Indianapolis Colts wait for things to happen in finding solution to QB Peyton Manning issues-NFL News
The Indianapolis Colts said on Thursday, February 23, 2012, that they will wait for things to happen instead of taking an initiative on matters, which they do not have control of, with regard to finding a solution to the pending issue of the quarterback,
Peyton Manning’s return from a neck injury.
It is for the first time that the team has thrown a light on the reasons behind the delay in negotiations on all the lingering matters surrounding this issue.
Colts’ general manager, Ryan Grigson, said:
"Peyton has to be healthy, it has to be something that's spoken on, investigated and talked about."
He continued:
"But right now, like I said, it's a process that we're waiting for things to happen and doing the things that we have control of. Things that we don't have control of, we just have no choice but to be patient and (perhaps) all you will be the same."
Grigson’s remarks have cleared the confusion around the agenda of the recently referred talks between Colts’ owner, Jim Irsay and Peyton.
Irsay said that he and Peyton had been talking to each other more frequently in the current month (February) than any other corresponding month earlier.
The owner did not disclose the agenda of the discussions then, except for informing that he had left the doors open for Manning and it was up to the player to make a call towards finding a solution to all the affairs.
Now, the GM’s statement has confirmed some earlier reports that Irsay would not be taking a risk of making any financial commitments to the player until the owner has some sort of guarantee on the player’s fitness and his ability to perform at the same level
as he was playing before the injury.
A day earlier, a section of media quoted an anonymous orthopaedic surgeon as saying that Manning’s situation reflects on a dormant period of recovery when the progress looks very little or nothing at all.
While backing the player’s return to the National Football League (NFL), the doctor said that the teams willing to sign him can check the trajectory of his progress over past few months to ascertain the current status.
This is yet again that the player has been medically cleared to play. The only thing left for him is to prove his fitness now and successfully go through the team’s physicals, which Irsay wants to see happening before taking the player back in the side.
Peyton might have to wait little longer, as Colts’ GM has confirmed that the team would not be taking any initiative to sort things out and pave a way for his comeback.
In the meantime, all possible solutions are on the cards for him.
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