Peyton Manning completed only 54% of his passes, threw 3 interceptions, and only 1 touchdown. His QB Rating for the day was minuscule 53.3 and the Broncos only converted 4 of their 18 third down attempts.

Broncos receivers dropped numerous passes throughout the contest but great players, like he once was, overcome these blunders and lead their teams to the endzone soon after. Manning couldn’t lead his team past the first down marker on Sunday.

When asked about Manning’s performance after the game, head coach Gary Kubiak said, “It has lot to do with me and getting him comfortable.” Manning was definitely running the Kubiak offense. The game plan was littered with bootlegs, play action passes, and plenty of zone runs on the first two downs. But if this quote has any significance, it’s that Peyton Manning is still not comfortable on the field.

If you can’t get comfortable after OTA’s, training camp, preseason, and six weeks of regular season football, you’re never going to get comfortable with it.

Coach Kubiak said, “He is trying to do too much at times.” I think the more accurate response would have been, “At times, he’s trying to do things he can’t do anymore.” Of course a head coach would never say that and I don’t expect him to. But hearing a coach say that the greatest regular season quarterback that the game has ever seen “Is trying to do too much,“ tells me everything I need to know.

Peyton Manning is struggling very heavily to play this position and his coach knows it. Luckily, one of the best defenses that the franchise has ever seen is in a phone booth nearby just waiting to save the day.