Peyton Manning is not the greatest quarterback of all time. That is how I am supposed to start this after he lost the Super Bowl last Sunday, correct? Well, not quite; I could go on and on about Manning's leadership skills, his mechanics and his elite accuracy. I could give you a boatload of statistical performances that will make it sound like a no-brainer for the opposite to be true.
Does Peyton Manning losing that one game, against an amazing Seattle Seahawks team, really eliminate him from the conversation? According to Gregg Doyel from CBSSports.com, it does. Gregg states, "Manning isn't trying to get into the Hall of Fame. He's in. He's not trying to be remembered as one of the greatest ever, because he's on the short list whether he wins this game or not. But Manning has within his grasp the honor of greatest quarterback ever, and to be given that seat among the NFL immortals, he can't have a losing record in the Super Bowl."
Gregg does acknowledge that this is not the way it should be, but rather the way that it is. Does he throw the ball worse with less rings on his fingers? He is still in the discussion, which is clear because we are talking about it.
But then, without question, the comment will come, of how insanely idiotic I am for writing this. How there is NO WAY Peyton Manning is better than Tom Brady. That argument will consist of Brady's three Super Bowl wins, the lack of receiver weapons he has had over the years, and the amount of winning seasons Tom Brady has had. Tom Brady has played in a Championship game in more than half of the seasons he has played. So how could anyone be better than him?
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