When Peyton Manning broke Marino's record and threw for 49 everyone and i mean EVERYONE acted like this was the craziest thing of all time and that it would never happen again. When Brady does it no one seems to care, everyone just acts as if its normal or doesnt matter. Manning, who seems to be the "God" of the NFL for whatever reason, gets deemed as one of the greatest b/c of this feat and then Brady breaks Manning's record (once again proving he is better) and everyone goes "yay" and then just turns the other cheek. What gives?
2007-12-31 05:43:55 · 18 answers · asked by wcbaseball4 4 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
To anyone saying you dont respect the record for the fact that they didnt "run up the score" and werent throwing the ball when up alot, give me a break. If you watched that season at all you would have realized that Peyton used Edge as his lil workhorse to get them close and then would never let Edge get ANY recognition for he wanted his own glory. Edgerrin James got just 9 TD's despite running for almost 1600 yds. They only had 10 rushing TD's as a team!! The Pats this season didnt have a healthy RB hardly the entire season. Heath Evans was running the ball for God's sake. So that makes his record even more impressive! 470+ rushing attempts w/ just 10 TD's for the Colts while the Pats had just 440+ rushing attempts with 17 TD's. So Brady got the job done and not a single RB had over 170 carries. He never had a consistent running game b/c of injury and EVERYONE knew he was throwing yet he still thrashed defenses. Get a clue ppl...his record is alot more impressive.
2007-12-31 06:22:20 · update #1
When Manning did it that was all there was to focus on. Brady has to share the spotlight with other accomplishments like Moss' TDs and teams TDs and win differential and 16 - 0.
2007-12-31 05:48:06 · answer #1 · answered by Why So Serious? 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
No, and not for a on a similar time as for now. Peyton Manning would get some thing like forty two or forty 3 TDs in his next season. possibly in some years to a decade somebody will break Tom Brady's checklist.
2016-11-27 00:44:40 · answer #2 · answered by gnegy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The record is not as impressive because Brady didn't have to play. The Patriots risked key players in a game that meant nothing except for setting meaningless selfish records. Manning wasn't tring to set any personal records and did it in 15 games. To me Manning's record didn't mean much either because the year he set the record they lost in the playoffs. You can set all the N.F.L. regular season records and they mean nothing if you don't get the Lombardi Trophy to go with it.
2007-12-31 06:01:41 · answer #3 · answered by gamemaster37917 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No I don't think it is like that at all. You have to look at records. It appeared that Marino had put the TD record way out of reach, and it appeared that way for a while. I think Marino's record was in the early 80's. So that recorded lasted 20 years. It was able to build a little record "lore". Manning just broke the record a few years ago. It hasn't had a chance to build its own record story and lore. The same thing with Baseball (i know this is all being looked at closely because of steroids) but 61 was that magical number. Then Sosa and Big Mac passed it, and then again sosa passed it the next year. So it was YAWN, already seen that. Same with Bonds. Mac had just posted 70 so who cared if bonds did it a few years later.
But I still hold manning's record season above brady's because while they both had outstanding offenenses, Indy never ran the score up on people, and they didn't throw to force the record. How many times this year was NE up 20 points and Brady was still in throwing the ball and getting TD's. The year Manning broke the record, he was out after they were up by a bunch or they RAN the ball.
Brady has always had this Golden Boy Aura around him. I would love to see him actually perform on a bad team, like Manning had to do his first couple of years, and get a licking, and see how he performs.
But the real test will come in the real season, I want to see Brady throwing the ball against Jacksonville or some other team when those winds and snows are whipping in NE
2007-12-31 05:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by bahamamike78 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Once again I'm not that impressed considering how pathetically weak the AFC east was.
The Patriots were given 6 games this year.
2007-12-31 05:49:37 · answer #5 · answered by Lord Vader 2 · 4⤊ 5⤋
Brady breaking the record is definately impressive. I think the one thing about Mannings that was more impressive is that he didnt finish alot of those games that they were ahead in, so no telling how many he could have thrown. With that being said though it doesnt really matter, Brady holds the record now no matter how it happened.
2007-12-31 05:49:28 · answer #6 · answered by Michael W 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
if you think nobody made a big deal, you need to check yourself out
2007-12-31 05:49:12 · answer #7 · answered by G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ESPN just did a pole asking what QB you would rather have in the playoffs and Brady won by a landslide, that proves that everyone knows he's the best, it's just they have trouble admitting it sometimes.
2007-12-31 05:48:46 · answer #8 · answered by The Greatest One 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Much of it has to do with the fact that Marino's record stood for 20 years before Manning broke it, while Brady just broke a record that has only been around a few years.
The same thing happened when Big Mac broke Maris's home run record. Huge celebrations and everything - then Barry breaks it a few years later, and it's almost an afterthought.
2007-12-31 05:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by Craig S 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yay, he broke the record. If he had done it in 15 games like Peyton did, I would be more impressed.
VOR, Tom Brady didn't play the Colts in the RCA dome this year? Also, how about the fact that the Patriots play in the worst division in the NFL? Also, the Colts don't play all of their games in the RCA dome. Half of their games are on the road.
2007-12-31 05:47:26 · answer #10 · answered by Rich people employ me 5 · 4⤊ 6⤋