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After Kurt Warner, the quarterback I admire most in the NFL is Peyton Manning. DSC/BD swears by Tom Brady but I feel Manning is the more complete QB, able to throw deep bombs with as much precision as the short out or the slant. He has also done this with the burden of expectations from a very young age, something that Brady did not have to deal with during his college and early NFL days.

One writer that both DSC/BD and I agree upon is Peter King. Not for how good he is but for how hoo-haa, hoopla-driven, totally-today type writer he is. Which does not mean that, on occasion, he cannot write nice articles. Earlier in 2009, for Sports Illustrated, King wrote a fluff piece on Manning that also reveals a lot of what makes the man tick year after year at such a high level.

(Peyton) Manning, simply, has made Indianapolis slump-proof. The Colts have gone 112 games—seven full seasons—without losing three straight. Indy isn't the winningest regular-season team this decade (109 victories, one more than New England) by accident. Anytime Manning steps behind center and starts gyrating and pointing, history tells us, good things are about to occur. "To understand why he hasn't struggled," (Tony) Dungy says, "you have to understand the way his mind works. It drives him every day that the offense will be better, not just as good as it was. The new guys will fit in. He'll make them fit in."