Comments on: Peyton Manning’s Legacy http://www.footballperspective.com/peyton-mannings-legacy/ NFL History and Stats Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Trepur http://www.footballperspective.com/peyton-mannings-legacy/#comment-311447 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=17858#comment-311447 In reply to RD Reynolds.

Cassel went 10-6 in Kansas City 2 years later, so he had success elsewhere. Meanwhile Collins/Painter/Orlovsky won a combined 0 games outside of Indianapolis.

And I also like to emphasize strength of schedule:
2007 Patriots go 16-0 on the 7th hardest schedule
2008 Patriots go 11-5 on the 28th hardest schedule

]]> By: RD Reynolds http://www.footballperspective.com/peyton-mannings-legacy/#comment-79087 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:26:04 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=17858#comment-79087 @Ned: “New England also went 11-5 when Brady went down in 2006 and Cassel took over. Cassel’s best success was with Belichick, too

(Compare that to how Indianapolis went to ruin when Manning went down)”

What most people forget is that the 2008 Patriots (as did the rest of the AFC East) played a weak AFC West and NFC West (where neither division had 10+ win teams).

The 2011 Colts, OTOH, played a tough AFC North and NFC South, and knew they were finished without Manning (Tom Moore once said, “If ’18’ goes down, we’re fucked, and we don’t practice fucked.”)

One could say that it’s more about Cassel vs. Collins/Painter/Orlovsky.

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