Is Manning worth it?

[lowspeed_highdrag]

With Tebow, we were 8-8 on a much easier schedule, with Manning we were 13-3 on a harder schedule. Tebow, who is a great man, is not a great QB. Simply looking at our total offense every game except for the last one proves that. To say we would have had the same result with Tebow shows a total lack of understanding.

[Pancho Villa]

Anyone who thinks that Manning isn't a significant upgrade from Tebow needs to suck-start a shotgun.

[mrstellar]

I like Manning and think he's great. But the QB of the future are QB's like Kaepernick and RG III. On 3rd and short or inches its nice to have a QB that can run the ball or dive over the center for the first down. Elway did it all of the time. Manning can't run the ball, dive over the line or risk any type of hard hit. This handicaps the Broncos offense.

[glock74]

I agree that NO one in the NFL is worth that crazy amount of money, but definitely he's better option than Tebow, imo. Plus I don't fault Elway at all, I think they really wanted to pay whatever it took to bring a real ACE to Denver, mission accomplished, regardless of the Ravens game. It's the rest of the team that lost this game this time.

Manning has to take a lot of the blame for losing too. He had 2 interceptions and a fumble that gave the Ravens 17 points.

[MarkCO]

Manning has to take a lot of the blame for losing too. He had 2 interceptions and a fumble that gave the Ravens 17 points.

The "fumble" should have been eliminated due to the Tuck rule...another blown call by the Ref.

[Pancho Villa]

I like Manning and think he's great. But the QB of the future are QB's like Kaepernick and RG III. On 3rd and short or inches its nice to have a QB that can run the ball or dive over the center for the first down. Elway did it all of the time. Manning can't run the ball, dive over the line or risk any type of hard hit. This handicaps the Broncos offense.

Every time a running QB comes into the league people start to say that.

Then a few years into his career he has some serious injury getting hit by people who have 100+lbs on him and he's never quite the same.

Repeat cycle. There's a reason Elway is a GOAT contender.

[Jefe's AR]

The first interception of Manning that was returned for a TD, there was pass interference by Baltimore on Decker. Should have come back and been a 1st down for Denver. More Ref suckage.

[Dave_L]

We, as a team, sucked. Bad play calling (IMO), Manning had 3 TO's, missed FB and our secondary got fried. You make that many mistakes in a playoff game and you don't deserve to win. I think this gave us a lot of perspective going forward. A HUGE lesson to all the young talent we have. You still have to play the game, no matter how good you look on paper. Then again, people said we'd be lucky to get 10 wins this year. We blew that one outta the water. I'm just happy we don't have any mystery surrounding our off season...for once. We know who we are, where we are and the EXACT needs we have. Lots to look forward to. I'd love to see us pick up a 240lb RB to run people over. Im tired of these undersized, "make you miss" types. Also, we can't overlook the glaring need at CB. Might be time to move Champ over to safety and give him 10-20 yards of buffer room to compensate for the loss of speed.

[Danimal]

Saturday I was let down by two guys that I never thought would let me down. Camp and Peyton. The both made poor decisions all day and in the end it cost us an easily win-able football game. Manning is a great QB, but he was trying to force the issue all day and make up for the defenses inability to stop a seemingly one sided offence. If they would have shut down the passing game what would the score have been? I dissagree about RGIII and Keapernick being the only viable QB style out there. There are ways to shut them down as well, and if all QB were like them it would be easy to build defenses around that. The problem is that you have QB's out there like Brady and Manning that can actually run an offence and exploit every little flaw in the defense so you have to find a balance when building a defense. Otherwise I would just put some fast ass defensive ends in there that could pursue the faster QB, but right now you need huge D-ends to collapse the pocket fast on these super accurate "old school" QB's. It is a give and take and Peyton is one of the best in the game. He will get us there next year.

[BPTactical]

Is any proffesional athlete worth the ludicrist amount they are paid?

No

I recognize the fact to play at an elite level of any sport it takes exceptional talent, but they aren't worth XX millions per year.