>But nobody really knows if it's true or not... it's
>conjecture. And even if they really were tempted to sign him
>are yall saying it would be at any price? I just don't buy the
>idea the 9ers would have capped themselves out at the cost of
>some key defensive players to sign Manning.

I didn't want them to sign him at the time because then we wouldn't have been able to re-sign all of our defensive players that off-season (Carlos Rogers is particular at the time) and future off-seasons. But I've said before (numerous times in this post, in fact) that I'd pretty sacrifice any QB/offensive player to keep our D together. Now, IF there had been a fantasy world where Peyton would have left money on the table so that we could sign the key defensive players, then I would have been down with it.

(As an aside, when I heard on the radio that Denver had lost, one of my first thoughts was, "Ha! Dumb-ass should have signed with us instead.")