Whitlock on Manning
 

Faith in Manning biting Colts now

Can you imagine if they go from Manning to Luck?

Colts would've never done that if Manning were black / ~

I'd stab a fat hump or two.

He should have used more bubble wrap.

I was thinking the exact same thing as I was reading that article. Yeah, Colts might tank without Manning only to draft ****ing Luck.

I knew he couldn't go a whole article without saying it.

Yeah....no.

I predict the Colts win the division w/Kerry Collins. Manning comes back just in time for the playoffs and does a Griese impression. The millions of stories about Favre are a distant memory to the 2011 Peyton Place drama.

If it's Luck in Indy or Luck in Denver, by all means, send him to Indy.

Jason Whitlock can kiss the fattest part of my ass and then suck my balls.

That is if he isn't already preoccupied massaging Jeff George's shaft.

I don't need that image running around in my head.

I'm sure the Colts will spend 30 years signing backups instead of drafting a 1st round QB, using the Chiefs as a model...

I haven't seen anything that says Manning will miss the entire season. So what if he misses a game or two.

yeah, bet another surgery on his neck to correct a bad nerve in his tricep that hasn't healed in monhts is nothing to worry about..he'll be back in a few days

How is Polian the best GM in pro sports? He's had the best QB in history for a decade and a half with 1 ring to show for it. Minus that QB, they don't sniff the playoffs. I don't get it.

Hmm he built Buffalo Bills teams of the early 90s and also made Panthers into NFC runner ups in their second season.

did Polian pick the QBs for those teams? (asking because I don't know)

If I'm the Colts.....what year would I rather take a QB in the 1st round? Hmmm.....I'm pretty sure I'd rather have the QBs in the next years class than the ones in this past class.

Kerry Collins was the QB in Carolina back then. I believe they did draft him out of Penn State

...and I think Kelly was originaly in the USFL?

He drafted Collins and the Bills already had Kelly's rights but he convinced him to play for the Bills. He didn't draft Kelly or Bruce Smith, but he built most of that roster.

Polian didn't draft Kelly, but got him back from the USFL in '86.

thanks.
Just curious if he drafted Kelly etc. Inititally I was looking at their successes and grabbing a franchise qb etc.

(dang)

I'm convinced Jeff George has compromising photos of Whitlock.

I'm pretty sure that Manning never told the Colts...."If you draft a QB...then I'll leave forever!". The Colts have had opportunities to get a capable backup for Manning in the last couple of years.....they just never took the opportunity.

Why can't the Chiefs have them on the schedule this year? They have a few ass whoopins coming.

:spock:

Oops, sorry I missed it. Cool.

NooB

:D

Yeah, no kidding. I even looked at the schedule to check for sure, before I posted it. I blame Cassel.

Heh, he goes on and on and on (and on) about how important Manning is to the team, then writes like Manning knew how serious it was and just wanted a pay day. Of course he played with it last year and held off on surgery until he absolutely had to do it.... he's that ****ing important. Manning didn't screw them out of solid backup... that's ridiculous.

Agreed. The Colts made the mistake of not drafting a decent backup for the past 2 or 3 years. Cant blame them too much though, Manning has basically been "Ironman"

Nobodies at major fault here, every Dynasty has to end at some point....

Once I saw the title of this thread, I started to think it may be how Peyton's injury occured.

Ironman or not, it's ridiculous to basically ignore the backup QB position altogether year after year after year. You're begging for disaster sooner or later, and now they're about to receive what they've been begging for.

I'm not saying you draft a 1st round pick at the position, but seriously, they haven't invested *anything* at the position in 10 years...

Here's the link to Colts' drafts:

http://www.fftoday.com/nfl/drafttrac...am&TeamID=9001

In the 13 drafts since drafting Manning in 1998, the Colts have used a grand total of TWO picks on Quarterbacks, both occurring very late in the 6th round (28th pick each time, coincidentally). It's just dumb.

