I think people who look at Archie's stats would be a bit misled. Firstly, stats are looked at way more today than they were back in the day (easy access to them via internet is part of that). But also his stats, for a solid number of years, were top 10 in the NFL. QB's did not usually put up phenomenal numbers, the only exceptions before him that I can think of were Unitas and Len Dawson. Hell look at Bradshaw's numbers. He was a solid, for-sure top half of starting QB's in terms of his performance on the numbers. What held him down was just how bad the Saints were. His first year with them was only the Saints 4th season as an expansion franchise and due to the nature of how money works in the league today, expansion teams stayed bad for a lot longer. The two most recent expansion teams in the NFL, the Texans and Jags, got to .500 records and playoff appearances way sooner than teams back in the day did. Archie had pretty bad supporting casts and often he was playing injured because he got beat up so much because he was all the Saints had on offense and they had nobody who could remotely fill his shoes if he sat out.
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 During the very few years he had help, the D sucked giving up points like a Chucky Cheese. Players that started to produce and get notice were traded for weaker/younger players, so short-term profits could be gained. Archie was pretty much alone during his entire career.
As a little boy of 9yrs, I watched Archie play with Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl with a broken arm and lost the Heismann vote to Jim Plunket...never figured that one out? I was thrilled he was going to play with the Saints. My mother was from New Orleans and we lived 60 miles east on the MS coast. Loved to watch him play and still do. Never realized his release of the football reviled Dan Marino's football release. He was GOOOOOD...one could say too good for New Orleans Saints but we sure loved him. Thank you for posting.
Da Ha that team would have went to the super bowl without a doubt. That 91 and 92 team were such great teams, the only things holding them back was Bobby Hebert and the Cowboys and 49ers being in the same division/conference as them.
@Catharsis he had no team whatsoever. No line, no receivers, no running backs and no defense. Danny abramowicz was his best receiver. Archie Maning was the reason Elway refused to play for the Colts. He didn’t want to be in the same boat. They used to call it Archie Manning syndrome. The late 80s early 90s saints had an excellent defense too .
Thanks so much for this! I started as a little boy Saints fan in 1970 (and didn't even live in Louisiana!) Archie Manning was the first poster I put up in my room. He was very talented & for MANY years had not a very good OL in front of him. Even as you could see from some of the clips, many times he was scrambling for his life! So great to see some of my other favorite Saints receivers - #46 Danny Abramiwicz - Dave Parks - Wes Chandler, etc. GEAUX SAINTS!
My dad drove me and my brother down from McComb for saints games in the early 70s. I think that was before the bag heads, but the most fun we ever had was trying to get paper planes to fly down onto the field😂
@@hectorlopez1069 you can say that again. Archie was the only good thing about the Saints in those days. If he wasn't playing, they were easily going to lose by 30 - 40 points.
I always knew about Archie because I'm a true OILER LUV YA BLUE fan and what a great dynasty he started, but I stumbled across some videos of him playing as a Luv Ya Blue Oiler and at that moment saw the strength of his arm...incredible...he's throwing solid and piercing while running backward at the same time. Now maybe there's some voodoo there, but to me that's incredible. I thought Dan Pastorini was the one who had "the arm"...
No free agency back then you were stuck with who you had and no salary cap if Manning was on a good team he would have been one of the greatest shit he made 2 pro bowls with loosing seasons
Absolutely awesome compilation here, Pocky! Thanks for making my week :) Archie never got to play behind a good offensive line in 11 years here. And he didn't have much of a supporting cast from the other positions on offense for his first five years. And you picked some darn good channels to choose from; I've watched the Reidy and Volsky channels extensively the past coupla offseason summers. As I heard on an NFL Films segement once about Archie, he might not have been the best of the best....but he was most certainly the best of the worst.
Archie and stabler were my favs back when I was just a kid , Archie was a great quarterback , fun to watch , had a lot of style and natural ability. He put the saints on the map along with Dobler and Muncie. TPC111
@@chrismoore488 the offensive line for that team is one of the worst I have ever seen. I guarantee fans of the Saints cringe at the thought of the 1980 season.
