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Peyton Manning almost (maybe a little) a Panther in 1998.


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Wouldn't have been great to get Manning? A QB that gets better, that works to get better. A QB that doesn't sit on past glory and think that's good enough. A QB that doesn't need to be developed for 5 years and then you still aren't sure about him. Boy I wonder if we could ever have a QB like that? Or a Coach/GM that knows how to find one? It would be nice to find out.

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poo it would have been worth it to just use all our picks for manning, that draft sucked anyway.

But really we don't need salt in our wounds right now, that kind of news is almost enough to make people /wrists.

i didn't post it to complain or anything. it just thought it was noteworthy. i just wonder how many "almosts" there were with different teams.

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i didn't post it to complain or anything. it just thought it was noteworthy. i just wonder how many "almosts" there were with different teams.

I know, that is some crazy poo though.

Man just imagine this team with Manning over the last several years.

(and with Smitty to boot)

gdamn /goes crazy

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I had heard that story a while back, but I'm pretty sure I also remember it being debunked. Mortensen reported back in 2006 that the Panthers were ready to cut Delhomme and go with a first round pick at QB. That story was bogus too.

One that I do know is true (from multiple sources) was that the Panthers asked the league to give them the Colts number one overall selection as compensation for the Colts getting Polian while he was still technically supposed to be committed to the Panthers.

They did get draft pick compensation, but it was only a 3rd rounder (with which they selected Chuck Wiley).

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For the record, the Panthers 1998 draft:

1 (14) DE Jason Peter, Nebraska

2 (44) Choice to Miami

3a (62) DE Chuck Wiley, Louisiana State

3b (73) DL Mitch Marrow, Pennsylvania

4 (106) WR Donald Hayes, Wisconsin

5 (136) LB Jerry Jensen, Washington

6 (165) S Damien Richardson, Arizona State

7a (196) DL Viliami Maumau, Colorado

7b (203) Choice to Pittsburgh

7c (228) WR Jim Turner, Syracuse

Both the third round choices were made with Leonard Little still on the board.

The first round selection that season was famously promised to Vonnie Holliday by then personnel guy Dom Anile. Holliday was still available when Anile and the Panthers took jason peter instead.

All in all, maybe we'd have been better off if that deal had existed :lol:

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