Will Peyton retire?

[Coltsfan2theend]

Simple question, probably not so simple answer.

 

[Coltsfan2theend]

If Mikie is up for it, I want to bet 75k that he will. Losing two times in the big show out of three makes you wonder if he will stick around.

 

[BostonTim]

If Mikie is up for it, I want to bet 75k that he will. Losing two times in the big show out of three makes you wonder if he will stick around.

Find him a legit odds source and i bet he'll consider it. He's a greedy capitalist.

Cheers

 

[Darth Despot]

The answer is yes, but the real question is when.

I think it's a safe bet that if Manning is medically cleared to play he will continue, but one never knows if he will be told it's in his best interest to call it a career.

 

[Jaric]

Bacon is always the correct answer

 

[TheColtGuy]

Maybe when he's 40. He'll play at least 2 more seasons, barring injury.

 

[O.Z.O.]

I think he does. Hard to imagine him having a better shot at it than this, and he shit all over himself when it mattered.

 

[SkiptoMyLou]

I'll be shocked if he does retire after this. I see him playing at least another season, maybe two.

 

[Peachhead]

I'd throw a party if he did. But I can't see it. I can't see him retiring on such a down note. I think it would have been possible if the Broncos lost in the playoffs or didn't even make the post-season.

If the Broncos would have won I think it's a good possibility he would have announced his retirement last night. But not after one the most high profile choke jobs of any player, ever.

 

[grog]

Did I read it here or somewhere else that Denver is in cap hell for next year and will not be able to keep the band together. Manning will continue to play, but I think their window of opportunity just shattered.

 

[HSanders]

I said No. PM himself said last week I think that he's going to keep playing regardless of what happens in the SB.

 

[Joe]

The answer is yes, but the real question is when.

I think it's a safe bet that if Manning is medically cleared to play he will continue, but one never knows if he will be told it's in his best interest to call it a career.

 

[Jaric]

I said No. PM himself said last week I think that he's going to keep playing regardless of what happens in the SB.

Yeah the only way I see him retiring is if the physical on his neck turns out badly. Although judging by the excessive arm noodlage we watched last night it wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Chuck.U.Farley]

I think he retires before he does any more damage to his terrible post season stats. If he did retire it would be nice to have him as QB coach for Luck, since Christiansen is now going to Detroit to work with Jim Caldwell.

 

[Jaric]

I think he retires before he does any more damage to his terrible post season stats. If he did retire it would be nice to have him as QB coach for Luck, since Christiansen is now going to Detroit to work with Jim Caldwell.

No thanks.

 

[HSanders]

PM would be an awful coach, especially of QBs. It's not a slight against him at all, but athletes with a lot of natural abilities who play at a top level for a long time are seldom made up the right way mentally to be a coach.
I could see a guy like Russell Wilson being a coach though. Even though he's physically talented, he's a longshot type guy who is also a very great team leader. Those types of players tend to make better coaches IMO.

 

[BostonTim]

I'd throw a party if he did. But I can't see it. I can't see him retiring on such a down note. I think it would have been possible if the Broncos lost in the playoffs or didn't even make the post-season.

If the Broncos would have won I think it's a good possibility he would have announced his retirement last night. But not after one the most high profile choke jobs of any player, ever.

I know I'd like to see him gag on it one more time.

For old times sake.

Cheers, BostonTim

 

[Dwight Schrute]

Are you kidding me?

The Peyton Riding Off Into the Sunset tour is going to be the runaway most detestable year in sport. Media Kleenex sales will be at an apex.

They'll be no cleaner nuts in any sport in any league.

No way his ego allows himself to go out without the farewell he knows is coming.

 

[grog]

This guys wrote that Peyton Manning should have retired - Saturday...

Peyton Manning should have retired ... Saturday

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — I remember watching Peyton Manning play quarterback in practice at the University of Tennessee. It seems like almost two decades ago, and — holy Omaha! — it was.

He was young, wandering around behind the line of scrimmage, yelling and pointing like somebody who had dropped the pages to his term paper.