He was more athletic than Peyton and Eli combined. Archie Manning reminded me of an unpolished Aaron Rodgers skillset-wise, but he definitely didn't receive the coaching needed to refine those skills.
One of things in his early years was he had Danny Abramowitz to throw to. It’s amazing watching Danny because he was very slow.....5.1 in the 40. Yet he had escapability that so many receivers lack. He refused to let the first tackler take him down.
I would like to thank the channels of "Kevin Reidy" and "Sam Volsky" for providing the footage and music that is in this video. The highlights you see in this video were found by picking through over 100 "This Week in Pro Football" episodes from the 70's and 80's. I tried to pick out only the highlights that were filmed from an overhead "broadcast" angle, as to make it seem like you were watching the Quarterback on TV. I hope that you enjoy these highlights of the one-man band from the 1970's New Orleans Saints. - PockyCandy -
For anyone who wants to know a modern-day equivalent for Manning's situation, just look at what Deshaun Watson is having to do in Houston (who is now 0-4 in the 2020 season). Like Manning, Watson isn't perfect. But he's having to do everything for a mismanaged franchise.
He kind of had to be. The offensive line for the 1980s Saints was god-awful. Guarantee Arch you was praying that he would see a little bit of blocking when he had to step on the field.
Archie Manning the legend when I was coming up the Saints was bad Archie Manning already retired but that's all we had to brag about the Archie Manning play for the Saints he's the all-time number one in my book
If theres one thing that you do when you become a good parent is you can stop and reflect on everything. Maybe archie told his sons "if you're going to be a QB, then you have rely on your arm more than your feet, but in order to do that you must master passing first" they probably knew you could get more yards by throwing than being mobile.
@@mojosiesta9821 this is exactly it. My father was a carpenter his entire life, and always told me to use my head so I won't have to use my muscle when im old.
@Amazing Guy LOLOL My thoughts exactly. Obviously there's a great QB gene pool when it comes to the Mannings, but Archie was VERY good. Reminds me of a right-handed Steve Young. Both could throw sidearmed, both had moves and could run. Surprised neither of his sons played like their dad, Archie. Archie was a baaaaad dude. Just a pity he played for soooo many shitty Saints teams back in the day. (Saints fans: nothing at all against the Saints, just stating what was the case back then, because New Orleans has had many very good-to-great teams since those days.)
Love u Archie I watched u get the shit beat out of u 13 years....didnt the aints ever get u a reciever...hell I saw u catch ur own pass once...he was the man...had a arm as good as anyone...im a Dallas fan but couldn't help but root for archie...
He was the greatest college Qb I ever saw. He really got screwed in New Orleans. What a waste of talent. When Danny Abramowicz is your number one WR, then you don't have much.
Man:Watching Archie with that straight square shoulder drop back was A thing of beauty.Without A doubt,he's better than Eli,but Peyton was on another level.Cerebral student of the game plus the size,and Archie schooled his boys on how to stay out of trouble. You can argue all day on who was the best Manning,I like Payton.If my genes put 2 of my offspring in the NFL,that would be good enough for me.
Great highlights. Unfortunately, I’ll bet that the Saints lost the majority of the games shown here. They were usually known to play well enough to win but could never put a game away, like the great teams of that period.
Eli and Payton will tell you that Cooper was the best athlete in the family who unfortunately had to quit football due to being diagnosed with spinal stenosis.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the league in 1976, lost their first 26 games (their first victory was against New Orleans) and yet in three years, they made the NFC Conference Finals but the Saints who joined the NFL in 1967 endured 20 years of losing seasons (their best record during that time was 8-8) and made their first playoff appearance in 1987. Was it just bad draft choices or what?
