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Colts | Manning claims pass protection comments were misinterpreted
John Oehser, of Colts.com, reports Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning said he still doesn't understand all the fuss from his response to a question after the team's Divisional Playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Manning said in his post-game press conference that the team had trouble in pass protection. Manning said, "I was perceived to have done something that I was 100 percent trying to avoid doing. You're saying, 'The offensive line.' I never used those words."
-------------------------- What a back track! LOL Peyton is such a B*tch! |
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His quote was mis interpreted... He meant to say the O line sucked, and couldnt block! |
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When you said "we had problems in pass protection" we clearly should have known you were talking about the Colts linebacker play. What a biatch. |
Manning finally realizes he needs to go into damage control mode.
It took him long enough. |
What a moron. "I was perceived to have done something that I was 100 percent trying to avoid doing. You're saying, 'The offensive line.' I never used those words."
Who else blocks for you dumba$$? Or do you think your so good and so controling that you thought you can block and pass at the same time by yourself? |
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:giggle: Ha! or maybe he is back tracking and saying it really was all Edges fault. |
misinterpreted ? thats funny! because i heard him say (we had protection problems)
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Its not just that he said we had blocking issues. the mere fact he said " Im trying to be a team player here " before that is clearly singling out his O-line. what a dumb ****.
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And 12th man.... the whole offense blocks. |
Manning's father still miffed
Archie says Colts QB is getting unfairly criticized for his postgame comments <!--PRINTER FRIENDLY ARTICLE--> By Mike Chappell <SCRIPT language=JavaScript><!--document.write(''+'mike.chappell'+'@'+'indystar.com'+'');//--></SCRIPT>mike.chappell@indystar.com January 20, 2006 Archie Manning continues to do a slow burn over the way his son, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, is getting ripped by national media for his comments after Sunday's playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. After the Colts' 21-18 upset loss in the AFC divisional game, Peyton cited "some problems in protection.'' He was sacked five times and pressured heavily throughout the game. Terry Bradshaw, on the Fox network's postgame show, said Peyton's statements were tantamount to "calling out his offensive line.'' Archie disagreed. "If you heard the whole press conference,'' he said in a telephone interview Thursday, "you'd understand what went on. That (Fox) crew really blew it up. They said Peyton 'called out his offensive line.' What he said is, 'We had protection problems.' "I guess that's just the sports culture we live in. The guys that are on top seem to get hit harder. Maybe I'm just sensitive, but it seems like Peyton gets more of it than anybody whenever we lose a football game. (The media) wants an answer and when it gets an answer, you just tear him up.'' Peyton Manning wasn't available to offer his rebuttal to Bradshaw and other critics. He and his wife, Ashley, are out of the country, relaxing, according to Archie. Attempts to contact members of the Colts' offensive line, including center Jeff Saturday, were unsuccessful. Archie said Peyton was watching the Fox broadcast of the Carolina-Chicago NFC divisional game when he heard Bradshaw's criticism. "He was totally shocked,'' Archie said. "You hear what they say on the radio and in the media. They say Peyton choked and Peyton can't win a big game. He's been living with that forever. "But you add this to it, and it hurts. I just don't understand how he gets torn up over this. He was just trying to do the right thing. I've seen a lot of people not go in (the news conference) after a tough loss like that. I was with him before he went in. I know his heart was broken. But he went in and did his duty. He stood up to it.'' During his Monday news conference, Colts coach Tony Dungy said he didn't consider Manning's comments to be aimed at the offensive line. "He said we had some protection issues and obviously we did,'' Dungy said. Team president Bill Polian, on his Monday night radio show, said in hindsight Manning might have phrased his answer differently, adding, "you're never going to be 100 percent politically correct in that situation.'' Joe Theismann, an analyst for ESPN, agreed. Manning's comments, he said, wouldn't have carried finger-pointing connotations had he done a better job of including himself in those protection problems. "What he needed to do was really put himself in the mix,'' Theismann said. "He should have said something along the lines of, 'It's my job to get guys lined up in the right place to block people, and I didn't do a very good job today.' '' Archie believes Peyton did that. "Football people, when you talk about protection problems, understand you're talking about everybody,'' he said. "It's the coaches, the quarterback, the offensive line, the running backs, the tight end.'' Archie categorized Bradshaw's on-air criticism as a "cheap shot.'' "It's not right to show that one quote out of a long press conference where people keep asking him and asking him,'' Archie said. "Yes, I thought it was a cheap shot, but I'm not going to go to war with Terry Bradshaw. "I hope Terry doesn't have anything against us.'' Bradshaw dismissed the notion he has an anti-Manning agenda. "I don't want to make it a personal thing with the Mannings because they are wonderful people and do wonderful things,'' Bradshaw said in a Wednesday teleconference. He insisted his comment that Peyton "called out his offensive line'' was made after viewing the postgame news conference. "I saw his face,'' Bradshaw said. "I heard what he said and . . . my immediate reaction was this: He is pointing fingers. Right or wrong, that's what I thought and I said it.'' Bradshaw would welcome a call from Archie, or Peyton, to resolve the dispute. Sometimes, he said in reference to Archie defending Peyton, "you've got to stand up and do your own battles." "My dad taught me a long time ago, 'I ain't fighting your battles for you, son. You fight your own battles.' '' <SCRIPT> if (!window.print) { document.write(' To print this article open the file menu and choose Print. 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nice try NPR, but after the game it was clear at least to me that he was putting blame on his OL. He would have said this to deflect it, "I called the wrong protection, we had protection problems because of me"
You are the QB, dont leave room for doubt that yor blaming your teammates!! |
Archie should just not talk, and a good question is why is he talking.
