![]() ![]() Thomas beat Cox, but the key to the play was Manning holding free safety Antoine Bethea with his eyes for a split second. Demaryius Thomas was lined up wide right outside of Wes Welker. Even though the 49ers wanted him to think it was two-high, his actions said he knew it wasn’t. The disguise of coverage by the 49ers would confuse some younger passers. The second part is the power of the throw. First, it shows how smart Manning is as a quarterback, making his brain the most-valuable weapon in the NFL. Defense: Nickel, four-man rush, showing two-high safety look, but really a robber, single-high look. ![]() First and 10 at 49ers' 40 with 11:55 left in the third quarter. Here's a look at the six plays that I picked to kind of show where they are as quarterbacks as we head to the second half. These are the passers rolling up the gaudy numbers halfway through the season. I left out players like Drew Brees, who I still think is elite, and Russell Wilson, who is the reigning Super Bowl champ at the position, because I wanted to limit it to the guys at the top this season. ![]() They are Manning, Brady, Rodgers, Luck, Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger and San Diego's Phillip Rivers. I picked one play from the six quarterbacks who are atop most of the statistical categories. With Manning and Brady set to meet for the 16th time this Sunday, combined with four 400-plus yard passing games a week ago, the most ever in a weekend, I thought it a good time to look at the leading passers in the league. Whether it's Denver's Peyton Manning, New England's Tom Brady, Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, San Diego's Philip Rivers or Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts, the passing games of the best offenses in the league are piling up huge stats. The passing numbers are going crazy on a weekly basis, and the top quarterbacks are putting up stats that make fantasy players blush like a kid looking at his first Playboy and make defensive coordinators yearn for the rules of yesteryear. It won’t be easy to extend the run to five.Aaron Rodgers' 19 TD passes and 113.6 passer rating is second only to Peyton Manning. If we had lost Week Four it probably wouldn’t have gone over as well as it has because we’ve won four in a row.” We responded with a good performance, four in a row, our defense is playing really well, offensively we are starting to get things going a little bit, so every now and then you say stuff like that that sticks. Maybe we needed a little something like that before our Week Four game in Chicago. “I think when you say something like that you take on greater responsibility as a leader and you take some of the focus off the team and I think there is a time and a place for that. ![]() “First people were impressed I remembered how to spell it,” Rodgers said, via quotes distributed by the Saints. In a conference call with New Orleans reporters, Rodgers was asked about the reaction to his R-E-L-A-X routine. With wins over the Bears, Vikings, Dolphins, and Panthers, all that’s standing between a 6-2 record at the bye week are the Saints at the Superdome. After the Packers slipped to 1-2 following a miserable loss to the Lions in Detroit, Aaron Rodgers had some advice for antsy Cheeseheads. ![]()
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