Comments on: Niners offensive coordinator echoes position that team “evaluated” Peyton Manning

By: michael7420

michael7420 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:43:20 +0000

Who wasn’t “evaluating” Manning in the NFL, there’s 10 maybe 12 Teams in the NFL that can legitimately say they had no interest in him…

By: nivlek81

nivlek81 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:46:15 +0000

I guess they never should have “evaluated” a 35 year old QB with multiple neck surgeries and one that hadn’t played in a year. I’m a 49ers fan and I could care less if they “evaluated” him, were interested in him, whatever! All coaches aren’t honest with the media. How many coaches refuse to reveal their player’s injuries? Again, this story means nothing anymore.

Yes, we know. [insert sarcasm]The Seahawks will win the divison. The Niners are a fluke. Niners are overated. Russel Wilson is going to be another Cam Newton. Harbaugh had a lucky season. Niners will come down to Earth…blah blah blah blah

By: dennisatunity

dennisatunity — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:27:10 +0000

The Seahawks went after Manning, too, and they lost. And I don’t hear Flynn or Wilson saying, “Gasp! You liked somebody else before you liked me?” It was Manning, and why the 49ers organization has to pretend they didn’t go after him is beyond me. Alex Smith, man up and show them how wrong they were. I want the 49ers and Smith to be great because the better you are, the better the Seahawks have to be to beat you. I want the 49ers to go 14-2 every year.

By: cgarsmoker

cgarsmoker — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:50:56 +0000

It appears Alexis Smith is a very sensitive lady. I’m surprised Harbaugh is tiptoeing around hurting her feelings so much on this.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:38:46 +0000

Roman’s definition of an “evaluation” is way different than mine. Talking families and football isn’t an evaluation. He speaks of finding out if Peyton could still play, but he never worked out for them so that part would have consisted of them asking “Hey, Peyton, can you still play?” That’s not an evaluation either.

By: bullcharger

bullcharger — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:49:10 +0000

Why does it matter if they made Manning an offer or not? Why do the coaches have to admit that? They evaluated him, that is true. If they liked what they saw, made Manning an offer and he turned it down that’s a private team matter. They shouldn’t need to say anything about it. When teams kick the tires on free agents this happens all the time. The fans and media don’t always find out if they tried to land the player or not. Also…Based on how hard it is to even make the NFL, let alone become a starting QB, I don’t think Alex Smith’s ego is too fractured after Peyton Manning’s visit. He’s been competing for his job since he started playing.

By: mjkelly77

mjkelly77 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:40:50 +0000

The whole 49er organization appears to lie. Hairbough threw Smith under the bus and chased manning all over the country. But manning went for the guaranteed money and not the beter team. I don’t see how the players can respect their coach knowing he’d sell out any of them at a moment’s notice.

By: jikkle49

jikkle49 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:32:55 +0000

It’s politician speak is all.

As far as we know all they did was evaluate Manning. The only reports I’ve heard is they went to see him throw. They never brought him to their facilities for the tour, pulled a Denver and brought every front office person to him, or offered him a contract (as far as we know).

BUT we all know if Manning came to them and said “I want to sign if you guys, I don’t care about the money, and I’ll do whatever it takes to get a deal done” They weren’t going to say no and tell him Alex Smith is their guy.

It all comes down to clever wording and instead of asking if they were interested in Manning the question the media should ask is “If Manning wanted to sign with you would you have been interested?”

By: mikeyhigs

mikeyhigs — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:17:59 +0000

I don’t have any sources on this, but I’m pretty sure that the Packers, Patriots, or Saints didn’t take the time to “Evaluate” Manning. I wonder why:)

By: 1historian

1historian — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:53:37 +0000

I’ve been saying for a long time and I repeat here:

1) When courting time came around last spring it was about 18 months since Manning had played.

2) He has had at least 2 or 3 neck surgeries.

3) At the age of 35 he was coming off missing an entire season because of one of those neck surgeries.

4) In the playoffs – where it counts – he is UNDER .500.

5) 1-4 are facts. Here is an opinion – he is one big hit away from a wheelchair.

By: frankyvito

frankyvito — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:22:37 +0000

In Harbaugh’s mind it WAS an evaluation. They asked “how much” he said 5 yrs 90 mill. They said “we’re good.” Evaluation over.

