PrometheusFaulk
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That pretty much ends the debate, doesn't it? Manning isn't great in the playoffs.
And I think we come full circle. Great regular season stats and lesser playoff performances. Which is exactly what Bradshaw offered of Peyton Manning.
I would disagree that merely demonstrating that in this rather small sample size of 23 total postseason games in which this one metric (while still quite high) doesn't match his regular season average (which is obscenely high) means, "he isn't great in the playoffs" or even further, "he ain't great."
I would posit that in the regular season, over a longer period of time than any of the fellas you mentioned outside of Favre, statistically speaking (which to me seems what we are really talking about, not intangibles or eras) was BETTER, and subsequently he is penalized by this line of thinking. The measure should be how he does against his contemporaries, not how he does against himself, to demonstrate greatness, IMO. And by virtually any metric, he blows them fools away. Which is why he's likely to be enshrined in Canton someday and will likely be considered a better quarterback than Terry Bradshaw by most folks who would want to compare the two.
Nonetheless Terry and you are entitled to your opinion.