The best part is that Elway is not paying lip service to a quarterback that made him look awfully smart over the last few years. Manning did revolutionize football. The only reason some of his practices are not widely used across the NFL is because there are only a few quarterbacks who enter the league as smart and prepared as Manning was. Still, little things like the speed and frequency of audible, the mastery of a finite group of go-to plays, the maneuvering of personnel to create an advantage -- no one did it better than Peyton.