Peyton Manning

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{{NFL player 

  |Image=
  |DateOfBirth=March 24, 1976
  |Birthplace=New Orleans, Louisiana
  |Position=QB
  |College=Tennessee
  |DraftedYear=1998
  |DraftedRound=1/ Pick 1
  |Awards=2005 Walter Payton Award,
2004 AP NFL MVP,
2004 AP NFL Offensive POY,
2004 Pro Bowl MVP,
2003 AP NFL MVP
  |Honors=
  |Records=*NFL Most Passing TDs
 in a Single Season (49) 
  |NFL=12531
  |DatabaseFootball=MANNIPEY01
  |years=1998–present
  |teams=Indianapolis Colts
  |ProBowls=1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005}}

Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts NFL franchise.

He is the son of former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning and Olivia Manning, and the older brother of current New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning. Peyton played college football for the University of Tennessee and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts as the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft.

Manning holds numerous passing records, including the record for touchdown passes in a single season (49 in 2004) and consecutive seasons with over 4,000 yards passing (6 from 1999 through 2004.).


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College career

Because of his father's legacy at Ole Miss, as well as his own status as the most highly recruited high school quarterback of his class, Peyton Manning stunned many when he chose to attend and play for the University of Tennessee. Manning would become Tennessee's all-time leading passer with 11,201 yards, 863 completions and 89 touchdowns, while compiling a 39-6 record as a starter, setting an SEC record for career wins (although Georgia's David Greene would set a new record of 42 wins in 2005). In his college career, he threw only 33 interceptions in 1,381 attempts, an NCAA record for best all-time interception percentage.

Although after three years he had completed his degree, a BA in speech communication with a 3.61 GPA and Phi Beta Kappa honors, and was projected to be the top overall pick in the NFL Draft, Manning returned to Tennessee for his senior year. He put up even more impressive numbers in his last season (3,819 yards, 36 touchdowns) and finished second in 1997 Heisman Trophy voting to the University of Michigan's Charles Woodson, although he was unable to beat arch rival University of Florida for the fourth consecutive time. Manning received the 1997 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States.

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Professional career

Manning was selected first overall in the 1998 draft and has started every game in his NFL career, missing only one snap due to injury and many others due to large leads. He was the NFL co-MVP in 2003, sharing the honor with Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair. In 2004, Manning became the highest-paid player in NFL history at the time, signing a $99.2m contract for seven years with a $34.5m signing bonus, which averages out to $14.17m annually. Under the contract, Manning is also eligible to earn an extra $19m in incentives.

Manning is widely viewed as an elite NFL quarterback, and some sportswriters and scouts already consider him a future Hall of Fame inductee. In scouting reports, he is known as a "pure" pocket passer, with prototypical size, a strong arm, excellent touch, and nearly perfect mechanics. Manning reads the field extremely well, and is one of the few quarterbacks with complete freedom to change a play at the line of scrimmage. He is well known for his frantic hand gestures and shouting before the play while calling out audibles. Unlike some modern quarterbacks, Manning is not known as a "scrambler" and is not very mobile if the pocket collapses, only rolling out to search for receivers.

After many football insiders criticized Manning for being 0-3 in the playoffs, he won his first NFL playoff game against the Denver Broncos on January 4, 2004. Manning's Passer Rating in the Colts' playoff game against the Broncos was a perfect 158.3. The next week, his rating against the Kansas City Chiefs was an impressive 138.8; however, he posted the third lowest passer rating of his career - 35.5 - in the AFC title game against the New England Patriots, throwing four interceptions in a 24-14 loss.

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2004-2005 Season

In 2004, Manning had one of the greatest regular seasons a quarterback has ever produced, putting up 4,557 yards, a 121.1 quarterback rating, and 49 touchdowns, surpassing the legendary mark previously held by Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino. His quarterback rating in 2004 also surpassed the previous single-season mark of 112.8 set by Hall of Fame San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young. In addition to his individual achievements, Manning also led the Colts to a 12-4 record and their second consecutive AFC South division title. As a result, he was a near-unanimous selection for the 2004 NFL MVP, was named NFL Offensive Player of the Year and Pro Bowl MVP. However, the Colts' 2004 season ended in Foxborough for a second straight year with a 20-3 loss in the AFC Divisional Playoff game against New England when Manning played his worst game of the year, recording a season-low passer rating of 69.3 and posting a season-low 3 points of offense. It was Manning's seventh consecutive loss to the Patriots in Foxborough, MA.

