When Manning leads his Denver Broncos onto the field to face the New England Patroits he will be two months shy of his 40th birthday and playing what could be the final game of a career that includes a Super Bowl win, five most valuable player awards and numerous passing records.
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Their two losses? Both came at the hands of Peyton Manning, including one in Denver two years ago. “I don’t think there was any way I could have gotten through the game without it”.
Brady will wear his quarterback namesake’s jersey during this Sunday’s AFC championship game. A Peyton Manning win or a Tom Brady win?
“We have to go catch the ball, we know that”, Kubiak said. Then came a defensive stop and an exchange of last-minute field goals.
“We stayed patient tonight”, Manning added.
It will be the 17th time that Manning and Brady will square off. Brady leads the series 11-5; they’re tied 2-2 in the playoffs. Despite playing without three of their best players on their offense and their best playing gutting it out with a bad shoulder, they gave the Denver Broncos everything they could handle and more in the divisional playoff.
Brady has his detractors in the wake of “Deflategate”, but the Patriots were the better team and the win set up what might be the last showdown between Brady and Peyton Manning, who engineered the Broncos’ exciting victory over the Steelers on Sunday.
For Manning, it didn’t look as if the opportunity to play in this game would be possible due to injuries.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger won’t need to go under the knife to fix the damage to his injured shoulder, but may need to in the future. “So, I wasn’t nervous at the time, but I knew it would make for an exciting day”.
It’s unlikely that we’ll see Osweiler in the game.
Anderson’s decisive score was the culmination of a 14-play, 65-yard drive which crucially took almost seven minutes off the clock after cornerback Bradley Roby had punched the ball from Toussaint’s arms for the only turnover of the game – DeMarcus Ware recovering the ball at the Denver 35-yard line. Manning got up to complete a 34-yard pass to wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders. All good teams have tendencies.
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That, though, did not stop Talib from saying Roethlisberger was faking the right shoulder injury he sustained when he was sacked by linebacker Vontaze Burfict in the wild-card victory against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Steelers’ leading receiver was Martavis Bryant with 154 receiving yards.
