Whitlock’s contention isn’t that Manning is a bad quarterback at all…just that he’s a bad tactician.

Smart defensive coaches love to take on Manning at playoff time. A good football coach can always outthink a player, no matter how intelligent or talented the player is.

This whole article was keyed by two things: Vick’s admission—not too hard an admission, really, since it was eminently true—that he blew the game for the Eagles; and Manning’s failure to admit the same thing about his loss:

Saturday, Manning failed on numerous third-and-short situations, choosing to throw rather than run. Late in the game, he underthrew Blair White on a critical third-down pass that would’ve left virtually no time on the clock when Adam Vinatieri attempted a go-ahead field goal, rather than enough time for the Jets to execute their game-winning drive.

…plus his history of blaming everyone else when things don’t go his way. And Whitlock didn’t write that Manning has an ego problem because he won’t demand Caldwell’s firing; he wrote that if he didn’t have an ego problem, he would demand it (admittedly, though: that’s a stretch). Peyton’s ego problem has been manifest for years…as anyone can see when he pouts on the bench like an 11-year-old who’s just realized he won’t be getting that trophy he thought was his by right.

[Full disclosure: I have never liked Peyton Manning (as if you couldn’t tell), and like him less and less as the years go by. I’ve never liked Michael Vick, either, and expected that sooner or later he would blow it.]

Agreed.

cracker

African American? I was just curious about that.

Whitless is a sellout in my book. He’s written a lot of crap against blacks, I hate his crap! And Manning isn’t god, he can be compared to. He’s a QB just like Vick. They are both popular and they both lost games that weekend, makes sense he’d compare them. The comparison itself? Stupid.

The whole African-American thang, that’s debatable but sounds like a strong opinion, has some merit though, seeing that the distinction between American and African-American, Mexican, Asian or whatever is just separating race but would we be America if we didn’t overly focus on that. If I say American by instinct people think of those of european descent…if it come out later that who I’m talking about is Black or anything else people are like oh…

But I digress. Most blacks hate Whitlock’s crap. Guess we both hate him but we’re looking at him from different sides of the coin.

my very first reply fail. I’m so ashamed.