@@hectorlopez1069 What amazes me is that since NO consistently ranked near the bottom every year, they usually had the 2nd or 3rd choice in the NFL draft and they still could not select any good player from the draft. Look at Walter Payton. Walter played at Grambling which is located in Louisiana. How did the Saints overlook him? Or what about Terry Bradshaw who also went to college in Louisiana? And then look at the number one choices in the 70s like OJ Simpson, Ed Jones and Earl Campbell that the Saints could have drafted but didn't. Some of the few decent players the Saints drafted were George Rogers but then they traded him to Washington where Rogers won a Super Bowl, and Ricky Jackson who later became a member of the Dome Patrol. NO must have had very bad GMs during this time.
He didn’t win many games because the Saints were a terrible organization back then, but there’s not a person walking on God’s green earth who has an unkind word to say about Archie the Man.
What's with the hate from some? I was a Manning fan and even I knew he was never going into the Hall but to insinuate he was basically the drizzling shits is far from accurate.
@@untitle161just like DeShaun Watson when he was exactly like archie with the Texans, Watson was running for his life because of the bad offensive line for the Texans.
That can't be the Saints playing all those NFC West teams then including the Falcons. They were the NO self-described "Ain'ts", bags over heads at games, as a 1973 born DC area Redskins kid. Just kidding, DIFFERENT TIMES!
Archie Manning was a great quarterback who played for a crap team. If you put him on the 49ers, with all those receiving threats, he would have been unstoppable. Unfortunately, he was bound to one of the worst teams of the decade.
I was a saints fan during mannings time with saints he was not that good was very inaccurate on throws other qbs of same era had much better stats. Could not win late games when he had the chance a legend on peoples minds only
You would have to watched his games for 11 years like I did to appreciate how awful the O lines he played behind were. In 1978 the Saints brought in Conrad Dobler, a good not great Guard , and he was player of the year in the nfc. Next year they traded Dobler to Buffalo and the whole thing came apart.
Anyone who ever shits on Archie Manning knows nothing about football. He tried to do it all by himself he needed a team built around him. Now I agree he should not have been a day-one starter and should have been able to sit out a year and learn the offense but that goes to show you that the Saints were that bad. Had he gone to a well-built team he would be in Canton and anyone that says otherwise doesn't know shit. Stats are so overrated and it inflates a player's status. well Archie was a winner it's just he went to a losing organization. Even Drew Brees playing in Archie's era of the saints would have been killed
He had all the talent in the world, but was brought down by a god-awful supporting cast and a series of incompetent GMs. The fact that he played long enough to accrue those stats is a testament to how gifted he was. Manning could make every throw and was very athletic.
There is no way you can blame Archie for the losses it's a team sport like was said before he had no offensive line and mostly no defense he single-handily got us wins if it wasn't for him we may have never won any games just saying
PockyCandy alright lets be real here. At most he was above average. You can have a terrible team, but the interceptions are mostly on the quarterback. And 173 is inexcusable
He wasn't average he was the in the best QBS of his day you put him on the steelers or the raiders and they woulda won if not equaled go look at namath and stabler stats their not that much better difference was they had good teams as we didn't
Dude the New Orleans Saints of that era were like the Cleveland browns of today, but with even less talent except their QB. It was a terrible franchise. If Pittsburgh had drafted Archie instead of Bradshaw then he would be in the HOF
There's a good possibility Manning never received any sort of coaching on footwork and mechanics once he entered the NFL too. It's kind of a miracle he did as well as he did, considering how trash the Saints were.
One of the most, if not thee most overrated, overhyped QB in the history of the National Football League...don't blame Manning's supporting cast in New Orleans...he lost in Houston & Minnesota as well...he was not a difference maker on any level, in fact, quite the opposite..."Legend"?...legendary joke.
I think people who look at Archie's stats would be a bit misled. Firstly, stats are looked at way more today than they were back in the day (easy access to them via internet is part of that). But also his stats, for a solid number of years, were top 10 in the NFL. QB's did not usually put up phenomenal numbers, the only exceptions before him that I can think of were Unitas and Len Dawson. Hell look at Bradshaw's numbers.
