How Ryan Leaf and Peyton Manning compared after two games

With Robert Griffin III being jerked off by pretty much everyone in the media right now thanks to his killer Week 1 performance I thought that it would be interesting to go back and see how Ryan Leaf and Peyton Manning faired in their first few games as a rookie. What you’ll see is that you definitely should not over react to such a small sample size. In Ryan Leaf’s first two games he led the Chargers to a 2-0 record. He went 16-31 for 192 yards, 1 TD, and 2 INT’s in his first game vs the Buffalo Bills and followed that up by going 13-24 for 179 yards, 0 TD’s, and 0 INT’s vs the Tennessee Oilers (yes, the Tennessee Oilers…not the Tennessee Titans or the Houston Oilers). Sure you’d like to see those numbers be better but most importantly is that the Chargers went 2-0. After that things didn’t go so hot for Leaf and the Chargers as they lost six of their next seven games. However, that doesn’t matter as we are only evaluating the first two games since everyone tends to overreact early...