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| mongo | Mar 8 2012, 11:10 AM Post #31 |
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Colts win at least 9 games with Peyton. Period. |
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| dreachon | Mar 8 2012, 11:56 AM Post #32 |
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Well, Colts MGMT better hope that Peyton isn't healthy cuz when he gets back to old form they are going to be lambasted. |
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| BoilerFan24 | Mar 8 2012, 12:00 PM Post #33 |
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...and if they kept Manning and traded the first pick they would have had to hope that Luck didn't live up to the hype. They had to make a difficult decision. Hopefully they made the right one. |
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| dreachon | Mar 8 2012, 12:14 PM Post #34 |
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I don't think that's true. If Manning is healthy and gives a team 5 more years, that's 5 years of the best possible chance at a Superbowl you will have (especially when you include the draft picks they would get in return for Luck). Plus plenty of time to find a replacement for Peyton. |
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| BoilerFan24 | Mar 8 2012, 12:30 PM Post #35 |
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They keyword there being IF. The colts decided not to gamble $28 mil on Manning's health. As a Colts fan it is very sad seeing Manning go but I am OK with the decision to move on. |
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| dreachon | Mar 8 2012, 12:32 PM Post #36 |
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That is true. |
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| IUCOLTFAN | Mar 8 2012, 04:13 PM Post #37 |
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Why would a guy with 3-4 years left (maybe) want to stay in a place that is rebuilding and probably wont be a championship caliber team again during his career? I see it as a win-win. Mannings get to CHOOSE who he will play for and give himself the best chance at another ring. After the injury, Peyton cant expect 28 million up front from any team including the Colts, he's a smart guy. The Colts get to CHOOSE the #1 draft pick to lead what will obviously be a 2-3 years rebuilding process. My gut feeling is that Peyton will play a couple more years and give it another run at the Superbowl but I have a feeling that he will eventually be roaming the Colts sidelines in some capacity and I think it has probably already been discussed. |
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| blak_rob0 | Mar 8 2012, 04:22 PM Post #38 |
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Really good points there Colt. Some speculation but definitely some food for thought. |
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| dreachon | Mar 8 2012, 04:28 PM Post #39 |
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One could argue that with a healthy Peyton (which he believes he will be) and several good draft picks the Colts can be Superbowl contenders as early as next year. I mean why not? Everyone here thinks they're a 9 to 10 win team with Peyton last year. So add Peyton, plus 2 first round and 2 second or 3rd round choices plus all the other draft picks and I would think Peyton and the team would be confident they can compete next year. |
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| IUCOLTFAN | Mar 8 2012, 05:16 PM Post #40 |
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The Colts have cap issues. Irsay clearly stated himself that they are rebuilding. He will sign a couple guys (like he just did Mathis) to keep the seats relatively filled and give Luck a few weapons and lineman to protect his investment but we are gonna see many new faces....the Colts are in rebuild mode now. In 3-4 years the Colts will be revamped and Peyton will probably be done if not before considering the neck. With the obvious respect that Peyton and Irsay show for another, I can honestly see Peyton somewhere on those sidelines in the future. |
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| realtivelynew | Mar 8 2012, 09:33 PM Post #41 |
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My pick as best farewell and thank you to Peyton I have read. By Rick Reilly of ESPN: Thank you, Peyton Manning. This might be the beginning of something better. Might be the end of everything good. But before we slog into what happens next, where you'll go, what you'll do, we owe you a thank you for what you've done and who you've been. So thank you, Peyton Manning, for never showing up in the VIP section of Cheerleaders, overserved and under-mannered. Thank you for never ending up on Court TV, or Page Six or with parts of somebody's nose on your knuckles. You came to a nowhere franchise and made it Somewhere. Greatness poured out of your fingers because you put in the hours and the study and the pain to let it. Two Super Bowls, four NFL MVPs, 11 Pro Bowls, 11 playoff seasons and more records than a used CD store. It was trendy to make fun of your "Yes, sirs" and "No, sirs" and your 1950s haircut but many of us secretly admired it. You