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They have money to retain both of them, if they want to.
Or for that matter, a couple cheap ones as a game manager behind a great defense late so people would ignore the crappy first 10 years of his career like they do for Elway.
But fitting. Passing the torch onto Luck. The young generation taking over the old. It's got all the storylines you could want.
I think a lot depends on the offseason. If he has surgery, If they announce he was injured, and if this injury is healed, etc.
Crazy stat line for sure, but it also shouldn't be missed that he GOT to the playoffs that many times. Not a lot of QBs have that resume.
Yeah, you can almost timestamp that as when it went south. He DID look very uncharacteristically "beat" at the end yesterday. The fire was extinguished. You could just tell it.
Yeah the 4:6 ratio over the last 5 games is very un Peytonlike. I mean how many other 5 game stretches in his career do you see 4 TDs over 5 games? Over 5 games, he's usually good for at least 10.
Please, please, please let everyone perpetuating the end of the Manning era drive his price down for one more ride in redraft in 2015 if this is in fact true.
And out come the face-saving excuses like clockwork.
The last month and a half he randomly started throwing ducks? Seems pretty obvious to me.
You know I have never viewed Manning as a guy that would coach or announce. Just seems to me the great ones rarely have that side in them (like they are so good and so demanding that most of their pupils would never live up to it).
Of course it's coming. You can't brush off an injury as no big deal for a whole month, and then say, no, wait a minute, it was a big deal. It's typical face-saving bull#### not to mention makes a mockery of the already a joke NFL injury reports. Hurt or not, he didn't get it done. End of story.
Not surprising to anyone I wouldn't think BUT, if it is true, the NFL must investigate because it sure wasn't reported that he had the injury. If he knows today it was torn for a month then it should have been reported, not "P. Manning, probable (thigh strain).
Agreed to a certain extent, but dude couldn't throw a ball more than 15 yards down field with any zip on it the last month.
That's my feeling. One of two things happened. He either went from having one of his best seasons of his career for the first half of the season to a guy who isn't even close to the top QBs in the league discussion. Or he was injured. I've never seen a guy fall off that fast personally. So even before the quad talk injury seemed a lot more likely to me at least.
Wow, surprised you don't see him as a guy that would coach. If there's one player in the NFL right now who I think is guaranteed to become a coach, I would think it was Peyton. Has nothing to do with his talent, but he is a leader, and a smart football mind. He's been coaching other nfl players for years at his qb camp, and kids qb camps as well. Seems like a no brainer to me that he'll be coaching somewhere within the next 5 years.
Sure it will be. Of course, as a fan, I can see that Peyton played in likely the weakest division in football for most of those years and the Colts racked up wins and secured home field when in reality they were paper champions. Manning carried these teams on his back and had a great offense. Looking back, I wish we'd have had more defense.
07 defense was very good. Maybe not like the current one or the ones during the superbowl runs. But very good. Same with 08 (granted no Brady).
why not just transplant his brain into the body of Colin Kaepernick? And continue transplanting it into younger QBs every 10 years?Here's what I'm thinking. Few have his football brain. The way he diagnoses defenses at the line is second to none. Get him up in the coaches box, with control of the radio to the QBs headset, and it's his brain in a younger body. Get on a team like the Eagles, where he can talk up until the snap because they move so fast that they never hit the play clock cutoff, and it could be unstoppable.Browns need an OC. Welcome Peyton.
I agree. The wheels just came off inexplicably and they were completely unstoppable and then all the sudden he can't pass the ball downfield and completely loses accuracy. Just doesn't make sense and there has to be more at play here.
In yards allowed, but in points allowed they've only been worse than #10 once - #15 in 2011.
nice.
