If not for a recent turn of events, Sunday would have marked seventeenth time Peyton Manning and Tom Brady have faced off since 2001. There's much that we'll miss about the Manning-Brady rivalry, but this week will perhaps mark the beginning of a new rivalry: Brady v. Brock.
Talking to the media on Wednesday, Brady had only positive things to say about Manning.
"There's nobody that has more respect for Peyton than me outside of probably his parents and his brothers. If anybody can appreciate what he's accomplished it's me, so he's just been remarkable in every part of his career.