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Bill Belichick says Peyton Manning is 'definitely the best quarterback I’ve coached against'

Tom Brady may be attending Peyton Manning's enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but the highest praise Manning will receive might have come from a different New England Patriots source.

Speaking with the Boston Globe, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick stated definitively that Manning is the single best quarterback he has ever coached again:

“He is definitely the best quarterback I’ve coached against,” Belichick said. “There have been quarterbacks who called their own plays, but it was nowhere near the same as what he did.