He was outclassed today. When you have an awesome running attack, and the best defense in the NFL, you only need a QB that makes a few plays. See Roethlisberger in his first Super Bowl Run, and Dilfer for the Ravens…
Yes, but he’d be outclassed not only as a passer, but as a field general. Peyton doesn’t just pass great, he’s an expert at moving people.
How is Mark Sanchez at shoving his bare ass in reporters faces after his teammates hold them down?
Because, you know, you’re talking about class in comparison to Peyton Manning.
Wow, is that a reference to the bogus sexual harrassment suit from Peyton’s college days?
What’s bogus about it? I don’t think anyone seriously disputes what happened.
And why does it matter that it was in college? I managed to get through college without shoving my bare ass in some girls face while my buddies held her down.
This game reminded me a lot of the Giants Superbowl win over the Patriots. In both games, the score was 7 for the the high flying offense and 3 for the scrappy upstart defensive teams through three quarters. The fourth quarter starts 7-3 but ends 17-14 with the high flying offense on the losing side.
A lot of people are going to point to the first Jets @ Colts game and declare it a victory for the Colts because they were winning when the starters got pulled. They were winning by 5 at the time, and hadn’t exactly lit up the scoreboard to that point. At the same point in the game tonight the Chargers were winning by 4 and the Jets found a way to win. I’m not saying the Jets would have definitely beaten the Colts that day, but it’s a big leap to assume the Colts had it in the bag.
And while the regular-season stats are somewhat inflated due to the last two games, their defense didn’t just happen to go into the playoff with the fewest points allowed per game – by dint of the fewest yards allowed per game, by dint of the fewest passing yards allowed per game; they constantly blitzed the quarterback to better effect than they did in this game, often while Revis was blanking the other side’s top receiver if there was enough time to pass the ball.
Of course, against teams that excel at rushing – even those who didn’t finish with a winning record – that was, again and again and again, a recipe for disaster; like tonyfop just mentioned, the missing piece was Sanchez, who couldn’t be counted on to put the ball in the air if they really needed to score back. But he’s been getting better and better while the defense has remained terrific; he’s still not terrific, but they don’t need to rely on the run nearly as much now as before.
Heh, that reminds me of a couple related points. All week long I must have heard “Chargers are the only team to score 20 points in every game this season” about ten thousand times. During the postgame interviews Philip Rivers pointed out that they only scored 14, which means they didn’t even push the Jets defense to their average of 14.8 points allowed.
Peyton Manning was working out in a weight room with a teammate. At one point, messing around, he pulled aside a leg of shorts to sort of quasi-moon the guy. Unbeknownst to both of them, a female trainer just entering the weight room happened to see it. Peyton didn’t even know she was there, and had intended to moon his teammate, not her.
Knowing who Peyton Manning was, she saw dollar signs and sued. He admitted to mooning his teammate, but not to intentionally mooning the trainer. The suit was bogus. I think the university settled, but it was complete bullshit.
I had it wrong, it was a trainer not a reporter. The incident from her perspective was not accidental or harmless.
Peyton moons the entire Earth whenever he takes off that helmet and unveils the “Timmay” forehead…
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I did not expect that. Y’know, in the week leading up to this game, I said any number of times that if we couldn’t beat the Jets, we had no business being in the Super Bowl anyway. As it turns out, I was right, but not the way I had in mind.
The Jets brought their A game against San Diego. The Bolts, on the other hand, took every bit of credit I’d been giving them all season long for playing tight, keeping their heads in the game and avoiding stupid penalties (Headbutting? Kicking the challenge flag? Seriously?), and pissed it right straight down the toilet. Kaeding’s three misses didn’t help, but I can’t pin it all on him, either. Bottom line, the Charger team that showed up today was not the champion-caliber squad I’d been watching in the twelve weeks prior, and the Jets proved that they have what it takes to capitalize on mistakes and earn the respect that precisely no one — least of all me, or possibly Norv Turner — gave them at the outset. Well played to the green and white.
Now that the Chargers are out of it, I’ll do what I said at the beginning of the season I’d do if this happened, and back the Vikings from this point on. I want to see the old man have one last hurrah.
After that, well, there’s always next year. Sigh…
ETA: Oh, and a hearty middle finger to the Qualcomm crowd for booing your own team for being down by ten points. Nice showing of fandom and support, there. Leave that shit to the NCAA.
I’m kinda surprised by Dio. I’d think that if nothing else, he’d have an irrational hatred of Peyton Manning and play up the locker room incident for all it was worth.
For my part, I remembered it as being a basically uncontested incident and I was joking around because of the “class” idea. I think there was probably more than a casual/accidental moon to the incident, but I’m not hung up on it. I do think it was low of him to take cheap shots at her in his memoir when she was a complete nobody with no book deal. Just fucking drop it, Peyton. You won.
I am also rooting for the old man, but for a completely different reason. I want to see the Jets hand it to him in the Super Bowl after what he did to us last year. From my point of view, and he came close to admitting it at the beginning of this year, he intentionally downplayed how bad his arm felt for the last 5 games of last season, because his streak was more important than winning. He didn’t want to be in NY. He just went there as a waypoint to the Vikes, and he only wanted to play for the Vikes to get back at Green Bay. Personally, he has acted selfish over the last couple years, but he is everyones darling, so he can.
Oh please oh please let this happen. The Colts in the superbowl would disgust me, and aside from getting creamed in their first game back, having the team that they let into the playoffs with their bullshit knock them out would be beautiful.
I wonder if the Jets’ field goal kryptonite will keep up.
Well, like you said, it’s not like Favre WANTED to play in NY; he wanted to play in Minnesota, it was Green Bay that dictated the stipulations that led to a wasted year in NY for the Jets and Favre.
I think its the gravitational pull from Rex Ryan’s mass that’s affecting those kicks.
Heh, in the old days, we’d have said it was the massive SUCKing from the Jets’ sideline doing it. Not this year. 
Stupid Chargers. It was funny, everyone at my house could see the result coming from about the second quarter.
Also, that had to be one of the greatest examples of the TV stats guys jinxing things that I’ve ever seen. There were maybe 5 or 6 cases of things like
Kaeding: 8 of 15 in the playoffs.