Should the Colts trade the No. 1 pick?

No. He was going to an established playoff team and was going to learn for a couple of years and soak it all in. It is in fact the total polar opposite of what experts are saying about Luck.

 

I don't know that I would go as far as to say they're tanking, but this team was so ill-equipped for anyone else to play QB that there wasn't really anything it could do. That reflects positively on Manning and negatively on Caldwell/Polian.

Maybe if the lockout hadn't happened, they would have had a better idea that Manning might miss time and they could have brought someone in and prepared them to play QB.

 

I follow the San Antonio Spurs "Suck for Dunc" playbook. Four rings do not lie.

 

I love all this "once a generation" or "once a decade" talk about Luck.

Does anyone here really think he will be a better QB than Brady, Brees, Rogers, Manning or Roethlisberger? Is anyone taking the over on that?

 

Rodgers wasn't as raw as people like to make him out to be, but he knew when he arrived in Green Bay that he would probably be Favre's backup for at least two years, and it wound up being three.

 

He could fit into that group. I don't know that anyone will ever be better than Brady in '07 or Rodgers in '11. But the value of a star quarterback is so great, the single most influential building block in all of sports, that you just have to go for one when you can.

 

The "once in a decade" or "best since Manning or Elway" refers to his status as a NFL prospect, not as a NFL QB.

Brady was a shitty NFL prospect. Brees was too small. Teams didn't like how Rodgers held the ball and that he had learned from Tedford.

Saying he's the best prospect since Manning or Elway is just that, it doesn't mean he'll be as good as them.

 

I may get laughed out of the room for saying this, but I think the Chiefs with Manning and a healthy Charles could be pretty strong. Seattle comes to mind as well, and maybe Arizona.

 

And what makes you think Polian will be willing to hire a big name coach and sacrifice his authority? If Polian were willing to do such a thing, he wouldn't have hired either Tony Dungy or Jim Caldwell as head coach.

 

Can the Colts trade the Polians?

 

It is very interesting to me that the $28 million option bonus came about because Manning agreed to it in exchange for not having to take a physical before signing the contract last year. That tells me he knew he was messed up.

I don't see how anyone can think there's a trade market for that.

 

Arizona and KC both struck me as possible landing spots for Manning as well, but I don't know if he has any say in where he goes if traded. If he does, I'm guessing he'd rather go someplace like Miami or SF (if they have interest in acquiring him) because they seem to have better weapons already in place.