Posted on 03/06/2012 7:34:16 PM PST by Perdogg
Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts had both hoped he would play his entire NFL career with that franchise.
What was speculated about for months will become official Wednesday when the Colts officially part ways with their future Hall of Fame quarterback. FOXSports.com has confirmed that Manning will be released, ending his storied 14-year tenure with the club.
FOXSports.com NFL insider Jay Glazer reported that Manning and Colts owner Jim Irsay will conduct a joint news conference Wednesday in Indianapolis. The tone is intended as a farewell tribute to Manning, whom Irsay has long championed as a close friend as well as Colts star
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A lot of teams need a lot of work. The Colts need work on both sides of the ball, of course so do the Cowboys- which is the team I like.
They fixed it in the new CBA, they now basically have a step system for rookies like the NBA. First rounders still get fairly big contracts, the big thing they were really looking for was no more negotiations and holdouts.
Yeah, the salary cap makes it a lot harder to be a GM, and a great QB makes it a lot easier to not notice the GM’s screw ups.
As a football fan in general, I am sad to see this turn of events. Great athlete, ferocious competitor and general class act.
I am a Pats fan, and I am disappointed to see this in that it completely takes the air out of this important, fun and interesting rivalry that had developed.
But if he does play, I want him to be as far away as is humanly possible, out of the AFC, and preferably on the other side of the world.
He takes too many years off of my life when he plays the Patriots.
Fair winds and following seas to wherever his fortune takes him. He is a good man and a Hall of Famer,
Just as long as my team only sees him once every few years...:)
NOTE: Nearly every Patriots fan in my circle that I know would echo this sentiment. Nothing but respect in these circles.
He must really want to play ball badly.
Because he could make a ton of money as a tv analyst or football coach.
I suspect he’d progress to NFL head coach in just a few years, just like Jim Harbaugh.
He is still a young guy with the competitive juices still flowing. Tough to let it go.
Top shelf athletes usually don’t make good coaches. They’re too motivated and don’t relate well to the more average players. Larry Bird is pretty much the only A list player to do well as a coach.
There are two free agent linemen in Houston that Dallas should go after.
You may well be correct, but I’d bet my next Social Security deposit that many colleges and pro teams would be happy to find out if he could do it.
I will miss this guy. I was so wanting them to keep him anyway, but they were thinking long term, I guess.
28 million bucks is a lot when you may be injured again. I would have felt bad too if he would have had another awful injury while playing here.
Sad day for Indy. I will be for whoever he plays for though. Right thing to do.
I don’t doubt he’ll get a coaching job if he wants. I’m just saying the history of great players as coaches is pretty bleak, a lot more wind up coaching like Gretzky and Singletary than like Bird.
I beg to differ...For 15-20 minutes there, they had it going on...
I beg to differ...For 15-20 minutes there, they had it going on...
How about Doug Collins and Doc Rivers?
Both were good players, without injury Doug might have made top shelf, but they didn’t really hit the top. I’m thinking about the Gretskys and Dr J’s and Emmitt Smiths. The ones that try coaching usually aren’t very good at it, lots of theories why, mine is that they can’t communicate with “regular” players who actually need motivational speeches and such. I always think about Jerry Rice, a guy who regularly came into training camp in better shape than the trainer’s goal for the END of camp, if he tried coaching he’d be on such a different plain from the normal players that actually need training camp I don’t think they’d even understand what he said.
Well Doug was the first pick in the draft and made the All Star team four times so he was certainly a first rate NBA player.
“I was hoping he would retire especially with a neck injury. It won’t feel right seeing him in another jersey.”
Yeah, agree. But,sadly, most of these guys can’t seem to give it up. Look back at Joe Montana/KC Chiefs, Emmitt Smith Cardinals. Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach are two of the few who were able to see and know when it was time to hang’em up, and both did it with class.
“I was hoping he would retire especially with a neck injury. It won’t feel right seeing him in another jersey.”
Yeah, agree. But,sadly, most of these guys can’t seem to give it up. Look back at Joe Montana/KC Chiefs, Emmitt Smith Cardinals. Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach are two of the few who were able to see and know when it was time to hang’em up, and both did it with class.
Without his injury he might have been, but because his career got cut short he didn’t really redecorate the record book like the players I’m thinking of. Just having to deal with an injury probably changed his mindset.
Supposedly he is meeting w/ Titans today.
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