Jets prepared for full dose of Colts QB Peyton Manning in AFC championship game
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Kerry Rhodes was watching smokescreen of Peyton Manning when something jumped off the screen.
There was the four-time MVP quarterback hitting the greensward, trying at all costs to avoid contact.
"He doesn't want to get hit," the New York Jets safe keeping said Wednesday. "So, if there's a free guy, he'll actually just go down and give up the sack. If you get influence on him, once you do that, he gets to talking to his linemen and they're a little edgier and a little rattled."
The outmanoeuvre is actually getting to Manning, of course. The Indianapolis Colts quarterback was sacked virtuous 10 times during the regular season, the fewest in the league, and he's a superintendent at figuring out defences.
"I compare him to a conductor in an orchestra," defensive hoisting gear Sione Pouha said. "He knows when to call for the trumpets, the violins and the cymbals and when to make known them all in one accord. With the offence, he's just able to orchestrate the best way to get at a argument."
The Jets' top-ranked defence held Manning and the Colts' boisterous-scoring offence mostly in check the last time they played. Well, at least for the two-plus quarters they were in the unflinching. They know they'll see Manning&Co. for four quarters this time in the AFC championship game Sunday, and will neediness to pressure him early with a Super Bowl berth on the line.
Source: The Canadian Press