CHICAGO, January 11, 2012 â€" Peyton Manning is unquestionably one of the greatest field generals that the game of football has ever seen. Drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 1998, Manning has led the team to perennial playoff appearances, taking the Colts to the top game every year following after his rookie season save for one.
Peyton Manning is a four-time MVP and apparently the only reason the Colts ever won more than two games in a season.
The Colts drafted Manning after they had the worst record in the league, and they subsequently dominated the field for twelve seasons. This year a neck injury kept Manning off the field, and the Colts are the worst team in football once again. It just so happens that the best two-quarterback prospects in years are in the upcoming draft (it’s a coin toss between Andrew Luck and Baylor’s Robert Griffin, III), and because of the aforementioned misery suffered by the Colts, they get first pick.
So why would they possibly want to get rid of him?
Manning is a few months from his 36th birthday, and the Colts owe him a $28 million dollar bonus in early March. It is extremely reasonable for the Colts to consider moving him before owner Jim Irsay’s wallet starts crying.
The New York Jets have noticed this as well, and with quarterback Mark Sanchez’s recent (and historically) poor play, several of their players have anonymously reported that they would favor swapping Sanchez for Manning.
In the teams eyes, Manning is a brilliant quarterback that is for rent for a few years before he ages into dust. He may also be the missing piece to an annually promised Super Bowl championship.
However, even if this unlikely trade came to fruition, the Jets would not be any closer to that ring because this year the Jets’ offense has been complete trash, especially when they needed it most. A Manning acquisition simply will not change the fact that the Jet’s locker room is in shambles.
With teammates accusing Captain Santonio Holmes of quitting towards the end of their playoff loss, and as mentioned before, if a team has little confidence in their starting quarterback, why would they have confidence in each other?
Trust in your teammates is essential for championships; a team dealing with inner scandal rarely has enough mental presence to beat themselves, let alone every other team.
On a similar note, the Jets head coach Rex Ryan needs to learn a lesson from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Teams that want to go further than the first few rounds of the tournament shut their mouths and play the game. If you want to be a cool cat and grace your town’s newspapers with pompous predictions four times a week, then so be it, but it does not lead to winning championships.
At least Cuban’s team had the talent to win it all. Ryan’s boasts only degrade a team that is average at best.
All Peyton Manning would provide to the Jets is a few years of solid but increasingly disappointing play, his age growing as his stats shrink.
The Jets would do well to save their assets to look for younger options than gamble on the injured Hall of Famer.
Manning is undoubtedly a master at his position, but by the time the New York Jets got the rest of their act together, Manning would be watching the games from a studio, not from the field.
To contact Nick Goralka, see above to send him an e-mail containing a question, comment, or scathing insult. His work appears in Alley-oops for Touchdowns! in the Communities at the Washington Times Online.
CHICAGO, January 11, 2012 â€" Peyton Manning is unquestionably one of the greatest field generals that the game of football has ever seen. Drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 1998, Manning has led the team to perennial playoff appearances, taking his team to the game every year following after his rookie season, save for one.
The Colts drafted Manning after they had the worst record in the league, and they subsequently dominated the field for twelve seasons. Peyton Manning is a four-time MVP and apparently the only reason the Colts ever won more than two games in a season.
So why would they possibly want to get rid of him?
This year, a neck injury kept Manning off the field, and the Colts are once again the worst team in football. It just so happens that the best two-quarterback prospects in years are in the upcoming draft (it’s a coin toss between Andrew Luck and Baylor’s Robert Griffin, III), and because of the aforementioned misery suffered by the Colts, they get first pick.
Additionally, Manning is a few months shy of his 36th birthday, and the Colts owe him a $28 million dollar bonus in early March. It’s very reasonable for the Colts to consider moving him before owner Jim Irsay’s wallet starts crying.
The New York Jets have noticed this as well, and with young quarterback Mark Sanchez’s recent (and historically) poor play, several of their players have anonymously reported that they’d favor wapping Sanchez for Manning.
In the teams eyes, Manning is a brilliant quarterback that’s for rent for a few years before he ages into dust. He may also, they might hope, be the missing piece to an annually promised Super Bowl championship.
However, even if this unlikely trade came to fruition, the Jets wouldn’t be any closer to that ring because the Jets’ offense has been complete trash this year, especially when they needed it most. A Manning acquisition simply will not change the fact that the Jet’s locker room is in shambles.
With teammates accusing Captain Santonio Holmes of quitting towards the end of their playoff loss, and as mentioned before, if a team has little confidence in their starting quarterback, why would they have confidence in each other?
Trust in your teammates is essential for championships; a team dealing with inner scandal rarely has enough mental presence to beat themselves, let alone every other team.
On a similar note, the Jets head coach Rex Ryan needs to learn a lesson from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. If you want to go further than the first few rounds of the tournament, then shut your mouth and play the game. If you want to be a cool cat and grace your town’s newspapers with pompous predictions four times a week, then so be it, but it doesn’t get you championships.
At least Cuban’s team had the talent to win it all. Ryan’s boasts only degrade a team that is already average at best.
All Peyton Manning would provide to the Jets is a few years of solid but increasingly disappointing play, his age growing as his stats shrink.
The Jets would do well to save their assets to look for younger options than gamble on the injured Hall of Famer.
Manning is undoubtedly a master at his position, but by the time the New York Jets got the rest of their act together, Manning would be watching the games from a studio, not from the field.
To contact Nick Goralka, see above to send him an e-mail containing a question, comment, or scathing insult. His work appears in Alley-oops for Touchdowns! in the Communities at the Washington Times Online.
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