ESPN: "Why Miami is best for Peyton Manning"

[SF Dolphin Fan]

Buyer Beware.

I really think Peyton is done

Yeah, I agree with you there. Love Peyton Manning, but what a huge risk that would be. If the Dolphins do go that route, I think they also need to draft a young qb pretty early in April. By the way do you really like Coples?

 

[DphinBillkiller]

Playing in warm weather and at least half your games on natural grass could help extend a veteran's career.

 

[PHANTASTIC13]

The 49ers have Micheal Crabtree and Vernon Davis to throw to and Frank Gore running the ball...not too shabby. They have a good coach in Jim Harbaugh as well and a good defense. Miami has better weather and an owner with deep pockets and wants to bring a championship to the city. You know Ross has to be tired of the Marlins, Panthers and Heat enjoying success while his team struggles every year.

 

[PHANTASTIC13]

I am for anything that will bring a Super Bowl championship to Miami.

 

[PHANTASTIC13]

If the Dolphins sign Manning, then they are legit contenders for the Super Bowl and a serious threat to the Patriots strangle hold on the AFC east. It is time for the Dolphins to RISE up and be accounted for and take it out on the entire NFL like the Saints and Rams did a few years back...from worst to first.

 

[72 silky]

Funny thing is, I've heard that Manning wouldn't go to the Dolphins because of Tom Brady and Bill Belichek.

Where? From who? I ask because I've never read that or heard it

 

[NYPhin24]

The 49ers have Micheal Crabtree and Vernon Davis to throw to and Frank Gore running the ball...not too shabby. They have a good coach in Jim Harbaugh as well and a good defense. Miami has better weather and an owner with deep pockets and wants to bring a championship to the city. You know Ross has to be tired of the Marlins, Panthers and Heat enjoying success while his team struggles every year.

Im sorry but Crabtree has been a complete BUST, i believe Ted Ginn is a FA this year(either way its still Ted Ginn, no explanation needed), and Kyle Williams their 3rd WR.....well just watch the NFC Championship game

 

[TakeoSpikesNeck]

I love how people say what recivers will Manning throw to in Washington and Seattle and Clevland. Peyton makes bumb no body recivers pro-bowl caliuber stars! Does not matter what recievers he has he makes them great! Give him a Marshall and a Dirty Bess for dig routes and curles and short slants and Peyton could win a superbowl! If we get Manning we need to draft a solid Right Tackle! Like the kid from USC put him on the right side.

If we get Manning we have to draft a RT and hands catching speedy tight end. And we will win a superbowl

 

[jason_taylor]

Big risk no doubt but high reward as well. If he does leave the Colts and is willing to sign a performance based contract it is well worth the risk. Looks like there is a possibility Manning may wind up with staying in Indy making all this speculation pointless.

imo the only way i see peyton staying in indy is if the colts DONT DRAFT Luck and i just cant see it .they done cleaned house and even peytons trainer the got rid of . so imo irsay is sending peyton a message, get your **** son your on the next train ,plane or auto out of indy.

 

[luduporcu]

that defence ranking could be misleading the other way too.....they were horrible with that 0 and 7 start and then were great the 2nd half.......sure, we played great teams early on and the 2nd half we played a bunch of bad teams.

Ozzy rules!!

Silly, really. We played a LOT of solid teams under MOORE's leadership, period! That's how I define the last season: pre-MOORE and MOORE-led. And if we had a decent RT or one more solid G, MIAMI i/m/o, would've beaten DALLAS (solid), DENVER (playoffs), the GIANTS (best) and N.E. II. (2nd best team in the League). And, of course, we DID throw the last shovel of dirt on the JETS' grave in JETS II, didn't we? The "D" took some time to "gel". But SO WHAT? It should've been good enough! Ditto, MOORE, who deserved to be 10-2, plain and simple. And to all the *******s who call MOORE a back-up QB, any QB who DESERVED a 10-2 record (even w/all the handicaps that MOORE had to work under), and who was rated the 12th best QB in the freakin' League (like MOORE was), is NO BACK-UP QB.

