According to an SI article and doctors reports...
The common healing time is about a year or so. It will most likely take 3-4 months to just get out of the neck collar. Movement in all planes is lost for some time...flexion, extension and rotation. Sterling Sharp had the same procedure and it ended his career. They basically take out the disc and put in-place a spacer. Very risky surgery but some players have returned in the past from it. But its sounding in Manning case (a third surgery-still problems) that his career is in jeopardy.
My question(s) would be...who is / was the Colts back-up QB all this time...I have no idea? And why havn't the Colts groomed someone in case of this (Manning out) type of situation- be it a very unfortunate one? To have to bring in a Kerry Collins and not have someone ready to step in, is poor managment imo. Collins at this point should be coming in as only an emergency back-up for any team.
The Colts have never had a legitimate back-up QB in the Manning era, they've never needed to. There's just so much to this situation it's hard for me to wrap my head around all of it right now so I'm going to abstain from commenting too much right now and let it all sink it.
The Colts had a decent backup in Jim Sorgi, but they let him go and now they have the incompetent Curtis Painter.
@Rick: You're always welcome in Steeler Nation, even if just for a season.
No, just no. Sorgi was/is just as bad as Painter, seriously. Personally, I think Painter needs more time and a better chance at success instead of being thrown to the lions ala week 16 in 2009 and worthless, meaningless preseason games.
Don't forget people, as great as Peyton is now, his rookie season was shit. Granted, you could see a hellava lot more potential during that season than anything Painter has showed us, but still. Peyton still has the record for interceptions thrown in a season as a rookie, unfortunately.
But he seemed to work out ok.
Am I saying Painter is the next Manning, fuck no. But he hasn't even had a chance to play in the right situation to be completely judged.
What I'd do if I was the Colts is do what Steve Spurrier did in the 90's as the Florida Gators head coach, and has done so at times in South Carolina, and that's have a QB rotation. We already know what Collins is. He's an average QB. Average QB play on this team won't result in anything magical, which pretty much rules out the chances of making the playoffs let alone winning the Super Bowl. So what's it going to hurt to play Painter? I mean, at least if something were to happen next season to Peyton, he'll have at least some meaningful playing time and won't look so goddamn shocked every play as if he's going to die or something. Either that or cut him, re-sign Orlovsky for the season, and just keep KC around for the next couple years as a backup.
Or Polian could always call Favre amirite?
Oh and I forgot to mention, I've also been a Dolphins fan since I was a kid (lived in Miami for a while and went to a bunch of games and watched Marino play). So there's always that...
Don't worry Rick, you'll have Luck to cheer on soon enough
What's with all the hype on this guy?
