WhoDat!656

The league's record-keepers were taking another look at things Monday, as is customary each week in the season. At issue, according to sources, is a 7-yard completion from Manning to Eric Decker with just over a minute remaining in the first quarter.

In one camera angle, the pass to Decker looks like a lateral, which would make it a running play. Another angle, from above, shows Decker receiving the ball at the Broncos' 48-yard line, with Manning slightly deeper than that.

If the play stands, Manning would keep the record. If it is eventually ruled a run, he would be credited with 259 yards Sunday and 5,470 this season. The 5,470 would be the second-highest season total in league history and still easily be Manning's career best.

Peyton Manning of Denver Broncos may lose passing yards record - ESPN

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lee909

It would be funny if they changed it but they won't and if they did it would only lead to a astrix on Drews record as Manning would have broke it if he didnt sit.

WhoDat!656

How would Manning not playing in the second half put an asterisk on Brees?

Brees broke his own record!

jnormand

Because anything the Saints achieve always has an asterisk next to it. Goodell makes sure of this.

lee909

Because Manning wouldnt have come out the game for anothrr drive and would have broke the record.

TheOak

If he was taken out of the game it's not an * it it what it is.... No record. Assumptions are moot.

Should we give Graham an * because we ran the ball?

WhoDat!656

Is there an asterisk by the Saints 2012 season because Payton was suspended?

Tobias-Reiper

Based on your comments, I take it you weren't following the Saints in the late 1980's. "Could've, should've, would've"... look it up.

Here is the thing: back in 2011, Brees' numbers went through similar scrutiny after games, and there were yards taken away from him as well because of screen plays which, post-game review, ended up being ruled laterals... and the Saints run a lot of those. So, why wouldn't Manning's numbers go through the same scrutiny? Why would you discount the yards Brees lost due to adjustments?

Speaking of what Manning would've done had he kept on playing:
remember the 2009 Colts' season? The Colts were 14-0, with games against the Jets and the Bills left on the schedule. The Jets were in full meltdown mode. The Bills were, well, the Bills. The Jets were about to be put out of their misery (remember the Rex Ryan speech "I thought we were out but weren't"? .. I digress), but Manning was benched the second half of the Jets game, with a lead, and Curtis Painter played the last half of the Jets game, which the Colts ended up losing, and the entirety of the next game against the Bills, which the Colts lost as well. Had Peyton manning played the last 2 games, no doubt the Colts would've finished the season 16-0. But they didn't. Peyton didn't play at all, poor Curtis Painter looked like a HS QB playing in the NFL going 8 of 28 for 83 yards 0 TDs 2 INTs in 6 quarters of professional football, and the Colts ended their season 14-2.
SO
Based on your "if Manning would have played" theory of awarding football records, would you give the Colts a 16-0 regular season record in 2009?

'Cause the simple man pays the thrills, the bills and the pills that kill

WhoDat!656

What about Adrian Peterson coming up 30? yds short of breaking the single-season rushing record?

If he had known he was getting that close, he probably wouldn't have run out of bounds on some plays. Because he was only a 1st down away from breaking it, should the league go ahead and award the rushing title to him?

dizzle88

Big deal, brees has broke 5K 4 times, 3 years consecutive aswell