Peyton took a Jim Caldwell coached team to the SB and won a Super Bowl with John Fox as HC.
Also its a bit unfair imo the rap that Peyon gets vs Brady or other QBs.
Example:
- game tied in last 2 minutes, Brady leads them into FG range, Vinateri wins it, Brady...so clutch.
- game tied in last 2 minutes, Manning leads them into FG range, Vanderjagt shanks it, Manning...cant win the big one.
Also amazing the luck Brady has had in games during his career.
- non existent truck rule that allowed them to win SB when they should have lost in 1st round of playoffs.
- last year against KC he throws an INT but negated because of an offsides call.
- against Seahawks, Pete Carroll decides to pass from the 1 yard line instead of running Lynch for a sure TD.
- QBs he faced in those SB wins. Warner, McNabb, Delhomme, Wilson, Ryan and Goff. Lost to Manning twice and Nick Foles once.
That's some pretty selective data you're offering up. You forgot the three MVPs Brady has in the SB, the biggest comeback in SB history that he led, the four straight completions on third-and-ten or longer in the AFC championship last January, etc.
You do realize that Kurt Warner is a HOF member? Matt Ryan almost certainly will be, and Russell Wilson has more than a fair shot. Hopefully you weren't listing those three as though they were ducks that Brady was facing that somehow made his wins against them less relevant? Because that would not do a lot for your credibility.
Citing an offsides as blatant as any in the history of the game as "luck" is just silly. He was two yards beyond the line of scrimmage. It's a rule for a reason.
Lastly, Brady and Belichick should have seven titles rather than six because the 2008 Super Bowl was as blatantly fixed as any game in the history of televised sports. At just over a minute remaining in the game, the 300 million or however many people who watched the game all around the globe all heard Troy Aikman say repeatedly, for all posterity, "Why is the clock not working? Why don't they fix the clock?" as the Giants ran multiple plays for which about two seconds total ticked off the clock, when it should have been fifteen or more. They scored the winning touchdown with a handful of seconds left; time would have run out on them if the timekeeping had been accurate.
Every game has moments of questionable officiating. But there was not just one, but several, other plays in that game that were so obviously and egregiously corrupt that I would defy anyone to explain them away:
1. In the first half, the Giants had a long pass play that put them into field goal range. Plaxico Burress didn't just slightly push off - he knocked the Pats defender six feet away from him with as blatant an example of offensive pass interference as has ever occurred. And this wasn't something that went unnoticed: whoever was in charge of the slow-motion replay for the network that night was evidently one of the few honest people involved with the broadcast, because he showed the push-off in slow motion for 300 million people to see clearly. It went uncalled, and that field goal ended up being the margin of victory.
2. In the second half, the Patriots had a third-and-long in their own territory, just shy of midfield. Brady dropped back to pass, and threw incomplete. Except he was hit late, well after the pass had been released. Late hits, of course, are officiated with notorious inconsistency. But what normally are not officiated inconsistently are hits to the head of the quarterback. A giants DL didn't just hit Brady late; he hit him in the head, the chin to be specific, and he led with his helmet. Again, the honest slow-motion replay guy for the network showed the hit in slow motion for 300 million people to see...And the announcers didn't even comment.
3. From the official NFL rulebook for 2007, Section 4, Article 1, "Dead Ball":
An official shall declare dead ball and the down ended: ...(d) when a runner is so held or otherwise restrained that his forward progress ends.
Eli Manning was thoroughly in the grasp of a Pats D-lineman; his forward progress had ended for multiple seconds; and yet the officials chose to disregard the rulebook and not call the play dead. So Eli took advantage of the Pats defender not wanting to get called for roughing for throwing Eli to the ground, the only thing further he could have done to stop the play; Eli spun out and threw to David Tyree.
And in spite of willful corruption at several points in the game by the refs, the Patriots were still leading with just over a minute left, so the corruption had to reach another level to keep them from reaching 19-0, i.e. stopping the clock so the Giants had enough time to get in position to score.