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2005-2006 Season

When the 2005 NFL season started, it was an entirely different story, though in the end 2005 was identical to the two prior seasons. The Colts’ defense had vastly improved over the previous years, and coupled with Manning’s passing game and Edgerrin James’ running game, the Colts have had one of the best seasons of any team in recent years. In week 9, the Colts, at 7-0, came off of their BYE week and faced their rival who had denied them the chance for the Super Bowl twice before, the Patriots, whose standing was at 4-3, at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts, defeating them in a clear cut victory: 40-21. The Colts finally ended their 10 year losing streak at Foxborough, with Manning ending his heavily criticized 7 game losing streak against the Patriots. In week 15, Manning and the Colts played the San Diego Chargers at home in the RCA Dome. The Colts had been playing for an undefeated season, going 13-0 before this game. However, the Colts played a sub par game against the Chargers and fell short of the win; the score was 26-17. (As a note, if they had succeeded in going undefeated, they would have been the only team to do so in the modern NFL regular schedule. When the 1972 Dolphins went undefeated in both regular and post season play, the regular season was only 14 games long, compared to the 16 game season NFL teams have today.) On January 15, 2006, the Pittsburgh Steelers visited the RCA Dome for the second AFC divisional playoff game of the 2005 season. Scoring early, the Steelers put themselves ahead 14-3 by halftime. Peyton led his team to a late 4th quarter rally after a series of improbable events (such as a Jerome Bettis fumble at the goal line when the game was thought to be over), but a missed Mike Vanderjagt field goal in the final seconds failed to send the game into overtime, allowing the Steelers a 21-18 victory over Indianapolis, once again ending a superb Colts' season early in the playoffs. (It was the first time a 6th seeded team would eventually go on to win the Super Bowl when the Steelers won Super Bowl XL.) Peyton came in second in voting for the 2005 MVP award to Shaun Alexander (19 to 13, out of 50 voters), ending his streak at two years. He was named the 2005 winner of the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. He was also nominated for the 2005 FedEx Air Player of the Year Award, along with Tom Brady and Carson Palmer, the winner of the award.

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Criticism

Despite the fact that his statistical output places him in the highest echelon of NFL quarterbacks, Manning has been criticized for being unable to win "big games"[1]. Due to this, his ability to perform and lead his team in clutch situations has been called into question by some. This includes Terry Bradshaw who, in Fox's post-game show following the 2006 loss to Pittsbugh, disagreed with Manning's assessment of "Let's just say we had some problems with protection" and noted Manning's 3-6 record in the playoffs [2]. Manning's big-game problems date back to his college days at Tennessee, where he had an 0-3 record against the University of Florida.

An ESPN.COM commentator noted after the Colt's 2005 divisional upset loss to the Steelers that "Manning's career almost certainly will lead him to an induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio, but he rarely is at his best in the biggest spots. Some of his worst performances have come in the playoffs, when Tom Brady, Troy Aikman or Joe Montana achieved the most. A heavy pass rush often turns Manning into a quarterback with happy feet who forces passes" [3].

Because of this, Manning sometimes is compared to Dan Marino, another quarterback who put up great numbers but never won a Super Bowl. A notable commentator who made this comparison was Boomer Esiason [4].

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Records

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Career (individual)

Manning holds a number of individual career records:

  • Consecutive seasons with 4,000+ yards: 6, from 1999–2004 (Dan Marino is the only other quarterback to have had six 4,000-yard seasons, though not in succession)
  • Consecutive seasons with 25+ TD passes: 8, from 1998-2005 (current)
  • Games with perfect passer rating: 4 (includes 1 playoff game; most perfect games of any QB since passer rating was created by the NFL in 1973)
  • Only player to pass for 3,000+ yards in each of his first 8 seasons in the NFL. (current)
  • Manning has started every game since he has been in the NFL, a streak currently at 128 games, the longest career-opening streak for a QB. (current)
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2004 season

During the 2004 season Manning broke several single season passing records, including:

  • Touchdowns: 49 (previously held by Dan Marino with 48 in 1984)
  • Passer rating: 121.1 (previously held by Steve Young with 112.8 in 1994)
  • Consecutive games with at least 4 TD passes: 5 (previously held by Marino with 4 TDs in 4 consecutive games in 1984)
  • 5 TD passes in 4 different games in less than 12 months (previously held by Marino)
  • First QB to throw 10+ TD passes to each of 3 different receivers in 1 season (14, Marvin Harrison; 12, Reggie Wayne; 10, Brandon Stokley). The Colts are the only team ever to have 3 WRs with 10+ TDs in 1 season.
  • Although not an NFL record, Manning threw 6 TD passes in a little over a half against the Detroit Lions on November 25. It was the second time in his career that Manning achieved this (also in 2003), and he has been the only NFL player to throw 6 TDs in 1 game since 1991. [5]
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With Marvin Harrison

Manning and Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison hold a number of QB-WR tandem records:

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College and miscellaneous

Manning also holds two NCAA records, eight SEC records and 33 school records from his four years at the University of Tennessee, as well as numerous Colts season and career records.

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NFL career statistics

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Regular season

  • 4,333 passes attempted
  • 2,769 passes completed
  • 33,189 passing yards
  • 244 passing touchdowns
  • 130 interceptions
  • 80-48 record as a starter
  • 33.3 passes attempted per interception
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Postseason

  • 322 passes attempted
  • 193 passes completed
  • 2,461 passing yards
  • 15 passing touchdowns
  • 8 passes intercepted
  • 3-6 postseason record
  • 40.3 passing attempts per interception in the postseason
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See also

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External links

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