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The_Jonas, on 05 November 2011 - 02:26 PM, said:
Manning has had neck problems for years. Acting like it was all thrown on Polian and Irsay's lap in september is just flat out wrong. Those teams did NOT ride Manning entirely to success. They have talent. They're not inept. The team had manning's injury dropped in their lap. They were told all along Manning would play this season. The media was told he'd play this season. Then they covered up his second neck surgery. Actively covered it up for two weeks! WHY?
Denver's personnel moves? You mean trading a WR who wanted traded, would not resign,and was in the final year of his contract? Starting a QB who fans want to see, that the club spent a 1st round pick on, when the season is a total lost cause anyway? Yeah, I know what I think, but I can totally rationalize all of them as well if I wanted to argue against it.
It's conjecture to say they're making all those moves because they WANT TO LOSE. Same as with the colts. I'm not in their offices... I don't know. I've never seen a front office/owner act so shady in my life.
I buy it with Denver. I don't see it with Indy, and I think Miami is much better than their record. I think they just have terrible luck. STL is bad, but they're saddled with Bradford, the last pre-rookie-cap #1 overall QB, so they can't move even if they want to. If any team is tanking, I think it's Denver, but as you said, if you want, you can explain away their moves. They didn't get enough for Lloyd to make me think that they were better off moving him mid-season than letting him walk at the end of the year, and I'm suspicious of Elway's motives because of his past comments about Tebow, and the Stanford connection to Luck.
