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But you wouldn't know it listening to players and coaches with the Miami Dolphins (6-4) this week. They expect the best version of Manning -- the elite Manning -- Sunday when they travel to play the Broncos (7-3) in a big game with playoff implication.

"Peyton Manning is Peyton Manning," said Dolphins starting cornerback Cortland Finnegan, who's played against Manning several times in his career. "He's going to move the football. The biggest thing for us is points. He could have 500 yards passing. As long as we limit the points, that's big for us."

The Dolphins' defense, which is ranked No. 2 in yards per game, is playing as good as any team in recent weeks. They're also ranked No. 2 in pass defense and haven't allowed a touchdown in two of their past three games. It's a major reason they are 5-2 in the past seven games.
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Still, it sounds like Miami is expecting a shootout on Sunday. The Broncos are the fifth highest-scoring team in the NFL, averaging 29.3 points per game. Manning already has 30 touchdown passes in 10 games. The Dolphins do not envision the type of low-scoring games they've had against the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions or Jacksonville Jaguars in recent weeks.

"That's obvious to us that we're playing one of the best quarterbacks, if not the best quarterback, to ever play the game," Dolphins receiver Mike Wallace said Tuesday. "So we have to put up some points. We don't even (have to) talk about it. ...We know we have to put up more points. We know our defense will need a little more help."
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The key, according to the Dolphins, will be disguising their blitzes and coverages. Defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle has done a good job in this third year of knowing when to drop back seven or eight players and when to blitz to pressure the quarterback.

Rest assured Manning is studying all of Miami's defensive looks this week.

"I don't know how many things Peyton hasn't seen in the years he's been playing. He is remarkable," Coyle said. "Talking with people who have been around him, he's got almost a photogenic memory. When he sees something, he locks it in and can retrieve it a year later or two years later."
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http://espn.go.com/blog/miami-dolph...-buying-into-peyton-mannings-recent-struggles
 
TheWalrus said:
A photogenic memory? :lol:
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photogenic memory
The recall of an individual who edits their own memories in order to enhance their own reputation or repress an undesirable truth.


I'm sure they meant photographic for Manning.
He has seen everything but that did not stop Seattle from whipping that butt or the Rams for that matter.
 
Hopefully Dion Jordan has a big game. I think he, along with Jelani Jankins, can be the X Factors for our D moving around the field in different positions and throwing off Manning's reads.
 
fishfanmiami said:
photogenic memory
The recall of an individual who edits their own memories in order to enhance their own reputation or repress an undesirable truth.


I'm sure they meant photographic for Manning.
He has seen everything but that did not stop Seattle from whipping that butt or the Rams for that matter.
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I know. It's just one of those funny malapropisms, like Cam Newton saying hindsight is 50/50.
 
Hey a photogenic memory can be come in handy when you get older or if you are a CB who Peyton burned many times before. 5 TD passes against me last year ? I only remember one of them and that was the safety's fault :idk:
 
fishfanmiami said:
Hey a photogenic memory can be come in handy when you get older or if you are a CB who Peyton burned many times before. 5 TD passes against me last year ? I only remember one of them :idk:
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If you opened up Peyton's head and started poking at his brain I'd bet he'd start saying stuff like "Omaha" and "Papa John's" and "losing feeling in my toes".

Quick, somebody open up his head!
 
You beat Manning the same way you beat Brady. Hit him fast and hard all day long.
 
TheWalrus said:
A photogenic memory? :lol:
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Yes I just skimmed that but it jumped right off the page. LMAO. Maybe he means that Manning has a beautiful mind??


Reminds me of last night on "C'mon Man!" when they showed Cam Newton saying "Hindsight is 50 / 50." in a press conference.
 
Dolphin North said:
Yes I just skimmed that but it jumped right off the page. LMAO. Maybe he means that Manning has a beautiful mind??


Reminds me of last night on "C'mon Man!" when they showed Cam Newton saying "Hindsight is 50 / 50." in a press conference.
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Peyton with his playbook.

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whizafriz said:
Hopefully Dion Jordan has a big game. I think he, along with Jelani Jankins, can be the X Factors for our D moving around the field in different positions and throwing off Manning's reads.
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Ugh. I appreciate the optimism seen around here for Jordan, but I don't see Jordan having a big game at all this year. The guy has shown us next to nothing. Frustrating.
 
Wake, OV, Starks, Mitchell. These guys will set the tone for how Manning plays. If Wake is doubled up, the other players must get in there make plays. Put Peyton 2 inches into the grass, and hit him so hard he thinks he's in Omaha.
 
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