How to Beat Peyton Manning
 

Most of Manning's important games all went like this: the opposing defense came up with a creative way to take him off his game in the first half and he came back in the 2nd half with the solution, and racked up big points for the win. This suggests that the way to beat him is for the opposing defense to have two game plans. as different as possible from one another, one for each half, in effect to treat the two halves as two separate games. This allows the defense to disorient him and throw him off his game, not just in the 1st half but in both halves. Instead of the usual pattern Manning will play 2 first halves. lose both, and therefore lose the game to the Saints!

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I think we go with the Ravens gameplan on defense. Disguise coverages as much as possible. Have players constantly moving around, the entire game. This keeps Manning guessing constantly. The difference between the Saints and the Ravens? An offense that can keep up with the scoring. I stole this from Ed Reed.....

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How to beat Peyton Manning? Keep the ball away from him. Limit the number of chances he gets to figure out the defense. Long drives and frequent TD's on offense are the way for the Saints to win this game. The D will need to come up with some stops and hopefully a couple turnovers, but in this game the best defense is...a good offense.

That said, I do like the idea of having two different defensive game plans, one for each half, although that's probably easier said than done.

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Knock the snot out of him ..Get Deacon Jones..lol

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Not a bad idea...have a plan for him but don't implement it until the 2nd half. Try to play vanilla in the first half, then explode on him in the 2nd. Why not?

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Mix and Match. Blitzes, blind side, strong side. Keep him busy in the pocket. He relerases very quick. Change coverages.
Pick'em. And take them back for 6 :)

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From a Colts fan and Indy native.

Pressure Peyton without blitzes. If the Saints can pressure Peyton with their front 4, and score TD's on offense.

The Saints Offense can't settle for 3 when they get in the red-zone.

If the Saints do that... they win.

Good luck Saints Fans... but not too much please. ;)

Jabba

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Timely playcalling by GW, just need to guess right a few times and get their punter on the field. Keep them out of the endzone, make them kick field goals.

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keys to beating peyton manning.....

1. Score more points

2. success

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Play a beeter game - BUT I do like the idea of two defensive plans!!

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Dirty cheap shot hit to knock him out of the game. Bobby McCray probably, since he wouldn't be missed if kicked out of the game. Isn't this Greg William's defensive game plan, rather than changing coverages? (Strato had it right, just forgot to mention the dirty cheap shot part)

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I agree with what a lot of people have been saying. We got a lot of comparisons to the Jets defense this week. What the commentators seem to forget, though, is Drew Brees is NOT Mark Sanchez. If we're up 17-6 in the 2nd quarter, yeah, Colts will get more points than that, but so will we! A lot more! We go into half time with a lead, there may be some drop off, but we're getting a minimum 3 scores in the second half.

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Wrong. This is "football", not ballet. If you wanna see a tea party, try another sport, ok?

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We gonna beat dat sumbeyotch like a rented mule.

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No crying before the kickoff. It's uncouth.

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You guys took Warner and Farve out of their game, you can take Peyton out of his.

Some people are saying the Saints are bad because you got 6 turnovers against the Vikings and went into over time. Well one thing to consider is that the Vikings have an awesome defense. Much better than the Ponies.

Though Brees's accuracy was a bit off in that game, I have no doubt that he'll have it back today!!!

NOW GO GET THAT TITLE!!!

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Excellent points. Plus, the commentators keep saying "IF the vikes didn't fumble" like they just magically fumbled and our defense didn't CAUSE those fumbles.

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GO back and look at some of the New England games where he was hypnotized by Bellicheck.

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Break his leg on the first play of the game? I'm just guessin.

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Yeah, I'm so sick and tired of hearing from these so-called experts If...If...If. With the exception of one fumble our "horrible" D CAUSED all of those fumbles. And if they paid attention to those fumbles there were at least 2-3 of those we did not recover because we tried to pick up the ball rather than fall on it. So IF we had recovered those two or three the Viks wouldn't have scored the points they did and we would have won going away rather than the other way around without the turnovers.