Peyton and his brother Eli tend to drop back

Peyton watched the Ole Miss quarterback on the screen darting in and around linemen, outrunning linebackers down the sideline and avoiding pass cheap burberry outlet 2012 rushers with nimble, circuitous scrambles that could last six or seven seconds. Peyton turned to Archie with a mix of incredulity and discontent. “Why aren’t I fast like that?” Peyton asked. Archie Manning, telling the story more than two decades later, chuckled. “I just said, ‘I don’t know, but it might be a blessing,’ ” Archie said. “I figured he would have to play the position differently than I did.” While the Mannings are the 21st century’s first family of quarterbacks, the difference in approach between the Manning brothers and their father is remarkable. The developmental lineage is not much of a straight line. Archie zigged and zagged, Peyton and his brother Eli tend to drop back, and other than some elusive — if important — moves to avoid a pass rush, there is not a lot of fancy footwork or open-field running in the repertory of the second-generation Mannings. Consider that in his first three N.F.L. seasons, Archie ran for 816 yards with the New Orleans Saints. Peyton has played 13 years and is still about 100 yards short of that total. Eli has been in the league eight years and is not halfway to that figure . “I knew very early that those boys would be getting it done a different way than me,” Archie said last week. “You know, maybe I was a little faster, but using your legs really was the style back then, too.” It was also Archie’s defense mechanism — a way to stay alive in the face of fierce pass rushes from superior competition. Archie Manning is in the College Football Hall of Fame because of memorable games like his 1969 masterpiece against Alabama when he threw for 436 yards and 2 touchdowns and ran for 104 yards and 3 touchdowns. He also lost the game by a point. In college and as a professional, Manning played for teams that were frequently overmatched. Staying on the move was essential. “Most of us back then in college were sprint-out quarterbacks,” Archie said. “We didn’t do much drop-back and throw. And in those days, we didn’t have quarterback coaches to teach it to us, either. There wasn’t a lot of refining of technique with repetition over time.”Burberry ties, silk ties for men, cheap burberry tie on sale. Manning was close to another University of Mississippi quarterbacking legend, Jake Gibbs, who led the powerful Ole Miss teams of the late 1950s and early ’60s. Gibbs went on to become a catcher for the Yankees but would return to the Mississippi campus after the baseball season to work with Archie. Still, they were lessons in being a sprint-out quarterback. “I used to run 12 to 20 times a game,” Archie said. When he got to the N.F.L., he said he wished he had spent more time learning to be a drop-back passer — something he filed away until his sons began playing football. “Archie was a really good N.F.L. player, but he was never properly trained as a drop-back passer and he was on a team that couldn’t really give him time to develop into one,” said Pat Peppler, the player personnel director in Green Bay with Vince Lombardi who also went on to similar front-office jobs in Miami and finally in New Orleans at the end of Manning’s career. “Archie would go back to pass and either have to start running or dump the ball off short. He didn’t have time to wait for downfield routes to open up.” Archie was the second overall pick in the 1971 N.F.L. draft, but the game had changed significantly by the time he left New Orleans in 1982. “For years, teams had rarely put more than two wide receivers on the field, let alone four of five,” said Ernie Accorsi, who retired as the Giants’ general manager in 2007 after nearly 40 years in the N.F.L. “Then, all of a sudden, there were multiple formations with multiple receivers. Quarterbacks were passers. You didn’t have to be a runner at all; what you needed to do was recognize blitzes and have a quick release.” From their earliest days as quarterbacks, Peyton and Eli Manning were schooled in those important qualities of a drop-back passer. “I taught them the basics of throwing the ball when they were young, but they had outstanding, quarterback-specific coaching in high school and then especially in college,” Archie said. David Cutcliffe was the offensive coordinator when moncler outlet Peyton was at the University of Tennessee and then became the coach at Mississippi when Eli played there. “I never stray too far from what Coach Cutcliffe taught me,” Eli said last week preparing for Super Bowl XLVI against the New England Patriots. Both Mannings have been known to visit Cutcliffe, now coaching at Duke, from time to time, even as pros. Eli went to North Carolina for three days last June during the N.F.L. lockout. Cutcliffe had been examining video of Manning’s fundamentals during his interception-plagued 2010 season. The visit focused on retooling Eli’s footwork, agility, body mechanics and field vision. Once the 2011 season started, Eli had his best year in the N.F.L. “Both boys have stayed close to Cut,” Archie said of Cutcliffe. “Everybody needs a tuneup every once in a while.” Football executives who have studied Peyton and Eli Manning as quarterbacks do not, however, discount Archie’s influence in their eventual success. “I don’t know if there has ever been a family like them,” Accorsi said. “And from the first time those kids threw the football around in the backyard, they’ve been groomed to play the position. It’s my understanding that it was never forced, but just growing up with a father who had that kind of knowledge gave them a higher-level edge. “Knowledge and a feel for the position happened naturally. It was not foreign to them; it was all around them.” Archie Manning saw it as evolution, but not necessarily within the family. “Look how the position has evolved,” he said. “We didn’t even use the shotgun in my day. How many plays are run out of the shotgun now, even in high school? That has been a huge difference. “There are spread offenses and moncler jackets sophisticated blocking and pass-receiving schemes. It’s a different world.” Archie Manning’s old college films revealed a simpler time, and a fast quarterback.