Is The Burden On Peyton To Work With Irsay Contractuall?

[GoGoColts]

-Peyton got a huge gift of money by being on the active roster all year.

-The defense will improve with the coach hiring

-The offense was left the same

Thoughts?

[SilentHill]

Can he? I'm not sure how this would work with the CBA.

[GoGoColts]

Can he? I'm not sure how this would work with the CBA.

Yes.. Both sides just have to agree. There has been a lot of, "the deal can't be restructured talk." However, it is just bolonga.

[JCPatriot]

Yes.. Both sides just have to agree. There has been a lot of, "the deal can't be restructured talk." However, it is just bolonga.

How do you know this?

[JoKeR]

I see no reason yet why Peyton would have to adjust his contract. If he's healthy(enough), he gets paid. If he's not healthy enough he's not signed.

If he's not signed, I have a hard time seeing him signing with another team. If he's not cleared, how can other teams sign him?

[JCPatriot]

If he's not signed, I have a hard time seeing him signing with another team. If he's not cleared, how can other teams sign him?

They probably won't immediately, but just because he isn't healthy enough to play on March 8 doesn't mean that he will never be healthy enough to play. If the Colts release him for health reasons on March 8 and he eventually recovers enough to play, I'm sure a team will sign him. Heck, there might be a team willing to gamble that he will eventually recover that will sign him right away, but that is much less of a certainty.

[SilentHill]

Manning has said he wants to play his whole career for one team. I think he'll be impressed with the staff IRsay and Grigson are putting together.

I'll call it now that If Manning is healthy enough to play football he will be a Colt.

[MSColtsFan]

I see no reason yet why Peyton would have to adjust his contract. If he's healthy(enough), he gets paid. If he's not healthy enough he's not signed.

If he's not signed, I have a hard time seeing him signing with another team. If he's not cleared, how can other teams sign him?

But the timing is the key. I don't think there is any way that PM is football healthy on 3/8. Could he be in July for training camp? September for week one? The importance of being able, or willing, to renegotiate before 3/8 is enormous. If you take PM at face value, that he is sincere about wanting to play, and play for the Colts, retire as a member of the Colts, then he should be completely open to renegotiating the contract to push 3/8 back. If he isn't healthy on 3/8 Irsay shouldn't be villainized for not writing a $28 million check PLUS activating the remaining years of the deal for a player who can't play, albeit months before training camp. But that's the date decisions have to be made due to the contract. And Manning, and Condon know that date places the Colts, and Manning if he wants to stay, in a no-win situation (without miraculous nerve regeneration). If Manning truly wants to be here, and the contract can be renegotiated now, then it should be. Which means to me either the CBA won't allow it, or Manning and or Irsay haven't been completely open and honest with the media and fans.

Not being cleared by the Colts - failing a physical - just means the Colts fail him. So if cut, any other team's medical staff could absolutely clear him to play, declare him healthy, and sign him. Or better said, be willing to wait out the health than the Colts, who have the first pick, are in the middle of massive changes, have cap issues, FAs at key positions, etc.