Patriots in 11 drafts (with Brady "in hand"), by comparison:

2011: Mallett, high 3rd
2010: Robinson, late 7th
2008: O'Connell, late 3rd
2005: Cassel, mid 7th
2003: Klingsbury, late 6th
2002: Davey, mid 4th


Bottom line is that the Colts pretty much intentionally said "**** it, if we lose Manning we're dead anyway, so we're not even going to try to have an adequate backup."

Good luck with that.

FYP.

Can you post a GIF?

I'll bet even Jeff George himself is getting sick of being mentioned in Whitlocks lame ass football columns.

I'm sure Payton will give some money back...

He'll make it back by landing a neckbrace endorsement.

You want us all to go blind?

google image search "gay interracial"

He is out for 2-3 months...

"Manning got his money before anyone truly understood the seriousness of his neck injury. Manning took care of Manning. He made it difficult for the Colts to take care of the Colts. Surgery in February might have allowed the Colts to consider selecting a quarterback high in the latest draft." - Whitlock

Will everyone who called Brett Favre a scumbag for trying to screw over his own team refer to Manning in the same way? Manning brought the same number of rings to Indy that Favre did to GB, at least Favre didn't screw GB out of bunch of money right before he left.

They'll eventually put him on IR.

Sadly that's probably true. We may have seen the last of Peyton on the field, which is cool (I'm a Chiefs fan and i hate Manning, sorry) but we'll still see his ugly product whoring mug on every other commerical long after he retires.

Unless, of course, that neck injury gets super serious....

No, because everything Whitlock said is horseshit.

Manning had neck surgery a year ago. He had problems with his neck throughout last season. How is it his fault that the Colts didn't start thinking "Hmm, maybe we should plan ahead"?

As Whitlock pointed out himself, there was nothing wrong with Favre when the Packers drafted Rodgers. The Colts didn't have that foresight. Worse yet, they didn't have that foresight after Manning had surgery on his neck the first time. But now it's Manning's fault for not having his SECOND neck surgery on a schedule that would have let the Colts look at a replacement in the draft? Bitch, please.

And after he had his second surgery, the Colts gave him a new contract. They gave him a new contract after the lockout ended and their staff had a chance to examine him. What did Peyton do, hold them up at gunpoint? Hypnotize them and erase his bad neck from their memories?

This is embarrassing.

Oh, the Colts are responsible for handing Manning the money, no doubt about that. But, as Whitlock has just done, there are people who will say Manning "robbed them" "screwed them over" and all the rest IF Peyton is ineed done and doesnt return the cash.

Just wondering what people might think.

How many teams ever get two top-tier QBs back to back, let alone one?

Peyton Manning - QB - Colts
According to Dr. Wellington K. Hsu, who specializes in orthopaedic and neurological surgery, there is only a five percent chance of another surgery for players who undergo a cervical fusion as Peyton Manning did Thursday.
Hsu notes that quarterbacks "fare pretty well compared to other positions because they can predetermine their movements." Hsu believes Manning could be back on the field in 12 weeks, give or take, with an aggressive rehab schedule. It's a fairly common surgery for football players, and Hsu insists it's "simply not true" that the surgery is career threatening in nature. "I think Peyton, being the stalwart that he is, playing the position that he does, has a very, very good prognosis for coming back," opined Hsu.

Packers. Bastards lol

most important part of this in how it relates to the Chiefs:

1 more victory

More margin for error during the terror stretch.

Could literally be the difference between the playoffs and staying home.

Yeah these colts will get luck now. They will be terrible. It's like how spurs got duncan.

49ers and the Packers are the only ones I can think of.

That's almost like a team going from Favre to Rodgers. Unbelievable.

I would totally puke if they did. There aught to be a rule against that.

I stopped reading after Whitlock said Manning was more valuable to Indianapolis than Jordan was to Chicago.

it made me want to see how much more stupid sh*t he could possibly say. Not sure if he topped this one, but damn did he try.