fw91
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Post by fw91 on Jan 21, 2012 1:30:17 GMT -5
According to ESPN NFL Business Analyst Andrew Brandt, it will cost the Colts $50.5 million to keep Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck on the roster in 2012. re-sign free agent Byron Leftwich this offseason. Bye bye Peyton. have your cake and eat it too Indy. Have Peyton will travel. I think the colts are back in the playoffs, if peyton returns. he's that great. have to find a way to keep him, and Luck.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 21, 2012 1:54:58 GMT -5
Picks for this week:
AFC Championship Game - Ravens vs. Patriots. This is do or die for the Ravens' offense. I think the defense can get to Brady, and getting to Brady is one of the ways to actually stop him. I also think they can keep the tight ends from being as much of a huge threat as they have been this season. I still don't think the Patriots are very good defensively. Making the Broncos look like jokes in Foxborough isn't exactly a major accomplishment. But I'm not sure who I trust less: the Ravens' offense or the Patriots' defense. Flacco is playing with a chip on his shoulder, and that will either lead to shutting up the haters or proving them 100% right.
I honestly have no idea who wins this one. But I want a chance to avenge 2000 more than Giants vs. Patriots II: Electric Boogaloo, so my homer bias says Ravens win this one 24-21.
NFC Championship Game - Giants vs. 49ers. These teams are pretty much dead even. Giants are much better at QB, wide receivers, and front seven defense (now) while the Niners are much better at the running game, tight end, and special teams. Niners have the advantage of calling a terrible field "home" and they're riding on the momentum of beating the explosive Saints. Weather could also play a huge one on this. That said the Giants' defense is right now MUCH better than the Saints' and the Giants are an outdoor team so the crappy weather isn't as big a disadvantage to them as it would be to a dome team.
Pick: Homer bias showing through, but if the weather's nice I think Giants win it 31-24. If it's crappy, I say Giants win 21-19 with a game ending touchdown pass by Eli in the closing minutes of the fourth.
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Post by Orange on Jan 21, 2012 3:07:50 GMT -5
From now on, any time a Denver to Miami deal appears to be set in stone, I'm not buying it until I see it. Orton to Miami was a "done deal" and Miami had to go and screw that up, so I won't buy it until I see it with that damn team.
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Post by BRV on Jan 21, 2012 9:51:11 GMT -5
have your cake and eat it too Indy. Have Peyton will travel. I think the colts are back in the playoffs, if peyton returns. he's that great. have to find a way to keep him, and Luck. Investing $50 million in two players is asking a lot of the (traditionally incompetent) Colts' front office. They can't afford to block up nearly half of their cap space in a starting quarterback and his backup. It has to be one or the other, but from all the signs to start this off-season, from firing the Polian family and Jim Caldwell to the rumors that they're going to gut the roster of all of their high-priced veterans, it seems as if the Colts are ready to rebuild, and that includes dealing Manning. They could get a king's ransom from the Jets or Redskins if they put Peyton Manning on the market. Either team would easily part ways with a 2012 first-round pick, a 2012 second-round pick and a conditional 2013 pick in exchange for Manning, pending he gets a clean bill of health. Combine those multiple picks with the Andrew Luck selection and a whole bunch of cap space, if they do in fact part ways with their overpriced veterans, and the Colts could be right back in the playoff chase within two years. Also, I have to disagree with your stance that the Colts are playoff contenders with a healthy Peyton Manning. This year's Colts team was atrocious, and they would have been atrocious with Manning under center. A full season of Manning with the 2011 Colts' roster gets them a 7-9 record at best. It's nothing to scoff at, to improve a team's record by five wins with one player, but there's no earthly way that Manning alone could have dragged this abominable Colts team into the postseason.
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