I like to be fair, and not simply a blind/deaf/dumb "Homey". That includes putting the blame where it belongs. Those 4 teams mentioned above beat a MOORE-led MIAMI by a FG or less. So did CLEVELAND. By my count, COLUMBO by himself cost us 6 or so stalled drives/game, not to mention turnovers like in CLEVELAND and DALLAS (his man hit the QB resulting in a lame duck pass in CLEVELAND, which became a GIFT INT for a player who was totally out of position; and a fumble by MOORE at our 8 Yard Line in DALLAS, after WARE made good 'ol COLUMBO look like a total fool who couldn't even manage to take a "holding" penalty). If we had just ONE more solid G, do you think that MIAMI, even w/CAREY at RT, would've gotten 1 more TD or 2 more FGs out of those 6 or so stalled drives? I DO! That meant 5 more "W"s: 4 under MOORE, and 1 under HENNE.

Last F/A, ROSS got cheap. There were 6 solid Gs out there: I still remember 4 of them! (GALLERY, COLLEDGE, and both of ATLANTA's starting Gs) How many did MIAMI make a serious offer to? NONE! Even though MIAMI's interior OL was a disaster...NONE!!! And when a couple more interior OLmen and OTs became available as the "cuts" were made, how many of THEM did MIAMI make a serious offer to? Yeah, NONE! So MIAMI ends up rummaging thru DALLAS's garbage can---AGAIN---after all the talent is gone, and comes up with...COLUMBO, and that TOTAL FARCE called the CAREY-COLUMBO experiment. What a fiasco, taking a serviceable RT (CAREY) and moving him to G (where he hadn't played since "The U") so that the WORST-rated T in football could start at RT! All because the stupid putz ROSS was all of a sudden too cheap to get his team ONE more solid G, to fix a BIGTIME need that the entire NFL universe could see. Brilliant!!! And now, this preseason, we're all talking about "RT and RG" in our discussions about P MANNING!!!

Real "football people" notice. SPARANO deserved a better fate--he EARNED better. So did MOORE and MIAMI! To paraphrase a famous MARLON BRANDO line, "MIAMI coulda been a CONTENDER: we coulda been SOMEBODY!". If the dumb schmuck ROSS had ANY intellectual honesty, right after he fired SPARANO, he should have FIRED HIMSELF. After all, when he looks in the mirror, he sees the cause of MIAMI's failure last season. And as a postscript to the idiot ROSS, WINNING fills expensive stadium seats and sells overpriced warm beer and greasy hot dogs! NOT some celebrity wiggling her *** and jiggling her hooters.

 

[Blake the great]

Connect the dots. You, the poster, first brought up Tannehill. I didn't. While in your second post you talk about him again, then continue to opine that if we follow your thinking. That somehow the Favre to Rodgers analogy fit in the situation your were speaking of.

So assume away. Just make sure to follow the conversation. :up:

Surely.

Do I think he would cherish those matchups, yes. But according to ESPN and those commentators who were doing this topic. While it was a PRO, it was also a CON.

So Painter sucked while sitting behind Manning and learning for multiple seasons? And yet Tannehill a guy who had limited exposure at the D1 lvl is somehow better with more upside? That is laughable. The guy crumbled against top tier teams, and even some mediocre teams like KST and TEX. I watched most of Tannehill starts while he was at TAM. The guy looks the part until he faces teams like OK, OKST and MIZZOU. Then he falls apart. You people crack me up. Somehow college players like Tannehill have more upside with limited exposure at the position than a guy who has been sitting behind the 'great' Manning for multiple seasons.:lol2:

And your suggestion that Tannehill could be a Rogers is laughable to be kind about it.

And when looking at a athlete entering his late 30s with 4 neck surgeries, you don't look past it. Not if you as a GM or Coach want to be around in the future. Even as you put it, a 75% Manning. What is Manning if he isn't 100%? Pennington? No thanks. Noodle arms aren't needed and hinder the team against top tier Defenses, I point you to BALT and PITT

As for what my opinion is on the QB situation. You defer to Philbin. If he wants Flynn, you get him. Its really that simple. A new HC with ties to a QB he has coached, should be defered to. After all its his job on the line.

Kind of like how the Packers went from Favre to Rodgers without really missing a beat. This line here is the funniest **** I've read here yet. Rodgers to any of the college QB's you named are ****ing funny. If it wasn't such a weak QB class, the above mentioned QB's wouldn't be coming from your keyboard nor the draftniks.

what can we assume about you.... :hump:

 

[DevilInPgh]

Playing in warm weather and at least half your games on natural grass could help extend a veteran's career.

Which means absolutely nothing if you can't throw the ball. Remember that Marino didn't retire because of his legs, but because he couldn't throw the ball anymore after he suffered a pinched nerve in his neck, THE SAME INJURY that Peyton has.