[Quesadilla Joe]

Elway was satisfied with the Manning he first saw at Duke, where Manning worked out after he was released by the Colts, and the Manning he sees now has improved tremendously from then, much faster than Elway expected.

Elway looks at the throws Manning makes when his feet are not set. Those are the ones that convince him Manning’s arm is back.

“I didn’t know what 100 percent of Peyton Manning was,” Elway said. “I just know, knowing what I’ve seen, he can win a world championship.”

Maybe so. Manning was watching film one day in Denver, and finally found what he was looking for. It was a long pass, a comebacker from Manning on the right hash mark to Decker on the left side. It was, Manning recalls, “a pretty healthy throw.”

He took a video of the play with his cellphone and sent it off, a digital thank you note — “Hey, I just want to thank you for all your help,” he added — to the doctors in Indianapolis, to the former Colts coach Jim Caldwell and the team’s former general manager Bill Polian and a handful of others.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/sp...ewanted=2&_r=1