Comments on: Colts have until Friday at 4:00 p.m. ET to cut Peyton http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Thu, 23 May 2013 17:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ray21230 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1612244 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:51:07 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1612244 Sorry i am a Baltimore man, i hope the Irsays get screwed in every way possible for leaving us in the middle of the night, i hope those mayflower trucks deliver all of Peytons money to him

]]> By: halbert53 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1612014 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:31:12 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1612014 Best possible landing place for Manning would be Houston. And since Colts are in full blown rebuilding mode so what if same division.

]]> By: brian32556 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611995 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:23:21 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611995 The Giants should sign him as Eli’s backup!! :-)

]]> By: godzilla111111 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611893 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:54:58 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611893 Swamp Boy-again?
Gee dude you are a riot.

]]> By: jetsjetsjetsjets http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611856 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:38:13 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611856 They will PAY him and then trade either Payton or Andrew Luck. It sets them up for years to come and it only costs money. they could probably get most of the cash back in the trade!!!!

]]> By: jgava19 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611780 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:07:08 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611780 He isn’t effing anything up. He’s letting due process run its course. Quit whining already. So easy to spend other peoples money, isn’t it?

]]> By: 1historian http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611763 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:02:00 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611763 Just cut the guy today – get it out of the way.

But that would make FAR too much sense, and we can coun t on irsay to f..k things up.

Which is good

]]> By: fjdk4444 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611672 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:34:03 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611672 adx321 says: Mar 6, 2012 10:39 AM

mjkelly77 says:
And you must be the ONE person who knows he’s done – nobody else does yet. How is it being so smart? I bet the pressure is tremendous.

No actually MJK…You know it, I know it and Rob Lowe knows it. It’s no pressure at all, just common knowledge.

]]> By: mjkelly77 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611656 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:29:20 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611656 adx321 says:Mar 6, 2012 10:39 AM

mjkelly77 says:

your swampboy thing is so cute

Peyton got more for his 10 year old allowance than you make now

And you must be the ONE person who knows he’s done – nobody else does yet. How is it being so smart? I bet the pressure is tremendous.
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adx321, I see you’ve got a bit of a man crush going.

]]> By: vegaskid21 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611634 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:22:59 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611634 *Jaws Theme*

]]> By: jayrandle http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611633 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:22:50 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611633 Why the delay?
You have known you going to move on for months now…

You known since week 10 in the NFL season that you will have the number 1 pick…

You know you going to pick Andrew Luck…

At this point you have talked to the doctors and followed up on the doctors reports…

You spoken to Manning already…

Cut him at this point and let both sides move on.

]]> By: savocabol1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611556 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:50:33 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611556 He won’t get cut. He will play for the Colts in the upcoming season.

]]> By: mwanamatapa http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611542 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:43:37 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611542 This story on the non-exercise fee within the contract was reported on in January by Andrew Brandt of ESPN, and by Chris Mortensen on NFL32 a few weeks back. Jason LaCanfora is not the first to report this.

]]> By: croghan1919 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611493 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:17:54 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611493 Delay the important decisions until the drop dead minute and let the lawyers sort it out…good idea.

]]> By: kaf39 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611487 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:16:10 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611487 should be interesting

]]> By: claydefayette http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611474 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:08:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611474 Can Jason get correct information? Cantforya

]]> By: hotlinernfl http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611458 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:02:26 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611458 pkrjones says: Mar 6, 2012 10:53 AM

Manning is toast, cut him and let everybody move on. Why dabble with the deadline, he’s done being a Colt… and whoever is stoopid enough to sign him for 2012, you deserve what you get and good luck in the 2013 Barkley/Jones sweepstakes.

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“Stoopid”.. really?

]]> By: neko02011980 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611455 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:01:37 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611455 why can’t they wait until the last minute? it is their decision.

my guess is he retires at a presser friday afternoon.

]]> By: baddegg http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611454 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:01:09 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611454 There is really no point in not making a decision right now one way or another. Initially, I was sympathetic with the Colts because it’s tough to cut a legend for the future good of the team, and yet they have to do it. Yet, but dragging it out before giving him the axe, they are coming off as jerks.

]]> By: rubbernilly http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611442 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:54:16 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611442 So what is the difference between the language that describes the window between “the second day after the Super Bowl and the fourth day before the end of the 2011 league year” and “the second day before the end of the 2011 league year”?