He was a solid, for-sure top half of starting QB's in terms of his performance on the numbers. What held him down was just how bad the Saints were. His first year with them was only the Saints 4th season as an expansion franchise and due to the nature of how money works in the league today, expansion teams stayed bad for a lot longer. The two most recent expansion teams in the NFL, the Texans and Jags, got to .500 records and playoff appearances way sooner than teams back in the day did. Archie had pretty bad supporting casts and often he was playing injured because he got beat up so much because he was all the Saints had on offense and they had nobody who could remotely fill his shoes if he sat out.
Had John Elway been the Saints QB back then his stats would have been even worse
Dude he had Wes Chandler Muncie Galbreath etc he had weapons he was a turnover machine
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 and those 3 years he had both were his best years i believe?
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 During the very few years he had help, the D sucked giving up points like a Chucky Cheese. Players that started to produce and get notice were traded for weaker/younger players, so short-term profits could be gained. Archie was pretty much alone during his entire career.
@@jcz232321 your impressed with these highlights ?
For anyone who wonders why Eli Manning didn't want to be drafted by the Chargers was because Archie knew what Hell looked like.
Brees and Rivers did alright
some of these plays are hilarious. what a joke of a team.
@@MerkinMuffly yes. brees and rivers clearly played in the gangster era of outlaw football.
@@itbelikethat6579 Look at Drew Brees career.
Well Peyton didn’t have a good squad his entire career in IND but he did pretty damn well lol
As a little boy of 9yrs, I watched Archie play with Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl with a broken arm and lost the Heismann vote to Jim Plunket...never figured that one out? I was thrilled he was going to play with the Saints. My mother was from New Orleans and we lived 60 miles east on the MS coast. Loved to watch him play and still do. Never realized his release of the football reviled Dan Marino's football release. He was GOOOOOD...one could say too good for New Orleans Saints but we sure loved him. Thank you for posting.
Just think what if the Saints had Archie in the late 80s and early 90s instead of Hebert.
Da Ha that team would have went to the super bowl without a doubt. That 91 and 92 team were such great teams, the only things holding them back was Bobby Hebert and the Cowboys and 49ers being in the same division/conference as them.
@Catharsis he had no team whatsoever. No line, no receivers, no running backs and no defense. Danny abramowicz was his best receiver. Archie Maning was the reason Elway refused to play for the Colts. He didn’t want to be in the same boat. They used to call it Archie Manning syndrome. The late 80s early 90s saints had an excellent defense too .
Same result. Bobby Herbert was a solid QB. Archie Manning wasn't that much better. There is a reason he was called the Cajun Cannon.
Still my favorite Manning qb. Growing up in Texas,I saw him play every Sunday. I used to imitate him when I was junior high.
Thanks so much for this! I started as a little boy Saints fan in 1970 (and didn't even live in Louisiana!) Archie Manning was the first poster I put up in my room. He was very talented & for MANY years had not a very good OL in front of him. Even as you could see from some of the clips, many times he was scrambling for his life! So great to see some of my other favorite Saints receivers - #46 Danny Abramiwicz - Dave Parks - Wes Chandler, etc. GEAUX SAINTS!
Poor man, he had great talent, but couldn't play with good players to win games. He needed good players to play with.
My dad drove me and my brother down from McComb for saints games in the early 70s. I think that was before the bag heads, but the most fun we ever had was trying to get paper planes to fly down onto the field😂
Archie. A gentleman and a scholar.
If Archie arrived in Todays game he’d be a Top5 QB. He really is an Athlete born out of time
I agree
I love watching Archie when I was a kid
The only QB, that didn't have great players to have a winning season, or go to the playoffs.
from these highlights this man had a phenomenal arm.
Yeah, just a flick of the wrist..., 30-40 yds!!! 🏈
I guess so, but didn't have anybody good.
@@hectorlopez1069 you can say that again. Archie was the only good thing about the Saints in those days. If he wasn't playing, they were easily going to lose by 30 - 40 points.
I always knew about Archie because I'm a true OILER LUV YA BLUE fan and what a great dynasty he started, but I stumbled across some videos of him playing as a Luv Ya Blue Oiler and at that moment saw the strength of his arm...incredible...he's throwing solid and piercing while running backward at the same time. Now maybe there's some voodoo there, but to me that's incredible. I thought Dan Pastorini was the one who had "the arm"...
