Kriegel says Manning can’t be contained either
Then again, Garcon and Collie had a pronounced advantage going back to the off-season, when Manning appointed himself their tutor. “He has a way of making everybody around him better,” said Caldwell. “He’s like a great point guard, a guy who can get you the ball at the right time in the right place so that you can do something with it.”
All this praise for Manning should not demean the Jets, who took a 17-6 lead, or the Colts defense, which held the Jets scoreless in the second half. But you could literally feel Manning change the game late in the second quarter when he started throwing to Collie out of the shotgun. Three plays, 80 yards, touchdown. It took 53 seconds.
“That was huge,” said Manning, whose film study taught him to expect a blitz right after the two-minute warning.
It was more of the same on the Colts first possession of the second half. Offensive coordinator Tom Moore kept calling running plays. Manning kept disregarding them, shouting audibles out of the shotgun. “I just kind of got hot,” he said.
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