Indianapolis owner Jim Irsay can speculate all he desires about Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck as a member of the Colts. As far as ex-Giants quarterback Phil Simms is concerned, nevertheless, there’s no way the organization will draft Peyton Manning’s heir apparent as lengthy as the Hall of Fame-bound quarterback has a say in his team’s personnel.
“There is no way if Peyton Manning is given a clean bill of wellness — I’m going to go on that assumption — that he is going to let them draft Andrew Luck,” Simms stated Wednesday on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL,” via USA These days.
Simms didn’t recommend that Manning would deal with Luck’s selection poorly, rather that it would be tough for the Colts to resist the urge to insert Luck into games.
“In this day and age, even with Peyton Manning, men and women would be crying, ‘We’ve got to see Andrew Luck,’ ” Simms said.
Chris Collinsworth stated he would draft Luck if he were in the -7 Colts’ position.
“I just don’t believe you could take a chance on missing the next franchise quarterback,” he stated.
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Posted on 16 October 2011. Tags: acquire, buying, Colts', denies, Indianapolis Colts, Irsay, Jim Irsay, Kansas City Chiefs, loss, Mars, nfl owner, Rumors, Speculates, trade, trade deadline approaches, turn
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay on Saturday extinguished speculation that his players are becoming shopped around as Tuesday’s trade deadline approaches.
“No,the trade rumors aren’t accurate…I’m negotiating two acquire Mars though..so I can make certain inter-galactic,NFL dominance for the 25th century,” Irsay tweeted.
It’s unclear how the obtain of our neighboring planet will elevate the winless Colts, but his words at least quell the trade rumors surrounding wide receiver Reggie Wayne and defensive end Robert Mathis.
Each players are set to turn into totally free agents soon after this season, and chatter this week suggested they could be had for the correct price.
Irsay tends to shoot straight with his 72,000-plus Twitter followers when it comes to his beloved team.
No NFL owner embraces social media with as much verve as Irsay, who regularly dispatches injury reports and has openly suffered with Colts fans in the course of this season’s troubles.
“Tough,sickening,nausea-making loss,” he tweeted soon after Indy fell to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 5. “Giving up 17 point leads at property will lead 2 hair loss!We typically lose five games n 2seasons!WeMustFightON”
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Posted on 26 July 2011. Tags: “There’s, Bowl, Cap, contract, highest paid player in nfl, Irsay, Jim Irsay, Manning, much, Nfl History, only, player', player”, quarterback, Tom Brady, tom condon
With the salary cap down to $ 120 million and quarterback Peyton Manning’s franchise tender at more than $ 23 million, Colts owner Jim Irsay has a problem.
For well over a year, he has been promising to make Manning the highest-paid player in NFL history. Suddenly, Irsay is singing a different tune.
“To me, this isn’t about how much money I have to spend,” Irsay said in a conference call transcript distributed by the team. “The money is going to be spent and we’re already up against the cap and we already have to do something to make adjustments. . . .
“I’ve offered to make him the highest paid player. We know when we look at our team, we need people to surround him to have a chance to win a Super Bowl. With the cap actually going down this year, [Tom] Brady’s contract is something that would be reduced so-to-speak. There’s only so much you can pay one player. Whatever the number is, $ 20 million, you’re topping off there. Then it becomes very difficult to be competitive and to field a team.”
So what does Irsay think will happen?
“To me, I hope we get something done in the next couple of days. We’ve been ready and I’ve been ready. It’s really important that we get the deal done so we plan going forward, not only cap-wise, but competitive-wise. It’s something I hope gets done quickly and quite frankly, it is should get done quickly. He is going to be the highest paid player and he is going to make more than Brady. At the same time, under the system, you cannot pay a player $ 25 million dollars. It’s just not going to work and you’re not going to be able to compete. We have to get something done and I look forward to doing that. I’ve had a conversation with Tom Condon and we’ve talked in the last couple of days. Bill Polian and him will process in the next days to come. It’s something that we need to get done.”
Irsay is right. The problem is that the Colts paid Manning top dollar in 2004, and the team still found a way to put enough quality parts around him to win a Super Bowl two years later. Thus, Condon could decide to tell Irsay that figuring out how to pay everyone else isn’t Peyton’s problem.
For now, Peyton could rely on his neck surgery and rehab to justify staying away until he gets the deal he wants. At some point, however, Peyton will face a backlash from fans who realize first that he has more money than his great-grandchildren will ever need and second that his apparent effort to max out his next contract will undermine the team’s chances to win another Super Bowl.
In the end, Peyton has to ask himself whether it’s more important to make money or build a legacy. If he retires with only one Super Bowl win, there’s simply no way he’ll be remembered as the greatest quarterback of all time.
But at least he’ll be able to dry the tears of regret with $ 100 bills.
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