No free agency back then you were stuck with who you had and no salary cap if Manning was on a good team he would have been one of the greatest shit he made 2 pro bowls with loosing seasons
Absolutely awesome compilation here, Pocky! Thanks for making my week :) Archie never got to play behind a good offensive line in 11 years here. And he didn't have much of a supporting cast from the other positions on offense for his first five years. And you picked some darn good channels to choose from; I've watched the Reidy and Volsky channels extensively the past coupla offseason summers. As I heard on an NFL Films segement once about Archie, he might not have been the best of the best....but he was most certainly the best of the worst.
The reason you'll never see another Saints player wear number 8 :P
Lol
Am not a fan of music in sports videos but the music here is almost like someone choreographed it. Nice job.
Archie and stabler were my favs back when I was just a kid , Archie was a great quarterback , fun to watch , had a lot of style and natural ability. He put the saints on the map along with Dobler and Muncie. TPC111
Awesome. I hope you will be doing more classic NFL players
I use to love watching Archie play. He was like a hundred dollar bill floating in stinky dodo water of those Saints teams.
It's a shame he played when the saints were at their worst.
@@ImRiotous his offensive line was atrocious as well though
He never had a winning season with the saints. He was the only one that was great.
@@chrismoore488 the offensive line for that team is one of the worst I have ever seen. I guarantee fans of the Saints cringe at the thought of the 1980 season.
When he had Wes Chandler and Chuck Muncie we had something but the defense gave up 50 a game
Archie was a hell of a quarterback he was more athletic than both his sons.
He was more athletic than Peyton and Eli combined. Archie Manning reminded me of an unpolished Aaron Rodgers skillset-wise, but he definitely didn't receive the coaching needed to refine those skills.
I've showed this to my son and he can't believe how athletic he was.
John Manning for damn sure lol
PockyCandy he was awesome minus all the interceptions but for the time that wasn’t uncommon
Will he kinda had to be because he had no o-line to protect him, so it became him running for his life
One of things in his early years was he had Danny Abramowitz to throw to. It’s amazing watching Danny because he was very slow.....5.1 in the 40. Yet he had escapability that so many receivers lack. He refused to let the first tackler take him down.
I would like to thank the channels of "Kevin Reidy" and "Sam Volsky" for providing the footage and music that is in this video. The highlights you see in this video were found by picking through over 100 "This Week in Pro Football" episodes from the 70's and 80's. I tried to pick out only the highlights that were filmed from an overhead "broadcast" angle, as to make it seem like you were watching the Quarterback on TV. I hope that you enjoy these highlights of the one-man band from the 1970's New Orleans Saints.
- PockyCandy -
man Archie's back must be bad because all the hits he took
For anyone who wants to know a modern-day equivalent for Manning's situation, just look at what Deshaun Watson is having to do in Houston (who is now 0-4 in the 2020 season). Like Manning, Watson isn't perfect. But he's having to do everything for a mismanaged franchise.
They didn't call him crazy legs Manning for nothing. It seemed like everytime the ball was hiked he was in full sprint for his life. LOL!!!
He kind of had to be. The offensive line for the 1980s Saints was god-awful. Guarantee Arch you was praying that he would see a little bit of blocking when he had to step on the field.
Archie Manning the legend when I was coming up the Saints was bad Archie Manning already retired but that's all we had to brag about the Archie Manning play for the Saints he's the all-time number one in my book
One of the few legendary QBs that didn't get a chance to play in the playoffs.
Another great one!
How is it possible that his sons can be statues compared to him?
his team held him down?
Amazing Guy their moms DNA
If theres one thing that you do when you become a good parent is you can stop and reflect on everything. Maybe archie told his sons "if you're going to be a QB, then you have rely on your arm more than your feet, but in order to do that you must master passing first" they probably knew you could get more yards by throwing than being mobile.
@@mojosiesta9821 this is exactly it. My father was a carpenter his entire life, and always told me to use my head so I won't have to use my muscle when im old.
@Amazing Guy LOLOL My thoughts exactly. Obviously there's a great QB gene pool when it comes to the Mannings, but Archie was VERY good. Reminds me of a right-handed Steve Young. Both could throw sidearmed, both had moves and could run. Surprised neither of his sons played like their dad, Archie. Archie was a baaaaad dude. Just a pity he played for soooo many shitty Saints teams back in the day. (Saints fans: nothing at all against the Saints, just stating what was the case back then, because New Orleans has had many very good-to-great teams since those days.)
Love u Archie I watched u get the shit beat out of u 13 years....didnt the aints ever get u a reciever...hell I saw u catch ur own pass once...he was the man...had a arm as good as anyone...im a Dallas fan but couldn't help but root for archie...
Groovy music.
You can find all of the music on Dave Volsky's channel.
@@PockyCandy how tall he is
@@ryanferrier5006 I believe he was 6'3.
@@PockyCandy how tall you is
He was the greatest college Qb I ever saw. He really got screwed in New Orleans. What a waste of talent.
When Danny Abramowicz is your number one WR, then you don't have much.
Abramowicz was a terrific WR - they had No D and OL blocking! #46 was an All-Proand had many very good years with the Saints - especially 68-70.
literally every play he’s on the run i mean the guy deserves the hall of fame image him playing with the packers at the time
Best football soundtrack ever...
For one of the sensational QBs to not be on a winning team.
I’m 20 almost 21 just finding these and I now don’t wanna have football unless a qb balls like this, I don’t want it unless you make these plays 😂😌
Not a Saints fan but Archie was a stud in the game.
The 1 player that was phenomenal for the team. The only player that was heading to the hall of fame if it wasn't for the crap team.
4:06 - is that hippie that jumps out of the endzone seats nekkid?!?!?
I have been a Archie Manning fan from back in the high school days.And I know the name of the team
I feel sorry for him, he wish he could of played in the playoffs. The only player that was great on the team.
Y is that guy naked at 4:05?
Gotta love the 70s ☮️
Damn didn't notice that😂😂😂
Ha ha ja
Wtf
Man:Watching Archie with that straight square shoulder drop back was A thing of beauty.Without A doubt,he's better than Eli,but Peyton was on another level.Cerebral student of the game plus the size,and Archie schooled his boys on how to stay out of trouble. You can argue all day on who was the best Manning,I like Payton.If my genes put 2 of my offspring in the NFL,that would be good enough for me.
Scott Laux Eli never had a good coach but he has had his fair share of good teams.
Great highlights. Unfortunately, I’ll bet that the Saints lost the majority of the games shown here. They were usually known to play well enough to win but could never put a game away, like the great teams of that period.
Now I know where the Manning brothers got their good talents from ... Archie Manning was great 👍
Eli and Payton will tell you that Cooper was the best athlete in the family who unfortunately had to quit football due to being diagnosed with spinal stenosis.
Did anyone see that punch to the face after the tackle@17:52?"Welcome to the NFL rookie" thats the way the game was played back then,no flag!
A heck of a lot more mobile than his sons.
Jesus Acosta PEYTON COULD MOVE. ELI MR BUTT FACE COULDNT
Anyone know name of song at 3:40 ?
They should have hired Eddie Robinson. If race wasn't such a big issue back the Coach Robinson would have made the Saints a winner.
true
At 3:21: his own teammate blocks him and then pushes him down. Am I the only one who couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw this? His own teammate?
If he had the offensive lines his sons have he be in the hall of fame!
Seriously he isn't in the HOF? That's true like especially like his son Peyton Manning mostly tho.
and had a phenomenal record as a QB.
Man the saints were bad he's running for his life every play. Shame he never got to play for a real team who knows how good he could have become.
Take a look at Archie's career with the Saints, and one can understand why he didn't want Eli to go to the Chargers...
And elway didn't go to the colts
Fran tarkenton highlights??
