During an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show on Friday, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning repeated one of his favorite jokes.
“You know rookie quarterbacks, it’s always a little struggle with me,” Manning said. “I want to get that interception record that I hold broken — I don’t want Bo Nix to break it.
“I don’t want Bo Nix to break it, but if the quarterback in Washington [Jayden Daniels] or Chicago [Caleb Williams] wants to break it? I’m still pulling for ’em, they’re quarterback fam, but I gotta get that one off my resume.”
This is a topic that Manning revisits every year, and he’s hoping that teams will let rookies play all 17 games this fall to increase the odds of the record being broken this fall.
Nobody is breaking that interception record Peyton 😂😂 #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/TlfPeHRk8x
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) September 6, 2024
“If they struggle early, leave him in there, don’t take him out,” Manning said. “Because that’s the only way you’re going to get to 28 interceptions … plus that’s how you learn. Leave him in there, learn how not to throw that fourth interception. But if you take him out, I’m just telling you, you don’t learn as much.”
Manning threw 28 interceptions as a rookie in 1998, a record that will be hard to break given how quickly young QBs are benched.
Manning, 48, played the final four years of his career with the Denver Broncos. He retired in 2016 after winning Super Bowl 50.
