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As soon as Peyton Manning officially signs with the Denver Broncos, the team will place fellow quarterback Tim Tebow on the trading block, according to ESPN. Although the team will try to trade him, it is not guaranteed that they will be able to do so.
ESPN‘s Cecil Lammey says that the team will look for two draft picks in exchange for Tebow, second and fifth round selections. Lammey also speculates that Denver will be interested in Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart if he hits the trading block, as Carolina just signed free agent running back Mike Tolbert.
There has been heavy speculation that the Broncos will now try to trade in several other free agents for Manning, including tight end Dallas Clark and possibly wide receiver Mike Wallace. Click here to read the rest of this entry »
Free agent quarterback Peyton Manning will sign with the Denver Broncos, according to reports. Shortly after the news broke, former and current Broncos’ players took to Twitter with their thoughts on the news:
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Free agent quarterback Peyton Manning is going to sign with the Denver Broncos, according to ESPN‘s Adam Schefter. Per Schefter, Manning called Broncos’ Vice President of football Operations John Elway this morning informing him that he was looking forward to playing for him this season.
Manning has told his agent, Tom Condon, to work out a contract with the team, which is expected to be a four-year, $90 million+ deal. According to Schefter, the Broncos will now “try to trade third-year quarterback Tim Tebow.”
A fourteen-year veteran, Manning, 35 is a four-time NFL MVP and one-time Super Bowl MVP. With nearly 55,000 career passing yards and 399 touchdowns, Manning brings experience to Denver’s offense, which struggled to put points on the scoreboard last season.
The Broncos are now expected to bring in several offensive weapons to compliment Manning, free agent tight end Dallas Clark, who played with Manning in Indianapolis, may be among them. Manning has not decided yet which number he will wear in Denver, he is expected to choose between #16 (which or wore in college) and #18 (which retired, but Frank Tripucka’s has said it would be an honor for the number to be unretired for Manning).
As more details and contract information comes in, we will update the site.
Middle linebacker Joe Mays is known as a workout warrior. (Screenshot image courtesy of the Denver Post)
The Denver Broncos re-signed starting middle linebacker Joe Mays on Sunday, the team announced.
Though he is the incumbent starting middle linebacker in Denver, some view him as an incompetent starting middle linebacker. With good thumping ability and impressive strength, Mays was often beaten on passing plays last season and took bad angles on outside running plays, resulting in big runs for opposing offenses.
The Broncos were impressed enough with Mays, who started in 12 games last season, to re-sign the free agent to a three-year deal. It is expected that Mays will compete with second-year player Nate Irving and perhaps an off-season acquisition during training camp for the starting middle linebacker position.
Entering his fifth season in the NFL, Mays recorded 75 tackles in 2011. Acquired by the Broncos through a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2010, Mays has started in seventeen games over the past two seasons.
Mays, 26, is 5-11, 250 pounds and played collegiate football at North Dakota State. Mays was named the Great West Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior.
Denver Broncos quarterback Brady Quinn goes down as he hands off the ball to Daniel Fells against the Dallas Cowboys during the third quarter of a preseason NFL football game on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
After visiting with the New York Jets and then the Kansas City Chiefs Brady Quinn decided on the Broncos division rival in KC. Â Regardless of what happens in the Peyton Manning saga Denver will have to look at building QB depth after releasing Orton mid-stream and losing Tebow’s backup in Quinn to free agency.
The now journeyman QB never developed in Denver after being traded away from Cleveland where he was the home town golden boy. Â Critics now have more fuel for their argument that moving the productive Peyton Hillis for Quinn was a bad move all around. Â Having Quinn and Hillis land in Kansas City only rubs salt in the Broncos’ wound.
The man who had a strange dis-like for Hillis’ skill set, Josh McDaniels, acquired his old Broncos offensive toy as well this weekend. Â Free agent Brandon Lloyd signed with the Patriots giving Tom Brady one more target (as if he needed it). Â The Pats retained Wes Welker with their franchise tag before the opening of free agency and still have a near unstoppable tight end duo. Â This addition arguably gives New England the best AFC offense on paper.
NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, second from right at rear, walks across a football practice field with Denver Broncos executive John Elway, fourth from left, near Wallace Wade Stadium, Friday, March 16, 2012, at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Elway and coach John Fox watched the star quarterback throw at Duke's athletic fields. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Travis Long)
News broke from Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen of ESPN this morning that a sleeper candidate has been in play for Peyton Manning all along. In our opinion, from a strictly football perspective, this new team puts the biggest threat on the Denver Broncos‘ bid for Manning to date.
The San Francisco 49ers — those same 49ers who were one botched punt return away from ousting the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants in the NFC Championship game — have already worked out Peyton Manning and are in serious play to acquire his services, according to the report.
This leaves the Manning finalists that we know of as the following: Click here to read the rest of this entry »
Manning's decision may come tonight. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
The Arizona Cardinals will no longer be pursuing free agent quarterback Peyton Manning.
In a team statement released Friday, coach Ken Whisenhunt said, “[A]cquiring Peyton Manning is no longer an option for us.”
The statement indicates that the Cardinals have no regrets in their aggressive play for Manning, saying that the opportunity to acquire a first ballot Hall of Fame quarterback was “very unique and unexpected.”
The statement comes not-coincidentally minutes after the team’s 2 p.m. deadline to cut Kevin Kolb if they were to sign Manning. They’ll move forward with Kolb and John Skelton instead.
One less competitor for Manning’s services — and one that was thought to be the co-favorite with the Broncos only a few days ago. The Broncos worked out Manning this afternoon in North Carolina — more details on this can be found here and here.
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One thing has become clear during Manning Watch — Twitter is a tough forest to navigate. There is a virtual ton of pundits and experts out there, claiming to know the inner workings of the Denver Broncos‘ visits with Peyton Manning and the Hall of Famer’s mindset in general. Knowing who to trust on the social media monster is half the battle.
Here’s one person on Twitter you can definitely trust — John Elway.
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UPDATE: The Duke himself, John Elway tweeted from Duke — Manning “threw the ball great and looked very comfortable out there.” Our earlier report citing a Tweet from the Duke Chronicle newspaper, saying Manning did not throw for the Broncos, was mistaken.
The Broncos and Manning left the Duke practice facility. It is assumed the Broncos contingent will return to Denver now (they do have a handful of free agents in town), but it is unknown whether Peyton is coming with them.
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1:25 MST: Mike Klis corrects his proposed contract numbers. Â It’s now a lot higher than initially stated:
  11:50MST Mike Klis of the Denver Post has just released financial numbers for the contract the Broncos are offering Manning today.  This is all according to his source.
 Interesting round of updates.  10:35 MST.  See the following tweets.  There is “circumstantial evidence” according Kent Sommers of the AZ Republic that the Cards have been informed they are out of the running for Manning.  Now this new report from Steve O’Reilly from the Skinny Post is saying Denver will try to sign Mike Wallace if they can secure Manning giving him another target.  Broncotalk’s Ian Henson made the case for Wallace in Denver here.  The rumor mill just keeps churning.
  Don’t get too excited just yet, NFL Network’s Michael Lombardi just threw this out on twitter:
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Published on Mon Mar 19 11:07. 102 Comments |
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