Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians is a quarterback guru.
The 64-year-old has worked with Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Andrew Luck, Carson Palmer and others during his NFL career, so he's as qualified as anyone to talk about coaching QBs.
In his new book, The Quarterback Whisperer: How to Build an Elite NFL Quarterback, which was written with B/R's Lars Anderson and hits shelves July 11, Arians recalls a young Manning asking out of a blowout.
With the New England Patriots well ahead, Arians, who was then a quarterbacks coach, called out the franchise player—and it worked (h/t Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk).