IT WAS ALL supposed to be so different for Peyton Manning on Sunday.
Following a disappointing first loss of the season last week, the Broncos were expected to bounce back with a big divisional win at home, and manning was to be lauded by all around him for breaking the NFL’s passing yard record.
Indeed, coming into the game with the Kansas City Chiefs, Manning sat on 71,836 passing yards, needing just three more to break Brett Favre’s mark.
For a quarterback with 186 wins and that much mileage under his belt, you’d have thought breaking the record would be very easy.
However, as anyone with a pair of eyes would tell you, this is not the Peyton Manning we grew up with and his performance last night was very much in keeping with how his season has gone.
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On his very first pass attempt, Manning tried to hit recently signed tight end Vernon Davis deep, but instead Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters was there to make the interception.
On his very next pass attempt, he was sacked and fumbled the football but luckily Ronnie Hillman was there to recover it for the Broncos.
Then, on the following play, Manning finally broke the record with a four yard pass to his running back. The game stopped to honour the achievement and it was all very awkward as the quarterback was clearly uncomfortable with the game being halted.
Manning would go on to throw three more interceptions — completing just five of 20 pass attempts for 35 yards — before being benched for backup QB Brock Osweiler.
In what was a career low, Manning became the first quarterback since 2007 to record a passer rating of zero.
Getting zero is really, really difficult.
To achieve it, a quarterback must have no touchdowns, complete no more than 30% of his pass attempts, average less than 3 yards per attempt and throw an interception on at least 9.5% of his attempts.
You have to be pretty bad.
It completes the Manning family tree of recording a zero passer rating after dad Archie (1974) and brother Eli (2004).
Will Manning start next time out against the Bears. The answer is probably yes. Should he, that’s a whole other matter.
Peyton Manning picked a terrible time to have the worst game of his career
IT WAS ALL supposed to be so different for Peyton Manning on Sunday.
Following a disappointing first loss of the season last week, the Broncos were expected to bounce back with a big divisional win at home, and manning was to be lauded by all around him for breaking the NFL’s passing yard record.
Indeed, coming into the game with the Kansas City Chiefs, Manning sat on 71,836 passing yards, needing just three more to break Brett Favre’s mark.
For a quarterback with 186 wins and that much mileage under his belt, you’d have thought breaking the record would be very easy.
However, as anyone with a pair of eyes would tell you, this is not the Peyton Manning we grew up with and his performance last night was very much in keeping with how his season has gone.
On his very first pass attempt, Manning tried to hit recently signed tight end Vernon Davis deep, but instead Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters was there to make the interception.
On his very next pass attempt, he was sacked and fumbled the football but luckily Ronnie Hillman was there to recover it for the Broncos.
Then, on the following play, Manning finally broke the record with a four yard pass to his running back. The game stopped to honour the achievement and it was all very awkward as the quarterback was clearly uncomfortable with the game being halted.
Manning would go on to throw three more interceptions — completing just five of 20 pass attempts for 35 yards — before being benched for backup QB Brock Osweiler.
In what was a career low, Manning became the first quarterback since 2007 to record a passer rating of zero.
Getting zero is really, really difficult.
To achieve it, a quarterback must have no touchdowns, complete no more than 30% of his pass attempts, average less than 3 yards per attempt and throw an interception on at least 9.5% of his attempts.
You have to be pretty bad.
It completes the Manning family tree of recording a zero passer rating after dad Archie (1974) and brother Eli (2004).
Will Manning start next time out against the Bears. The answer is probably yes. Should he, that’s a whole other matter.
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