Peyton vs. Eli "in the clutch"

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.....even though they grew up in the same household with the same parents.....and went to the same high school and played for the same coach

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What does any of that have to do with how they perform while playing football?

My oversimplified view: Peyton is too smart for his own good. It's too cerebral, not enough emotional. You can't be purely X's and O's. You gotta have some fire, some grit. It's intangible, but Peyton is lacking. Eli, Brady, Brees, Rodgers, etc are not.

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My oversimplified view: Peyton is too smart for his own good. It's too cerebral, not enough emotional. You can't be purely X's and O's. You gotta have some fire, some grit. It's intangible, but Peyton is lacking. Eli, Brady, Bees, Rodgers, etc are not.

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Bingo

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What does any of that have to do with how they perform while playing football?

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Very similar to the epidemic LSU fan/ Saban obsession, the Ole Miss "we're still mad Peyton went to Tennessee so Eli is better" sickness runs very deep in a few Ole Miss homers..

And I would be mad too.

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My oversimplified view: Peyton is too smart for his own good. It's too cerebral, not enough emotional. You can't be purely X's and O's. You gotta have some fire, some grit. It's intangible, but Peyton is lacking. Eli, Brady, Bees, Rodgers, etc are not

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That's actually an interesting point. Peyton is like an emotion-less machine. A computer.

That said, Eli has never really been a rah-rah guy, either. Both are kind of restrained emotionally....which I attribute to their upbringing (to answer the question posed by the Dawg above)....although Eli is less so. Maybe comes from the fact that Eli has always been closer to his mother, whereas Peyton has always been closer to his dad.

Hard to say.

I guess one could argue that they are all pressure situations since you have to win the games to get to the show. Eli hasn't done that lately.

Peyton didn't play well, obviously. To me, that is an indicator of how good he is...slow down Peyton and win the game. It's something so simple that very few teams did this year. The Seahawks did just that, credit to them. Even in a game where he "choked", he still set a Super Bowl record as insignificant as it was. Not too shabby.

Maybe he's a choke artist, maybe not. Those Florida teams were simply better/more talented teams. So were a lot of teams that beat them when he was a Colt.

I think Seattle converted every 3rd down. It was like automatic conversion. Did they even punt once?

Denver D, OL, special team, receiver(fumble) didnt really help out either. Denver vomitted all over the field from start (safety) to finish.

This may be true but Eli would have been embarrassed almost as bad yesterday. To have a chance against Seattle you must have a mobile qb, end of story.

SEC Championships

Peyton 1, Eli 0