A buddy of mine, Tomo, sent a great email out regarding the quality comparison of Manning & Brady. Of course, the head to head match-up over the course of their careers is always front loaded with receiver-quality caveats. But, then I started looking at Manning's signature season to date and then looked at Brady's season this year, and noticed something.
Perfect dead-on comparison. No caveats or handicapping necessary.
'04 was Mannings seventh year in the league -- this year is Brady's lucky seven (disregarding the one game appearance in 2000); same level of experience.
'04 the Colts went 13-0, with a dominating air attack from Manning to his strong receiver corps. Brady - ditto & looking for more.
The numbers:
YEAR.....TEAM....G....CMP....ATT.....PCT....YDS...AVG...T...INT...RAT
B-2007 ...NE.....13 ...334....476 ....70.2....4095..8.6...45....5...123.5
M-2004 ..IND... 16.....336...497....67.6....4557..9.2....49...10..121.1
Notable too is that Brady is averaging 3.3 yards on 25 QB rushes attempts so far and Manning averaged 1.5 yards on 25 QB rushes for the season -- although this may point to the notion that the Colts' offensive line was better, since Brady still has three games to go, it exemplifies the better running qualities inherent with Brady. Since his traditional QB stats are superior to those of the '04 Manning, you get a better running QB on top of the superior performance.
Thanks to Tomes...
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