Peyton is just like his pops deadly accurate
He was the best one for the manning family.
ARCHIE IS A SAINT!!!
Archie is THE SAINT...
@@suziewheeler6530 drew is the saint
Um no not hardly..although he is ok
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 the difference is Drew had great players to win a Superbowl, Archie did not have any great players to win.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the league in 1976, lost their first 26 games (their first victory was against New Orleans) and yet in three years, they made the NFC Conference Finals but the Saints who joined the NFL in 1967 endured 20 years of losing seasons (their best record during that time was 8-8) and made their first playoff appearance in 1987. Was it just bad draft choices or what?
I don't know, Archie could not get anybody to help him out.
@@hectorlopez1069 What amazes me is that since NO consistently ranked near the bottom every year, they usually had the 2nd or 3rd choice in the NFL draft and they still could not select any good player from the draft. Look at Walter Payton. Walter played at Grambling which is located in Louisiana. How did the Saints overlook him? Or what about Terry Bradshaw who also went to college in Louisiana? And then look at the number one choices in the 70s like OJ Simpson, Ed Jones and Earl Campbell that the Saints could have drafted but didn't. Some of the few decent players the Saints drafted were George Rogers but then they traded him to Washington where Rogers won a Super Bowl, and Ricky Jackson who later became a member of the Dome Patrol. NO must have had very bad GMs during this time.
The music kills
Fun fact: Archie was born in Drew, Mississippi.
He is lucky he got to play close to his Mississippi home.
Archie looked pretty good for a qb with no supporting cast. Terrible offensive line and coaching really destroyed his career.
And bad players destroyed his chances of going to the playoffs.
A QB that a team wants for their team to go all the way, but archie didn't go to a great team.
Looks like those Saints ran the option a lot. Arch "wheels" Manning
He didn’t win many games because the Saints were a terrible organization back then, but there’s not a person walking on God’s green earth who has an unkind word to say about Archie the Man.
WHODAT !!!
#46 Danny Abramowicz catching a majority of these balls & TD's!
What's with the hate from some?
I was a Manning fan and even I knew he was never going into the Hall but to insinuate he was basically the drizzling shits is far from accurate.
We sucked so bad when his three sons who was there favorite team one said the chargers one said the cowboys and the other said wes Chandler lol
Is this a blooper complication 🤔
Just imagine if Payton had his dad's wheels
saints so bad i have to watch archie highlights ☠️ he's slick with it though
If the Steelers had Archie manning he would have been Terry Bradshaw today.
He might have got more Superbowls than Bradshaw.
Looks like a blooper reel
The way he plays he should have been Mahomes's daddy.
Except mahomes dad is black...so no.
When u think of Archie Manning. He was not on a winning team. But at least he got to play pro sports.
All of the players for the saints, were so bad. They could not help out Archie manning.
@@hectorlopez1069 , yeah he didn’t had good offensesive linemen.
@@untitle161just like DeShaun Watson when he was exactly like archie with the Texans, Watson was running for his life because of the bad offensive line for the Texans.
@@hectorlopez1069 , hmmm
Liked...............................but the music needs a serious update.
We we're so bad one end zone said Tulare and the other said saints lol
2:30
That can't be the Saints playing all those NFC West teams then including the Falcons. They were the NO self-described "Ain'ts", bags over heads at games, as a 1973 born DC area Redskins kid. Just kidding, DIFFERENT TIMES!
Steelers trade Bradshaw with archie. They would have won more superbowls and archie would be a hall of Famer.
Archie had better skills than Bradshaw I think.
They ran really slow back then lmao
The footage is in slow-motion. Unlike my Randall Cunningham video, I didn't speed up the highlights to make it appear as it did in real life.
One of the best to play the game but unfortunately was drafted by the saints
He had a really good arm to throw, but didn't have anybody great on the team.
Looking like Lamar/Vick on some plays lol
If he had been drafted by the steelers that team probably has 8 superbowls
The first 3 highlights are a screen pass, a 4 yard pass and a pass that should have been intercepted.....