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I know it's popular to point and laugh at Manning, but I think if you think he was blaming his OL exclusively, I believe your wrong. I didn't hear him blame anyone. It sounded to me like he threw it on the entire offense (coaches included) without singling anyone out. |
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It's always amusing when someone is right in front of a video camera, makes a idiotic comment, then says it was "taken out of context"....we didn't stuff the comment from a helium balloon Payaton. That was your personal fart and insult.
It's like the guy that goes "brapp" and everyone in the room moves but him.... "It wasn't me..." |
Archie is named Archie for a reason.
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His entire quote: "I'm trying to be a good teammate here, but let's just say we had some problems with pass protection."
Uh, yeah...total misunderstanding. Trying to be a good teammate and not mention the guys all by first and last name, is that it? So just say pass protection. Clearly he was only meaning "you take the good with the bad" or "you win some and lose some" when he mentioned "pass protection." But at least Daddy came to your rescue again, Peyton. Maybe you can take out your anger with the media and get Jim Mora fired from his NFL Network gig like you did him from his head coaching job when he DARED QUESTION the golden Manning boy after he tossed like 5 INTs in a game. "Playoffs?! Playoffs?!" Manning's a spoiled baby. He called out his line, now be a man and deal with it, Mr. Money Bags. By the way, Peyton, why not use some of your money and get a nose job, you freakin' gargoyle! "Playoffs?! Playoffs?!" |
I didn't see his entire interview, but even if he did say something to the contrary that was not aired, don't give the media the chance to play anything stupid like that.
Even my dumb-a$$ got caught saying something stupid on a TV interview once, and of the 10 or 11 things I talked about, they play the ONE stupid thing I say, and I caught holy h3ll at work the next day, as everyone laughed at me. :rofl: Dang TV and their editing/cutting interviews up! Peyton is still a tool in my book! |
Jake could have easily blamed his O-Line for the beating the Steelers gave him. But he took it on his shoulders "I'm the quarterback, it's my fault. I have to perform better than I did today"
Where baby face Manning passes the buck to his O-line. I watched that game. Manning was crap. Short passes, high balls and locked on to his receivers. Yet, he blames the pass protection? He's been coddled to much over the past few years. He needs structure and a coach that tells him what to do. Instead of him telling the punt team to get off the field and blatantly disrespect his coach on national TV. |
As Bang has stated in his intro...."We are not your enemy..."
We are just on the bus poking a stick at mellonhead.... Retard girl makes us sick Retard, poke her with a stick Well, she walks funny Kind of like a pig God, I hate that retard girl See the retard girl walking in the schoolyard In the same dress from fourth grade See the retard girl cross-eyed in the schoolyard Looking for the friend she made The retard girl, retard girl The retard girl Yeah, don't forget her face As shines the moon among the lesser fires She is sucking dick out in the yard Well, she walks funny Kind of like a pig God, I hate that retard girl Hey, the retard girls all walk funny She don't think like the others do See the retard girl squirming in the mud Throw her in the trash can See what she does The retard girl, retard girl The retard girl Yeah, don't forget a face I asked her mother, "Why'd you implode?" Well, her head's so big It just might explode And she walks funny Kind of like a pig God, I hate that retard girl Hit her See that retard girl staring at the sun What does she see? See the retard girl stare at everyone I hope she doesn't see me Retard girl, the retard girl The retard girl Yeah, don't forget her face Retard girl The retard girl The retard girl Don't throw her away |
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I have a pretty severe dislike for P. Manning, but I do think too much has been made of his comments. Sure Tee Martin won a nationial championship...right after he left, and his playoff record is pretty f***ing close to Jake Plummer's.
The fact of the matter is...the Steelers kicked the **** out of him. Whether it had to do with poor playcalling (Peyton)...the fact that the Steelers flat out fooled him...or the fact that he runs like a pregnant woman clutching a balloon between her knees is immaterial. The only thing that matters is he's 2-0 against the Donks in the playoffs, and that MUST be rememdied(sp?). Cripes...I hate the fact that that snivleling bedwetter has torched the Donks twice. It's a non-story now. The Mannings...as per usual are nothing more than what was...and what will never be. F them all. |
By this time, Peyton should have known what the national press was going to do with his postgame remarks. He's not exactly a novice to being interviewed; he's been in the harsh glare of the limelight for years. Ideally he should never have made the "protection problems" comments at all. And now that the media has kinda moved on to the SB and the teams that are actually playing in it, he probably should have just let the issue die and maybe made a private apology to his teammates for the "misunderstanding". There's little or nothing to be gained by publicly rehashing an incident that happened three weeks ago and was quickly disappearing down the "memory hole". His belated damage-control efforts (and his father's as well) are likely to do more harm than good.
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Probably not the most popular sentiment around here, but I did think it was a bit much ado about nothing. Sure, it's stupid that he's back-tracking now - he should just come out and say something to the effect of "Well, sorry that I pointed out the obvious, but I got the ever-loving crap kicked out of me that game. Maybe I had a head injury, or something."
Honestly, I don't think what he said was all that bad. |
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