| Timing is everything… if you want to get to Peyton Manning | 11.18.10 at 2:25 pm ET |
FOXBORO — Linebackers Jerod Mayo and Tully Banta-Cain are justifiably feeling more confident about the ability of he and his teammates to get to the quarterback.
After a season of listening to critics question whether the Patriots would or could ever pressure the QB, the Patriots put up five sacks last week against the hardest quarterback in the league to bring down – Ben Roethlisberger.
Peyton Manning is somewhat slighter in build but a lot harder to get to the ground for one reason – he almost never lets you get to him. He has a lightning-quick release and knows how to dump the ball off and take his chances on the next snap. In the 2008 and 2009, Manning was sacked 10 and 14 times, respectively. This year -through nine games – that number is already up to 12, the highest mark through nine games since he was dumped 21 times in 2007. Before that you have to go back to the 2002 season for the last time he was sacked 20 or more times in a season.
But talk to those on the Patriots defense and they’ll tell you if you don’t want No. 18 rip you to shreds, you better disrupt his timing.
“Because he’s very smart and because he knows whatever you’re in [defensively], he knows what can hurt that,” Pats linebacker Rob Ninkovich said. “He’s a great quarterback. Anytime you can affect his timing, it’s going to be good for you in that game.
“He’s always had a good offensive line and he knows when to get the ball out. Anytime he’s got pressure, you always see him throwing the ball off to an open receiver because he knows who’s going to be open and he knows every route that going to be run so he can go through his progression and throw to somebody who’s open.”
Jerod Mayo, as a middle linebacker, is pretty much in the cross hairs before each Manning snap.
“His pre-snap reads are amazing,” Mayo said. “He pretty much knows what’s going on before he snaps the ball. It’s very difficult. He studies a lot of film. He’s a great quarterback. We have to try, we have to try.”
Keep Manning from getting into a rhythm on the field and you slow down the machine that is the Colts offense. The rhythm and timing is one big reason why the Colts have been able to lose weapons like Dallas Clark and Anthony Gonzalez and Joseph Addai to injury and not miss much.
“He’s a tough quarterback to try to confuse,” Banta-Cain said. “He’ll confuse you more than you’ll confuse him. He’s a guy you try to do your best to disguise stuff but he’s really good at what he does and picking out coverages.
“You can try but it’s still one of those things where you have tight coverage, good pass rush and hope you disrupt the play somehow.”
The Colts come to Foxboro with a 6-3 mark, thanks in large part to Manning’s ability to effectively use replacements like Austin Collie, Jacob Tamme and Donald Brown. Now, Collie is likely going to miss his second straight game after suffering a concussion in a violent collision in Philadelphia on Nov. 7.
But the Patriots don’t think that will slow down Manning and what he hopes to accomplish at Gillette on Sunday.
“They’re still doing the same things. Tamme’s done a great job coming in when Dallas Clark went down and those guys on the outside as well,” Mayo said.
Those guys on the outside are none other than Reggie Wayne and Pierre Garcon. Wayne leads the Colts in catches (63) and yards receiving (758) while Garcon is having another solid season with 28 grabs but only one TD.
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