Peyton Manning even makes it hard to hate him, offers ultimate praise for Bill Belichick

With a high profile Broncos-Patriots on the docket for Sunday afternoon's AFC Championship game, you can expect a lot of terse words to be exchanged between the two teams. Right?

Maybe not. The Patriots aren't playing the Ravens this year after all, they're playing Mr. Class himself.

Peyton Manning is usually dishing out pinpoint passes on the playing field. Today's he's throwing around compliments. Big ones.

Peyton: "Belichick is the best coach I've competed against and I think it's safe to say he'll go down as the greatest NFL coach of all-time"

— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) January 15, 2014

Well, that's awful nice of you to say, Peyton.

The quarterback who's won just about more regular season games than anyone the last decade (yes, even Brady!!!) has only beat Bill Belichick about 28% of the time, so you can see why he'd have such high regard for him.

Often the overlooked matchup, for whatever reasons, Peyton Manning has actually never faced off against Tom Brady in his life. The future Hall of Fame quarterback has however faced off against Bill Belichick's defense quite a bit.

It's good to see that one of the most respected names in the game has the highest regard for maybe one of the most hated.

Thanks for the love Peyton, would appreciate some more on game day!