If the money can be paid any time between 2-days-post-SB and 4-days-pre-EoLY, then the implication seems to be that it *can’t* be paid outside of that window… which a 2-day-pre-EoLY deadline would describe.

In effect, I think the difference is that the Colts must pay Peyton before the 8th (the 4th-day-pre-EoLY), even if they have until Friday @ 4:00 (the business-effective 2nd-day-pre-EoLY) to decide to cut him. Since the money isn’t affirmatively earned until the 2nd-day-pre-EoLY, Peyton would have to then turn around and repay the money if the Colts decided to part ways.

I guess what I’m getting at is that this doesn’t change anything. If they don’t pay him by Thursday, the language of the contract seems to say that they cannot pay him, so that is effectively the termination of the contract. On the other hand, they could pay him and then still cut him within 24 hours… as unlikely as that is. I can’t see the Colts paying the $28 million just to have another 24 hours (from Thursday the 8th @ 4PM to Friday the 9th @ 4PM) to think about what they want to do.

If they don’t pay him by the 8th, we’ll know he’s gone.
If they *do* pay him, we won’t be sure that he’s staying until the 9th (@ 4PM).

Mike, can you confirm this interpretation? Or clarify?

]]> By: pkrjones http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611438 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:53:23 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611438 Manning is toast, cut him and let everybody move on. Why dabble with the deadline, he’s done being a Colt… and whoever is stoopid enough to sign him for 2012, you deserve what you get and good luck in the 2013 Barkley/Jones sweepstakes.

]]> By: adx321 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611435 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:50:38 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611435 ghost,

Because they can?

Announcing it today or next week doesn’t really help or hurt either party. It only causes more drama for sites like this and all of us on them :)

]]> By: theghostoflombardi http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611430 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:48:12 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611430 Surely Irsay and company know exactly what they’re going to be doing with Manning. There aren’t any questions that will gain clarity by Friday, nor are there any variables in this that will change by then.

I just don’t understand why they want to take this thing to the wire.

]]> By: shzastl http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611428 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:46:10 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611428 If no league business can be transacted on weekends, wouldn’t “second day before” the end of the league year mean second business day, i.e., Friday? In which case they’d still have to cut him by March 8, because if he’s on the roster Friday they owe him the bonus.

]]> By: adx321 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611418 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:40:06 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611418 nebster21 says:
Mar 6, 2012 10:02 AM
well not so much the Colts but Irsay for messing with him.

yeah man that Irsay – giving him 26 mil last year to not play a down – the NERVE of him!

]]> By: jasonculhane http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611416 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:39:38 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611416 What are they waiting for? Does this have to be this dramatic, Jim, you fired your whole team besides Manning, like we don’t know what your gonna do. Do it already!

]]> By: adx321 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611415 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:39:22 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611415 mjkelly77 says:

your swampboy thing is so cute

Peyton got more for his 10 year old allowance than you make now

And you must be the ONE person who knows he’s done – nobody else does yet. How is it being so smart? I bet the pressure is tremendous.

]]> By: adx321 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611413 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:38:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611413 thejuddstir

You do know this thing called the Salary Cap exists right? The Texans could not possible fit Manning in.

]]> By: dabkg http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611406 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:33:56 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611406 thejuddstir says:
Mar 6, 2012 10:14 AM

I see P. Manning going to either the Texans or the Cardinals. The Bidwells have a history of being rather cheap so the Texans makes more sense if they can figure a way to massage Matt Schaub’s feelings.
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Apparently you haven’t been keeping up with the Texans much. Manning would be a terrible move for Houston. The Texans offense is based on the running game, play-action passing, and roll-outs. That is not Peyton’s style. He is a 100% Pocket Passer.

Kubiak is not a flexible offensive coach. He knows what he wants his offense to look like. And it took 6 seasons for that offense to finally become what he was trying to build in the first place. As a Texans fan I’d been frustrated for 5 seasons because he wouldn’t change his game plans. Now I finally see why. So why would Kubiak want to bring in the highest priced QB’s on market who doesn’t fit the model of game play for his offense??

Not to mention the fact that we simply don’t have the cap room to win a bidding war for Manning.

]]> By: tashkalucy http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/06/colts-have-until-friday-at-400-p-m-et-to-cut-peyton/#comment-1611403 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:33:32 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=342870#comment-1611403 “Someone needs to tell Irsay to grow a pair, this way we can end this garbage.”
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