-addled friend should be asking is this: Why does Peyton Manning always perform like this in October, but rarely does this well in January? It’s the same story with the Colts every damn year. They run the table and clinch a playoff berth, a division title and quite possibly home field advantage weeks before Christmas, but when January rolls around, this team never delivers the goods. At least Dan Marino got to the Super Bowl once. What’s Manning’s excuse? An idiot kicker? He can’t fall back on that this year, can he?
Of course, King isn’t done yet…
Just last year he riddled two playoff teams in the span of three weeks on the road, putting up 40 in the monkey-off-the-back game at New England and 45 at Cincinnati.
Last time I checked, the monkey was still there, and those two games played right in the middle of autumn. Ho hum. This isn’t the English Premier League. Regular season success only goes so far. Wake me when Peyton Manning actually gets to a Super Bowl. Until then, you might as well call him Mr. October.
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The reason the Colts fail to go deep in the
playoffs is their defense. Great defenses like
Chicago will allow them to win deep in the
playoffs. Average defenses like the Colts will
have them lose earlier in the playoffs. Great
defenses WIN superbowls. Chicago Bears will be
in the Superbowl this year!!!