Nothing really has changed since he was the Southeastern Conference freshman of the year in 1994 and the Heisman Trophy runner-up in 1997, except that now he gets paid a lot of money to do what he always did.

So when Manning walked toward the line of scrimmage on the Denver Broncos’ first offensive play, hollering as usual, it was shocking to see center Manny Ramirez snap the ball prematurely over Manning’s right shoulder. The ball rolled untouched into the end zone, where Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno fell on it for a safety.

Ugly? How about fastest-score-in-Super Bowl-history ugly.

Something bad was unfolding here, something like never before. Stupid screw-ups happen, but do they happen to Hall of Fame-to-be quarterbacks under the brightest spotlight?


They shouldn’t. They can’t. Not if you’re Manning and you want to bury what few nagging criticisms there are of your play.

Such as, back in college, why did you always throw those interceptions against Florida? And how come Tennessee didn’t win a national championship until the year after you left? Speaking of which, why does your little brother, New York Giants quarterback Eli, have two Super Bowl rings and you have only one?

Now you’re 1-2 in Super Bowls in which you’ve played. Is that like Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw or Tom Brady? No, it’s only one victory more than Vince Ferragamo, David Woodley and Rex Grossman.

So the Broncos trailed 2-0 a mere 12 seconds into the game. No big deal.

Except that something was wrong with Manning. Not an injury, just wrong. Something was wrong with the entire Broncos team. Its undisputed leader looked nervous, unprepared, scatter-armed and — dare we say it? — confused.

Soon enough, it was 5-0. Then 8-0.

Then Manning, who only had been involved in six plays, threw an interception on his seventh. The Seahawks scored a touchdown off the turnover and led 15-0.

On the next series, Manning threw an interception that Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith returned 69 yards for a touchdown for a 22-0 lead.

This was beyond weird. It was kind of sad, edging toward pathetic.

‘‘It was a bitter pill to swallow,’’ Manning agreed afterward.

In the first quarter, he was 3-for-4 for 10 yards and an interception. His passer rating was 37.5. At the half, the man who threw for NFL records of 5,477 yards and 55 touchdowns during the regular season had 104 yards passing with two interceptions. Somehow, his passer rating was only 46.3. He ended at 73.5, worse than any season rating he has had since he was a battered rookie with the Indianapolis Colts in 1998.

Of course, Manning can’t run. But shouldn’t he be more than a statue? Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson spun free from the pocket many times and extended plays that were dead. That’s what a 25-year-old athlete can do that a 37-year-old veteran can’t.

Manning is supposed to have the type of brain that negates all things physical, but the Seahawks’ defense freaked him out. He threw low, high, to the wrong man. One of his worst plays occurred late in the second quarter, when he threw to triple-covered Demaryius Thomas while Wes Welker was doing jumping jacks 20 yards down the left side.

Manning would end up with a Super Bowl-record 34 completions, but almost none of them meant anything. It was that first-play bad snap that lingered. Why would that happen, the center launching the ball when Manning didn’t know it was coming, even though he had been doing the same thing forever?

‘‘For whatever reason, we couldn’t get much going after that,’’ Manning said.

The whole game, that is.

‘‘In many of his pre-snap gyrations, he is sorting through what the defense might do,’’ Sports Illustrated wrote of Manning in its pregame analysis. ‘‘He’s looking for things that geometry guarantees a defense can’t do.’’

Well, the Seahawks did everything to him, including hitting his arm and forcing him to fumble with 3:44 to go.

Sorry, Peyton. You could have retired Saturday.

You should have.

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/25347359-606/peyton-manning-should-have-retired-saturday.html

 

[O.Z.O.]

Are you kidding me?

The Peyton Riding Off Into the Sunset tour is going to be the runaway most detestable year in sport. Media Kleenex sales will be at an apex.

They'll be no cleaner nuts in any sport in any league.

No way his ego allows himself to go out without the farewell he knows is coming.

as long as it's accompanied by a one-and-done in the playoffs I'm okay with it. Couldn't possibly be any worse than '08 with all the douchebags talking about how great it would be for the Yankees to win the WS the last year of "old" Yankee Stadium.