Peyton Manning, who was thrown into the fire as the quarterback of the Colts back in 1998, discussed Matthew Stafford in an interview with 1070 the Fan in Indianapolis recently. "I think you throw him in there right away. I think he's lucky, the fact that he's coming in with a new staff ... That's a big advantage because basically he's just like all the other veterans as far as learning this new system, learning the way their new head coach is going to approach things, learning his philosophy ... I'm waiting for somebody break that NFL rookie record for interceptions I set back in '98," Manning said. "Hopefully Stafford will give it a good run. But I'll say this, there's no way that [I] could have played as well as I did in my second year if I hadn't played in my first year and gone through those bumps and bruises."