Poor Archie never had the o-line he deserved. Peyton was a reflection of what Archie could've been with a better team than the new Orleans "aints".
Archie Manning was a great quarterback who played for a crap team. If you put him on the 49ers, with all those receiving threats, he would have been unstoppable. Unfortunately, he was bound to one of the worst teams of the decade.
One of the worst teams in that NFL.
I was a saints fan during mannings time with saints he was not that good was very inaccurate on throws other qbs of same era had much better stats. Could not win late games when he had the chance a legend on peoples minds only
You would have to watched his games for 11 years like I did to appreciate how awful the O lines he played behind were. In 1978 the Saints brought in Conrad Dobler, a good not great Guard , and he was player of the year in the nfc. Next year they traded Dobler to Buffalo and the whole thing came apart.
He’s a really good quarterback the Saints were awful though
imagine if he was supported by a decent offensive squad. dude would have destroyed the league much like peyton.
Or, if he had really good players on the saints.
He would of got Superbowls like tom brady did.
Anyone who ever shits on Archie Manning knows nothing about football. He tried to do it all by himself he needed a team built around him. Now I agree he should not have been a day-one starter and should have been able to sit out a year and learn the offense but that goes to show you that the Saints were that bad. Had he gone to a well-built team he would be in Canton and anyone that says otherwise doesn't know shit. Stats are so overrated and it inflates a player's status. well Archie was a winner it's just he went to a losing organization. Even Drew Brees playing in Archie's era of the saints would have been killed
Most talented Manning
How a great QB is gonna win games, or go to the playoffs with a trash team.
We trade away Chandler and Muncie WTF!!
Without Archie there would be no Eli or Peyton
Archie should of had lots of Superbowls with his ability to be the legend of the NFL.
what about arch manning his 14 and looks like a better passer then tom Brady
1 30 lol no one knew the play so he chunks it long and scores lol he's like looking for who the play action went to lol
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Why does everyone think Archie Manning is good? He had 125tds:173 interceptions, and had a 26% win percentage.
He had all the talent in the world, but was brought down by a god-awful supporting cast and a series of incompetent GMs. The fact that he played long enough to accrue those stats is a testament to how gifted he was. Manning could make every throw and was very athletic.
There is no way you can blame Archie for the losses it's a team sport like was said before he had no offensive line and mostly no defense he single-handily got us wins if it wasn't for him we may have never won any games just saying
PockyCandy alright lets be real here. At most he was above average. You can have a terrible team, but the interceptions are mostly on the quarterback. And 173 is inexcusable
He wasn't average he was the in the best QBS of his day you put him on the steelers or the raiders and they woulda won if not equaled go look at namath and stabler stats their not that much better difference was they had good teams as we didn't
Dude the New Orleans Saints of that era were like the Cleveland browns of today, but with even less talent except their QB. It was a terrible franchise. If Pittsburgh had drafted Archie instead of Bradshaw then he would be in the HOF
Great player on an awful team. Arch is closer to Archie in regards to athleticism and may be the best athlete of all in the family.
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it's really awkward watching his mechanics and footwork compared to todays NFL, but it got the job done back then lol
There's a good possibility Manning never received any sort of coaching on footwork and mechanics once he entered the NFL too. It's kind of a miracle he did as well as he did, considering how trash the Saints were.
The best QB of the NFL in that time. He was sensational and excellent with the ball.
One of the most, if not thee most overrated, overhyped QB in the history of the National Football League...don't blame Manning's supporting cast in New Orleans...he lost in Houston & Minnesota as well...he was not a difference maker on any level, in fact, quite the opposite..."Legend"?...legendary joke.
Shut the he'll up moron
You spend 11 years on a bad team see if you any good when you finally leave
And you are a FOOL!
@@bradfordsmith5942 ...did I hurt your feelings?
This guys stats are the worst
Mans played for a garbage ass team and still has 20 minutes worth of highlights
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Brees is better ✍️
Brees was better than all but about half a dozen QBs that have ever played the game, and one of those half dozen happens to be Archie’s son.