They claimed he would give them 'pop quizes' on what to look for in a game, they said they were afraid of him, they said they would try to avoid him and he would interject himself in every aspect of the game.
That may be true but he brought the whiners into the super Bowl with his knowledge of the game.
He went into this game with those remarks ringing in his head and, in my opinion, resolved to just do HIS job and let his 'team' mates do theirs.
Although he had the option to call plays, he didn't call them even when he saw clearly what the hawks defense would do.
He didn't rush up and down his line hollering out what to look for and, personally, I don't blame him...let THEM figure out what to do.
He let his omnipotent coach call the shots, after all, did he get his support when he was being sullied by his team mates?
Did the owners step in to support him?
No, they let him appear to be a pariah, erroneously thinking, he will be the same quarterback who brought them into the 'super' Bowl.
You may say, he was acting like a spoiled child if he did, indeed, step outside his normal game play on purpose but he didn't abandon his team, they abandoned him.
Omaha...Omaha.
So what they are saying is that Peyton does not respond well to criticism and is not a team player, but rather a diva?
Interesting.
Had my team criticized me and the way I dedicate myself to being the best I can be, my response would have been to lead that team to the ultimate achievement and then ask them if they have any more criticism of me and my methods.
But I guess Peyton is made of weaker stuff.
He won't be able to do this any longer. He proved that the day of the pocket QB is over. Defensive coordinators have figured out how to waste it. The era of the good passer & good runner, begins.
what’s your source
Well there’s a silly idea, what guy in his late 30s will tank what could be his last chance at a championship to prove a point?! And I doubt given how many records they set this year the rest of the team was terribly annoyed with Peyton being Peyton.
The reality would seem to be a lot plainer. Going into the game the top defense was 12-3 in the SB and 4-1 facing the top offense in the SB, defense wins championships. Meanwhile there’s an old Madden observation that the team that’s looser and having more fun wins the SB, one of Pete Carroll’s big goals as a coach is for practices to be fun and keep his team loose and all the reporting from practice last week said he succeeded. Meanwhile the word out of Denver practices was they were “focused”, which generally means not loose and not having fun.
So Denver comes in tight and things go wrong right from the beginning, they run back an opening kickoff they should have kneeled and get the ball at their 14 instead of their 20, the center snaps the ball when Peyton is adjusting the play and it results in a safety. Once things start going wrong they tend to keep going wrong, of course Seattle shows (and plays) vanilla defenses making it very hard for Peyton to do that Peyton thing. You can’t really adjust the play when the look is the same as the last 10 plays.
Everything else is a snowball from there. You’ve got a tense team watching things go wrong vs a loose team watching things go right. So the tense team gets more tense and the loose team gets more loose, more things the tense team tries fail, and more things the loose team tries succeed. Nobody abandoned anybody, they just ran into a team that could stop them handily and added a bad game on top of it.
A steady diet of three yard passes over the middle ain’t going to win a super bowl. Especially when your down by 20+ points all game.
Isn’t that what a leader DOES?
“He didn’t rush up and down his line hollering out what to look for and, personally, I don’t blame him...let THEM figure out what to do.”
Disagree. Manning was in the process of stepping up toward the center on the first play from scrimmage to deliver a line audible when the jittery Denver center snapped the ball over his head resulting in a safety.
This is a classic move by Manning that was repeated several times during the game even after the disaster on the first play.
Hmmm?
Sounds familiar.
"One: down to the road block, we've just begun; Two: the guards are through; Three: the Major's men are on a spree; Four: Major and Wladislaw go through the door; Five: Pinkley stays out in the drive; Six: the Major gives the rope a fix; Seven: Wladislaw throws the hook to heaven; Eight: Jiménez has got a date; Nine: the other guys go up the line; Ten: Sawyer and Gilpin are in the pen; Eleven: Posey guards points five and seven; Twelve: Wladislaw and the Major go down to delve; Thirteen: Franko goes up without being seen; Fourteen: Zero-hour, Jiménez cuts the cable, Franko cuts the phone; Fifteen: Franko goes in where the others have been; Sixteen: we all come out like it's Halloween." The group recites this constantly to drive it into their minds.