played a violent game and yet somehow held on to that southern gentility. In the middle of the worst time of your life, you took the time to write a hand-written note of sympathy last week to Fox's Chris Myers upon the death of his son. Thank you for watching more film than Martin Scorsese. Thank you for always being the last one to go home at night, for knowing more about what defenses were going to do than some of the players on those defenses themselves. You came to a nowhere franchise and made it Somewhere. Greatness poured out of your fingers because you put in the hours and the study and the pain to let it. Two Super Bowls, four NFL MVPs, 11 Pro Bowls, 11 playoff seasons and more records than a used CD store. That Super Bowl win was classic you. Every day that whole week, you made your center, Jeff Saturday, spend an extra 15 minutes snapping you balls you'd soaked in a bucket of water. "It might rain," you said. So when it did, and Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman looked like he was throwing greased watermelons, you looked like you were throwing rocks. Fourteen years in the league and the worst we can say about you is that you made a lot of castor-oil faces and your helmet left funny marks and one time you laid into your "idiot kicker." Fourteen years and you didn't sext anything, wreck anything or deck anybody. You were a 10,000-watt bulb in a small city, and yet you never seemed to tire of it. If you did, you rarely showed it. There's a fan website -- peytonmanning18.com/encounters.html -- where everyday people tell how you were with them. It's hard to find a rotten one. "Peyton was so nice and down to earth," one wrote. "He was just as polite and nice as I've always heard," wrote another. "He was getting ready to leave and wanted to take a picture with me and thank me for driving his golf cart," said a third. It's a lousy site if you're a cynic. I have no idea how much time and money you have to give to a hospital to have it renamed in your honor, but they did that for you in Indianapolis. Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent. Says a lot. How many times can one man change an entire city? Well, without you there's probably no Lucas Oil Stadium. Without Lucas Oil Stadium, there's no Super Bowl this year in Indy. Without the Super Bowl, there's no brand-new, drop-dead gorgeous JW Marriott downtown. Forbes figures you improved the Colts' value by $233 million. Compared to that, $28 million to keep you doesn't seem like much, does it? Thank you for showing up at podiums in your shoulder pads some nights because you knew some of us had early deadlines. Thank you for making us laugh in all those ads. If there's ever been a funnier jock on "Saturday Night Live," I'll keep a ham in my pants. Thank you for showing up to work every day, every week, season after season. You started 208 straight games -- through purple thumbs and black eyes and stomach flus that left you green. You get paid either way, so thanks. Hell, you even tipped great. The other night, in North Carolina, you left an extra $200 on a $740 check that already had an 18 percent tip in it. According to my abacus, that's 100 percent class. Lastly, thank you for the way you left. Always thought you'd go out as a Colt, and go out the way you wanted, but if it had to end this way, "I truly have enjoyed being your quarterback" is as good an exit line as I've heard. You made it sound like it was an elected position, an honor, a job where you knew people were depending on you. You were right. You came to the line and changed the play 1,000 times, but you never changed your team, your city, your fans. Jim Irsay did all that for you Wednesday. That would've gone down most guys' throats like a porcupine, but you took it and you smiled and you stood there with your arm around Irsay like he wasn't the one dumping you, like there wasn't a thing he could do about it. That's grace. You had it in the huddle and you had it in the pocket and you had it at the end. So thank you, Peyton Manning. And bravo. You wore the horseshoe, but it was us who got lucky. |
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| BoilerFan24 | Mar 8 2012, 10:06 PM Post #42 |
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Did anybody else see this load of crap from Whitlock? Whitlock on Manning |
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| realtivelynew | Mar 8 2012, 10:25 PM Post #43 |
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Jason Whitlock saying a black player is better than a white player? say it aint so Jason. BTW, his hatred of the Colts is well documented. His poor buddy Jeff George was treated awful here |
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| HoosierLars | Mar 8 2012, 10:46 PM Post #44 |
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Considering Irsay is the same guy who loaded up the Colts' semi and left Baltimore in the dark of night, I'd say he handled this situation pretty well... |
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| realtivelynew | Mar 8 2012, 10:47 PM Post #45 |
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i doubt at the age of 24 he was in on the decision. His DAD did, and for good reason |
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