Peyton Manning sat at his locker last week, making small talk. Ever polite, he looked up periodically. But his attention never left the game film on his iPad.
He is to quarterbacks what Pythagoras is to theorems.
The NFL wires his helmet with a radio device. DNA wired his brain with an Intel processor. Nobody sees a defense more quickly, more clearly than Manning.
It is marvelous. And hazardous to his health?
Let me explain. The Broncos face the Detroit Lions on Sunday with the worst offense in football.