So Peyton manning couldn’t get it done in the big game again, just like he never got it done in college at Tennessee ( maybe the Colts need to bring in Tee Martin? ). Yawn – move along no news here.

There are big game quarterbacks ( think Bradshaw and Brady ) and there are record setting regular season quarterbacks ( think Marino and Fouts ) and it looks more and more likely that Peyton is the latter – even when he gets every single break possible ( the rare Bettis fumble, the ref’s stealing the Polamalu pick, etc. ) Peyton has never won the big one. Or in this case even the the game before the game before the big one.

Nothing wrong with that ( other then the point of the exercise is to win championships….. ) but how in the hell can Peyton justify comments like “I’m trying to be a good teammate here … let’s just say we had some problems with protection.” Come on, I don’t here Tarik Glenn saying “I’m trying to be a good teammate here … let’s just say our quarterback had some problems with happy feet.” or Marvin Harrison saying “I’m trying to be a good teammate here … let’s just say we had some problems braving the rush and stepping into our passes.”

Either one of them could have said that, and it would have been just as true as Manning’s comments. But you don’t hear that kind of smack, you just hear Manning blaming someone other then himself. I hope that Reggie Wayne and Edgerrin James move along into free agency so that we can see what Peyton looks like without a stellar surrounding cast.