By: teambringitstrong

teambringitstrong — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:54:21 +0000

simonwelds says: Aug 22, 2012 11:03 PM

Plain and simple, if Manning wanted to be a 49er he would be playing for the 49ers…… It wasn’t their choice to make, it was his
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Actually, you couldn’t be more wrong. You can put your red and gold spin on this all you want but this still is a bad scene there in Santa Clara.
The fact that the Squared Sevens pursued him is bad. You see, Smith and Wedge Head are represented by Tom Condon. Condon wouldn’t put himself in that situation by approaching the Squared Sevens in the first place. Oh you BA people………so innocent, never do anything wrong. Yuck.

By: nashwaakkidd

nashwaakkidd — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:38:41 +0000

sure they kicked the tires, you think for one minute that if manning had called and said “let’s do a deal” that Smith would be under center?!?!?! If the brass didn’t at least check it out, they’re not doing their jobs.

By: greyhawk9

greyhawk9 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:31:27 +0000

I think its hilarious that all these Niner fans have actually convinced themselves that manning wasn’t pursued by the team. If Alex was the man for the job why did you draft a second rd qb in kapernick???? This is just another attempt to boost smiths fragile ego since he has looked average at best this pre season(despite reports of his vast improvement and mastery of the offense.. ) I’m just glad that it appears Seahawks have 2 qbs that look better than Alex smith.

By: dennisatunity

dennisatunity — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:43:04 +0000

So just to clarify: You only evaluated Manning and objectively speaking, Alex Smith came out as the clear-cut winner? Uh huh…

By: riverace19

riverace19 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:48:45 +0000

Any team with Alex Smith as their QB would be foolish not to overturn some rocks

By: mwindle1973

mwindle1973 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:47:05 +0000

I say Harbaugh is an egomaniac and can’t admit or even let his coaches admit that they lost the Peyton Manning sweepstakes. I bet he holds team meetings to hash the issue out with his players.

By: pencilmonkeymagic

pencilmonkeymagic — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:09:59 +0000

Niners coaching crew in ‘talking BS’ shocker…

By: portlax12

portlax12 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:01:29 +0000

I do not understand why the niners insist on putting on this act. It’s not like anybody would blame them for being interested in perhaps the greatest quarterback of all-time. Had they just come out and said “Yeah, we looked into Peyton Manning as our starting quarterback, but things didn’t work out and we are now fully behind Alex Smith” then this would have stopped being a story a long time ago. The fact we are still talking about this puzzles me.

By: randallflagg52

randallflagg52 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:22:12 +0000

Niners offensive coordinator sound like an oxymoron. Sort of like Packers defensive backs coach.

By: bluelifer

bluelifer — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:04:59 +0000

Chins should just tell him the truth “Alex buddy you stink and your probably gona turn the ball over like 20 +times this season we got Lucky with you last season ” and thats it

By: cali49er707

cali49er707 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:51:54 +0000

WHO CARES??

Unless you have Brady, Rodgers, Brees, & the other handful of QB’s that are legit then every franchise OWES it to their respective fan bases to look at the opportunity to sign one of the best QB’s ever to play if the opportunity arises!!!!!!

By: packerbackernj

packerbackernj — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:46:32 +0000

They need to stop babying this grown man. So what youre interested in Peyton. I work in a computer tech field, and it’d be like me taking offense if i got canned for bill gates.

By: hifive123

hifive123 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:37:24 +0000

Niners fans aren’t always the best and brightest, but come on. Seriously? You believe this crap?

By: chitown26

chitown26 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:36:14 +0000

So what?

Of course they did. They’re an NFL franchise. If they hadn’t, they should all have been fired.

By: nomesayin

nomesayin — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:31:56 +0000

Where he’s AT? Let’s see where he’s at! Where’s he at?? I dunno where he’s at! I’m gonna be where I’m at!

WTF? No one knows how to talk anymore? How about “We’ll see where he is…”

If you want to know where he’s at, why don’t you just AX him? Nomesayin’?

By: oaktown49er

oaktown49er — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:28:37 +0000

Peyton Manning is an amazing football player, but the 49ers offered Smith a contract first. So…while Smith evaluated his options you better believe the Niners evaluated theirs.

By: nickmiller63

nickmiller63 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:26:31 +0000

Maybe they just don’t care what anyone thinks. Why should they?

By: thankheavenfornumberseven

thankheavenfornumberseven — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:16:11 +0000

It’s not a lie if you believe it.

By: westclaims

westclaims — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:13:00 +0000

“Do you know? Do you? Really?

Pretty accurate.