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Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will never win another Super Bowl.
What's more the 2010 season represented the passing of an era, the Brady/Manning epoch in NFL history is over. Sure, both men will continue to be among the top 10 quarterbacks in the league for the next three years. And both men may well tantalize us with the hope that they have one last run left in the tank, but they don't. The two men whose rivalry defined a decade in the NFL are on the downward slopes of their careers, a combined 0-5 (Brady's 0-3 and Manning's 0-2) in their last five playoff appearances.
Manning was definitely human in Indianapolis' first-round playoff loss. So what else is new? He's been throwing crucial interceptions since the Colts were in Baltimore. Then those crazed Jets went to New England and got Brady's balding scalp. Suddenly, conventional knee-jerkdom is declaring a changing of the quarterback guard.
-- David Whitley on why Tom Brady and Peyton Manning aren't done yet
Father time is stalking both, by the time the season kicks off next season Brady will be 34, Manning will be 35. Mark Sanchez, the New York Jets quarterback who eliminated both Manning and Brady is just 24-years-old. That puts Sanchez in the same company as the three quarterbacks left in the playoffs, Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers are both 27 and two-time Super Bowl-winning Ben Roethlisberger is 28.
The 2010 season, therefore, represents a passing of the football torch, a demarcation point between what was and what will be. This year Peyton Manning lost his fastball and Tom Brady continued to lose his hair. Both men also lost the first playoff game their teams played in. Along the way both men gave up the Super Bowl ghost, losing their last, best chances to win another Super Bowl. It's all downhill from here.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/18/the-tom-brady-and-peyton-manning-quarterback-era-is-over/
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