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Football far more than baseball lives and dies on the draft. There are no international signings, there is no farm system. It's a draft em, chew em up, spit em out and draft another one league. The salary cap that actually is a salary cap prevents teams from building through free agency for anything more than a single season run. Windows are much more important. You cant just stock a farm system for prolonged success the way that Jack Z is trying to do. You have to draft star talent that performs TODAY and the success or failure of that is dictated far more by draft position than it is in baseball.
Tom Brady won three super bowls during his window. Manning won only a single super bowl in his window with Indy. What is truly amazing is that Brady got back to the super bowl two more times with teams that were essentially built AFTER the first championship window and they stayed in the playoffs the entire time. That is mind blowingly rare and a testament to just how special the New England organization is.
Manning is of course now back to another super bowl. But he cheated! In the rivalry sense he cheated. While Brady has been leading a new batch of players drafted from the playoffs Manning bolted to a team that had been drafting from outside of the playoffs since 2005. The Broncos were just coming into their window and were talented enough to make the playoffs in 2011 with Tim blinkin Tebow!
Tom Brady of course can't speak the word cheating due to the spygate scandal but that's what I take him to mean when he's referencing the "best offense in NFL history.". He's not calling Peyton the best. He's acknowledging it's Peyton and his new "friends".