Colts release Peyton Manning. *UPDATE -- Mort: Manning to Broncos*

Not a huge surprise, but thought it deserved its own thread. Press conference coming Wednesday:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7653897/sources-indianapolis-colts-part-peyton-manning-wednesday

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

I won't believe it until Rob Lowe says it's so.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

I'm generally the first to say both the teams and the players need to show more loyalty toward one another, and with Manning walking on water in these parts, and with him seemingly being one of the few who doesn't get himself into trouble ... but in this case I honestly can't blame the Colts. A $28 million bonus on top of whatever he's supposed to get in a four-year contract is a butt load of money for a guy that's had four neck surgeries recently and could just as easily be washed up as not.

I don't think anybody wins in this situation except Andrew Luck.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

I really wanted them to keep Manning around just to tutor Luck or whoever they draft at QB. But that $28 million was a bit much, I guess.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

I hope wherever Peyton Manning ends up next season, he knocks the Colts out of the playoffs.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

Colts won't be in the playoffs for a while.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

This is the single most overrated thing in all of sports. Players, if they want to keep playing, don't willingly train their replacements. And players, if they want to win the job, don't take advice from their competition. People point to the Favre/Rodgers setup as some kind of validation of the vet-youngster phenomenon, but in reality Rodgers wasted two, maybe three years on the bench.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

If you're Kansas City....you do one of two things;

Trade a bunch and move to 2 to get RG3
or
Sign Manning to a 3 yr, 18 million dollar deal.......trade Cassell and eat 2/3 his money.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

Timing is suspect. Manning was most likely behind a Colts bounty program.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

The 'mentoring' shit hardly ever, ever, ever works.

In the two leading NFL instances where one Pro Bowl QB succeeded another -- Montana/Steve Young with the 49ers and Favre/Rodgers with the Packers -- the old guy did everything possible to sandbag the up-and-comer.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

That was fast.

 

Re: Mortensen: Colts to release Peyton Manning

Suck with Luck?