Quote:This article was written April 13, 1998 about a week before the draft.


<a class="bbc_url" href='http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1012545/1/index.htm'>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1012545/1/index.htm</a>


There was no debate with the people who actually make the decisions.


As for the part in bold:



<a class="bbc_url" href='http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/story/2012-03-07/Peyton-Manning-Colts-Ryan-Leaf/53400044/1'>http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/story/2012-03-07/Peyton-Manning-Colts-Ryan-Leaf/53400044/1</a>


Its fun to make stuff up isn't it?

 

By the week before the draft....

 

Meaning...it took the entire Colts FO staff turning every single stone to go with Manning...and even then it took them pretty much the entire draft process to make that decision.

 

http://articles.philly.com/2010-02-03/sp...ches-draft

 

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And a week before the draft, they still weren't sure who they were going to take.

 

<p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;">"It wasn't like we already had said, 'OK, Peyton's the guy.' We hadn't done it," Mora said. "We still weren't sure which way we were going to go. It was that close.''

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<p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;">Not before having some 11th-hour doubts, though. Polian is one of the best judges of football flesh in the game. But less than a week before the draft, he started having some concerns about Manning's arm strength.

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<p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;">Believe what you want...if Manning was the consensus as you seem to think to be the case...that decision would not have taken that long and pain-staking for the Colts.

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<p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;">EDIT: By the way, did you even read the link you posted? Here's a direct quote from that USAtoday link you posted:

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In the days, weeks and months leading up to the 1998 draft, the debate raged on the national stage and in the private recesses of the Colts' West 56th Street complex. At its essence, the discussion bounced from Manning, the polished prospect seen as more NFL-ready and, at worst, the "safe" pick, to Leaf, the quarterback with the bigger arm and bigger upside.

 

Anyone arguing to the contrary today as the Colts face a similiar Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III choice is knee-deep in revisionist history.

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