Comments on: Matt Barkley learned a valuable lesson from Peyton Manning

By: drtacp

drtacp — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:59:37 +0000

The only lesson of a winning season without post season wins is to not be on a team that cannot carry you, or even worse be on a a team that lets you down in post season play. Here is hoping that Matt lands to a team that DEN regularly beats on. He will be afforded the opportunity to show how big of a dick he has potential to be. This would not be a story if he had not dissed Peyton. Barkley is quite the opposite of the accomplished and ‘let my performance do the talking’ Manning.

By: infinitig

infinitig — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:03:59 +0000

My main goal in life is to try to never be a dick. I have always got a lot better results being good to people. There is more than one way to lead and being a dick to me is not the right way.

By: ccjcsr

ccjcsr — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:55:43 +0000

His Lesson should have come from Matt Leinart and he should have left a year earlier!

By: raiderlyfe510

raiderlyfe510 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:32:49 +0000

Matt Barkley can play.

By: tonyugoh

tonyugoh — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:22:23 +0000

Not saying he’ll be great or a bust, i honestly don’t know, but how can people determine that Barkley will suck just because Sanchez and Leinart did? How does what those guys did have anything to do with what Barkley will do?

By: lovefootball4life

lovefootball4life — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:14:18 +0000

@ldfontenot Well said.

Fortunately history and the HOF will honor these players the way they should be honored. The opinions of the “authors” and the persons commenting on this blog post won’t mean a thing two days from now let alone a decade from now.

By: schiano4prez

schiano4prez — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:54:03 +0000

The lesson being that Manning is a Super Bowl winning MVP and Barkley never will be

By: briang123

briang123 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:53:58 +0000

All anyone wants to talk about are USC busts Leinart, Palmer, and Sanchez. How about we talk about guys like Rodney Peete, Sean Salsbury, John David Booty, Todd Marinovich, and Rob Johnson who, er……fit right in with the rest of them.

By: landof10000lakes

landof10000lakes — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:48:22 +0000

@rajbais

What?

By: landof10000lakes

landof10000lakes — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:32:20 +0000

@ponder this.

C’mon man, that’s not cool.

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:23:41 +0000

As a boss once told me, you can be irreverent and color outside the lines as long as you’re good at what you do. Peyton Manning is a four-time MVP, not just some kid telling his teammates what to do. Barkley would be wise to focus more on honing his skills–as Manning still does–and less on how quickly he can start ordering people around.

By: tatatoothy

tatatoothy — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:11:46 +0000

Bigger southpaw bust in the past 15 years:

– Matt Leinart (USC), vote thumbs up
– Cade McNown (UCLA), vote thumbs down

By: dino2997

dino2997 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:09:35 +0000

What Barkley doesn’t understand is the all might media determines who is allowed to motivate their teammates in this manner. Manning has gotten this approval…Cutler has not.

By: pixelito

pixelito — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:50:20 +0000

Go Surf.

By: jwilliamsspf

jwilliamsspf — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:44:50 +0000

I brought my potion, and it’ll help YOU run…and you brought your potion, right?

By: ldfontenot

ldfontenot — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:44:04 +0000

Lots of hate up in this one for no good reason. Peyton will always be in the conversation as one of the GOAT, and deservedly so (although the post season is not his friend and you don’t have to be a football genius to know that); one of the reasons he will always be in the discussion is because of his work ethic which is probably the strongest in the league. I’ll never understand hate for Manning, Brees, or Brady. Hate for the team as a rival, yeah. But not for those players.

By: fang41

fang41 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:39:57 +0000

Matt and Sir Charles are related (per Ancestry.com)- not only with the same personality trait of being dicks, but also by genealogical traits.

What remains to be seen is whether ol Matt will also feed on all the chicken and home fries while bouncing from team to team such that he duplicates his cousin’s moniker of “The Round Mound of Rebound”?

By: rajbais

rajbais — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:25:16 +0000

QBs can be that four-letter D-word, but their status as a teammate (which should be ruled out because it literally does conflict with behavior) can never in question when the HOF voting process takes place???

By: broncosnative

broncosnative — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:59:05 +0000

There goes the manning haters, know nothing about football. Manning has more playoff appearances than more than half the QBs in the league combined. To call him a choker is like calling marino a choker who has no rings. Romo has 5 playoff appearances, vick has the same amount and he missed two years and has one more win. It’s not easy winning playoff games, ask the pats who hasn’t won the big one in almost 10 years.

By: purpleguy

purpleguy — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:50:27 +0000

I think he should work on being a good NFL QB first — Peyton did.

By: Mr. Wright 212

Mr. Wright 212 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:36:50 +0000

Before the Peyton bashers come on here with their same old, tired nonsense:

1. Peyton doesn’t play defense.
2. Brady doesn’t either, and they’re equally “futile” in the playoffs now that they are on the same plane (never mind Spygate) with one another, given that they play with leaky defenses.

By: gasolinejt

gasolinejt — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:33:44 +0000

The reason it works for Peyton Manning is because people know he’s great. Some young punk bossing his teammates around without proving himself won’t work.

By: broncobeta

broncobeta — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:30:36 +0000

I’m surprised he didn’t learn from his distant cousin, Charles.

By: kepdogg23

kepdogg23 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:15:38 +0000

I can see it, if he shaved his head and grew a neck beard.

By: warpd

warpd — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:12:58 +0000

Hasn’t seemed to work for Cutler.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:11:52 +0000

It boggles the mind that Barkley would be bragging about his leadership abilities following the train wreck of a season he oversaw at USC. Preseason #1 goes 7-6, probably the worse showing ever for a team ranked that highly in the preseason. They looked devoid of leadership all season. If he was a dick already, he wasn’t enough of a one.

By: assklown

assklown — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:41:10 +0000

Setting expectations is not “being a dick”. Working hard and expecting others to follow your lead is being a leader.

Calling out P. Manning when you are still a nobody in the big leagues *is* being a dick.

By: skoodsports

skoodsports — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:35:36 +0000

“Sometimes you have to be a dick.”

Well, as a Southern California QB, that shouldn’t be too hard.

By: mj1818

mj1818 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:22:53 +0000

There’s a difference between being a dick and being an effective leader. I think he took Peyton out of context a bit.

By: cowpiesnotcowboys

cowpiesnotcowboys — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:22:14 +0000

That approach isn’t working for Jerry Jones.