ckparrothead
Premium Member
I think we should refrain from handing that kind of accolade to a guy who just has a hot hand at the moment. I've seen the same things you have Trekbiz but I've also seen other QBs do that too...and Peyton has a big advantage over other guys. He's had the same cast, a TALENTED cast, surrounding him for like 3 years. Reggie Wayne is like in his 3rd NFL season I believe, and Marvin Harrison has been working with Manning forever, so has Edgerrin James and a lot of the offensive line (including and perhaps most importantly his LT). And perhaps most important of all his OC has been the same for a long long time and molds his offense around the way Peyton audibles (which 75% of the time is a fake audible). New WRs like Stokley when brought into the system have the advantage that everyone around them is very use to the system and Peyton Manning, helps them learn quicker. I don't know exactly who I've seen better at reading defenses but I surely believe that guys like Young, Montana, Aikman, etc need to be up there too. Heck right now, Brady deserves a good mention up there and so does McNair.
Marino was definitely a MASTER of reading defenses. Consistently called so during the time that he played. SMadison29 has the right of it, Marino was stripped of his audibles because of the surrounding cast plus the fact that it didn't give him control over the pass/run mixture which he needed/wanted to get control of to finally give the Dolphins a running game. He was trying to manufacture a running game out of chicken **** so an OC needs pretty much full control to do that. It was also a way of letting Marino know who is in control...their continually clashing egos probably had a big part.
Marino was definitely a MASTER of reading defenses. Consistently called so during the time that he played. SMadison29 has the right of it, Marino was stripped of his audibles because of the surrounding cast plus the fact that it didn't give him control over the pass/run mixture which he needed/wanted to get control of to finally give the Dolphins a running game. He was trying to manufacture a running game out of chicken **** so an OC needs pretty much full control to do that. It was also a way of letting Marino know who is in control...their continually clashing egos probably had a big part.