
Peyton Manning should retire in a Colts uniform. Because of Jim Irsay, he’s not going to. And because of that, Jon Washburn says that he will no longer be a Colts fan.
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So with a mountain of evidence containing upwards of 18,000 documents and 50,000 pages, the National Football League is about to lay the hammer on the New Orleans Saints organization for allegedly rewarding players for ‘bounties’ towards opposing players, most notably Brett Favre and Kurt Warner, during the playoffs following the 2009 season. Is anyone really surprised?

Eric Mangini, in a discussion on this morning’s First Take about whether Eli Manning would be a Hall of Famer if his career ended today, mentioned that Eli led the league in interceptions in 2010 and asked, “How many Hall of Famers have led the league in interceptions?” Naturally, Josh stopped what he was doing and went to databaseFootball.com to answer Mangini’s question.

Jim Tressel’s name has been bandied about as the next Colts head coach, but why not Peyton Manning as player/coach? As absurd as the idea sounds (and is), is it any more absurd than Manning attempting to operate under the ultra-conservative direction of Tressel? These thoughts, and a few choice photos of lovably eccentric Colts owner Jim Irsay, coalesced into our latest photo story.

I’m not sure what the Indianapolis Colts were thinking when they fired Jim Caldwell. In his three years as coach of the Colts, he went 14-2 in 2009, 10-6 in 2010 and 2-14 in 2011. But now that the deed has been done, perhaps it’s time to consider a familiar name as the next head coach…Peyton Manning.

By now we have heard every angle possible about the Colts either drafting Andrew Luck and getting rid of Peyton Manning, or keeping Peyton and trading the pick, or drafting Luck AND keeping Manning so Luck can sit a couple of years. Trevor Stewart has a different idea. It may sound crazy, you may not like it, but here it goes…

Outside of Tim Tebow, the two players most discussed this season by NFL pundits and fans alike – Andrew Luck and Peyton Manning – have combined to take zero NFL snaps through 8 weeks. And their futures are becoming more and more entwined as the Colts get closer and closer to having the first pick in next April’s draft.
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