Saturday, July 18, 2009

I throw the ball, you catch it. It's not that hard.

I promise you the next time ESPN says something intelligent about Colts football, it is going to be the first time. In their annual Fantasy Football preview, they listed Peyton Manning as the 3rd rated QB and also categorized him as a, get this, Injury Risk. Huh?

Let's take a look at the facts and they are indisputable:

  1. Peyton has played in the NFL for 11 Seasons
  2. In those 11 Seasons he has started all 176 games, that is the most consecutive games started to open a career by a quarterback in the history of the NFL
  3. For his career he has taken 10,691 of a possible 11,067 snaps behind center. That is rate of 96.6%.
  4. Finally, during his tenure in the NFL he has won 3 MVP (2003, 2004, and 2008), appeared in 9 Pro Bowls, named to 4 1st Team All Pro, and won the Super Bowl in 2006 while winning Super Bowl MVP.
The man has never missed a snap due to injury, let alone a game, so yeah injury risk is a completely plausible title to throw around Peyton's neck. It would be like saying Bill Gates lacks innovation or Barrack Obama has zero ambition. Here is an accurate statement if you don't know what one looks like: ESPN's Fantasy Football preview editor knows jack and shit about Colts Football.

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