Peyton Manning and Tom Brady have had their careers compared and contrasted for the better part of their Hall of Fame careers, but quarterbacks share similar stances when it comes to retirement.
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Earlier this week, Brady said in an interview, “When I suck, I’ll retire.”
Brady, 37, laughed when he said he doesn’t plan on sucking for a long time and won’t hang on to play a couple extra years when he can no longer play at the high level he has set at the standard.
Manning, 38, shared the same line of thinking as his rival after practice on Wednesday.
"“Brady said he was going to play until he sucked,” Manning said via ESPN. “That’s a pretty good line. I’m kind of the same feel. I don’t have a set number. You’re just not playing and you can’t help and — some guys can hang on, can hang on and hang on and get another year vested, I guess, if that’s the goal. If you can really produce and help a team, and you enjoy playing, I think that’s up to the individual. . . . Yeah, right until you suck — I think that’s a pretty good rule right there.”"
Could you imagine if the two best quarterbacks of their generation retire at the same time and they are both enshrined in Canton, Ohio at the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the same day five years from the time of their retirement?
Despite their advanced ages, Brady led the Patriots to another AFC Championship Game last year where Manning’s Broncos defeated them that send Manning to a third Super Bowl after a record-breaking regular season and another MVP.