Right, but I highly doubt the Bills would have paid Decker all that cash and targeted him as many times as they did without The Manning Boost. You need to ask yourself what stands out about Decker. He's certainly not 6'4, 230 with a 4.4. Does he have good hands? Run good routes? Maybe, but so do a lot of guys.
Antonio Brown is one of the fastest guys in the league, though. Decker doesn't have any trait that sticks out. I love the hood and despise silver-spooned suburbanites just as much as the next guy, but invoking Eric Decker, Dallas Clark and Marcus Pollard in an argument for the the non-existence of The Manning Boost is crazy. Manning, old and battered as he was, finally got a D and he won a Super Bowl. That's no coincidence.
I was talking about the last year of The Decker Era in Denver. Peyton tossed for nearly 5,000 yards and 39 TDs. While hatvol96 is correct about Decker putting up numbers with Tebow, Decker's numbers nearly doubled once Peyton got to town in 2012.
That's compared to Tim Tebow, though, in an offense that tried to throw as little as possible. Decker was running back punts for 90 yards and scoring a lot of touchdowns before Manning got there. He's not in a category with guys like Pollard and Clark who were only good when playing with Manning.
You mean the year Manning did what he usually does and embarrassed himself in the postseason after making fantasy league dorks happy?
Trent Dilfer hit him with a Super Bowl breaking TD. He's a guy with good hands. Also, Manning was always great at finding white guys down close.
I will agree with that. However, I see Stokely the same way I see Welker. Play with a great one, get numbers. Play with someone like Geno Smith and end up in Arena League.
If you think they were better than the Detroit team they beat in the East finals, you have taken leave of your [dadgum] mind.
Only because he was on those teams. Name the best player he ever played with in Cleveland 1.0. Take him off that roster and every one of them are lottery teams. Your anti LeBron bias is noted and laughed at now. He had the audacity to use his leverage and assemble a super team and get rings. Dammit, doesn't the slave realize that isn't how it works. We all have to lay down for the guys in the button down shirts and the big banks. Keep ****ing the system, LeBron. You are our last hope.
Still waiting for an explanation why LBJ, D Wade, and Bosh can't practice self determination but the pretty boys in their tailored suits on Wall Street can suck each others ***** and team up with impunity.
