After next season. 3 years out of high school. If lives up to the hype, we will only have one full season of Arch. I hope they recruit a great quarterback this cycle. Edit: Arch is only 19, and Peyton didn't play his first NFL game until 22 and Eli didn't play his first NFL game until 23, so we may have him for 2 more seasons. The family is looking at the big picture for Arch.
yah i just had this conversation with someone. he does not need money of course, and they are going to try to set him up for a long 15+ year career. I would say it's 100% certainty he plays at least 2 full seasons as a starter.
I feel bad for Arch, getting controlled by his family like that. What is this "big picture" everyone mentions? Being a future HoF QB? Relying on his family for money/living while they hold him back because they want to do what's best for him? Okay, "big picture". The guy can play and he's talented as hell, the quicker he makes it into the NFL, the better.
I think Grandpa Manning knows a little bit more than you on how to have a long successful NFL career and Arch makes a few million a year at Texas.
I would think Arch would make those decisions for himself and on what he wants. Just because he has famous family members doesn't mean they dictate his whole life. I doubt, at this point, he or anyone else knows where he'll be in 2 years.
If Arch sticks around Austin for two years and delivers a national title he'll also be set up for a life beyond pro football. Peyton is revered in Knoxville and Vince Young, in all his washed glory, is still a god in Austin. Edit: I always forget that it wasn't Peyton who won the natty at Tennessee.
Manning goes for the home run too much. He missed some open receivers in the 15 yd range that would have moved the chains easily.
Nice, expected win. Should've been an even larger margin of victory, but Arch showed that he had more learning to do. And OU looks absolutely awful. A good day all around.
