Manning 5yrs 90 Million? Too much or no?

...and it's only getting higher.

 

5 years, 90 million? That's it? I thought Bud was trying to name the franchise after him and make him co-owner? The Tennessee Peytons... and T-Rac would be fired and Gomer Pile would be the new mascot

 

WAY too much. No thanks.

 

Way, way too much and too long of a term, too (if the Titans are truly offering Manning a lifetime contract and making it so they can't cut him). The Titans need to get the heck out of this mess and fast. Those numbers are insane.

Unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling that Bud is willing to pay it.

Goodbye to guys like Bironas, McCourty, Cook and quite possibly Locker and Britt. It would be tough to extend the contracts of some very important pieces of this team with so much money tied up in a 36-year-old (in a week) who is coming off of three neck surgeries in one year.

The kind of contract that he is reportedly asking for could basically destroy the Titans as the team currently exists. Could help the team win a Super Bowl, too, of course. I just don't think it's worth the risk, though.

 

I agree, this has gotten way of hand....at this point I am ready to abandon the whole thing and lock up Well and Myers and look to the draft to fix the defense. Even take some of that money to get Freeney interested in visiting Nashville.

 

yep.. this is my worse fear with this whole saga... overpaying and destroying our future...

 

Crazy numbers yes, but the cap goes way up in a couple of seasons, close to 200 million if I remember correctly.

 

That is far from a fact, if I'm not mistaken. There are some who think it will and some who don't.

If I'm wrong and it's written into the new CBA that is has to go up that much, please post a source.