Stautner;3734340 said:
A short stretch of poor games out of an incredible HOf career in which Manning will end up at or near the top of every passing category does not make somehow erase Criticisms of Romo.
It's ridculous to take a poor 4 game snapshot of Manning's career and use that as a basis for justifying whatever Romo does.
It's the BODY of work, not a small snapshot of it, that counts.
Nobody is equating Romo's career with Manning's career.
It's true that someone like Manning cannot be judged by a poor stretch, because he has accomplished enough to make up for it.
The problem, though, is that when someone like Romo or Rivers or Flacco or Rodgers has a game like that, the critics slam them and say that great quarterbacks don't do that. YES, THEY DO. Most great quarterbacks have games like that -- not just the ones named Brett Favre. Tom Brady has more four-interception games than anyone else in the past 10 seasons. Peyton is tied for second (with Kurt Warner, among others) and famously had that six-interception game in the playoffs.
The great quarterbacks have bad games, too, it's just that they're excused from it because of the good games they've had. The same goes for a lot of other things -- great players at all positions are excused from poor plays, but they still make poor plays. But when other players make the same mistakes, they get slammed for making a mistake at all. It's like ever time Wes Welker drops a pass and the commentator says "You don't see that very often." Well, if you pay attention, you do, because only three players have dropped more passes than he has this season, but they give off the impression that he never drops a pass.
