Peyton Manning Retirement Rumor

J.R. · Feb 8, 2012

Miami & Washington the early speculation

KingCheetah · Feb 8, 2012

Peyton's neck is good, but the nerve regen is the problem -- his arm strength is weak and he's not close to throwing the ball like he used to. Nerve regen can take years to finish.

Even with the neck being ok'd by his docs one blindside sack could send him into retirement.

J.R. · Feb 8, 2012

Chris Wesseling @ChrisWesseling

On Kornheiser show, @JasonLaCanfora predicts Flynn to #Dolphins, rookie QB to #Redskins, Peyton Manning to #Seahawks or #Cardinals. On Kornheiser show, @JasonLaCanfora skeptical Manning signs early in free agency. "I don't see Condon sending him to #Redskins. No talent." LaCanfora predicts #Seahawks, #Cardinals in large part b/c he doesn't believe Manning will gain enough arm strength to sign until post-draft.
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As KC pointed out above, arm strength is not there yet.

The question is whether the nerves in his arm will regenerate enough to allow him to play football well again. For now, Manning doesn’t have his fastball back.

“I know some of the people that have seen him throw,” Indianapolis Star columnist Bob Kravitz said Tuesday on the Tony Kornheiser Show on 980 ESPN. “They say he’s not throwing like an NFL quarterback yet. That doesn’t mean he never will. This thing is going to take down. Structurally, he’s sound. Structurally, he can take a hit.”

This is where we are in February with Peyton Manning. He can play again, but he may only be able to play like a late career Chad Pennington. Kravitz used the phrase “noodle arm” to describe Manning’s throwing. No one knows how much that will change by August.

Kravitz, who said he didn’t think Manning was being “political” when he spoke to Kravitz two weeks ago, was less generous talking about Manning’s strategy during Super Bowl week.

Kravitz called leaking the story to ESPN about Manning’s health a “calculated” and “deceptive” move by Manning that had the opposite effect of its intent.

“I think people are starting to sway over to Jim Irsay’s side on this,” Kravitz said.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ing-not-throwing-like-an-nfl-quarterback-yet/

ubigred · Feb 8, 2012

Ziggy said: ↑

Miami has a solid D, solid pieces on offense, would let him run whatever he wants, and spending flexibility.
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Yea the favorite.

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ipaman · Feb 9, 2012

mannings noodle arm is still a gun compared to schaubs capellini arm.

conquistador#11 · Feb 10, 2012

ipaman said: ↑

mannings noodle arm is still a gun compared to schaubs capellini arm.
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yet before the fatman took his foot out, he led the league in most explosive pass plays. Half were passes of 30-40 yards through the air the other half were short completions taken the distance, like every qb has.

I don't care if my qb can throw the ball 100 yards sitting on a toilet while eating a whataburger with the other hand.

RoxSqaud · Feb 10, 2012

conquistador#11 said: ↑

I don't care if my qb can throw the ball 100 yards sitting on a toilet while eating a whataburger with the other hand.
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Ziggy · Feb 10, 2012

Lulz in here - http://daveartlocker.blogspot.com/2012/02/manning-face.html

J.R. · Feb 14, 2012

Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter

Jim Irsay to John Clayton: "We want him back. We can work out the contract if he wants to work it out. It's going to be Peyton's call.''
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So with all this talk about Peyton Manning supposedly being willing to take an incentive-based contract in recognition of the fact that his arm strength still hasn’t returned, an obvious question arises.

Would he do that for the Colts?

Owner Jim Irsay publicly has posed that very question today, according to Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star.

“We can make it work if he wants to be here,’’ Irsay said. “We’d be excited to have him back and finish his career with us.

“I want him to be able to make the choice. We would love to have him back here if he can get healthy and we can look at doing a contract that reflects the uncertainty of the . . . healing process with the regeneration of the nerve.’’

It doesn’t necessarily put Peyton in checkmate, but it definitely puts him in check. Now, he has to find a way around the reality that, if no other team is going to be willing to give him $28 million on March 8, why should the Colts?

Irsay’s comments also bring back into focus the reality that Manning could agree to bump back that $28 million bonus payment to a later date, if he so chooses. Though agent Tom Condon didn’t specifically say that Peyton wouldn’t delay the trigger in a Super Bowl-week appearance on NBC SportsTalk, he said the dates in the contract were picked for a reason.

It’ll now be even more interesting to see how this plays out. But with Irsay making it clear that he wants to keep Peyton with the franchise, Peyton faces the very real possibility of having to admit that, in the end, he simply wanted out of Indy.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/14/irsay-puts-peyton-in-a-corner/

Ricksmith · Feb 14, 2012

I'm calling BS on that. Probably a PR move by the owner so he can tell people he offered to bring back Peyton but Peyton decided to leave.

emjohn · Feb 15, 2012

RowdyRicky said: ↑

I'm calling BS on that. Probably a PR move by the owner so he can tell people he offered to bring back Peyton but Peyton decided to leave.
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This entire saga has been one big divorce playing out in the press, with each dropping calculated leaks and announcements to make the other look like the bad guy....all while pretending to be the sweet innocent one.

I just hope that this ends with a clean break in two weeks and they don't extend the $28M deadline back to April/May. I'm so done with the idiotic speculation about him possibly maybe wanting to go the the Texans.

Commodore · Feb 25, 2012

david_rocket · Feb 25, 2012

^^ That has nothing to do about the retirement of Peyton, they do that every offseason, if you see the jerseys in nflshop.com (the official NFL store) they have 50% off.

J.R. · Mar 3, 2012

Alleged video of Manning throwing. Decide for yourself.

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Pull_Up_3 · Mar 3, 2012

hsf09 said: ↑

Alleged video of Manning throwing. Decide for yourself.

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