i belive Manning will end up in NY thru a trade, which i think is fu**ing disgraceful, you cant have undrafted rookies thinking that theyre so crash hot that they believe they can dictate where they should go. I hate it.
aussieboy wrote:i belive Manning will end up in NY thru a trade, which i think is fu**ing disgraceful, you cant have undrafted rookies thinking that theyre so crash hot that they believe they can dictate where they should go. I hate it.
I couldn't agree more with this. This is the exact same reason that I despised Elway throughout his career. It is just absolutely pathetic.
If the Chargers can those picks and Hilliard from the Giants then they've gotta do it. If not, they should pick Manning and make him prove that he's really a big enough a-hole to actually sit out a year in "protest" of playing with the them.
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There is a lot of trade talks going around with SD/Manning now. Personally, I think SD should just draft him and say play or go bag groceries from now on! I'm sure Eli will realize that what he and his dad did was just make it harder on him to come into the league. Whoever his soon to be teammates are, they are sure to be a lil pissy over this...
also, more trade talks...
NFL Draft Shaping Up to Be Wacky Event 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
By DAVE GOLDBERG, AP Football Writer
NEW YORK - Eli Manning doesn't want to play in San Diego. The Cleveland Browns could make that moot by allowing the Chargers to get out of the top spot.
Cleveland, which desperately wants offensive tackle Robert Gallery of Iowa, was talking to the Chargers on Thursday about moving up from seventh to take the first pick in Saturday's draft. That would leave Manning for Oakland, which picks second, or the New York Giants (news), who have the fourth pick.
Manning was in New York with his star quarterback brother and father on Thursday. He confirmed that he'd prefer to be chosen by a team other than the Chargers. He didn't say he wanted that team to be the Giants, but that seemed to be the consensus among general managers, scouts and several agents.
Eli's father, Archie, said Eli's desire not to play for the Chargers was communicated to San Diego general manager A.J. Smith by Tom Condon, agent for both Eli and brother Peyton, the NFL's co-MVP last season. Archie's experience had to play a part - he was the second overall pick in the 1971 draft and was forced to spend nearly his entire career with the dismal New Orleans Saints (news).
"It was a family decision that we preferred that the Chargers not take Eli," Archie said, acknowledging that the squeaky clean Manning family image could be tarnished in the process.
"I'm going to get hammered and I'm sure Eli will," he said.
Just more developments in what truly is a wacky draft.
In most years, the first half-dozen or so picks are pretty well set the week before the draft. And, a quarterback with Manning's accomplishments at Mississippi and a family pedigree normally is a no-brainer as the first pick, as his brother was in 1998 by the Colts.
But this is an unusually deep draft with as many as a dozen players who could have an impact on NFL teams for a decade. San Diego, for example, would be willing to drop to seventh because it thinks it could use that pick to get North Carolina State quarterback Philip Rivers, perhaps the fastest-rising player in the draft.
The Browns would probably have to give up next year's No. 1 and possibly unhappy wide receiver Dennis Northcutt.
Manning, meanwhile, could be taken second overall by Oakland or fourth by the Giants. Arizona, which has the third pick, seems the only predictable team. The Cardinals almost surely will take wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald of Pitt, who was a ball boy for coach Dennis Green when he was the coach at Minnesota.
I'd give up next year's #1 and D'Cutt for Gallery. No question about it.
I dont think that SD was sold on Manning anyway, so this at least gives them an out to their fans to trade down or take Gallery.
My respect for the Manning family has gone way way down. Not only are they being spoiled little brats, but Eli himself had to have daddy go do the dirty work. Then Archie gets mad that SD made this public? Wtf do you expect them to do?
I actually hope that either SD takes Gallery or trades their pick to Cleveland. Don't let Eli get the money associated w/ the #1 pick in the draft, he doesn't deserve it.
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by Free Bagel » Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:32 pm 
