Posted on 01/06/2010 9:35:58 AM PST by pissant
But Manning doesn't do more with less. I am so incredibly exasperated with this fallacy. He's on the same team he's been on for the last decade, and while Dungy left, Manning still has complete control of his offense and gets to pass it as much as he likes, while Favre has to battle a control freak coach who doesn't like the QB recognizing coverage patterns and calling audibles.
The most important stat with quarterbacks is actually pass protection. How potent the running game is is meaningless; pass protection is what's important. Favre has three times as many sacks yet a statistically better season.
Manning threw for more yards, but as the poster said, their YA are the same, and so it directly correlates with Manning having more attempts than Favre, considering their completion percentages are within half a percentage point of each other.
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I really have no interest in the NFL because they punked Rush, fawn over Obama and keep the liberal media alive plus condone - I do admire Favre. The guy is playing incredibly well at an older age like Kurt Warner last year going to the Super Bowl.
Farvio! Farvio! Wherefore art thou Farvio? Blegh!
Maybe one day I'll be nostalgic for those hot summer mornings, watching ESPN live covering him and Deanna running the bleacher steps at his high school, or scintillating footage of his SUV parked outside his agent's home.
Brett, I understand that training camp sucks, and you've proved that you don't need it... but think about us for a while: Can't you see what you're doing to ESPN and NFL Network?
I’ve been a vikes fan since I was 3 years old, so I’d like to see them win it all, Favre or no Favre. I still miss Bud Grant.
I give up.
What’s an ‘NVP’?
It’s the coverage that sucks, not the indecision, IMO. That’s why I don’t pay any attention to NFL until the regular season gets started.
Gotta argue with the contention that the Vikings weren’t that good before Favre came. During the tractor-driving, navel-gazing, unretirement phase, everyone was saying that Favre was the final piece the Vikings needed to win a Superbowl this year.
Yeah, they had a crappy QB, but the team was considered good enough to win it all once they had a good QB.
NVP = Not valuable player
Looking around the league - I miss Johnny Unitas.
Brett Favre has been Fantastic again this Year!! and isa Bright Beacon in the otherwise Blah NFL! Lets watch that Hero of the Liberals, McNABB, make a total Arse of himself again this coming Saturday! Betting the score will be 42 to NOTHING! Favor of the Cowboys!! That will be the Best thing that can ever happen to the EAGLES! RUSH was so RIGHT about McNABB those years ago....:-)
GO BRETT!! BRETT is the NFL MVP this Year!!No Exceptions!!
Bud Grant was a good man.
Looking around the league - I miss Johnny Unitas.
Looking around the League—I miss Tom Laundry
...and I loathe the cowboys....but always admired coach Laundry
Fallacy? Brett Favre has Adrian Peterson in the backfield. The Colts have one of the worst running teams in the league. There is no secret what is going to happen when you play the Colts, and Manning still shreds defenses.
Hell I was a Cowboys fan back then and even I miss Bud Grant.
How many juggernaut Colts teams have floundered in the playoffs? LOL. It will happen again
Bud Grant, John Madden, Tom Laundry, Chuck Knoll, Vince Lombardi. It was a different era back then, for sure.
I kind of liked ol Hank Stram too, but something about Don Shula has always rubbed me the wrong way.
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