Peyton Manning

Peyton Manning will not win a Superbowl. Sorry Indy fans, but it just won't happen. At least not the way he's playing right now.

Is Manning one of the best QB's ever? Yup. Is he a hall-of-famer? Ah, if he's one of the best... of course. So why won't he win?

Football today is not football of yester-year. Back when Unitas played football, players played just against each other. It was eleven guys on the field versus another eleven guys on the field. Manning would win titles back then, no doubt. That's his game. It's his mojo, his calling. He gets to the line, he sees the defensive scheme, he makes the call.

Today, football is something like forty-four coaches, a dozen statiticians, fifty-six assistant coaches... you get the idea, versus all the same positions on the other team. In the playoffs, Manning gets head-faked. Statiticians have a year of stats to know what he's going to do if they show certains schemes. They draw him into making the call they want, and he takes the bait. It's why he not only loses playoff games but why he often falls far behind and even loses big.

At the end of the season, the best teams with the best players, coaches and statiticians are left. Each week of the plaoyffs, the better and better of these groups are left standing. Manning doesn't use his coaches or statiticians much. He can beat the other guys on the field. It's all the other people on the field that he can't beat and he doesn't account for them.

That is why Manning will never get a title, unless, of course, he starts to listen.