Contract Offered? This guys says so.
 

The Kansas City Chiefs apparently are not wasting any time in their pursuit of Peyton Manning.

The team that took on Joe Montana in the twilight of his career is apparently hoping for the same type of short-term revival with Manning, as radio host Brandon Spano reports, citing a source, that the Chiefs have already prepared a contract offer for the quarterback who has been on the open market less than 24 hours after officially clearing waivers on Thursday.

Of course, the Chiefs have plenty of competition for Manning, and it remains to be seen if the interest is mutual. But the Chiefs are apparently being among the most proactive of the Manning hopefuls.

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This is an important story.

Not because it's true, because there's no way we can know that.

But because it's further evidence that the Chiefs are a frontrunner.

Thank you so much for the breaking news.

Koo

Is McCormick that outsider that tends to have better insight into the Chiefs than our local guys?

Eh, I'm wanting to say that was a Ravens writer, not a Titans one. I know there's a non-local writer that is generally about 3 days ahead of Teicher and the rest of the Star hacks.

03/09/12
The Chiefs have signed Tamba Hali to a new contract. / Teicher, KC Star

Make it so!

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ng-a-contract/

If you go to the page above you can see the mixed reactions from fans. Miami fans have to be the biggest morans eva!



Report: Chiefs have already offered Peyton Manning a contract
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 9, 2012, 10:18 AM EST


Amid talk that some NFL teams will court Peyton Manning so aggressively that they’re willing to sign him without watching him throw, now comes a radio report saying the Kansas City Chiefs have already offered Manning a contract.

Radio host Brandon Spano reports that the Chiefs were the first team to formally offer Manning a contract, making him the offer on Thursday, the day after his release from the Colts became official.

At the moment this is just one radio report that hasn’t been confirmed elsewhere, but it fits a growing narrative that the Chiefs’ interest is real. Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel went right up to the tampering line, and may have even crossed the line, by gushing about Manning even before the Colts released him, and the Chiefs reportedly contacted Manning shortly after it became permissible within league rules.

The Chiefs are an intriguing option. They weren’t far from the playoffs last year in the weak AFC West and have a good chance of being better this year, considering that arguably their two most talented players, Jamaal Charles and Eric Berry, played a combined total of three games last year. Manning would like to have a receiver like Dwayne Bowe, and the Chiefs are in relatively good salary cap shape, good enough that they should be able to give Manning a healthy contract and still have room to bolster the roster elsewhere as needed.

We don’t know for sure that the Chiefs have actually sent Manning a contract and are simply waiting on him to put pen to paper, but it certainly does sound like the Chiefs are one team that will aggressively pursue the biggest free agent of the year.

Twitter has made it way too easy for rampant speculation to turn into runaway rumor. This shit is getting old, and it's only just beginning.

It seems like the radio report may have taken the written report and then overstated it.

The written report suggests that an offer has been prepared. I guess it's possible they just fired it off to Peyton's agent, but isn't that sort of thing generally done in person? Maybe it was done as a showing of good faith to Manning: "We believe in you sight unseen" - as a way to perhaps gain a little bit of an edge.

Exciting, but I'm doing my damndest to keep from getting invested in this thing.

Oh, Hai Debbie!

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/65...reme-Court.jpg

Most exciting shit to happen here in quite a while, strap yourself in and enjoy the ride. ;)

Meh. I'm just too jaded I guess. I refuse to let myself get excited. Things like this NEVER seem to work out for the Chiefs.

If Manning was 26 and perfectly healthy, you are right. This would never work out for us. BUT, since he is 56 and had 85 neck surgeries...we just might have a shot.