I think personally if we take him it will ruin this franchise forever. The better play is for Flynn or to trade up in the draft if possible. With that said. If Ross just throws a ton of money at manning without protecting himself then he will deserve the demise he will reap. If however manning gets paid if he A. remains healthy B. plays at his past potential and C. Makes the post season than he gets his money. Still a big mistake if you ask me. It will kill the team. And before you all start to bash me with your comments THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!
I'm onboard with you bro. Proponents of signing Manning aren't fully thinking this thing through. There are many factors in play here.
1. Health - No one knows (not even the doctors) how He will respond to getting hit. And we won't know that until he gets hit which one happen until real games start. which may be too late.
2. Pedigree - Manning is a future HOFer, Philbin is a rookie head coach, I can see some conflict there when things get a bit rough. Manning will say let's do it this way, I've been succsessful doing it this way. And philbin will say no we're doing it my way. Possible conflict
3. Different System - Manning has been in the Indy system for his entire career, now we're going to ask him to come in and learn a completely new system to the point where he's comfortable enough with it to tell others what to do with authority. People like Brandon Marshall. I know he's a very cerebral QB but we don't know how long it will take him to get there.
4. Age, he'll be 36! Can we really expect him to come here and win a SB in one - 2 years when he has 1 SB win in 16 years in indy? Not realistic.
5. We would not resolve our QB situation by signing him, as he's only a stopgap. I'm tired of stop gaps, I want a Franchise Guy. We'd still need to fine a young guy to be the franchise which we haven't been able to do since Marino.
Flynn on the other hand makes more sense
1. Played well in limited starts and threw for 400 yards and 6TD's in a meaningful game against a pretty good team in Detroit. I dont' care what the situation is, that's hard to do. How many time have any of our backups thrown for anything close to that.
2. System familiarity - He will be able to come in and lead with authority right off the plane as he's been in the system for what 2 years? He'll be like having another coach on the field, and can tell other players where to go and what to do.
3. He's only 20 something, meaning if he pans out he's our franchise guy.
4. He had to play pretty well in practice and games for him to outseat their #2 pick Brian Brhom as a 7th roung pick. 7th round picks don't get the most opportunities.