Soooo What Are The Chances That Peyton

[mightisright]

Please forgive me if this topic has already been discussed adnauseum! I've been so depressed over the Manning situation that I've been avoiding the forum for a few weeks. I know that his current contract makes it almost rediculous to consider keeping him and paying his bonus in March, even if he's healthy. It just doesn't leave enough room in the cap to rebuild the team in all the other ways that are needed. As a logical person, I understand that.

But can Manning restructure his contract to give him a few more years without hurting the team's bottom line so much? It seems to me that it would be in his best interest! He clearly doesn't want to go anywhere, and I sure as **** think most of us fans don't want him to go anywhere! It's not like we're going to be real contenders for the next year or two even if we draft Luck and try to revamp our defense. So the emotional fan in me says why wouldn't he just take less money and come back for another two years? Other than Luck, who'd have a problem with that?

Just asking!

[mightisright]

Oh, and of couse this assumes Peyton's healthy in 5 weeks. Which is a BIG assumption, I know, but I did tell you I'm an emotional fan!

[Peyton and Eli fan]

It's more complicated than that.

[mightisright]

How so?

[Peyton and Eli fan]

There's disagreement about whether the bonus can be re-negotiated or not under the new CBA. and if you release him it's still a huge cap hit. Go read some of the other threads. There's one about the peyton prediciment and one about can we release him and re-sign him.

[FireJimCaldwell]

The two links in the opening post of this thread go a long way in explaining what can and can't be done.