Peyton Manning Compare And Contrast

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“To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it‘s digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms” (Tom Brady). Yearly they go against each other usually in big games and people compare them too Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (Maxymuk 92). Even though Peyton Manning has better stats, Tom Brady is expected to pass Peyton. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are similar in stats, accomplishments, and Super Bowl’s.
The stats of these two future hall of fame quarterbacks is pretty close but Peyton edges Tom out by a little bit. “Of their sixteen meetings, Brady has won eleven and Manning has won five” (hersh). They both have had most touchdowns in a single season, Brady had fifty …show more content…

Tom has won five Super Bowls, which is a record for the most by and one single person. Tom has won with only one team the Patriots. Peyton has won two both with different teams, one with the Colts and one with the Broncos. He leads in almost every stat in the passing category and is the first to win Super Bowl’s with two different teams (Peyton Manning). Tom has four Super Bowl's, Most Valuable Player awards and Peyton has one “Brady became the first quarterback in National Football League history to take home five Super Bowl rings (editors).” Showing Tom does better in the clutch and in the postseason he has more wins. Peyton does good in the season and gets the good stats in a single season, but he can’t finish in the long run so it's hard to tell which one is the better one of the two. Heres some examples of Tom in the Super Bowl He built three touchdown drives to finish the greatest rebound in Super Bowl history and win his fifth Super Bowl. Brady won the MVP honor and set the record for most passing yards in a Super Bowl with four hundred and sixty six, but it's the sheer greatness of the rebound that makes this his best Super Bowl execution ever (RAPAPORT). And something else Tom Brady’s in the Super Bowl has been a boon for advertisers stuck with fourth quarter time slots. Every time the Patriots play for an NFL title, the final fifteen minutes of the game becomes appointment viewing. The four-time Super Bowl MVP …show more content…

They were both drafted into to the NFL and Peyton was drafted first overall in 1998 by the Colts. Tom was drafted a hundred and ninety ninetieth in 2000 by the Patriots. Everyone passes on Tom because he was slow in the forty and no team thought he would be good because he didn’t start in college for a long time. Both of them have won league MVPs but Peyton Has more with five while Tom has two. It’s as the usual Peyton does better in the regular season but not in the postseason like

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