Peyton_Manning to miss the first week of the season for sure. Might shed some light into the who's more valuable to his team arguement between him and Tom Brady.
The whole Colts team is built around Manning running that offence, getting a lead, and making their opponent throw the ball to play catch up. They can win other ways, but any time a team can keep the game low scoring and run the ball against them the Colts are a far, far less effective team.
As I said earlier, they can maybe afford 3 games without him, but say he misses 4 and the team goes 1-3...they'll need to be 9-3 in the games he does play which is doable. But will 10 wins get them to the playoffs?
I have Manning in two fantasy leagues...but really if he misses 2-3 games is that so bad....if the Colts have to win down the stretch there will be no sitting of starters so Manning should be firing on all cylinders come the playoff weeks.